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The best part of the FARC hostage??

Posted: July 4th, 2008, 12:55pm MST

Tags: chavez [edit]

Hugo Chavez was completely marginalized & left on the outside looking in:

For months, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised to seek the release of Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt but her liberation in a surprise rescue has turned out to be a setback for the leftist leader.

Just hours after Betancourt was freed by Colombian troops, the one-time presidential candidate urged Chavez not to meddle in Colombian affairs and strongly backed President Alvaro Uribe, a pro-U.S. ideological adversary of the leftist Chavez.

Wednesday's bold rescue operation likely will boost political support for Uribe's hard-line stance against the FARC rebels and decrease backing for Chavez's position that only negotiation can end Colombia's four-decade-old civil war.

"Chavez has been accusing Uribe of being a war-monger but when all of a sudden Uribe achieves this rescue without a single shot fired, Chavez is being run over by the facts," said Eduardo Gamarra, director at Newlink Research, a Miami-based polling firm that works in Latin America.

Hostages freed, our Colombian ally strengthened & ooooohgo looking like a fool, very sweet.
Our judges non partisan & unbiased & devoid of political agendas??

Posted: July 4th, 2008, 8:17am MST

Tags: Miscellaneous [edit]

I call bullshit on that:

Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin permitted a rare recorded vote on whether to name abortion-rights activist Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada, an indication the independent advisory committee that usually operates by consensus was split on whether to grant him Canada's highest honour, sources said.

The sources said Chief Justice McLachlin drove the nomination, which was opposed by the two government members on the nine-member committee, Privy Council Clerk Kevin Lynch and deputy heritage minister Judith LaRocque.

This is highly inappropriate & only goes to prove that judges have their own agendas & aren't afraid to impose them when they feel like it. I don't care so much about the whole abortion foofraw but this bothers me. To award Morgentaler over so many more worthy candidates reeks of ideology more than anything else & if this is how ideologically driven the Order committee is going to be, then the Chief Justice of the land shouldn't be a part of this.

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