[Athena]

Quote by: Mr.Vicchio Chavez: Troops to escort oil takeovers - Yahoo! News This is real tyranny over oil. Perhaps some notes should be taken by Bush, this is the way a REAL dictator bent on enriching him and his buddies acts and gets away with it... ::rollseyes::

I am not sure you are correct. From my point of view, tyranny is private ownership of what should be a shared resource. If the money for such resources is not used to build a secondary economic base that will out last the resource, all benefits of having a resource are lost in a very short time.
Just look at the ghost towns that were once great centers of wealth.

Great wealth has came from forest, and much of our land was deforested, because we allowed private individuals to take without giving back, and future generations pay for the wealth of those who got to the resource first. Great wealth came from gold mines and silver mines, and these once boom towns are now ghost towns that cannot support even small populations. Those who got to there first, became wealthy, directly from exploiting mineral resources, or the businesses that grow around logging operations and mines. A few years down the road, the businesses go belly up and the real estate looses all its value. All the people who made a good live possible, loose everything. In my book this is short sighted and wrong. It is the height of human stupidity to be so short sighted and self absorbed.

If a government does not protect community, or national wealth, for the people, they will not be protected. They serve and then end up in poverty, possibly starving to death, and suffering all the problems of destroyed environment. I think you are wrong to believe Chavez is self absorbed and that he is wrong to claim a limited resource for the people and their future, because this is what should be done. What he is doing is so much better than a handful of people exploiting the land and the people and leaving with all the profits. Tyranny doesn't give back and if you knew the history, you would know the people were not getting their fair share and oil feilds were nationalized around the world. The wrong is how much oil was taken, and how much environments were damaged, and how badly the people were exploited, before their governments acted in their favor.