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scooby-doo said:
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. Thes issues are much to important for the chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Henry Kissenger

The shah was an uneloeted monarch who was pro-western. Mossadeq was democratically elected,but he was going to nationlise Irans oil supplies,thats why the US and the UK backed the coup against him.

You are a hypocrite,you talk about liberty,but you don't believe in democracy !
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Once again Allende won a 1% plurality decision, that is not a mandate to overthrow a liberal democratic republic and replace it with a totalitarian Marxist regime which is exactly what Allende was trying to do, which is why Pinochet was ordered by the Chilean Chamber of Deputies and Chilean Supreme Court to remove him from office.

But since you're a fan of quotes here's some quotes from Allende:


"The answer is the proletariat. If it wasn't so I wouldn't be here [...] As for the bourgeois state, at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it. To overthrow it. [...] Our objective is total, scientific, Marxist socialism" — In an interview with French Journalist Regis Debray in 1970.

(Attributed) "I am not the president of all the Chileans. I am not a hypocrite that says so." — At a public rally, quoted by all Chilean newspapers, January 17, 1971. President Allende sent a public letter to El Mercurio newspaper to deny this alleged statement.

After all, Allende himself had confided to Regis Debray “that his differences with apostles of violence like Guevara were only ‘tactical,’ plus his admission that he was observing legality ‘for the time being,’ and his assertion that he had agreed to the Statute of Democratic Guarantees as a ‘tactical necessity’.” (Sigmund, p. 140). And his own Socialist Party, at its Congress in January 1971, had stated that “the special conditions under which Popular Unity came to power oblige it to observe the limits of a bourgeois state for now” and had warned its members to prepare for “the decisive confrontation with the bourgeoisie and imperialism.” (Sigmund, footnote 7/12)

Here's the resolution passed by the Chilean Chamber of Deputies ordering Allende to step down for his numerous violations of the Chilean Constitution:

Chilean Chamber of Deputies Resolution Against Allende

Considering:

1. That for the Rule of Law to exist, public authorities must carry out their activities and discharge their duties within the framework of the Constitution and the laws of the land, respecting fully the principle of reciprocal independence to which they are bound, and that all inhabitants of the country must be allowed to enjoy the guarantees and fundamental rights assured them by the Constitution;

2. That the legitimacy of the Chilean State lies with the people who, over the years, have invested in this legitimacy with the underlying consensus of their coexistence, and that an assault on this legitimacy not only destroys the cultural and political heritage of our Nation, but also denies, in practice, all possibility of democratic life;

3. That the values and principles expressed in the Constitution, according to article 2, indicate that sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation, and that authorities may not exercise more powers than those delegated to them by the Nation; and, in article 3, it is deduced that any government that arrogates to itself rights not delegated to it by the people commits sedition;

4. That the current President of the Republic was elected by the full Congress, in accordance with a statute of democratic guarantees incorporated in the Constitution for the very purpose of assuring that the actions of his administration would be subject to the principles and norms of the Rule of Law that he solemnly agreed to respect;

5. That it is a fact that the current government of the Republic, from the beginning, has sought to conquer absolute power with the obvious purpose of subjecting all citizens to the strictest political and economic control by the state and, in this manner, fulfilling the goal of establishing a totalitarian system: the absolute opposite of the representative democracy established by the Constitution;

6. That to achieve this end, the administration has committed not isolated violations of the Constitution and the laws of the land, rather it has made such violations a permanent system of conduct, to such an extreme that it systematically ignores and breaches the proper role of the other branches of government, habitually violating the Constitutional guarantees of all citizens of the Republic, and allowing and supporting the creation of illegitimate parallel powers that constitute an extremely grave danger to the Nation, by all of which it has destroyed essential elements of institutional legitimacy and the Rule of Law;

