For many of us, we are just bloggers.

We blog, taking alter-egos, saying all the things we’d like to say in the regular world but don’t, and then return to our normal lives, happily anonymous. For some bloggers, it can get to be quite a contrast indeed. Proto-blogger Matt Drudge, a humdrum Hollywood gift shop clerk, quietly lived a second life no one knew about – as the biggest voice on the Internet, with the capacity to shape news, all because of his grasp of technology and ability to connect to others.

But some people are stepping out beyond even that.

Publius contributor Aleksander Boyd is. With the world spotlight on Hugo Chavez’s visit to London, Alek was on five television and radio shows yesterday, warning the world – like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once did – of the growing menace of tyranny directed at at unwitting West. Not only that, Alek organized a protest of Venezuelan exiles in London to protest Hugo Chavez and the group was rebuffed by an amazingly short-sighted, fearful group of London bureaucrats intent on pleasing Hugo Chavez himself. They cannot win by doing this, and only call further attention to the growing human rights violations in Venezuela inside a way that feeding the exiles sandwiches inside cannot.

Alek’s work is now appearing in The Times of London, the most prestigious newspaper in Europe, on Real Clear Politics, the most important news blog, and the rest of his work and opinion are being sought far and wide.

When we get a link from Alek’s VCrisis site to Publius, it’s always so eerie to see where the sources are – they tend to be from the halls of power all over the world.

No one has been more persistent and relentless and open minded to all the views on Venezuela than Alek Boyd.

Not only that, no one has exposed more Chavista wrongdoing than Alek, no one. What we are seeing is how an ordinary blogger can become extraordinary, and change the world. The days of miracle and wonder. When the history books are written on Venezuela during its most turbulent era, Alek is going to be a part of it. He’s a player now. And a far better person than the Thug ruling Caracas will ever be.

Daniel has a short list of Alek’s incredible list of accomplishments – to which I will add two more: the exposure of the Smartmatic voting machine ownership that is threatening to influence U.S. elections, and the exposure of a phony polling firm purporting to be real in Miami. There are many more besides this – publication of the Maisanta blacklist computer database, the studies on electoral fraud of 2004, the idiocy and ignorance of the Carter vote-monitoring, Chavista money stealing and apartment buying in Miami. A truly incredible string of accomplishments, one like none other. See Daniel’s post here, and Alek’s item here.

Bravo, Aleksander Boyd!!!!