Aside: Not So Crazy
So, did you read about Hugo Chavez accusing the US of causing the Haiti earthquakes with HAARP weaponry? I saw some discussion of that story, and thought it was a sign that Chavez had gone off the reservation… but it appears that it’s that the story is the result of some shoddy journalism and the Internet echo-amplification, not anything factual. Now the paranoid part of my brain is wondering if someone could cook up something like this on purpose specifically to reduce Chavez’s international credibility.
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Dude, your sarcasm tag is on, right? Because of course governments do things to discredit the competition. How much coverage of Cuba’s doctors in Haiti have you seen?
Let there be no doubt–I know that they are capable of doing something like this. However, I suspect that attributing this particular case to conscious, planned action would put me afoul of Hanlon’s Razor.
Yeah. People who accept ideologies both accept and invent propaganda.
I doubt anyone would bother deliberately trying to reduce the international credibility of Hugo Chavez, as he himself reduced it to zero some time ago.
Actually, Lachlan, he’s had a great deal of help by capitalists, some of whom hear selectively, others of whom lie. You can still find ignorant people on the web who don’t think he was democratically elected and who don’t know that the US funded the anti-democratic coup against him in 2002. Any time you hear someone claim he said something, check the Spanish text. Ideologues impose meaning when they translate, even when they’re trying to be honest.