7. That the administration has committed the following assaults on the proper role of the National Congress, seat of legislative power:

a) It has usurped Congress's principle role of legislation through the adoption of various measures of great importance to the country's social and economic life that are unquestionably matters of legislation through special decrees enacted in an abuse of power, or through simple "administrative resolutions" using legal loopholes. It is noteworthy that all of this has been done with the deliberate and confessed purpose of substituting the country's institutional structures, as conceived by current legislation, with absolute executive authority and the total elimination of legislative authority;

b) It has consistently mocked the National Congress's oversight role by effectively removing its power to formally accuse Ministers of State who violate the Constitution or laws of the land, or who commit other offenses specified by the Constitution, and;

c) Lastly, what is most extraordinarily grave, it has utterly swept aside the exalted role of Congress as a duly constituted power by refusing to enact the Constitutional reform of three areas of the economy that were approved in strict compliance with the norms established by the Constitution.

8. That it has committed the following assaults on the judicial branch:

a) With the goal of undermining the authority of the courts and compromising their independence, it has led an infamous campaign of libel and slander against the Supreme Court, and it has sanctioned very serious attacks against judges and their authority;

b) It has made a mockery of justice in cases of delinquents belonging to political parties or groups affiliated with or close to the administration, either through the abusive use of pardons or deliberate noncompliance with detention orders;

c) It has violated express laws and utterly disregarded the principle of separation of powers by not carrying out sentences and judicial resolutions that contravene its objectives and, when so accused by the Supreme Court, the President of the Republic has gone to the unheard of extreme of arrogating to himself a right to judge the merit of judicial sentences and to determine when they are to be complied with;

9. That, as concerns the General Comptroller's Office—an independent institution essential to administrative legitimacy—the administration has systematically violated decrees and activities that point to the illegality of the actions of the Executive Branch or of entities dependent on it;

10. That among the administration's constant assaults on the guarantees and fundamental rights established in the Constitution, the following stand out:

a) It has violated the principle of equality before the law through sectarian and hateful discrimination in the protection authorities are required to give to the life, rights, and property of all inhabitants, through activities related to food and subsistence, as well as numerous other instances. It is to note that the President of the Republic himself has made these discriminations part of the normal course of his government by proclaiming from the beginning that he does not consider himself the president of all Chileans;

b) It has grievously attacked freedom of speech, applying all manner of economic pressure against those media organizations that are not unconditional supporters of the government, illegally closing newspapers and radio networks; imposing illegal shackles on the latter; unconstitutionally jailing opposition journalists; resorting to cunning maneuvers to acquire a monopoly on newsprint; and openly violating the legal mandates to which the National Television Network is subject by handing over the post of executive director to a public official not named by the Senate, as is required by law, and by turning the network into an instrument for partisan propaganda and defamation of political adversaries;

c) It has violated the principle of university autonomy and the constitutionally recognized right of universities to establish and maintain television networks, by encouraging the takeover of the University of Chile's Channel 9, by assaulting that university's new Channel 6 through violence and illegal detentions, and by obstructing the expansion to the provinces of the channel owned by Catholic University of Chile;

d) It has obstructed, impeded, and sometimes violently suppressed citizens who do not favor the regime in the exercise of their right to freedom of association. Meanwhile, it has constantly allowed groups—frequently armed—to gather and take over streets and highways, in disregard of pertinent regulation, in order to intimidate the populace;

e) It has attacked educational freedom by illegally and surreptitiously implementing the so-called Decree of the Democratization of Learning, an educational plan whose goal is Marxist indoctrination;

f) It has systematically violated the constitutional guarantee of property rights by allowing and supporting more than 1,500 illegal "takings" of farms, and by encouraging the "taking" of hundreds of industrial and commercial establishments in order to later seize them or illegally place them in receivership and thereby, through looting, establish state control over the economy; this has been one of the determining causes of the unprecedented decline in production, the scarcity of goods, the black market and suffocating rise in the cost of living, the bankruptcy of the national treasury, and generally of the economic crisis that is sweeping the country and threatening basic household welfare, and very seriously compromising national security;

