[Marxism] Extremely disgusting article on Pinochet/Chile!!!!

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Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:26:00 -0400 (EDT)
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CALGARYSUN.COM

Tue, May 11, 2004

Ralph was right

Augusto Pinochet rescued Chile from sins of Marxist dictator

By Paul Jackson -- Calgary Sun

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher regarded General Augusto
Pinochet as a great man of heroic stature who halted the total enslavement
of  the people of Chile under a brutal Communist regime.

Now, any individual Thatcher admires surely deserves the admiration of
others  who believe modern-day Stalinists shouldn't be allowed to trample
on people's  rights and freedoms.

Yet Premier Ralph Klein has got himself in some hot water by suggesting
there  was something positive in Pinochet cleaning up the chaos left by
Marxist  Salvador Allende after the reckless and ruthless leader had been
in power just  three years.

  Klein was right and anyone who has read the carefully-assessed and
critically  acclaimed works Allende: Death of a Marxist Dream and Out of
the Ashes: Life,  Death and the Transformation of Democracy in Chile
1883-1988 by famed historian  James R. Whelan (Winner of the prestigious
Nieman Fellowship at Harvard) will  attest to that.

My only surprise at Klein's comments was that, after making his initial
assessment of Pinochet, he then tempered his stance somewhat by suggesting
Pinochet committed no worse sins than Allende.   Actually, Pinochet
committed no sins, but simply rescued his countrymen from  the sins of
Allende, and deserves the praise of every Chilean for his courage  and
accomplishments.

President Richard Nixon himself saw the havoc Allende would wreak on Chile
and  authorized the funding of attempts to prevent him from coming to
power in 1970  and backed Pinochet's coup d'etat against the Marxist
politician in 1973.  Nixon has been much maligned by his enemies in the
lib-left, but he beat them  at their game by dying with the reputation of
a honourable statesman.

During the three years Allende was in power, he ruined his nation's
economy  with massive state takeovers of huge sectors of industry and
confiscated the  assets of U.S. companies in that nation.   Shortages of
basic commodities were commonplace, and massive strikes erupted in
protest.

Within the same period of time Pinochet, with the help of world renowned
economists such as the University of Chicago's Milton Friedman, turned the
nation's economy around so dramatically observers dubbed it the "Miracle
of  Chile."

Allende had pledged to follow the disastrous economic, political and
social  policies of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro -- who turned his nation
into an  impoverished slave state -- and Pinochet, a true patriot, felt he
had to act  for his own people's sake. He wanted, he proclaimed, "to make
Chile not a  nation of proletarians, but a nation of entrepreneurs."
That, as evidenced by Chile's revival, he certainly did. Naturally,
there's  nothing the lib-left and their Stalinist allies like better than
to distort  history and demean the achievements of their opponents.

The campaign against Pinochet never ceases, but never succeeds either.
Revisionist history tells us Pinochet was a dictator, but he was the first
dictator to hold a democratic plebiscite and oust himself out of power.
He did that in 1988, when he felt the woes and corruption left by Allende
were  finally gone.

Following that plebiscite, in which he still won more votes than Allende
had in  1970, Pinochet accepted defeat, staying in power only until 1990
when his term  legally expired.  After that, he was appointed
Commander-in-Chief of Chile's armed forces, and  later a senator.  Hardly
actions that showed he was hated by the new democratic government of
Chile or the Chilean people.

In 1998, while on a visit to Britain, a renegade judge in Spain used an
obscure  law to order his extradition to Spain to face charges of rights
abuses.  The free government of Chile itself opposed this bogus move.
Indeed, even Prime Minister Tony Blair's (socialist, at that) government
refused to extradite the retired right-wing politician to face a sham
showcase  trial. Again, hardly a condemnation of Pinochet.

Pinochet returned to Chile and, in 2002, the Supreme Court of his country
refused to prosecute Pinochet on any number of phoney charges.

Assess the actions of Allende and of Pinochet and the scales of justice
and  truth are weighted heavily in favour of Pinochet.  The rewriting of
history by unrepentant supporters of Allende and continuing  attempts to
impose the discredited theories of Marxism on society simply must  be
countered.
                                

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