Reply #68: Your source is operated by a rabid anti-Chavist, Aleksander Boyd [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Looking for a quick summary of his value as a spokeman, I found this remark in a google search. Venezuela-watching DU'ers are very aware of his record. Pathetic:

Comments made by fellow Aleksander Boyd are really not surprising knowing that his organisation known as Proveo and affiliation with political party Sumate - right wing of course - , clearly represents the voice of those who never had to deal with poverty and misery in HIS country. Well living in London and trying to prove that the CIA was never ever involved - directly or indirectly - in the attempted coup against Chavez in 2002 must keep him busy but it is vital to note that putting Venezuela in the same basket as North Korea and Syria just reflects the poor level of decision making policies made in the Pentagone. After decades of non stop corruption from governements of Carlos Andres Perez, Jaime Lusinchi, Luis Herrera and others Caldera it is really refreshing to see something new and constructive, whether people like it or not. Of course a government is going to be criticized, of course not ALL problems can be resolved but people see the effort put into it, people see changes that are real. And when you have an opposition that does not even appeal to the people because they do not even relate with their everyday life, the opposition gets frustrated, divided and lacks complete leadership.
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http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2005/11/venezuela_fumbl.html

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Who is Aleksander Boyd?

Boyd is the person who operates a very aggressive anti-Chavez website called Vcrisis.com, based in London, England.

On more than one occasion, Boyd openly called for the use of violence to oust Chavez, Venezuela's democratically-elected President. So did Carlos Andres Perez (CAP), a former Venezuelan president who was (in the past) convicted of embezzlement and who is now hiding (in the USA) from Venezuelan law on additional criminal charges.

For the years that I have been aware of Vcrisis.com and Boyd, he has done nothing but condemn Chavez and verbally menace anyone who does not side with the violent and criminal Venezuelan anti-Chavez movement.

It will soon become a crime in the UK to incite people to use violence ... something that Boyd is quite accustomed to doing. If Boyd gets arrested in the UK for having incited people to use violence in order to "get rid of Chavez" (terrorism), he will probably be shipped back to Venezuela, where he will probably also face the courts for inciting people to use violence.

First, I will present readers with evidence supporting what I state about Boyd. Later in the article, I will present additional information about him that will make VHeadline.com readers fall of their chairs!

In October 2004 Boyd published an article entitled "Venezuela‚s opposition: to rebel or to die under Chavez‚ boot" in which he states the following:

"Paraphrasing Gerry Adams; 'sometimes violence is the only means to achieve goals' The more the time elapses, the blunter the constitutional violations of the regime, the more I become convinced that the sole way of effectively opposing Chavez is through violence ...

Hence there is a solution: to disown the regime for its violations to democratic values, principles and guarantees and encroachment of human rights are evident. Said stance should go in hand with violence, as Gerry Adams pointed out, if some sort of consensus and respect from Chavez and his thugs is to be achieved."
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http://www.indymedia.ie/article/70618

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More on Alesander Boyd:
Aleksander Boyd lives in London. He serves as one example of the unscrupulous opposition and their attempts to use the internet to malign President Chavez and those who want to see democracy and the rule of law prevail in Venezuela. This self-styled, obsessive firebrand runs a vanity-site called VCrisis, on which he misrepresents and maligns the current Venezuelan government.

For examples, Aleksander Boyd attempts to portray a linkage between President Chavez and terrorism: "The link between the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and terrorism seem to be a recurring theme". He is fond of using "red-baiting" methods to portray Chavez as a "Marxist". On January 8, he wrote: "The Marxist government of Venezuela expropriated its first cattle ranch this morning ..." - a clear attempt to misinform the international community about a procedure in which the Venezuelan government exercises its legal right to appropriate land much in the same way as the U.S. uses land for the good of the majority under its laws of eminent-domain. Boyd also publishes articles written by or for the minority opposition which often resort to unsupported rants about day to day life in this South American nation. For example, Boyd published one recently by Gustavo Coronel in which the author states:

"The Venezuelan day to day is a huge soap opera, never a dull moment. The antics of the revolutionary regime offer abundant opportunities for entertainment although much of what is happening is also very tragic."

Today, in the article below, VHeadline published an article by Carlos Herrera in which he makes a public call to the British Intelligence Services to investigate Boyd's antics in the U.K. and suggests that the Venezuelan ambassador to the U.K. pressure British authorities "to act in strict compliance with the law". Boyd has responded to his critics by launching a media campaign on his vanity site to malign VHeadline and others. For some readers, all this may seem to amount to little more than a schoolyard fight between two internet sites. We view it as an important example of how the internet is being used to attack the most authentic example of real democracy in the western hemisphere, arguably in the world. - Les Blough, Editor
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http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=85&num=14955

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