Anyone accusing Chávez of "bad faith" will be prosecuted

[Bacchus39]

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http://english.eluniversal.com/2011/01/20/en_pol_esp_anyone-accusing-chav_20A5014571.shtml

In 2010, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice gave the Venezuelan president the green light to sue his accusers

Any Venezuelans who believe that President Hugo Chávez has committed a crime and resort to the Attorney General Office to seek prosecution of the Venezuelan president will go from complainant to defendant, as provided for in two judgments issued by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ).

The Supreme Tribunal of Justice authorized the Public Prosecution Office, led by Luisa Ortega Díaz, to dismiss two cases filed by Henry Ramos Allup and Rafael Marín, two leaders of Venezuelan opposition party Acción Democrática (Democratic Action); and by retired Navy Vice Admiral Iván Carratú and retired Colonel Pedro Soto against Chávez. Additionally, the top court "instructed" the Public Prosecution Office to "initiate a criminal investigation against the complainants."

According to the judgments prepared by Justice Omar Mora Díaz, who is the First Vice President of the TSJ and president of the Social Court, such instruction is justified. He argued that none of the legal actions demonstrated that the Venezuelan Head of State had committed a crime. Therefore, he found that the complainants violated Article 291 of the Organic Code of Criminal Procedure (COPP).

[Zorro]

1. A shining example of the Bolivaran justice system

It works for Fidel, so it must be good for the Venezuelans.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Baseless lawsuits can result in steep fines and costs, and even "contempt of court" charges

here. There is nothing that judges hate more than their time being wasted by frivolous lawsuits. And if they smell criminal activity behind it, they most certainly would turn the matter over to the D.A.

Notice how uninformative this El (Non) Universal article is. It provides not one detail on the "charges" that these Venezuelan "Tea Partyers" brought against Chavez. Could that be because the "charges" were absurd? (Did they challenge his Venezuelan birth certificate?)

The drumbeat of anti-Chavez DISINFORMATION from this rag and every corner of the corpo-fascist press is mind-boggling. They will twist anything and everything to the purpose of creating bogeyman "Chavez the dictator," and never ever EVER tell you WHY Chavez has been elected--in honest, transparent, internationally monitored elections--twice, by big margins, and three times if you count his big victory in the USAID-funded recall election in 2004.

Honest elections. Big margins. WHY?

If you get your information from sources like this, you would have to conclude that most Venezuelans want to be tyrannized.

This kind of crapola about Chavez is in truth not just an attack on Chavez, it is an attack on the Venezuelan people whom the fascist billionaires who control the press there, like they do here, consider to be stupid peasants. It is an attack on democracy which is alive and well in Venezuela. Not so much here.

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These same kind of greed-driven shit-rags called Franklin Delano Roosevelt a "dictator." And you know what he replied?

"Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!"

[naaman fletcher]

3. We put up with ridiculous Orly Taitz bs

That eventually, eventually, resulted in her being fined for contempt. It's a simple question: Which society would you prefer to live in? One where there is easy access to courts and its pretty hard to get a contempt charge? Or one like the one described here?

However I agree the article is not very informative.

[naaman fletcher]

4. by the way:

how do you know they are tea partiers if you don't even know what they complained about?

Do you believe that every person who does not like Chavez is a Tea Partyer?

[social_critic]

5. Forgive them father, because they know not what they do

I don't think he speaks Spanish. And I know he doesn't realize just how bad things are turning out for his "commander". The majority of Venezuelans dislike Chavez. And the majority of this majority can be said to be somewhat left wing. This is why Chavez got elected the first time.

Today, they realize he's a buffoon, incompetent, corrupt, and a megalomaniac. But I guess this reality, which really bites, isn't real for Chavez defenders living in the US, who get all their news about Venezuela from my dear friend Eva.

[social_critic]

6. No response?

Is Eva on vacation?