g) It has made frequent politically motivated and illegal arrests, in addition to those already mentioned of journalists, and it has tolerated the whipping and torture of the victims;

h) It has ignored the rights of workers and their unions, subjecting them, as in the cases of El Teniente [one of the largest copper mines] and the transportation union, to illegal means of repression;

i) It has broken its commitment to make amends to workers who have been unjustly persecuted, such as those from Sumar, Helvetia, Banco Central, El Teniente and Chuquicamata; it has followed an arbitrary policy in the turning over of state-owned farms to peasants, expressly contravening the Agrarian Reform Law; it has denied workers meaningful participation, as guaranteed them by the Constitution; it has given rise to the end to union freedom by setting up parallel political organizations of workers.

j) It has gravely breached the constitutional guarantee to freely leave the country, establishing requirements to do so not covered by any law.

11. That it powerfully contributes to the breakdown of the Rule of Law by providing government protection and encouragement of the creation and maintenance of a number of organizations which are subversive [to the constitutional order] in the exercise of authority granted to them by neither the Constitution nor the laws of the land, in open violation of article 10, number 16 of the Constitution. These include community commandos, peasant councils, vigilance committees, the JAP, etc.; all designed to create a so-called "popular authority" with the goal of replacing legitimately elected authority and establishing the foundation of a totalitarian dictatorship. These facts have been publicly acknowledged by the President of the Republic in his last State of the Nation address and by all government media and strategists;


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resolution continued:

12. That especially serious is the breakdown of the rule of law by means of the creation and development of government-protected armed groups which, in addition to threatening citizens' security and rights as well as domestic peace, are headed towards a confrontation with the armed forces. Just as serious is that the police are prevented from carrying out their most important responsibilities when dealing with criminal riots perpetrated by violent groups devoted to the government. Given the extreme gravity, one cannot be silent before the public and notorious attempts to use the armed and police forces for partisan ends, destroy their institutional hierarchy, and politically infiltrate their ranks;

13. That the creation of a new ministry, with the participation of high-level officials of the armed and police forces, was characterized by the president of the republic to be "of national security" and its mandate "the establishment of political order" and "the establishment of economic order," and that such a mandate can only be conceived within the context of full restoration and validation of the legal and constitutional norms that make up the institutional framework of the republic;

14. That the armed and police forces are and must be, by their very nature, a guarantee for all chileans and not just for one sector of the nation or for a political coalition. Consequently, the government cannot use their backing to cover up a specific minority partisan policy. Rather their presence must be directed toward the full restoration of constitutional rule and of the rule of the laws of democratic coexistence, which is indispensable to guaranteeing chile's institutional stability, civil peace, security, and development;

15. Lastly, exercising the role attributed to it by article 39 of the constitution,


the chamber of deputies agrees:

first: To present the president of the republic, ministers of state, and members of the armed and police forces with the grave breakdown of the legal and constitutional order of the republic, the facts and circumstances of which are detailed in sections 5 to 12 above;

second: To likewise point out that by virtue of their responsibilities, their pledge of allegiance to the constitution and to the laws they have served, and in the case of the ministers, by virtue of the nature of the institutions of which they are high-ranking officials and of him whose name they invoked upon taking office, it is their duty to put an immediate end to all situations herein referred to that breach the constitution and the laws of the land 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 coexistence among chileans;

third: To declare that if so done, the presence of those ministers in the government would render a valuable service to the republic. To the contrary, they would gravely compromise the national and professional character of the armed and police forces, openly infringing article 22 of the constitution and seriously damaging the prestige of their institutions; and

fourth: To communicate this agreement to his excellency the president of the republic, and to the ministers of economy, national defense, public works and transportation, and land and colonization.
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And the decision of the Chilean Supreme Court:

Chilean Supreme Court Denunciation of Allende:

