Santiago Times: Bush = Pinochet

Santiago Times: Bush = Pinochet

Chilean expatriats, who know about such things, see something in George W. Bush that they recognize from their own country's tragic history.


It is a sad state of affairs to have the President of the United States admit to the nation and to the world that he is spying on the citizens he is elected to safeguard.

It is worse to have the President aggressively justify his “big brother” politics in the name of an ill-begotten, counter-productive war on terrorism that, by his own admission, will go on for years and years and years. It would seem that George Orwell’s “1984” is now at hand; that Bush is aiming to outdo Chile’s Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who also justified his assault on the human rights of Chileans in the higher name of a “war on terrorism.”

The slippery slope that Bush has embarked upon leads to a police state, plain and simple.
http://ucsense.blogspot.com/2005/12/santiago-times-bush-pinochet.html

The closest analogy with Bush though I think is Antonio Salazar of Portugal who was dictator from 1932 until 1968. Salazar's economic policies benefited only the top 40 families in Portugal and some of the rest of the upper class, but the rest of the country sank into further poverty. He generally was an international pariah, no one wanted to be associated with him or his regime. The majority of his population continued to sink into poverty as he strained the country by spending huges sums of money clinging to Portugal's empire in Angola and Mozambique with a death grip. Unlike many dictators, Salazar didn't slaughter his population wholesale, but had a definite police state with the PIDE internal security service arresting people by the thousands.

are going through now, and worse, and they are showing us the way back to sanity, human and civil rights, and good government, with majority leftist revolutions sweeping South America. Pay attention! Election reform. Empowerment of the majority. Political AND economic reform. It's amazing what you can do when you have the right to vote!

Stop the slow boil of fascism NOW! NO torture. Never. Under ANY circumstances. Do you know that that is the position of 63% of the American people? No to torture "under any circumstances." May '04. So, how is it that torture is being committed right now, in our name, as I write this, on people whose names we do not know, and who can be 'disappeared' with impunity.

How is it that this great majority view is being ignored? How is it that the Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice are being blatantly violated on many fronts?

The "defense" appropriations bill, now in Congress, being voted on right now, contains hidden, unnoticed language that permits torture. Did you know that? Call your reps today. Pressure Congress. Try to get that language removed.

Go here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5665453

But consider this: WHY WAS THAT LANGUAGE SNEAKED IN?

The slow boil of fascism. To inure us to torture. To make it seem okay "in some circumstances." To create a goddamned dictator who can 'disappear' people at will.

And the key to all this is that the will of the great majority is NOT BEING DONE. And the reason is election fraud! Ignoring the will of the majority CANNOT HAPPEN if you have TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS. We have anything but. We have elections run on "trade secret," proprietary programming code, owned and controlled by Bushite corporations! --with a corrupt, collusive Democratic Party leadership that LET THAT HAPPEN.*

The OAS, EU groups and the Carter Center monitor elections in South America. That's WHY they are having a democratic revolution. Who is monitoring ours? WHO IS MONITORING OURS?

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*(There are some good Dems. Russ Holt's HR 550 would stop the corporate privatization of our elections, and reverse it, by eliminating undisclosed software, among other things. Sign the petition at: http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html )