What Chavez was trying to do, where he
> came from, whom he represented are't interesting topics in themselves;
> it's only interesting if the CIA is plotting a coup.
CIA executives gathered in Santiago de Chile revealed in contingency plot to overthrow Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=22356
I don't think the first question I'd ask would
> be about Leonard Peltier.
Back in 2000, in one of the marches down Market St. here in S.F. the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee hippies were crestfallen that the LPDC had backhandedly endorsed Gore. Word was that Gore had promised the LPDC that if elected he would pardon Peltier.
The Martyrdom of Leonard Peltier
He became a rallying cry for centuries of oppression against his people, one of America's most potent political symbols. But now, 20 years after the murder of two FBI agents that put him in prison for life, he's more important as a legend than as a man, and the legend has begun to unravel. By Scott Anderson http://outside.away.com/magazine/0795/7f_leo1.html
Michael Pugliese