Chavez set to rule for life

Chavez looks set to rule for life, instituting term limits for every elected role in Venezuela, except his own, and now kicking out people who criticise him.

Whenever anyone claims they are shifting “control of the country’s destiny to the grassroots citizenry and the poor” it means they are about to start a reign of oppression!

I prefer a country with a free press, freedom to criticise, and have in fact supported term limits (for all MPs) since the early 1990s when I proposed them at a National Party conference and the NZ Herald unhelpfully highlighted the only two MPs who would have been affected by my proposal were those obscure backbenchers Sir William Birch and the Rt Hon James Bolger. 🙂