Ortega = Obama

I've always been amazed at the media prone stance towards lefty politicians. After all, when socialists and communists take over country what's the first thing they do?

Stifle the media.

Down in Nicaragua, where Daniel Ortega (that would be the same Daniel Ortega who's endorsed The Messiah) they're having a small issue of persecution of journalists.

Those who opposed the dictatorship were imprisoned, forced into exile, stripped of their possessions and denied their fundamental rights. Some, like opposition leader Jorge Salazar, were murdered.

It is not by chance that Ortega's new regime was announced with the murder of journalist Carlos Guadamuz and later was installed in open confrontation with the communications media and the journalists. The persecution now targets my brother, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, because, as a journalist and with the same valor that our parents displayed, he is in the front ranks of combat against the Ortega dictatorship, defending Nicaraguans' freedoms and fundamental rights.

It is tough to realize that we are again in the same struggle, after so much sacrifice and blood spilled in two wars. The destruction of the democratic process is not the fault of the freedom-loving people, who remain defiant, but of political leaders who call themselves democrats, such as the corrupt autocrat Arnoldo Alemán. He and Ortega joined to hijack the democratic institutions and perpetuate themselves through the Power of the Pact, which understands only subjugation that sweeps away every lesser authority, a power that is absolute and centralizing.

Historic crime

Ortega mercilessly targets my brother Carlos Fernando because he knows that the freedom of expression that our people have defended at all costs is like the Holy Cross against the devil. The triumph of freedom of expression in Nicaragua is a fact that was proven against two dictatorships. Its defenders will not allow Ortega and his family to perpetuate themselves in power and will not allow journalists like my brother to lose this political battle, which is not personal but waged by all Nicaraguans.

Although it has toppled the institutions, the historic crime committed by Alemán and Ortega against democracy, progress and the hopes of the people has been unable (and will not be able) to destroy the popular devotion that Nicaragua feels toward freedom of expression. It was sealed with the blood of thousands of heroes and martyrs and is again the center of national unity in defense of Carlos Fernando, national journalism and the popular clamor that, for the third time, cries: ``Democracy, yes; dictatorship, no.''

Couldn't happen here in the US?

Ask Joe the Plumber.

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