The other 9/11

[Hueij]

The one in 1973 I mean.

Since the US instantly went after Bin Laden, Afghanistan and (don't ask me why) Iraq 8 years ago, I wonder why they didn't go after the people that were (are) responsible for the 3197 people killed in Chile in 1973. After all, there were American citizens among the people killed.

Just wondering...

[Kuciwalker]

Is this supposed to be clever?

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think so. It really isn't even that good of a troll at all.

[SlowwHand]

You weren't "just wondering" Hueij. I like you fine, but this is just more USA bashing, and doesn't have the effect it once did.

It's a little unseemly for a 'Super Moderator' though.

[Imran Siddiqui]

No rule against mods trolling

[SlowwHand]

Evidently not.

[Hueij]

You weren't "just wondering" Hueij. I like you fine, but this is just more USA bashing, and doesn't have the effect it once did.

It's a little unseemly for a 'Super Moderator' though.

This isn't meant as US bashing, it is a reaction to some of the posts in the now closed 9/11 thread. I wondered about the hyprocacy of some posters here.

I just asked Robert (aka CyberShy) to "unmoderator" me.

[Dauphin]

Look up Yakety Sax 911 on youtube.

It's a better troll.

[Darius871]

I think so. It really isn't even that good of a troll at all.

Well, it was a good troll in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and maybe even 2008, but it had to become a tired cliche sometime.

[Kitschum]

I don't see what the US should have done about it, their involvement would have only aggravated the situation IMO.

[chequita guevara]

Our involvement caused it.

[Hueij]

I don't see what the US should have done about it, their involvement would have only aggravated the situation IMO.

[Blaupanzer]

I don't see what the US should have done about it, their involvement would have only aggravated the situation IMO.

It did aggrevate the situation. This is the point of the troll; the US caused and/or facilitated those deaths. It was also a long time ago, even by generational clocks where 40 years = 2 generations.

[Kitschum]

I see.

[Felch]

I'm proud of America supporting the Chilean legislature and judiciary against an autocratic president.

From Wikipedia:

On August 22, 1973 the Christian Democrats and the National Party members of the Chamber of Deputies voted 81 to 47, a resolution that asked the authorities to put an immediate end to breach[es of] the Constitution . . . with the goal of redirecting government activity toward the path of Law and ensuring the Constitutional order of our Nation, and the essential underpinnings of democratic co-existence among Chileans.

The resolution declared that the Allende Government sought . . . to conquer absolute power with the obvious purpose of subjecting all citizens to the strictest political and economic control by the State . . . [with] the goal of establishing a totalitarian system, claiming it had made violations of the Constitution . . . a permanent system of conduct. Essentially, most of the accusations were about the Socialist Government disregarding the separation of powers, and arrogating legislative and judicial prerogatives to the executive branch of government.

Specifically, the Socialist Government of President Allende was accused of:

ruling by decree, thwarting the normal legislative system

refusing to enforce judicial decisions against its partisans; not carrying out sentences and judicial resolutions that contravene its objectives

ignoring the decrees of the independent General Comptroller's Office

sundry media offenses; usurping control of the National Television Network and applying ... economic pressure against those media organizations that are not unconditional supporters of the government...

allowing its socialist supporters to assemble armed, preventing the same by its right wing opponents

. . . supporting more than 1,500 illegal ‘takings’ of farms...

illegal repression of the El Teniente miners’ strike

illegally limiting emigration

Finally, the resolution condemned the creation and development of government-protected [socialist] armed groups, which . . . are headed towards a confrontation with the armed forces. President Allende's efforts to re-organize the military and the police forces were characterized as notorious attempts to use the armed and police forces for partisan ends, destroy their institutional hierarchy, and politically infiltrate their ranks.

I especially appreciate the suppression of the Miner's Strike. Socialists are always "pro-worker" until they become the bosses. Then it doesn't take long before the pigs are walking on two legs and sleeping in beds.