The Bolivian people gave THEIR president the boot...

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Marlena

Discussion Starter · Oct 18, 2003

...so why can't we???

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Oct17.html

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Sanchez de Lozada had been holed up in his residence this week as the capital erupted in demonstrations. The protests were originally organized by union leaders and opponents in Congress to condemn the government's proposal to build a $5 billion pipeline and sell natural gas to the United States and Mexico through a port in neighboring Chile, Bolivia's rival for more than a century.

But the demonstrations grew and have been used by organizers for a much broader repudiation of globalization, foreign economic influence and the violent suppression of the protests by security forces.

On Friday evening, Bolivians celebrated Sanchez de Lozada's resignation, honking car horns in the streets of La Paz and Cochabamba, hugging each other and toasting the news at cafes and bars.

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Hilary Briss

· #2 · Oct 18, 2003

Because in Bolivia they have a tradition of overturning their governments on a regular basis.

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Hilary Briss

· #3 · Oct 18, 2003

From the CIA website:

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Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups.

I suppose you could argue that the 2000 election was a coup d'etat. We need to mount a counter-coup...

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CityGirl

· #4 · Oct 18, 2003

Americans are too deadened with reality tv and fast food to care what's going on enough to mount a counter-coup or wake up enough to realize how toxic Bush is. The masses are opiated.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the governor of California, for God's sake. The citizenry is clearly not living in the land of the sane.

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MotherNatrsSon

· #5 · Oct 18, 2003

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Originally posted by CityGirl
Americans are too deadened with reality tv and fast food to care what's going on enough to mount a counter-coup or wake up enough to realize how toxic Bush is. The masses are opiated.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the governor of California, for God's sake. The citizenry is clearly not living in the land of the sane.

LOL ...How true.

The citizenery won't care until their credit cards no longer work and the power grid completely collapses from over consumption. We are definitely on the "road to nowhere" and being led by a fool it seems.

MNS

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Marlena

Discussion Starter · #6 · Oct 18, 2003

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Originally posted by Hilary Briss
Because in Bolivia they have a tradition of overturning their governments on a regular basis.

It's amusing, though, how a country that prides itself on its revolutionary history has become, instead, a bunch of overfed and snoozing lap dogs.

While I hardly think that a tradition of regularly overthrowing the government is desirable, I would hope that an outrage to common decency and to our own democratic and libertarian principles such as this administration would cause fellow Americans to harken back to our own ostensible heritage (by way of the more recent and, mercifully, current tradition of civil disobedience, that is).

T

Hey, HB, I've not seen you claim recently that Bush is already a has-been, and that we should be preparing our wishes to him for his impending departure from office. Have you changed your assessment?

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Hilary Briss

· #7 · Oct 19, 2003

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Have you changed your assessment?

No, I'm still singing the same tune. Like his daddy, he is destined to be another one hit wonder from Texas. The only question still open to debate is whether Dean or Clark sends him home with his tail between his legs.

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