"This Supreme Court is compelled to represent to Your Excellency for the umpteenth time the unlawful attitude of the administrative authority in its illegal interference in judicial affairs, as well as for placing obstructions upon the execution of orders from a Criminal Court by the uniformed police, which orders, under the laws in force, must be carried out by the said police force without obstacles of any kind; all of which implies an open and willful contempt of judicial decisions, with complete disregard of the alterations that such attitudes or omissions produce in the judicial order; which attitude further implies not only a crisis in the state of law, as was represented to Your Excellency in a previous despatch, but also a peremptory or imminent disruption of the legality of the Nation"
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ptif219 said:
Sounds racist to me. Sitting in a racist church for 20 years would effect ones thinking
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Whats racist about it. The baptist church in the US,now there is a chrch with a long history of racism !
 
Do you still think the US and the CIA had nothing to do with a coup against a democratically elected government ?
 
scooby-doo said:
YouTube - Secrets of The CIA - Chile
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For the last time Allende only won a 1% plurality decision and then proceeded to try and destroy the democratic system of governance that allowed him into power in the first place and replace it with a totalitarian Marxist regime, he was ordered by the Legislative and Judicial branches of government to step down for his crimes, when he refused he was compelled to step down by force. And once again I would love to see one scrap of evidence that the U.S. funded or directed Pinochet in any way. Oh and supporting opposition media outlets and political parties =/= supporting the coup.
 
Agent Ferris said:
Allende was a tyrant not a beacon of liberty and there is 0 evidence that we directly supported his overthrow.
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Take your head our the sand,it is well known that the CIA backed the military coup in Chile,the quote by Kissenger in a previous post said it all !
 
scooby-doo said:
Excuse me,but Allende was elected !
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Allende won a 1% plurality and then decided to attempt to set up a totalitarian Marxist dictatorship he was ordered by the other two branches of government to resign for his numerous crimes against the Chilean Constitution, he refused which is why the military had to be sent in.

Was pinochet elected ?
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I'm not pretending that he was some beacon of liberty as you are with the Marxist tyrant Allende.
 
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Allende won a 1% plurality and then decided to attempt to set up a totalitarian Marxist dictatorship he was ordered by the other two branches of government to resign for his numerous crimes against the Chilean Constitution, he refused which is why the military had to be sent in.



I'm not pretending that he was some beacon of liberty as you are with the Marxist tyrant Allende.
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Was Allende elected, a simple yes or no will suffice ????

Was Pinochet elected ?

Was Pinochet a fascist Dictator ?
 
scooby-doo said:
Was Allende elected, a simple yes or no will suffice ????

Was Pinochet elected ?
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Were the Nazi's elected? Was Hamas elected? Yes or no?

It's not how a leader comes to power that's important it's what he does with that power once he has it, and Allende went about setting up a totalitarian Marxist regime. But I'm sure likewise that if the U.S. had supported a rogue General who overthrew the Nazi regime you people would be clamoring about how the U.S. overthrew a democratically elected government simply because they had a socialist platform.

Was Pinochet a fascist Dictator ?
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Pinochet was authoritarian not fascist, Allende on the other hand was a totalitarian Marxist. Prior to Allende Chile was a liberal democratic republic, it was a direct consequences of Allende's radical policies that reactionaries came to power.
 
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Were the Nazi's elected? Was Hamas elected? Yes or no?

It's not how a leader comes to power that's important it's what he does with that power once he has it, and Allende went about setting up a totalitarian Marxist regime. But I'm sure likewise that if the U.S. had supported a rogue General who overthrew the Nazi regime you people would be clamoring about how the U.S. overthrew a democratically elected government simply because they had a socialist platform.



