...in Comment #36, here...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x30994Your comments about the "rainforest Chernobly" in Ecuador--the Chevron-Texaco toxic oil spill the size of Rhode Island, which has destroyed fisheries, rivers and streams and the living of 30,000 Indigenous people in the Amazon forest--and your racist remark, that the charges against Chevron should be disregarded because they were "presented by an Indian," taint all your other comments on Latin American issues. You are an oil corporation apologist. And your remarks are so ignorant, uninformed and so like the crap put out by Chevron's 12 P.R. firms--which they hired to discredit the Indigenous who filed suit against them for damages and cleanup--that your views have no credibility whatsoever.
In fact, I advise other DUers to use my Rule No. 1 from the Bush Junta as a guide to determining the truth of your statements: To wit, whatever you assert, the opposite is the truth.
Thus, we can surmise that your elaborate, garbled, and mindboggingly twisted, concoction of "Soviet agitprop," Rumsfeld's ""Office of Special Plans," and Israeli intelligence, to try to throw doubt on this massacre, is a load of crap--and, indeed, it is as big a load of crap as you have ever peddled at DU--and we can also surmise that, since you question this massacre, the massacre has particular importance, politically, to the U.S., the CIA and the Pentagon. I have guessed that it was possibly "turkey shoot" practice for Afghanistan. My suspicions are reinforced by your bullshit.
In the thread I cited above, you stated "there was no rainforest Chernobyl in Ecuador." I then cited dozens of both 'mainstream' and alternative sources on the huge toxic Chevron-Texaco oil spill in Ecuador, which has been referred to, time and again, in the press as "the rainforest Chernobyl." You have not even acknowledged that the oil spill occurred, let alone that the spill covers an area the size of Rhode Island and has damaged the health and livelihood of 30,000 Indigenous people who depend on the Amazon rainforest for fresh water, fisheries and a subsistence living.
I repeat: You are an oil corporation apologist. You will say
anything in their defense, no matter how untrue. And, when push came to shove, in the discussion about the "rainforest Chernobyl" in Ecuador, you said that we should disregard evidence because it was presented by "an Indian."
The basic psychological problem of racists is that they cannot face reality. They cannot believe that someone from what they consider a "lesser race" or "subhuman group" can be as intelligent and as skilled, or more intelligence and more skilled, than they themselves, of their "superior" race. They not only deny that "all men are created equal"; they deny the evidence of their own eyes and their own rational minds, that some members of what they consider a "lesser race" or "subhuman group" are in fact superior to them in intelligence and/or skill.
And this psychological problem of unreason and fake, puffed up superiority, is very like corporate P.R., which tries to get us to believe the opposite of what is true about their products and their motives and which often uses a fake, puffed up sense of superiority--the notion that if you possess such and such a product, you are superior to everyone else--to peddle their toxic, earth-killing crap.
It does not surprise me to find a racist defending Chevron-Texaco--or trying to make a massacre of the poor seem untrue. And it is quire appalling to me to witness an example of such a subservient, confused mind.