Collectivism

Venezuela Free | Can They Keep It?

Published by Papa Giorgio

Here is a summary of the excellent interview about the reasoning that led up to the actions the United States took against Venezuela. This is the link and description of the interview:

STOLEN ELECTIONS with Gary Berntsen & Ralph Pezzullo
Ep 45 | Going Rogue with Lara Logan

Gary Berntsen & Ralph Pezzullo explain how America’s enemies, foreign & domestic, are stealing the Republic. We dissect the controversial involvement of Smartmatic in the U.S. election system and explore the swirling allegations of manipulation and fraud. Our discussion probes deep into electoral malfeasance, questioning the integrity of the very systems that uphold our Republic. Expect a thorough examination of the evidence and sentiments surrounding these topics, drawing connections that extend all the way to Venezuela.

Here is a summary of the above podcast:

Summary of why it needed to be done outside of the ending of a communist regime and the freeing of an oppressed people.

BLUF: Venezuela operates as a hybrid narco-state and influence-operations hub, combining state-directed drug trafficking, transnational organized crime, espionage, and coordinated partnerships with hostile foreign powers, while leveraging covert political and information operations to undermine regional stability and U.S. national security.

Operating a global election-manipulation scheme originating in Venezuela, involving state-owned voting software (Smartmatic and successors), allegedly used to alter elections domestically, across Latin America, in the United States, and globally while defeating audits and concealing source code ownership

Running a state-led narcotics enterprise (Cartel de los Soles), with the Venezuelan military acting as the logistics arm and the president identified as the cartel’s leader

Weaponizing organized crime, including training and deploying gangs such as Tren de Aragua for foreign criminal and insurgent activity, including alleged operations inside the United States

Conducting long-term espionage and infiltration of U.S. diplomatic, intelligence, and political institutions, often in coordination with Cuban intelligence

Collaborating with hostile foreign powers (Cuba, China, Russia, Iran) to expand influence operations, fund destabilization efforts, and undermine U.S. national security

Exploiting U.S. government programs and taxpayer funds, allegedly using USAID-linked and NGO mechanisms to promote Venezuelan-origin election technology abroad

Establishing intelligence and political dominance in the Western Hemisphere, leveraging oil wealth, criminal revenue, and covert influence to shape regional governments

For more of the below, see HOT AIR

(Just a quick note on the graphic to the right… there is more info linked in the graphic… but this training in the lead up to this assault explains this training exercise accident. They were prepping heavily for this and accidental deaths are bound to happen)

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR has a wonderful article that notes this has been in the legal making for quite a while

In the wake of the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, the United States is now forced to reckon with a record of depravity that is nothing short of a great human scandal. Indeed, the crimes of which Mr. Maduro has been credibly accused boggle the mind.

Maduro’s presence on American soil is the result of years of legal preparation and, according to Saturday’s press conference, months of operational planning. He arrives facing a lengthy federal indictment in the Southern District of New York. The charges are staggering: narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and the possession of machine guns and destructive devices. The U.S. government alleges that Maduro functioned as the leader of the “Cartel de los Soles,” effectively converting the Venezuelan state into a criminal enterprise designed to flood American streets with poison while enriching a corrupt elite. He is also accused of stealing American oil and using the proceeds to fund his criminal endeavors and entrench his power.

But as grave as these narco-terrorism charges are, they only scratch the surface of Maduro’s evil. The current U.S. legal framework focuses on drugs and guns because they provide the clearest, most traditional path to a domestic conviction. However, the American people, the Venezuelan people, and indeed the whole world deserve more than a trial about smuggling routes, vessels, and the usual talking points of foreign policy hawks.

Moreover, an inconvenient truth arises for his apologists, both foreign adversaries and domestic stooges: if the Department of Justice is truly committed to the so-called “full wrath of American justice,” it must pursue explicit charges for the crimes against humanity that define Maduro’s tenure. One crime especially demands the sword: the detention and physical and sexual torture of children.

The International Criminal Court has, since 2021, been pursuing a formal investigation into credible reports of systematic torture, sexual violence, and political persecution. Children are among those most affected by these heinous abuses. Following the South American nation’s rigged 2024 election, at least 220 children were forcibly detained. Many were held in adult prisons and subjected to what Amnesty International has dubbed “endless cruelty.”