Pinochet was authoritarian not fascist, Allende on the other hand was a totalitarian Marxist. Prior to Allende Chile was a liberal democratic republic, it was a direct consequences of Allende's radical policies that reactionaries came to power.
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Yes both were elected,but you are trying to compare the Nazis and Hamas to Allende government,come on get a grip of yourself,why did the US govenrment and the CIA try to prevent Allende from being elected in the first place ???
The fact was they didnt want a socialist/marxist in power,the got involved in the internal politics of another country,something they did all over latin-america,backing dictators and coups.
The alende govenment was nothing like the Nazis,they didnt invade other country's (the US has ) they didnt carry out ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Allende wanted to carry out policy's that the US and the rich establishment and big business did not want.

You have got to laugh at your post,you have been defending a fascist dictator and denying the fact that the US and CIA had nothing to do with the coup,you just don't like the fact that a socialist/marxist was elected in Chile,Pinochet was the one who did the killing,torturing and imprisonment without trial

I wonder if you were one of the CIA agents involved in the "Dirty War" in latin-america ?
 
scooby-doo said:
Yes both were elected,but you are trying to compare the Nazis and Hamas to Allende government,
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Yes that's exactly what I'm doing, Allende attempted to set up a totalitarian Marxist regime based on the Castro model.

come on get a grip of yourself,
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why did the US govenrment and the CIA try to prevent Allende from being elected in the first place ???
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Probably because they were afraid he would do exactly what he did, which is exactly what he stated he intended to do IE attempt to set up a totalitarian Marxist regime.

The fact was they didnt want a socialist/marxist in power,the got involved in the internal politics of another country,something they did all over latin-america,backing dictators and coups.
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Actually there is no evidence that we supported the coup plotters. Furthermore; it appears that you support the Marxist tyrant Allende, I support the liberal democratic sytem of governance which Allende destroyed through his radical policies which ultimately led to a reactionary backlash.

The alende govenment was nothing like the Nazis,they didnt invade other country's (the US has ) they didnt carry out ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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So what? Hitler didn't invade other countries and implement ethnic cleansing until long after he came to power. Allende was the same as any Marxist leader he was attempting to destroy the very democratic institutions that brought him into power. Once again both the Judiciary and the Legislative branches of government ordered Allende to step down, it was the same Legislative assembly in which Allende won a 1% plurality decision to become President that later passed the resolution ordering him removed from office. It wasn't because they were opposed to Democracy it was because they were opposed to the tyranny which Allende was instituting within the Republic.


Allende wanted to carry out policy's that the US and the rich establishment and big business did not want.
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Allende wanted to set up a totalitarian Marxist government which is why both the Chilean Supreme Court and Chilean Chamber of Deputies ordered his removal from power for his numerous violations of the Chilean Constitution. I have given you both resolutions and yet you refuse to ackgnowledge them. Allende was a Marxist tyrant.
 
scooby-doo said:
You have got to laugh at your post,you have been defending a fascist dictator and denying the fact that the US and CIA had nothing to do with the coup,you just don't like the fact that a socialist/marxist was elected in Chile,Pinochet was the one who did the killing,torturing and imprisonment without trial

I wonder if you were one of the CIA agents involved in the "Dirty War" in latin-america ?
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Allend was just as bad if not worse than Pinochet:

Chilean Chamber of Deputies Resolution Against Allende

Considering:

1. That for the Rule of Law to exist, public authorities must carry out their activities and discharge their duties within the framework of the Constitution and the laws of the land, respecting fully the principle of reciprocal independence to which they are bound, and that all inhabitants of the country must be allowed to enjoy the guarantees and fundamental rights assured them by the Constitution;

2. That the legitimacy of the Chilean State lies with the people who, over the years, have invested in this legitimacy with the underlying consensus of their coexistence, and that an assault on this legitimacy not only destroys the cultural and political heritage of our Nation, but also denies, in practice, all possibility of democratic life;

3. That the values and principles expressed in the Constitution, according to article 2, indicate that sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation, and that authorities may not exercise more powers than those delegated to them by the Nation; and, in article 3, it is deduced that any government that arrogates to itself rights not delegated to it by the people commits sedition;

