Shall We Call This One "Wildmon's World?"

Bruce - your piece on Robertson's latest Christian thoughts for Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez makes a great companion to this item I found in the Houston Chronicle a few days ago: Religious group asks drivers to boycott Citgo. Association objects to Chavez criticism of Bush. This particular "religious group" is the American Family Association, headquartered in Tupelo, MS, and chaired by the almost-aptly-named Donald Wildmon.

This group isn't calling for Chavez' assassination, their aim is to hit Venezuela's national oil business in the gut:

The American Family Association launched the boycott of Houston-based Citgo, the U.S. refining and marketing branch of Venezuela's national oil company PDVSA, in an attempt to cut oil revenue flowing to the Venezuelan government of Chavez, which has been a harsh critic of President Bush.

Some of our readers, who lean as constantly left as I do, may remember that just last year a liberal campaign was launched asking Americans to buy their gasoline from Citgo - a practice I continue to follow - in order to support Venezuela's oil industry and Chavez' government. If you have slacked off on supporting Citgo, now would be a good time to remind yourself that as consumers we actually have a voice in this world. The "religious" right is howling that Chavez is trying to bring down America's imperial government, while in fact America's imperial government has actually made at least one real attempt to bring down Chavez, and is in all likelihood currently hard at work on another.

We'd better get on that switchgrass farming right soon if we are going to do without Citgo in this country, y'all, seeing as how:

OPEC nation Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere and is one of the top five exporters of crude and products to the United States.

Chavez has used Citgo as a tool of goodwill diplomacy in recent months, donating low-cost heating oil to poor people in the United States.

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