Reply #101: You May Believe What You Please, Ma'am [View All]

[The Magistrate]

Most revolutions are not military adventures, but take a regime wielding a military for their target. Coup d'etat and revolution are different concepts.

Neither thing, of course, has the slightest relevance to the current position of Col. Chavez: he was elected to office by the people, and has, in office, done nothing more or less than what he promised his supporters to do, and what everyone on both sides of the question knew was his intent.

Do not, by the way, Ma'am, mistake the majority of the monied classes for the majority of the people in assessing popular will, nor the majority of one ethnic caste for the majority of the people. In our country, after all, if only white men voted, the reactionary party would enjoy solid majorities in every election, though you would hardly call that the will of the people, and if there were also property and income qualifications, those majorities would be much higher.