4. That the current President of the Republic was elected by the full Congress, in accordance with a statute of democratic guarantees incorporated in the Constitution for the very purpose of assuring that the actions of his administration would be subject to the principles and norms of the Rule of Law that he solemnly agreed to respect;

5. That it is a fact that the current government of the Republic, from the beginning, has sought to conquer absolute power with the obvious purpose of subjecting all citizens to the strictest political and economic control by the state and, in this manner, fulfilling the goal of establishing a totalitarian system: the absolute opposite of the representative democracy established by the Constitution;

6. That to achieve this end, the administration has committed not isolated violations of the Constitution and the laws of the land, rather it has made such violations a permanent system of conduct, to such an extreme that it systematically ignores and breaches the proper role of the other branches of government, habitually violating the Constitutional guarantees of all citizens of the Republic, and allowing and supporting the creation of illegitimate parallel powers that constitute an extremely grave danger to the Nation, by all of which it has destroyed essential elements of institutional legitimacy and the Rule of Law;

7. That the administration has committed the following assaults on the proper role of the National Congress, seat of legislative power:

a) It has usurped Congress's principle role of legislation through the adoption of various measures of great importance to the country's social and economic life that are unquestionably matters of legislation through special decrees enacted in an abuse of power, or through simple "administrative resolutions" using legal loopholes. It is noteworthy that all of this has been done with the deliberate and confessed purpose of substituting the country's institutional structures, as conceived by current legislation, with absolute executive authority and the total elimination of legislative authority;

b) It has consistently mocked the National Congress's oversight role by effectively removing its power to formally accuse Ministers of State who violate the Constitution or laws of the land, or who commit other offenses specified by the Constitution, and;

c) Lastly, what is most extraordinarily grave, it has utterly swept aside the exalted role of Congress as a duly constituted power by refusing to enact the Constitutional reform of three areas of the economy that were approved in strict compliance with the norms established by the Constitution.

8. That it has committed the following assaults on the judicial branch:

a) With the goal of undermining the authority of the courts and compromising their independence, it has led an infamous campaign of libel and slander against the Supreme Court, and it has sanctioned very serious attacks against judges and their authority;

b) It has made a mockery of justice in cases of delinquents belonging to political parties or groups affiliated with or close to the administration, either through the abusive use of pardons or deliberate noncompliance with detention orders;

c) It has violated express laws and utterly disregarded the principle of separation of powers by not carrying out sentences and judicial resolutions that contravene its objectives and, when so accused by the Supreme Court, the President of the Republic has gone to the unheard of extreme of arrogating to himself a right to judge the merit of judicial sentences and to determine when they are to be complied with;

9. That, as concerns the General Comptroller's Office—an independent institution essential to administrative legitimacy—the administration has systematically violated decrees and activities that point to the illegality of the actions of the Executive Branch or of entities dependent on it;

10. That among the administration's constant assaults on the guarantees and fundamental rights established in the Constitution, the following stand out:

a) It has violated the principle of equality before the law through sectarian and hateful discrimination in the protection authorities are required to give to the life, rights, and property of all inhabitants, through activities related to food and subsistence, as well as numerous other instances. It is to note that the President of the Republic himself has made these discriminations part of the normal course of his government by proclaiming from the beginning that he does not consider himself the president of all Chileans;

b) It has grievously attacked freedom of speech, applying all manner of economic pressure against those media organizations that are not unconditional supporters of the government, illegally closing newspapers and radio networks; imposing illegal shackles on the latter; unconstitutionally jailing opposition journalists; resorting to cunning maneuvers to acquire a monopoly on newsprint; and openly violating the legal mandates to which the National Television Network is subject by handing over the post of executive director to a public official not named by the Senate, as is required by law, and by turning the network into an instrument for partisan propaganda and defamation of political adversaries;

