There's a lot of con artists out there who tell you what you want to hear.
But you can't just listen to their words. You have to know their actions.
But when it comes to political leaders, too many people just listen to the words, while over-looking the harsh reality
1) Communists
A lot of people have grievances towards capitalism.
A lot of people have grievances towards big corporations.
A lot of people have grievances against unethical business people.
And some businesses, corporations and business people deserve all the scorn they are getting.
However, there are con men who will tell you how much they hate capitalists, corporations,oligarchs,etc.
That doesn't mean they will make good leaders!
Sometimes, they're even WORSE than the oligarchs they are trying to replace!
The best examples are the Latin American dictators Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
They talk all their anti-capitalist, anti-oligarch, anti-corporate talk. They talk a good talk about liberation.
All this talk attracts useful idiots like Sean Penn, Micheal Moore, Harry Belafonte and a whole bunch of Hollywood and academic chumps.
Those chumps get invited to the dictator's palaces and are fascinated by the con-man's smooth talk.
But they don't experience the life of the average person living in those communist countries.
They don't experience the things that made tons of Cubans want to escape.
They dont experience the crime-ridden ghettoes of Venezuela.
They dont witness the censorship experienced by political opponents.
After all, those Hollywood chumps hear this "liberation talk" and get hypnotized. The reality? Who needs to hear about the reality, when this leader who invited me to his palace is so cool to me?
Yeah, that sounds like Dennis Rodman after his visit to North Korea. But most people view Dennis Rodman as someone past his prime, someone desperate for attention now that his NBA career is over.
But Sean Penn, Micheal Moore, Oliver Stone et al are seen as "the educated", "the profound", "the intellectuals".
But I see them as THE USEFUL IDIOTS!
Let's look at the reality of Venezuela under Hugo Chavez
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/world/americas/23venez.html
CARACAS, Venezuela — Some here joke that they might be safer if they lived in Baghdad. The numbers bear them out.
In Iraq, a country with about the same population as Venezuela, there were 4,644 civilian deaths from violence in 2009, according to Iraq Body Count; in Venezuela that year, the number of murders climbed above 16,000.
Even Mexico’s infamous drug war has claimed fewer lives.
Venezuelans have absorbed such grim statistics for years. Those with means have hidden their homes behind walls and hired foreign security experts to advise them on how to avoid kidnappings and killings. And rich and poor alike have resigned themselves to living with a murder rate that the opposition says remains low on the list of the government’s priorities.
Then a front-page photograph in a leading independent newspaper — and the government’s reaction — shocked the nation, and rekindled public debate over violent crime.
The photo in the paper, El Nacional, is unquestionably gory. It shows a dozen homicide victims strewn about the city’s largest morgue, just a sample of an unusually anarchic two-day stretch in this already perilous place.
While many Venezuelans saw the picture as a sober reminder of their vulnerability and a chance to effect change, the government took a different stand.
A court ordered the paper to stop publishing images of violence, as if that would quiet growing questions about why the government — despite proclaiming a revolution that heralds socialist values — has been unable to close the dangerous gap between rich and poor and make the country’s streets safer.
“Forget the hundreds of children who die from stray bullets, or the kids who go through the horror of seeing their parents or older siblings killed before their eyes,” said Teodoro Petkoff, the editor of another newspaper here, mocking the court’s decision in a front-page editorial. “Their problem is the photograph.”But why Sean Penn care about that? What's important to Sean Penn is "hey, Hugo Chavez let me visit his palace, his words on liberation are cooooooooool".
More from the article
There have been 43,792 homicides in Venezuela since 2007, according to the violence observatory, compared with about 28,000 deaths from drug-related violence in Mexico since that country’s assault on cartels began in late 2006.
Caracas itself is almost unrivaled among large cities in the Americas for its homicide rate, which currently stands at around 200 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to Roberto Briceño-León, the sociologist at the Central University of Venezuela who directs the violence observatory.
