VHeadline.com commentarist Oscar Heck writes: It seemed, at least for a while, that the anti-Chavez movement had stopped their lies and propaganda and screaming and yelling and pouting and paranoia … but it has all re-started … again. I suspect that the organizers had been on vacation in Miami.

The new land reform initiative was put into action this week and the anti-Chavez movement has gone crazy once again … inventing all sorts of stories about how the Chavez government will steal land from wealthy land owners and middle-class land owners … something which is completely untrue.

Globovision, Venezuela’s most anti-Chavez TV station, is frothing at the mouth once again … and so are other anti-Chavez stations. The interesting thing is that because of the new broadcast content laws (created due to past programming abuses by Globovision, RCTV, Venevision and Televen), the television stations can no longer broadcast “news” items unless there is proof of a reliable source or some degree of verifiable truth to what they broadcast.

In the recent past, after the Chavez government opened the airwaves to freedom of expression, most of the privately-owned media (which is almost entirely anti-Chavez and include the above-mentioned) began to irresponsibly broadcast all sorts of lies and unfounded and unverifiable information (as news items) in their efforts at assisting the anti-Chavez movement in undemocratically ousting democratically-elected President Chavez. So, today, due to the new broadcast laws, the media must act responsibly … if not, like in most countries around the world, they will be shut down.

But … these snakes are very big … they have found ways around the broadcast laws … and this is how they do it.

During the news, instead of stating outright such and such a thing, they interview people who say the such and such a thing which the TV station wants to brainwash listeners with. For example, yesterday, the anti-Chavez TV stations broadcast (as a news item) an anti-Chavez news conference which was given by the corrupt Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (the Venezuelan Catholic Church’s corporate head office). The priest who spoke was Diego Padron and he warned Venezuelans that the government is heading toward an “excessive concentration of power” which “will lead Venezuela into a dictatorship.”

So now, to avoid stating anti-Chavez propaganda “directly” on news broadcasts (as they did before the existence of the new broadcast law) … they use “spokespersons” to say it for them … “spokespersons” such as leaders and representatives of the anti-humanity, anti-justice, anti-pueblo, pro-USA, pro-upper-class, pro-let-the-poor-be-poor, anti-Christ church mafia.

This is ridiculous … but this is reality in Venezuela.

• The church, which should be working for the poor, for the disenchanted, for the needy, for the people … and against corruption and against abuses, is working for the wealthy exploiters and abusers.

The Venezuela Episcopal Conference (which is ironically represented at the Vatican) lost touch with Venezuela’s reality … long ago.

I came to Venezuela the first time in the mid 1970s specifically to work with the church (I was going to become a priest … hummm). To my great dismay at the time, to be part of the church, one had to bow down to the church’s corrupt hierarchy (people such as Porras … and now Padron) and one had to keep one’s mouth shut … which I did not (and I still don’t).

So .. they conveniently kicked me out of the church … because I refused to participate in their twice-weekly evening supers with generals and diplomats and bankers in Las Mercedes (Caracas’ east-end upper-class restaurant area) … and because I refused to spend every second weekend with them at mansions and exclusive resorts in Rio Chico and Higuerote (Caribbean beaches) playing tennis and drinking top-of-the-line imported whisky … and hanging around with the very-wealthy “in” crowd.

Other “spokespersons” for the anti-Chavez movement and for the anti-Chavez media are people such as Brownfield, US ambassador to Venezuela ... I have seen him on television on several occasions recently, once on a tour of Venevision, congratulating the Venevision management for their excellent coverage of news (huh!) and once touring the coastal Vargas area (which suffered huge losses of life in 1999 due to land slides and which has recently been experiencing more land slides) saying things to the effect of  “we must work together … the well being of all people is our concern, etc., etc., bla, bla, bla.”

My foot, Brownfield. How can anyone believe this person?

I certainly don’t … not for one minute ... how can anyone believe that the US government is concerned for the well-being of people when they go around murdering thousands of innocent people (as in Iraq) and spraying dangerous chemicals over innocent villagers along the Colombia/Venezuela borders?

Come on! … and these are the species of people which the Venezuelan anti-Chavez movement sides with.

• Furthermore …consider the verifiable fact that the US government has been financing the Venezuelan anti-Chavez movement for years now.

And it doesn’t stop there. It has been recently discovered that Rodrigo Granda, leader of the Colombian rebel group FARC, was kidnapped in Caracas on December 13, 2004. All the anti-Chavez media (and the gullible anti-Chavez people) were convinced that the Chavez government had given Granda refuge and that it was the Venezuelan secret police that made a secret deal with Colombia’s government to capture Granda. Bla, bla, bla, bla …

The Chavez government (and Chavez himself) held back comments (even when harassed by the sensationalist, panic-driven anti-Chavez media), stating that they would address the media (and the country) once the investigation was over.

However, the Venezuelan government did clearly and emphatically state that it was not involved in the kidnapping.

The anti-Chavez media did not buy it and started inventing possible scenarios … each scenario implicating Chavez or the Chavez government (as the bad guys or co-conspirators). But oops … suddenly (today) Colombia’s President Uribe stated that it was in fact the Colombian government which was behind the kidnapping … and that they hired mercenaries to do the job.

Well, well, well … the twisted Venezuelan anti-Chavez media and their brainwashed followers have been caught with their pants down once again.

I suspect they will be caught with their pants down again soon … with regard to the land reform issue.

Let’s wait and see.

Viva Venezuela!