Venezuela’s leader Hugo Chavez, said Mr. Bush promoted “a false democracy of the elite” and a “democracy of bombs”. I agree. Hugo Chavez said “He (Mr. Bush) came here talking as if he were the owner of the world”, I agree. “The UN in its current form doesn’t work”, he said. I agree.
I will not visit the Boston Summit because I’m against its country’s foreign policy. Try again when you guys have real and good leaders in Washington. I know the people organizing the summit aren’t responsible for American foreign policy. Their non-guilt isn’t the point. The point is philosophical: I can’t visit a country that doesn’t respect human rights, is directly responsible for thousands of innocent dead and of which its politicians think that they own the planet. They don’t. For me, visiting the country wouldn’t feel right.
My apologizes to them who wanted to talk with me. At GUADEC I hesitated because the group of people representing GNOME are great. It nearly overruled the problems I have with visiting the US. Recent happenings in the world, however, convinced me I shouldn’t visit the country. I simply can’t.