That compares with recent measures of 22.7 per 100,000 people in Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, and 14 per 100,000 in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. As Mr. Chávez’s government often points out, Venezuela’s crime problem did not emerge overnight, and the concern over murders preceded his rise to power.[that's right, Venezuela is MORE DANGEROUS than Mexico, Brazil and Colombia]
But scholars here describe the climb in homicides in the past decade as unprecedented in Venezuelan history; the number of homicides last year was more than three times higher than when Mr. Chávez was elected in 1998.
Reasons for the surge are complex and varied, experts say. While many Latin American economies are growing fast, Venezuela’s has continued to shrink. The gap between rich and poor remains wide, despite spending on anti-poverty programs, fueling resentment. Adding to that, the nation is awash in millions of illegal firearms
Police salaries remain low, sapping motivation. And in a country with the highest inflation rate in the hemisphere, more than 30 percent a year, some officers have turned to supplementing their incomes with crimes like kidnappings.
But some crime specialists say another factor has to be considered: Mr. Chávez’s government itself. The judicial system has grown increasingly politicized, losing independent judges and aligning itself more closely with Mr. Chávez’s political movement. Many experienced state employees have had to leave public service, or even the country.
More than 90 percent of murders go unsolved, without a single arrest, Mr. Briceño-León said. But cases against Mr. Chavez’s critics — including judges, dissident generals and media executives — are increasingly common.
yep, that is Hugo Chavez's priorities : harass and arrest his critics, ignore the real crisis on the streets.
More on Hugo Chavez
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/world/americas/obit-venezuela-chavez/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
But Chavez also leaves a legacy of repression against politicians and private media who opposed him.
He concentrated power in the executive branch, turning formerly independent institutions -- such as the judiciary, the electoral authorities and the military -- into partisan loyalists.Through decrees and a judiciary tilted in the president's favor, many political opponents found themselves barred from running in elections against the ruling party. Even former allies, like Chavez's onetime defense minister, Gen. Raul Baduel, faced accusations that critics called trumped-up corruption charges.Chavez's government similarly targeted opposition broadcasters, passing laws and decrees that forced at least one major broadcaster and dozens of smaller radio and television stations off the air.Opponents also have criticized his social programs, calling them unsustainable over the long run and responsible for unintended consequences. Price controls, for instance, drove up inflation, while expropriations of farmland depressed production.
Yeah, Sean Penn, Micheal Moore, Oliver Stone whine about "President Bush was violating civil liberties", yet Hugo Chavez was violating civil liberties like crazy!
As for Fidel Castro,
look at this
http://www.hfontova.com/fidel.html
stunning expose' of the real Fidel Castro and the hypocrisy, ignorance and inexcusable appeasement that makes his liberal admirers notorious.
"Cuba's own Elvis" - that's what Dan Rather calls him. Funny name for a man who has threatened the United States with nuclear war, who has made common cause with Islamic terrorists against the United States, and whose people risk death to escape him. But there's a lot that Hollywood liberals and other Fidel Castro admirers would rather you didn't know about the dictator of Cuba - like how he imprisoned more people as a percentage of population than Hitler or Stalin; how Fidel's firing squads killed thousands of Cubans; how Fidel's subjects would rather inject themselves with AIDS than live under his tyranny.
Drawing on a wealth of research - including interviews with former Castro regime officials, anti-Castro freedom fighters, and Castro's political prisoners - acclaimed author Humberto Fontova reveals the ugly face of the Castro regime.
Along the way, he punctures some of the egregious myths about Cuba - The Motorcycle Bore: The real Che Guevara - not the rebel rock star of T-shirt fame, but a battlefield incompetent, a puritan-Stalinist bore, and the man who sent thousands of innocent Cubans to the firing squads -
Communist Economics 101: How Castro took Cuba from being a First World economy that had to turn away European emigrants to a country that even impoverished Haitians won't emigrate to, with among the highest suicide and abortion rates in the world
- The Saddam Hussein Next Door: How Castro has not only had nuclear weapons (and wanted to launch them) but has plotted massive terrorist outrages against the United States - Fidel the anti-black racist and unrepentant Communist - and his long list of useful idiots: from Jesse Jackson to Oliver Stone, George McGovern to Ted Turner, Bill Clinton to Steven Spielberg, to Katie Couric and many others - The Left's favorite racism: against conservative Cuban-Americans-----
Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant is a stunning expose of the real Fidel Castro and of the hypocrisy, ignorance, and inexcusable appeasement that makes his liberal admirers notorious.
