Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro is a fortunate man.
He’s nonetheless alive.
He may have had his head blown off, together with the top of his pretty spouse Cilia Flores.
As an alternative, he and she is going to get a good trial in an open courtroom, one thing of which Maduro routinely denied the Venezuelan individuals he dominated over.
At the moment each are being held on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn awaiting trial.
Each pled not responsible to quite a lot of federal fees after being whisked out of Caracas by U.S. forces in a unprecedented mission and dropped at New York.
Whereas it’s not precisely Motel 6, the detention heart is a far cry from the gulags Maduro despatched 1000’s of his political opponents the place they had been tortured, murdered or just disappeared.
At the very least on the MDC he’ll get three hots and a cot and—who is aware of—might even get the chance to dine along with his pretty spouse who may very well be occupying an adjoining cell.
Since Maduro’s subsequent courtroom look is months away, sympathetic Democrats could have loads of time to launch a GoFundMe web page for the Maduros.
The funds may come in useful pending Maduro’s entry to the tens of millions in drug cash he has stashed away in Switzerland and elsewhere.
The fund may very well be headed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a fellow socialist.
Mamdani was essential of President Donald Trump’s choice to take Maduro into custody, though Maduro was an indicted and needed legal who poured tons of medicine into the U.S. and housed Hezbollah terrorists in addition to unhealthy actors from Iran, China and Russia.
Apart from that Maduro was man, as he instructed the courtroom upon his arraignment. “I’m a good man,” he stated.
Maduro’s key mistake was that he underestimated Trump. Additionally, Maduro courted doom when he turned down a suggestion to flee to Russia along with his ill-gotten beneficial properties.
There he may have joined former Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad who was additionally given sanctuary by the Russians after he was compelled to flee Syria.
What’s fascinating in all of that is the response of the Democrats who’re attacking Trump for his “unlawful” motion in capturing Maduro.
These are the identical Democrats who applauded former President Barack Obama when he ordered the U.S. navy in 2011 to take out al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, the brains behind the 911 (2001) assault on the Twin Towers in New York that took 3,000 lives.
In distinction, a whole lot of thousand U.S. lives have been taken by medicine smuggled into the U.S. due to Maduro.
Again then was when Particular Crew Six flew undetected into Pakistan on two Blackhawk helicopters to confront bin Laden, who was hiding out in a compound in Abbottabad along with his household and supporters.
The daring mission succeeded. Solely as a substitute of capturing an unarmed Osama and bringing him to trial, he was shot useless, which can have been the plan within the first place. No Osama bin Laden, no trial.
Democrats didn’t object or accuse Obama of appearing illegally. As an alternative, they rejoiced. Then Lawyer Normal Eric Holder stated Osama deserved what he obtained.
President Obama even gave a speech from the White Home bragging in regards to the lethal accomplishment. No one introduced up that the proper factor may need been to seize Osama and convey him to justice.
Evaluate that to what U.S. navy particular forces and regulation enforcement officers did after they went into Caracas to take out Maduro.
They simply may have earlier killed Maduro with a drone assault.
Or they might have killed Maduro and his spouse after they stormed his hideout in Caracas, the best way they did after they attacked Osama and killed him, his son and a lady. As an alternative of blowing Maduro’s head off they learn him his Miranda rights.
Trump, in contrast to Obama, needed Maduro alive and placed on trial.
Not Obama. The Obama administration didn’t need to seize Osama. They needed him useless, not alive and to be placed on trial. A trial would have turned him into an Islamist terrorist martyr. So, they killed him and buried him buried hm at sea.. No Osama, no trial. And Democrats cheered.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas might be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.
