Aleksander Boyd, a virulently anti-Chávez Venezuelan who resides in London and edits the website V Crisis, has recently launched a defamation suit against London Mayor Ken Livingstone. While Boyd claims that Livingstone defamed him by accusing him of being "a supporter of terrorism against Venezuelan democracy," Boyd does not deny that he advocates violence against Venezuela's democratically-elected government. By his own admission, Boyd has repeatedly advocated such violence on the internet.
Some of Boyd's statements verge on the diabolical. In one rather bizarre article, dated March 18, 2004, Boyd expresses his wish that he were Genghis Khan and that he could order his "hordes" to capture prominent Venezuelan political and judicial officials and "pour melted silver into their eyes." "I wish I could decapitate in public plazas [the pro-Chávez political activist] Lina Ron and [the pro-Chávez politician] Diosdado Cabello," Boyd states. "I wish I could torture for the rest of his remaining existence Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel," Boyd continues. "I wish I could fly over Caracas slums throwing the dead bodies of the criminals that have destroyed my country," Boyd goes on.
To top off this outlandishly sadistic fantasy, Boyd indignantly proclaims, "with mentally unstable people one can not engage in dialogue."...
Sunday, June 11, 2006
A little sample of anti-Chávez sentiment
From Latin America News Review (does this sound like anyone we know?):
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I can almost see the straight shooting Dick saying: "Now, there is a guy we can do business with".
What is the Venezuelan word for "Chalabi"?
"Chalabi" would be far too flattering of a description of Boyd. Boyd isn't sophisticated in the least. Even as a propagandist, he's piss poor at what he does. Chalabi, on the other hand, was pretty effective at pushing us into a senseless war.
Chalabi's not a bad analog, but I was thinking flat-out Ann Coulter, the human zit.
Yeah, Boyd and Ann Coulter have some things in common, although Coulter's right-wing politics is probably slightly more coherent than Boyd's. It's amazing how Fox News has turned very unsophisticated right-wing pundits like Coulter into household names. It just goes to show that all one needs is a medium, not logical arguments, to gain political prominence.
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