As for Fidel's former assistant Che Guevara
http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2010/10/09/che_guevara;_guerrilla_doofus_and_murdering_coward/page/full/
"When you saw the beaming look on Che's face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad," said a former Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez, to your humble servant here, "you saw there was something seriously, seriously wrong with Che Guevara." As commander of the La Cabana execution yard, Che often shattered the skull of the condemned man (or boy) by firing the coup de grace himself. When other duties tore him away from his beloved execution yard, he consoled himself by viewing the slaughter. Che's second-story office in Havana’s La Cabana prison had a section of wall torn out so he could watch his darling firing-squads at work.(more)
The Spanish word vencido, by the way, translates into "defeated" or "surrendered."And indeed, "the "acrid odor of gunpowder and blood" very, very rarely reached Guevara's nostrils from anything properly describable as combat. It mostly came from the close-range murders of defenseless men (and boys.) Carlos Machado was 15 years old in 1963 when the bullets from the firing squad shattered his body. His twin brother and father collapsed beside Carlos from the same volley. All had resisted Castro and Che's theft of their humble family farm, all refused blindfolds and all died sneering at their Communist murderers, as did thousands of their valiant countrymen. "Viva Cuba Libre! Viva Cristo Rey! Abajo Comunismo!" "The defiant yells would make the walls of La Cabana prison tremble," wrote eyewitness to the slaughter, Armando Valladares.
The one genuine accomplishment in Che Guevara's life was the mass-murder of defenseless men and boys. Under his own gun dozens died. Under his orders thousands crumpled. At everything else Che Guevara failed abysmally, even comically.http://www.hfontova.com/che.html
Che's bloodthirsty hatred is why Fontova considers him the godfather of modern terrorism. Exposing the Real Che Guevara is based on scores of interviews with survivors of Che's atrocities as well as the American CIA agent who interrogated Che just hours before the Bolivian government executed him.
Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the mainstream media celebrate Che as a saint and a sex symbol - a selfless martyr with a love of humanity second only to Jesus Christ's.
But their ideas about Che - Fidel Castro's henchman whose face adorns hipsters' T-shirts, posters, and ad campaigns - are based on a murderous communist regime's outright lies.
As Humberto Fontova reveals in this myth-shattering book, Che was actually a bloodthirsty executioner, a military bumbler, a coward, and a hypocrite. This biographical account proves it's no exaggeration to state that Che - who was captured and killed nearly forty years ago - was the godfather of modern terrorism.
And yet Che's followers naively swallow Castro's historical revisionism. They are classic "useful idiots." the name Stalin gave to foolish Westerners who parroted his lies about communism's successes.
Humberto Fontova interviewed the few people still alive who interacted with Che and can tell the truth about him, while overturning the myths and legends. In this book you'll learn:
- How Che longed to destroy New York City with nuclear missiles. (So why does Angelina Jolie sport a Che tattoo, while denouncing violence as a U.N. ambassador of goodwill?
- How Che promoted book burning and signed death warrants for authors who disagreed with him. (So why did Jean Paul Sartre praise him as a "perfect" man, and why did Time Magazine name him one of the 100 most influential people of the century?)
- How Che made amazingly racist statements about blacks. (So why do Jesse Jackson, Jay-Z, and Mike Tyson say nice things about him?)
- How Che persecuted gays, long-haired rock and roll fans, and religious people. (So why do Carlos Santana, Madonna and Johnny Depp think he's so cool?)
