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VHeadline.com's Editorial
Manifesto 2009
Although it has been said often enough before,
VHeadline.com
is focused on basic principles of independence and freedom supplemented by
an editorial ethos in support of positive developments in Venezuela as it
affects the rich and beautiful country and its people in terms of:
| Some
VHeadline.com
readers
have mistakenly alleged a serious bias in
our pages against the United States of America. Since, undoubtedly, we owe no
allegiance towards the United States, we can only comment that any such
perception must stand for the individual reader. We have no quarrel with
the good people of the United States and, in fact, a majority of our readers are
indeed USA-based (latest figures: 92.7% in North America!). |
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VHeadline.com's
editorial focus ... and therefore our allegiances and any implied bias ... is
Venezuela and all things pertaining to this wonderful country in South America.
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is fully supportive of the Venezuelan people in their efforts to secure and
reassure their national sovereignty against all foreign impositions. We
support and maintain our allegiance towards Venezuela's insistence on its
sovereign right to determine its own democratic governance without the
un-asked-for intrusion of other nations. |
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supports every effort made by Venezuela to underscore its independence from
external dictate and we will therefore reject any such external intromission
from wherever it may emanate. We have no editorial bias against any United
States authority, organization, citizen or resident except where it is itself
percieved to be contrary to the democratic interests and future well-being of
Venezuela and its people. |
Government:
VHeadline.com
is most definitely in support of government, although in the peculiar context of
Venezuelan affairs it is best to further explain that as a foreign-based
e-publication we are in support of government as opposed to un-government.
We are in support of governance in whatever genre of political persuasion
provided that it is in compliance with the will of the people of Venezuela as
expressed by secret ballot in such democratic elections as may from time to time
be held in accordance with the Constitution and any subsequent amendments
thereof. We do NOT support anti-democratic policies and/or actions
designed to disrupt the proper progress of democratic government, whether that
disruption emanates from outside or covertly within the democratic process
itself. We are in support of citizen participation in the process of
government and lend every encouragement to those who wish to express and publish
their opinions within that framework.
Constitutionality:
VHeadline.com
is most definitely in support of the Venezuelan Constitution as the codex on
which Venezuela's progress as a sovereign nation must proceed. The
Venezuelan Constitution, and any subsequent amendments to it, is the foundation
on which Venezuela's participative democracy is founded, and is itself the
living witness of a democratic process by which duly-elected representatives of
the Venezuelan people threw out the bad and implemented new legal references on
which to build Venezuela's progress in the new millennium. The Venezuelan
Constitution is therefore a "work in progress" with the ultimate aim of
empowering the citizens of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to achieve their
sovereign and collective goal of peace and prosperity and individual advancement
within the context of equal opportunity and good will.
Rule of Law:
VHeadline.com
is most definitely in support of the Rule of Law in Venezuela as dictated by the
Constitution and Venezuela's sovereign judiciary free from political influence
and/or commercial coercion. Like the Venezuelan Constitution itself, the
Rule of Law is conditional upon the democratic will of the people in observance
of basic tenets of personal and civic responsibility among one's fellow citizens
and others within the legal jurisdiction of the sovereign realm.
Roy S. Carson
editor@vheadline.com
We at
VHeadline.com
seek to give every assistance to
positive developments and progress that affects Venezuela's future without the
entanglements of party-political allegiances.
It is unfortunate that the majority of Venezuela's media
today is partisan on one side or the other of the political chasm or divide,
seeing things in simplistic terms of black or white when many shades of gray
exist between the two extremes which, if the gulf was to be linked even with one
small isthmus of understanding, both sides could unite to work for Venezuela's
future lending not only infinite shades of gray to the political-economic canvas
but also the multiplicity of vibrant colors which come together in the totality
of everything that is good and noble about the Venezuela we each know and love.
I reiterate that we recognize the many good things that
are happening in Venezuela ... this does not negate the reality that Venezuela
is a "work in progress" and that many things remain to be done, many attitudes
require revision and various cancerous growths within the administration and
beyond require urgent political surgery for the patient to survive through the
next years of what must be intensive care.
It is also recognized that Venezuela has many enemies
... inside and outside of Venezuela ... inside and outside of the machinery of
democratic government ... each with their own particular reasons, of either
ignorance or manipulative design, to wish to see Venezuela succumb and become
more malleable to interests other than those who are truly working in the
sovereign interests of the nation and the people of Venezuela as a whole.
- Like any other responsible publication anywhere in the
world, we take pride in the fact that we do not ally ourselves with criminals,
fraudsters and saboteurs.
We recognize that it is an imperfect world and that it
is our duty as well as that of each and every other person of goodwill, to seek
perfection through a multiplicity of means, each of which must ultimately be
answerable to the sovereign will of the people of Venezuela.
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