# This just in - Hugo Chavez is still crazy \[says US machine caused Haiti quake\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860 "2010-01-21T17:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/41 "2010-01-21T21:53:35Z")
> [@YoureBeingABinkyBoo](#): > > Granted, probably not a US President, but then I think about Operation [Northwoods](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods) and how, although it was never green-lighted, it did make it to the President’s desk, and that fact alone is pretty scary. > [@CurtC](#): > > I don’t see how you can compare a bone-headed plan to fake attacks on the US as if they were by Cuba (with no deaths), with the Holocaust or intentionally causing an earthquake that kills over 100,000 people. That’s just nuts. The Chief of Staff responsible for approving Northwoods found himself removed from his cushy office in the Pentagon and quickly shuffled off to Europe. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/42 "2010-01-21T22:11:59Z")
They were trying for a “Teutonic weapon”, which would have inundated Haiti with obnoxious German tourists. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/43 "2010-01-21T22:39:42Z")
Chavez and anyone else who promotes this conspiracy theory are not to blame for being credulous loons. Rather it is the fault of the government for not laying bare all the secrets of HAARP research. And besides - MKULTRA, J.F.K. and the Tuskeegee Experiment. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/44 "2010-01-21T22:41:27Z")
I have to wonder how much of his own rantings he actually believes. I’m inclined to think ol’ Hugo just likes stirring up shit. He is a bit of an attention whore. He’s also insane, in my unqualified opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/45 "2010-01-21T22:56:56Z")
> [@lalenin](#): > > The latest claim by Hugo Chavez is that the [Haiti earthquake was caused by the US](http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116688§ionid=351020704). According to Chavez this was only a test, in preparation for doing the same thing to Iran. Chavez is a barking mad idiot. That’s along the same lines as the people who claimed George Bush caused Hurricane Katrina because he wanted to kill poor blacks in New Orleans. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/46 "2010-01-21T23:14:43Z")
Ken Follett wrote a novel – \*The Hammer of Eden \*-- about a terrorist group using a machine to generate an earthquake on the San Andreas fault. Of course that was fiction. I say again – FICTION. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/47 "2010-01-21T23:18:20Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > … Pat Robertson’s explanation? Hmmm, Pat Robertson’s explanation + Hugo Chavez’s explanation = Obama really is the Messiah!? :eek: 😃 CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/48 "2010-01-21T23:23:24Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > Sure, but we learned not to do that again after the Cobra Base incident. Didn’t they rule it out because [too many records](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG-4hy1aIFA&feature=related) would be destroyed…? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/49 "2010-01-21T23:38:54Z")
Earthquakes are the weapon of the Mole People not the USA. Although I hear the Lizard aliens living in secrete underground bases are muscling in on that technology. Being Haiti most people would think of the Zombie connection but they don’t have the brains to make an earthquake weapon. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/50 "2010-01-21T23:41:37Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Earthquakes are the weapon of the Mole People not the USA. Although I hear the Lizard aliens living in secrete underground bases are muscling in on that technology. Do you think Chavez is covering for the CHUDs? He sorta looks like one. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/51 "2010-01-21T23:55:36Z")
Didn’t someone try to start this same rumor after the earthquake that caused the big southeast Asian tsunami? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/52 "2010-01-22T00:21:16Z")
If we had such a thing, I think we’d take a solid look at testing it on North Korea first. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/53 "2010-01-22T00:34:12Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Do you think Chavez is covering for the CHUDs? He sorta looks like one. Could be. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/54 "2010-01-22T00:35:14Z")
I think he just uses his face to smash open eggs and beat baby puppies… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/55 "2010-01-22T01:25:57Z")
We must be doing it because, when the combined Dutch and American attack armada was about to steam out of its clever hiding place, behind Aruba, and roll over Venezuela like a Juggernaut, we lost our nerve. (The Dutch were still gung-ho; they said they’re tired of dikes and windmills, and cold winters.) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/56 "2010-01-22T01:28:13Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Chavez is a barking mad idiot. That’s along the same lines as the people who claimed George Bush caused Hurricane Katrina because he wanted to kill poor blacks in New Orleans. Why is that crazy? Everyone knows that poor blacks tend to vote democrat. How else was Bush going to win his third term in 2008? step 1: kill poor blacks in New Orleans to reduce # of dem voters step 2: eliminate term limits step 3: ?? step 4: third term ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/57 "2010-01-22T01:35:35Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Being Haiti most people would think of the Zombie connection but they don’t have the brains to make an earthquake weapon. Just you wait, I heard they’ve been gathering the brains for… oh, wait, _catering_ the brains. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/58 "2010-01-22T01:35:43Z")
George Bush can’t make hurricanes. Halle Berry is the one that does that. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/59 "2010-01-22T02:28:25Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Chavez is a barking mad idiot. That’s along the same lines as the people who claimed George Bush caused Hurricane Katrina because he wanted to kill poor blacks in New Orleans. Funny how they forget that Hurricane Isabel caused $125,000,000 in damage to DC. Or do they claim that Isabel was allowed to hit DC for future plausible deniability? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860/60 "2010-01-22T03:02:04Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > If we had such a thing, I think we’d take a solid look at testing it on North Korea first. But what if it doesn’t work right, and it makes things _nicer_ than they were before? Can’t have that… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-hugo-chavez-is-still-crazy-says-us-machine-caused-haiti-quake/525860.md?page=4)