- How Che, the devoted Communist, loved material wealth and private luxuries. (So why do the mainstream media still depict him as an ascetic?)
David Horowitz says: "A great service for the cause of decency and human freedom. Deservedly puts Che Guevara in the ash-heap of history. Every American should read this book."
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2) Cop Killers
Here in the USA, there is another example of people choosing the wrong heroes, all because "he said some things I want to hear".
I'm talking about the cop killer Chris Dorner! Before he went on his rampage, he wrote his manifesto about his grievances against the LAPD and society in general
http://abcnews.go.com/US/los-angeles-cops-chris-dorners-manifesto-speaks/story?id=18434105
Again, just like Hugo Chavez, Chris Dorner has his useful idiots out to defend him
Because Chris Dorner wrote things many left-wing people agreed with, some people think he is a hero.
They say we shouldn't demonize Chris Dorner!
WELL SCREW YOU!
No amount of righteous anger will EVER excuse the murder of Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence!
The only thing Monica Quan was ever "guilty" of was just being related to the wrong person!
That's right, punk-ass Chris Dorner killed Monica Quan just because of who her father was!(her dad was involved in Dorner's grievance hearing which got him fired from the LAPD)
Only a sick scumbag will kill someone just because who his/her relative was!
And yes, Chris Dorner is a sick scumbag!
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/car-479026-couple-inside.html
Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence
Both KILLED just because Chris Dorner didn't like her dad!
Keith Lawrence was in the driver's seat, a standout basketball player with a new job as a USC patrol officer, shot and slumped behind the wheel. Monica Quan was next to him, also a basketball star, now a much-loved basketball coach, also shot dead.
They were college sweethearts, newly engaged. They had recently moved into the Irvine condo complex where they were found Sunday night on the top level of a parking garage.
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Coaches, friends and others who knew Lawrence, 27, and Quan, 28, remembered them as stars off the court as much as on. A middle-school teacher, for example, said Quan made her think about the type of parent she would have to become to raise a child like her. A college coach said Lawrence was that rare person who really did get along with everyone.
"He was the nicest person you could ever meet, humble, he never gave off any negative vibes," said Lawrence's longtime friend Edrian Ferrer. They spoke late last week, and Ferrer said Lawrence told him he had proposed to Quan a few days earlier. "I think he was in a good place," Ferrer said.
Lawrence and Quan met at Concordia University in Irvine, where they both played guard for the school's basketball teams. She was 5-foot-5 but was among the team leaders for three-point field goals. He hit one of the most dramatic shots in recent school history, a buzzer-beating three-pointer in triple overtime that helped send Concordia to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics finals.
That was in March 2007, just a few days after he and Quan first friended each other on Facebook. They documented their relationship in the years that followed with online photographs: posing at Disneyland, clowning around in front of a Christmas tree. One picture showed Lawrence down on one knee in front of Quan, but the caption explained that he was just resting his legs
Quan graduated in 2007 with a degree in exercise sports science, then got her master's degree in coaching and athletic administration. Her dream was basketball: "I've had one goal: to be on a WNBA team," she said in her 2002 yearbook from Walnut High in Walnut. "I've always dreamed of playing for the Los Angeles Sparks."
Instead, she became an assistant coach, first at Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks, then at Cal State Fullerton – where, for the past two years, she has been "Coach Mo." The head coach, Marcia Foster, broke down as she remembered Quan during a brief news conference on Monday. "A really bright light was put out way too soon," she said.
"As a second-year assistant, she was someone I called on to tell me the truth," Foster said. "I love that about her. I loved her work ethic. I loved her passion for life."
Lawrence graduated from Concordia with a degree in business administration. But even in his playing days, he had talked about becoming a police officer. He attended the Ventura County Sheriff's Academy and posed for a photograph on the day he graduated, proud in his uniform, with Quan by his side.
Yep, those are the 2 people killed by Chris Dorner!
Still think that punk-ass Chris Dorner is a hero?
