Hey, Venezuela, this is a stick up. It is time for all of us to say what we see right before us. An empire attacks a poor, weaker state and demands the lion’s share of its richest raw material, oil. Why is this not a stick up? They demand it and get it. Remember that old corny line from the movies, “Your money or your life?” Here, it’s “Give me your oil or else,” or even worse, perhaps, “This oil is ours. We’re taking most of it.” Really? Honestly? Doesn’t that sound straight up like a stick up? And as if that wasn’t enough, the seizure of Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores was, and is, a kidnapping.
Think of this, okay? When have you heard of U.S. presidents waging unjust wars on false and specious pretexts? We need think no further than the hellish wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, where tens of thousands of people died under grotesque U.S. bombing campaigns. Remember weapons of mass destruction? Now who got busted for that disaster?
Maduro and his wife are not subject to American law. They should be returned home, period, immediately, and the natural resources of Venezuela should remain in the hands of the people of Venezuela, not the Americans. With love not fear, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
These commentaries are recorded by Prison Radio.