c) It has violated the principle of university autonomy and the constitutionally recognized right of universities to establish and maintain television networks, by encouraging the takeover of the University of Chile's Channel 9, by assaulting that university's new Channel 6 through violence and illegal detentions, and by obstructing the expansion to the provinces of the channel owned by Catholic University of Chile;

d) It has obstructed, impeded, and sometimes violently suppressed citizens who do not favor the regime in the exercise of their right to freedom of association. Meanwhile, it has constantly allowed groups—frequently armed—to gather and take over streets and highways, in disregard of pertinent regulation, in order to intimidate the populace;

e) It has attacked educational freedom by illegally and surreptitiously implementing the so-called Decree of the Democratization of Learning, an educational plan whose goal is Marxist indoctrination;

f) It has systematically violated the constitutional guarantee of property rights by allowing and supporting more than 1,500 illegal "takings" of farms, and by encouraging the "taking" of hundreds of industrial and commercial establishments in order to later seize them or illegally place them in receivership and thereby, through looting, establish state control over the economy; this has been one of the determining causes of the unprecedented decline in production, the scarcity of goods, the black market and suffocating rise in the cost of living, the bankruptcy of the national treasury, and generally of the economic crisis that is sweeping the country and threatening basic household welfare, and very seriously compromising national security;

g) It has made frequent politically motivated and illegal arrests, in addition to those already mentioned of journalists, and it has tolerated the whipping and torture of the victims;

h) It has ignored the rights of workers and their unions, subjecting them, as in the cases of El Teniente [one of the largest copper mines] and the transportation union, to illegal means of repression;

i) It has broken its commitment to make amends to workers who have been unjustly persecuted, such as those from Sumar, Helvetia, Banco Central, El Teniente and Chuquicamata; it has followed an arbitrary policy in the turning over of state-owned farms to peasants, expressly contravening the Agrarian Reform Law; it has denied workers meaningful participation, as guaranteed them by the Constitution; it has given rise to the end to union freedom by setting up parallel political organizations of workers.

j) It has gravely breached the constitutional guarantee to freely leave the country, establishing requirements to do so not covered by any law.

11. That it powerfully contributes to the breakdown of the Rule of Law by providing government protection and encouragement of the creation and maintenance of a number of organizations which are subversive [to the constitutional order] in the exercise of authority granted to them by neither the Constitution nor the laws of the land, in open violation of article 10, number 16 of the Constitution. These include community commandos, peasant councils, vigilance committees, the JAP, etc.; all designed to create a so-called "popular authority" with the goal of replacing legitimately elected authority and establishing the foundation of a totalitarian dictatorship. These facts have been publicly acknowledged by the President of the Republic in his last State of the Nation address and by all government media and strategists;


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resolution continued:

12. That especially serious is the breakdown of the rule of law by means of the creation and development of government-protected armed groups which, in addition to threatening citizens' security and rights as well as domestic peace, are headed towards a confrontation with the armed forces. Just as serious is that the police are prevented from carrying out their most important responsibilities when dealing with criminal riots perpetrated by violent groups devoted to the government. Given the extreme gravity, one cannot be silent before the public and notorious attempts to use the armed and police forces for partisan ends, destroy their institutional hierarchy, and politically infiltrate their ranks;

13. That the creation of a new ministry, with the participation of high-level officials of the armed and police forces, was characterized by the president of the republic to be "of national security" and its mandate "the establishment of political order" and "the establishment of economic order," and that such a mandate can only be conceived within the context of full restoration and validation of the legal and constitutional norms that make up the institutional framework of the republic;

14. That the armed and police forces are and must be, by their very nature, a guarantee for all chileans and not just for one sector of the nation or for a political coalition. Consequently, the government cannot use their backing to cover up a specific minority partisan policy. Rather their presence must be directed toward the full restoration of constitutional rule and of the rule of the laws of democratic coexistence, which is indispensable to guaranteeing chile's institutional stability, civil peace, security, and development;

