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"All I know is if I don't pay, these people disappear."

Miguel Cabrera loves his homeland, and there is much to love about it. Venezuela is a wonderful nation filled with wonderful people.

But right now, its being held hostage by a dictatorial, communist regime. And while he is not the type to spout about politics, today the Detroit Tigers superstar first baseman decided hed had enough. The video is in Spanish, but were going to embed it anyway along with key passages translated below:

Cabrera splits most off his time between Detroit during the season and his home in Miami in the offseason. He only gets to Venezuela a few weeks out of every year, but he has many family members who still live there, including his mother, and apparently he is forced to pay protection money to keep his mother from being kidnapped:

I am tired of hearing that they are going to kidnap my mother, and I dont know whether it is a policeman or a bad guy, I dont know who they are. All I know is if I dont pay, those people disappear.

Cabrera also called for free elections, and while he didnt mention Nicolas Maduro by name or necessarily side with anyone, its clear from this passage what he knows needs to happen:

I am Venezuelan and I protest for the truth. Communism in Venezuela has to come to an end. I cant speak any plainer. I am not with a dictatorship, I am not with anybody. We have to fight for our country. We have to find a solution.

And: Hello to the people of the resistance. You are not alone. We continue to support you.

Cabrera apparently catches some heat for having made millions in America. There is no reason he should apologize for that. Hes in the midst of a 10-year contract with the Tigers that pays him about $29 million a year. Despite the fact that hes having an off year this year (for him), hes earned every penny of that money as one of the best players in baseball and probably the best hitter in Tigers history. If Al Kaline says so (and he does), that pretty much settles it.

But while Cabrera doesnt often set foot in Venezuela these days - and its hard to blame him for that - he has sent considerable aid there in the form of food, medicine and other supplies. Now, he says, people are asking him to send weapons.

That requests comes as the death toll from the anti-government protests has reached 92, with more than 1,500 injured. This was all entirely avoidable, of course, but the Maduro regime choose to consolidate its power and oppress dissidents rather than reverse the socialist policies that have led to widespread deprivation and misery.

And I cant remind you often enough: If the Democratic Party was able to impose whatever policies it preferred in America, it would impose the exact same socialist policies that have devastated Venezuela. Miguel Cabrera is right. Communism in Venezuela has to come to an end. And the notion that socialism or communisim would be in anyones best interests needs to come to an end throughout the world.

But especially in the United States.

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Miguel Cabrera in Instagram video: 'Communism in Venezuela has ... - Canada Free Press

Name changes dont bother me. I transitioned peacefully when Siam decided to continue its national life as Thailand. Ditto when Burma became Myanmar. Theres a little bit of name-changing going on at every wedding. The only name change I find puzzling is the one right now boiling over in the streets of Hamburg.

Can anyone tell me what the all-of-a-sudden anti-capitalists were before last week? Is it the new name for communists? And, if so, how on earth did they ever succeed in getting all the media to fall into line and describe the destroyers of Hamburg as anti-capitalists? It came across as though the lawyer for all the worlds communists appealed to some Media Central Command and begged to be known hereafter by a name that doesnt trigger nearly as much negativity as communists, whereupon Central Command agreed and complied!

I asked a millennial if he knew why the wielders of the wrecking ball in Hamburg, the same ones we used to call communists, now were dubbed anti-capitalists. He replied that there are many things you can be other than communists if youre against capitalism. Im still thinking about that one. Certainly its possible, but I couldnt help much if the professor demanded an essay-answer.

Whoever the suddenly-arrived anti-capitalists are, its hard to give them a robust welcome. Hitler and Mussolini brownshirts and blackshirts were perfect gentlemen compared to these nouveau-thugs in the early stages of their takeover tyranny. The media tell us a handful of these anti-capitalists conceal their identity as they go about their destruction, and among their objectives is to project the illusion that all hundred-thousand of the overwhelmingly law-abiding and orderly demonstrators are part and parcel of their mob. Thats a gargantuan lie, but it worked in Hamburg. Who are these predators? Whats their political past? Whos paying them? What are their intentions? Above all, where is the medias curiosity?

Obviously theyre not shy about their disdain or hatred for capitalism. And if they dont want to be thought of as communists, theyre practicing very unsafe politics. One hopes theyre more prudent in their sexual lives than in their political exhortations. They interest me more than Ill ever interest them. Theyre literally living on what I find to be the most fascinating playing field in the entire world of politics.

Please note that these anti-capitalists are doing their cavorting and proclaiming in a country that is one of capitalisms major success stories. After World War II, Germany became a living laboratory of real-life communism (East Germany) versus real-life capitalism (West Germany). Good breeding prevents me from jumping up and down upon the result when all those millions of Germans chose sides. Never has a visiting American presidents unsolicited advice been more enthusiastically obeyed than when President Ronald Reagan hollered, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

The other side of the coin is just as embarrassing to the anti-capitalists. Were not hallucinating when we detect a preference for socialism, collectivism or communism lurking in the heart of those who smash windows and burn cars in the name of anti-capitalism. Is there no awareness or respect for the reality of Venezuelas sad plight while all this anti-capitalism is raging onward? That most-fascinating political playing field I referred to is simply this. How can there still be full-throated advocates of socialism after weve witnessed 39 socialist economies fail with never one single success?

Ive asked that question every time good fortune tosses me into the company of those who prefer socialism, and the answers I get explain why theres so much fascination here. Take it all in from the top. There have been many capitalist success stories. I dont know of a single failure. Im certain theres never been one in a major way in a major country. Why, then, should we listen to socialists who cant point to a single success?

