This Word Just In...

....Augusto Pinochet is still dead!

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OM wrote:
...Augusto Pinochet is still dead!

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Can we expect any further updates?

On 10 Dec 2006 19:12:20 -0800, "John" wrote:


OM wrote:
...Augusto Pinochet is still dead!

Can we expect any further updates?

....Yes. In fact, I just checked. He's still dead, and most of Chile is
now celebrating. The amazing fact is that the celebrants include both
the commies and the nationalists.

More updates on whether or not he's still dead as we get them...


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He may have cheated the HangMan in this life, (But Hell is waiting with
open arms!!!)!

Carl

On Dec 10, 11:40 pm, OM wrote:
On 10 Dec 2006 19:12:20 -0800, "John" wrote:



OM wrote:
...Augusto Pinochet is still dead!
Can we expect any further updates?...Yes. In fact, I just checked. He's still dead, and most of Chile is
now celebrating. The amazing fact is that the celebrants include both
the commies and the nationalists.

More updates on whether or not he's still dead as we get them...

OM
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OM wrote:
...Augusto Pinochet is still dead!

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Umm, wouldn't that actually be [/garrett] as well?
(in his "news for the deaf" segment)


Still, seriously...lucky ******* escaped execution.

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Yes it would have been nice if he had experienced being "dissappeared"
but none-the-less he's "gone"
On Dec 11, 5:09 am, mike flugennock wrote:
OM wrote:
...Augusto Pinochet is still dead!

[/chevy]Umm, wouldn't that actually be [/garrett] as well?
(in his "news for the deaf" segment)

Still, seriously...lucky ******* escaped execution.

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Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"

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On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:36:12 -0600, OM
wrote:

...Augusto Pinochet is still dead!

Hell just got a little more crowded...

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:28:46 GMT, Brian Thorn
wrote:

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:36:12 -0600, OM
wrote:

...Augusto Pinochet is still dead!

Hell just got a little more crowded...

....I just got an e-mail from an OMBlogger who wanted to know what I
thought about Pinocchetio's passing, seeing as how I'm such a devout
anti-commie and so was the generalissimoron. I'll probably do a blog
entry in the next day or so - blasting that c*nt Cindy Sheehan and
that other dickhead Michael Crook was more important at the time - but
in a nutshell while I love seeing the commies get theirs, where
Pinochet went totally wrong was using his position to get rid of the
non-commie opposition. The key, IMO, to a functional democracy is also
an ironic one: it works only so long as you don't allow those who want
democracy to fail to get involved with the process so as to infiltrate
it, win the election, then abolish it. Commies, Socialists, Fascists
and Religious Extremists support Democracy only until they get in
power, then it's all thrown out under the guise of "well, if the
people voted for us, they must not want the right to decide after
all." Pinochet may have started out on the right foot - Allende was a
Soviet puppet and needed to be "relieved" of command post haste - but
like with most military coups the military is reluctant to turn power
back over to the people.

Pinochet may have decimated the socialists in Chile, but the damage to
the truly innocent far overshadowed the benefits in the long run, and
that was his undoing...

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OM wrote:

The key, IMO, to a functional democracy is also
an ironic one: it works only so long as you don't allow those who want
democracy to fail to get involved with the process so as to infiltrate
it, win the election, then abolish it. Commies, Socialists,


Commies were supposed to be having elections all the time; the thing
Marx was shooting for was a decentralized government that came somewhat
close to anarchy, in that government would wither away to be replaced by
the dictatorship of the workers. Sort of like if the U.S. was run by a
decentralized group of labor unions.
Whatever happened in the Soviet Union wasn't Communism by a long shot,
it was a fascist dictatorship by a group of oligarchs with a
gigantically bloated and corrupt bureaucracy at their command.
As far as socialists go, there are a lot of socialist countries up in
Northern Europe that are also democracies.
In fact, most of Europe is socialist to one degree or another, but that
doesn't mean they've turned their backs on democratic elections.

Pat

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Pat Flannery wrote:
The key, IMO, to a functional democracy is also
an ironic one: it works only so long as you don't allow those who want
democracy to fail to get involved with the process so as to infiltrate
it, win the election, then abolish it. Commies, Socialists,

Commies were supposed to be having elections all the time...

And the USSR in fact did. The choice of candidates was a trifle limited,
and they didn't have much power once elected, but elections there were...

A good many totalitarian nations have found it useful to make a show of
democracy. Japan in 1941 had an elected legislature; I recall an account
of their reaction to the announcement of war with the US (loud approval)
ending with "they would even have voted for it, had they been allowed to".
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