15. Lastly, exercising the role attributed to it by article 39 of the constitution,


the chamber of deputies agrees:

first: To present the president of the republic, ministers of state, and members of the armed and police forces with the grave breakdown of the legal and constitutional order of the republic, the facts and circumstances of which are detailed in sections 5 to 12 above;

second: To likewise point out that by virtue of their responsibilities, their pledge of allegiance to the constitution and to the laws they have served, and in the case of the ministers, by virtue of the nature of the institutions of which they are high-ranking officials and of him whose name they invoked upon taking office, it is their duty to put an immediate end to all situations herein referred to that breach the constitution and the laws of the land 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 coexistence among chileans;

third: To declare that if so done, the presence of those ministers in the government would render a valuable service to the republic. To the contrary, they would gravely compromise the national and professional character of the armed and police forces, openly infringing article 22 of the constitution and seriously damaging the prestige of their institutions; and

fourth: To communicate this agreement to his excellency the president of the republic, and to the ministers of economy, national defense, public works and transportation, and land and colonization.
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Chilean Supreme Court Denunciation of Allende:

"This Supreme Court is compelled to represent to Your Excellency for the umpteenth time the unlawful attitude of the administrative authority in its illegal interference in judicial affairs, as well as for placing obstructions upon the execution of orders from a Criminal Court by the uniformed police, which orders, under the laws in force, must be carried out by the said police force without obstacles of any kind; all of which implies an open and willful contempt of judicial decisions, with complete disregard of the alterations that such attitudes or omissions produce in the judicial order; which attitude further implies not only a crisis in the state of law, as was represented to Your Excellency in a previous despatch, but also a peremptory or imminent disruption of the legality of the Nation"
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I understand that as a devotee to all things implanted in your head by the likes of Chomsky you will continue to ignore the fact that Allende was a Marxist tyrant in the mold of Castro and will, also, continue to ignore the fact that not one but two of the three branches of government ordered Allende to step down due to his numerous violations of the Chilean Constitution and rights of the Chilean people, but unfortunately for you, facts are stubborn things.





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Ok, so the US supported the coup of a fascist dictator who indeed oppressed the people and killed thousands, in favor of getting a Marxist who *might* have oppressed the people out of power.

Where exactly is the US high ground here?
 
German guy said:
Ok, so the US supported the coup of a fascist dictator who indeed oppressed the people and killed thousands, in favor of getting a Marxist who *might* have oppressed the people out of power.

Where exactly is the US high ground here?
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A) There is no evidence that we supported the coup itself.

B) Coup is a pretty strange way of describing both the Judicial and Legislative branch being forced to request military assistance to remove a tyrant from power after he refused to step down after being ordered to do so for his laundry list of violations of the Constitution. Oh and there is no "might of" about it, Allende was routinely violating the rights of Chileans on a far grander scale in a far shorter time than Pinochet did throughout his entire time in office.
 
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Ya ya starts out with the appointed not elected tyrant Mossadeq who dissolved parliament through a fraudulent referendum in which he garnered a 99.9% aye vote because survey says they wouldn't give him direct control over the Iranian military and extend his "emergency powers" indefinitely. Doesn't mention any of that so really there's no reason to listen any further to this biased revisionist history, thanks again. Oh and I love the fact that none of you ever mentions that it was the U.S. who forced the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Northern Iran after WW2 by threatening them with the nuclear option and that Mossadeq aligned himself with the Tudeh party which was nothing more than a puppet party created in Northern Iran during the period of Soviet occupation and funded by Moscow after the Soviets were forced out by the U.S..
 
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Listen numbnuts,i am not american,and i didn't get my information from Noam Chomsky,the US backed numerous dictators in latin-america,pinochet is only one of many,what right did the US have to interfere in the internal politics of other nations.

The people of these country;s have the right to choose who they want in power,not who the US want because it does not suit their political agenda.

The US likes to claim itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy" yet it has backed numerous dictators,what hypocrites they are !
 
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