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission has documented a “policy of repression” that specifically targets the young. Further, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleges Maduro used the apparatus of the state — including legal cover provided by his wife, who has been indicted alongside him — to detain hundreds more children and subject them to unspeakable evil.

According to these reports, Maduro’s forces appear to have sexually tortured children and adolescents as young as 12 years old to extract sham confessions of “terrorism” and “treason.” Their “crime” was nothing more than attending pro-democracy protests with their parents. The methods used to extract these confessions included beatings, forced nudity, and coercive transactional sex from female children in exchange for basic needs. Most horrifyingly, reports from the UN confirm the use of electric shocks on the genitals of minors.

The United States must speak and act with crystalline clarity: the DOJ must immediately expand its charges against Maduro to include these crimes against children. Further, if convicted, Mr. Maduro has quite possibly forfeited his right to life. The same applies to the officials who performed and permitted these hellish acts — officials who, God willing, will also be brought to justice through the might of the American Armed Forces as the transition of power begins.

We are not merely discussing a failed communist experiment or a standard-issue autocrat. We are discussing a regime and a man that has likely systematically engaged in “anthropological murder” — the violent desecration of the human person and a war against the inviolable selfhood of the image-bearers of the Creator. To look upon the ruins of Maduro’s regime and offer only a shrug or sentencing for drug trafficking is to fail the most basic test of a just society. ….

This from Twi-X via Eric Spracklen:

  • “Trump is basically parading Maduro around Manhattan in front of Mamdani and all his little commies. God tier trolling.”


And yes, this “God Tier Trolling” as Eric calls it is to counter the Mamdani speeach of “replac[ing] the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Audacious collectivism: that’s the Mamdani agenda — as the CITY JOURNAL calls it.

To wit, I will end with this:

The Above Photo is of August Landmesser (WIKI)

Let me also note that I have already seen the idea online that we are doing this for oil and minerals. I saw this same accusation during Dubya’s Iraq War… what was the actual outcome?

  • (CNNMoney.com) — “Despite claims by some critics that the Bush administration invaded Iraq to take control of its oil, the first contracts with major oil firms from Iraq’s new government are likely to go not to U.S. companies, but rather to companies from China, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.” (MY UPDATED POST)

So similar to my post, I doubt you will see forced contracts with Venezuela over oil and mineral rights/purchases. But that aside, AND? So what if we want a free government by democratic process to install a free government… which would then not want to have contracts with the countries that came in and helped keep a dictator who lost the previous “election” and caused chaos while stealing their wealth.

My Gawd Man!

Full Interview: Marco Rubio on Venezuela | Meet the Press

The New World Order (Secular Humanism > God)

Published by Papa Giorgio
  • Humanism is man-centered philosophy. Man himself, not God’s glory, is the primary concern and our world’s problems can be solved by the intelligent effort of man. They gladly point to the United Nations [or: World Economic Forum; G20; CDC, or the like] to exemplify humanistic accomplishment. Any concept of faith is generally eschewed and supernatural revelation is rejected. They seek no higher source for moral values and do not normally believe in an afterlife. Colossians 1:12-29 clearly condemns their thinking. (See more at: TRUTH & TIDINGS | GOT QUESTIONS)

These three excerpts from the videos below are related in that the New World Order has simply been people in power who want no borders and power to decide for others how they should live and eat for the betterment of the world and their egos. Control of Elections, control of lives – bigger government… the wet dream of the Left throughout history. From Lycurgus (Sparta) to Soros/Schwab. The DNC is onboard for a borderless, “world worker” collective.

The son of famous atheist, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, notes the collective nature of Sparta and man’s search to be like God since the Garden (Genesis 3:1; 5 —  “…did God really say…. For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Planning for mankind what man thinks is good/bad apart from God’s revelation.):

The Grecian city-state of Sparta and Plato’s descriptions of the supposedly perfect society in his Republic and in the Laws (a twelve-book series) have been the inspiration for utopian tyrants throughout history. Sparta was a collectivist, centrally planned city-state. Individuality was discouraged, and all were expected to live their lives in obedience to the dictates of the totalitarian leadership. Boys were raised from birth to be soldiers and not much more.