Get your desperate hands off Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Those Scandinavian successes are all capitalist successes. They have high taxes and broad welfare, but the means of production are in private hands and those countries are free, freer than America in some respects.

If you had a cat that tore up 39 of your sofas would you buy an additional sofa for him to play and prey upon? The answers I get from the avowed communists and socialists and anti-capitalists are fascinating.

They dont deny the facts. They cant. Instead, they say, The Russians were unprepared for socialism. The Poles were too coerced. The Chinese were too brutal. The Hungarians were too technocratic. The Czechs were too wedded to the West. The Albanians were too backward. And then they get to their political punchline thats supposed to knock your socks off, even if youre wearing pantyhose. However, they insist, We are the ones who know how to do it right!

We still have a presidential election scheduled for 2020. Your vote is sorely wanted.

We may wind up hating the anti-capitalists, but right now I think the appropriate emotion toward them is pity.

I suspect our anti-capitalist brothers and sisters are those who cannot see a fat man standing beside a thin man without concluding that the fat man got that way at the expense of the thin man!

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Media turn 'communists' into 'anti-capitalists' - WND.com

The attacks on President Trump, his family and his cabinet are the results of years of internal communism and socialism in America.

Socialism is a lower form of communism. Both have the identical goal economic control of the people and each is a deadly enemy of freedom.

Some of the weapons and techniques of communism are as follows. Destroy the morals of the people and you destroy that nation. Another being used on President Trump is, tell a lie, tell it long enough, and many citizens will believe it.

This is what is going on regarding the "Russian question," that the Marxist influenced left wing media is using against our president to force him out of office. In addition to the media, many in the Democrat party and their socialist leaders, are attacking President Trump and cannot get over the fact, that they lost the presidential race.

The Democrat Party has been infiltrated by communism, and are dupes to their own programs, to take over America and destroy our Constitution and our freedoms.

A good book to read on the infiltration of communism in our government is: THE ENEMIES WITHIN: Communist, Socialist, and Progressives in the U.S. Congress, by Trevor Loudon. In addition, the author has a revealing DVD, ENEMIES WITHIN: Could your Congressman Pass an FBI Security Check? It is available online at amazon.com.

The problem is that many in congress are not obeying their oath to the Constitution. They have been brainwashed, and are supporting socialist programs that could lead our nation to bankruptcy. This has to be stopped, if our America is to remain free! We Christians, who voted for Donald Trump, must stand up and defend our president, and pray for him, and that our America will return to the biblical principles that we were founded upon.

Fred Coleman,

Americans for Constitutional Government

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Letter: Assault on Trump is assault on Democracy - Greenwood Democrat

The attacks on President Trump, his family and his cabinet are the results of years of internal communism and socialism in America.

Socialism is a lower form of communism. Both have the identical goal economic control of the people and each is a deadly enemy of freedom.

Some of the weapons and techniques of communism are as follows. Destroy the morals of the people and you destroy that nation. Another being used on President Trump is, tell a lie, tell it long enough, and many citizens will believe it.

This is what is going on regarding the "Russian question," that the Marxist influenced left wing media is using against our president to force him out of office. In addition to the media, many in the Democrat party and their socialist leaders, are attacking President Trump and cannot get over the fact, that they lost the presidential race.

The Democrat Party has been infiltrated by communism, and are dupes to their own programs, to take over America and destroy our Constitution and our freedoms.

A good book to read on the infiltration of communism in our government is: THE ENEMIES WITHIN: Communist, Socialist, and Progressives in the U.S. Congress, by Trevor Loudon. In addition, the author has a revealing DVD, ENEMIES WITHIN: Could your Congressman Pass an FBI Security Check? It is available online at amazon.com.

The problem is that many in congress are not obeying their oath to the Constitution. They have been brainwashed, and are supporting socialist programs that could lead our nation to bankruptcy. This has to be stopped, if our America is to remain free! We Christians, who voted for Donald Trump, must stand up and defend our president, and pray for him, and that our America will return to the biblical principles that we were founded upon.

Fred Coleman,

Americans for Constitutional Government

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Letter: Assault on Trump is assault on Democracy - Times Record

From David Goldman (Spengler):

Now for the bad news: There wont be a Poland in 100 years. At a total fertility rate of 1.29, Poland will have one retiree per working-age citizen by 2075. Poland in fact has one of the worlds very lowest fertility rates, which means (in Mary Eberstadts way of looking at the problem) that it is losing its religion. President Trumps speech was magnificent, but it brings to mind Schillers dictum that history brought forth a great moment, but the moment encountered a mediocre people. Trump is doing the right thing, but we should remember that Europe is a case not for cure but for palliative care.

Spengler points out that its not just Poland. Look:

Africa doesnt have this problem. From The Economist:

By the end of this century, Africa will be home to 39% of the worlds population, almost as much as Asia, and four times the share of North America and Europe put together. At present only one of the worlds ten most populous countries is in Africa: Nigeria. In 2100, the UN believes, five will be: Nigeria, Congo, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Niger.

Although much could change in the next 85 years, none of those countries is a byword for stability or prosperity. A quadrupling of their population is unlikely to improve matters. If nothing else, the number of Africans seeking a better life in Europe and other richer places is likely to increase several times over.

Will Europe have enough people left to police its borders? Will it have the will to do so?

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