Sparta moved to utopian tyranny under the rule of Lycurgus, who imposed a series of laws on the Spartans around 800 BC. Lycurgus turned Sparta into a disciplined war machine, a country where freedom was nonexistent and where cultural creativity died. Regrettably, his influence over this nation-state lasted some five hundred years. Sparta eventually decayed from within, and outside invasions decimated its population.

Before Lycurgus imposed his draconian laws upon Spartan’s citizens, there had been art and creativity in the city-state’s culture; however, Lycurgus ordered all Spartans to disregard art (with the exception of some martial-style songs, music, and poetry). He taught them to distrust philosophy and to avoid excess in all things. Even their speech patterns were restricted to avoid pointless chatter, gossip, or too much speaking of any kind.

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The historian Plutarch described how Lycurgus traveled to other parts of the known world to study various forms of government and cultures before returning to Sparta to implement his totalitarian plans. lie searched for a society based on virtue and a warrior ethos. Lycurgus then traveled to the Greek Oracle of Delphi (a priestess of the god Apollo) to obtain instructions from the “gods” on how to rule Sparta, or at least claimed that as his purpose.

According to Plutarch, the oracle taught Lycurgus that he himself was a “god” and confirmed his ruthless plans for governing Sparta as purposed by the gods.

With apparent “divine” approval through this mystical oracle, Lycurgus began to remake Sparta in the utopian image he imagined. Plutarch related how he first established a council of elders who would have an equal vote with the two kings who ruled Sparta at the time. According to Plutarch, “eight-and-twenty elders would lend the kings their support in the suppression of democracy, but would use the people to suppress any tendency to despotism.”

Long before Karl Marx, Lycurgus was the ideal collectivist and cen­tral planner. He believed that Sparta’s citizens were the property of the state and that they had no higher purpose than to obey the dictates of the rulers throughout their lives. The concept of individual liberty and of freedom of conscience and action soon became nonexistent in Sparta. The state rather than the family was the center of each person’s life.

Unlike Marx or Lenin, Lycurgus never produced an overall doctrine in writing for Sparta. Using this tactic, he could add to the rules or change them as he pleased, just as other despotic rulers over Sparta did who followed after his death.

As a good collectivist, Lycurgus hated wealth and private property, so he decided that wealthy landowners should be stripped of all their property so it could be given to the poor. He engaged in what current collectives describe as “redistributing” the wealth. In the twentieth century, Communists called this land-theft process “agrarian reform.” According to Plutarch, Lycurgus accomplished this without murder:

Lycurgus abolished all the mass of pride, envy, crime, and luxury which flowed from those old and more terrible evils of riches and poverty, by inducing all land-owners to offer their estates for redis­tribution, and prevailing upon them to live on equal terms one with another, and with equal incomes, striving only to surpass each other in courage and virtue, there being henceforth no social inequalities among them except such as praise or blame can create.

Lycurgus also hated the concept of money because it supposedly resulted in greed and avarice. His solution was to abolish the use of gold and silver money and to make iron money the only legal tender in his city-state. The iron money was so large that it had to be carried by a yoke of oxen. The destruction of the gold and silver standard also made it impossible for Sparta to effectively trade with other countries.

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Lycurgus controlled every aspect of Spartan life. There were even precise regulations as to how a Spartan home could be roofed. The beams of each house had to be constructed with an axe, while the doors had to be built with a saw and no other tools.

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Lycurgus was an advocate of infanticide, which became an insti­tution in Sparta. Whenever a child was born, it was considered state property and, if a boy, he was destined to spend most of his life training or engaging in warfare against Sparta’s enemies. Thus, he had to be strong and indifferent to pain and privation. Babies that appeared to have defects or weakness at birth were eliminated, as they could not serve the Spartan state and thus had no value.

The manner of death of the unwanted babies was not as sterile as it is today at a Planned Parenthood clinic. Newborns were taken to a group of elders for examination. If those elders chose a child for disposal, it was taken to the top of a mountain cliff and thrown off, to be eaten by wild animals.

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crops and services to the Spartan elites. To keep the Helots enslaved and in constant fear, Sparta’s leaders created a secret police much like the Soviet KGB or the Nazi Gestapo to terrorize them on a regular basis. This force was called the Krypteia.

William J. Murray, Utopian Road to Hell: Enslaving America and the World with Central Planning (Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2016), 42-44, 45, 46, 47.