America needs a president like this.

[Pete7469]

Augusto Pinochet saved millions of innocent lives by purging and expelling a few thousand criminally insane totalitarian sociopaths.

He reversed decades of regressive socialist policies and relinquished his power in a bloodless election.

Let me know when a leftist didn't establish power in a coup, disarm the people, kill uncounted people and resisted an elected government to take over.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Right, you want people to just disappear then? You think this is good from a moral point of view? Or are you just wanting a right wing dictator?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

"Augusto Pinochet, in full Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (born November 25, 1915, Valparaiso, Chile—died December 10, 2006, Santiago), leader of the military junta that overthrew the socialist government of Pres. Salvador Allende of Chile on September 11, 1973, and head of Chile’s military government (1974–90).

Pinochet, a graduate of the military academy in Santiago (1936), was a career military officer who was appointed army commander in chief by President Allende 18 days before the coup, which he planned and led. Pinochet was named head of the victorious junta’s governing council, and he moved to crush Chile’s liberal opposition; in its first three years, the regime arrested approximately 130,000 people, many of whom were tortured. In June 1974 Pinochet assumed sole power as president, relegating the rest of the junta to an advisory role."

"Later in 1998, while visiting London, he was detained by British authorities after Spain requested his extradition in connection with the torture of Spanish citizens in Chile during his rule. The unprecedented case stirred worldwide controversy and galvanized human rights organizations in Chile. The United States and other countries were prompted to release formerly classified documents concerning Chileans who had “disappeared”—who were kidnapped and presumably killed by the Pinochet regime. The disclosures brought to light details of Operation Condor, in which several South American military governments coordinated their efforts to systematically eliminate opponents in the 1970s and ’80s. In January 2000 Pinochet was allowed to return home after a British court ruled that he was physically unfit to stand trial. Nevertheless, he continued to face investigations by Chilean authorities."
Augusto Pinochet | biography - president of Chile

 

[PaintMyHouse]

"Throughout his later years, Pinochet retained loyal supporters, who credited his government with instituting a fiscal discipline that helped make Chile's economy the region's strongest. But he lost many of those backers after multiple probes in recent years revealed financial corruption, including the discovery of millions of dollars in state funds held in numerous secret overseas accounts, among them several at the former Riggs Bank in Washington. As recently as October, Chilean investigators announced the discovery of 10 tons of gold, worth an estimated $160 million, in Pinochet's name in a Hong Kong bank."
A Chilean Dictator's Dark Legacy

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Chilean Senator: U.S. Documents Show Augusto Pinochet Ordered Orlando Letelier's Assassination

Recently declassified U.S. documents provide "conclusive" evidence that Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet ordered the killing of one of his leading opponents in the streets of the U.S. capital in 1976, a son of the victim said on Thursday.

Orlando Letelier was assassinated, along with his 25-year-old American co-worker Ronni Moffitt, by a car bomb in the center of Washington, D.C. in 1976.

Agents for DINA, the dreaded Pinochet-era secret police, were later convicted of the crime, which shocked Americans and hardened opposition to Chile's military regime.
http://www.newsweek.com/chilean-senator-us-documents-show-pinochet-ordered-leteliers-death-381320
http://www.newsweek.com/chilean-senator-us-documents-show-pinochet-ordered-leteliers-death-381320

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Augusto Pinochet, Dictator Who Ruled by Terror in Chile, Dies at 91
Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, the brutal dictator who repressed and reshaped [URL='http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/chile/index.html?inline=nyt-geo']Chile for nearly two decades and became a notorious symbol of human rights abuse and corruption, died yesterday at the Military Hospital of Santiago. He was 91.[/URL]
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/world/americas/11pinochet.html?pagewanted=all

 

[frigidweirdo]

Augusto Pinochet, Dictator Who Ruled by Terror in Chile, Dies at 91
Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, the brutal dictator who repressed and reshaped Chile for nearly two decades and became a notorious symbol of human rights abuse and corruption, died yesterday at the Military Hospital of Santiago. He was 91.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/world/americas/11pinochet.html?pagewanted=all

You can see why right wingers would want this sort of thing.

Military Dictator.
Human Rights Abuses.
Corruption.
And all aimed at left wingers....

Wouldn't it just be like their Christmas, New Year, Birthday and the day they (potentially) lost their virginity (potentially to someone of the same sex) all rolled into one?

 

[NightFox]

Augusto Pinochet saved millions of innocent lives by purging and expelling a few thousand criminally insane totalitarian sociopaths.

He reversed decades of regressive socialist policies and relinquished his power in a bloodless election.

Let me know when a leftist didn't establish power in a coup, disarm the people, kill uncounted people and resisted an elected government to take over.

You're joking right Pete? You of course know that Augusto Pinochet was a completely immoral monster (i.e. Mussolini Lite), right?

 

[Two Thumbs]

We need a Pres that will round up and murder his opposition?

We had one already, fdr.

I wouldn't want a repeat of that for any reason

 

[defcon4]

Right, you want people to just disappear then? You think this is good from a moral point of view? Or are you just wanting a right wing dictator?

Uh..huh... apparently you are not familiar with communists "converting" people to their ideology. They always come at the middle of the night taking your neighbor whom nobody will see again dead or alive.
http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Andau-...=michener+the+bridge+at+ardenau&tag=ff0d01-20

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Right, you want people to just disappear then? You think this is good from a moral point of view? Or are you just wanting a right wing dictator?

Uh..huh... apparently you are not familiar with communists "converting" people to their ideology. They always come at the middle of the night taking your neighbor whom nobody will see again dead or alive.
http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Andau-...=michener+the+bridge+at+ardenau&tag=ff0d01-20

So that makes his murders. terror, and torture okay?

 

[defcon4]

So that makes his murders. terror, and torture okay?

Nobody said it was OK. Read the book..you will be enlightened, you will find all what you asked about in there...all and some...

 

[PaintMyHouse]

So that makes his murders. terror, and torture okay?

Nobody said it was OK.

Just checking. The OP doesn't seem to have issues with making people vanish, he's very Pro-Life you know...

 

[Old Rocks]

Right, you want people to just disappear then? You think this is good from a moral point of view? Or are you just wanting a right wing dictator?

Uh..huh... apparently you are not familiar with communists "converting" people to their ideology. They always come at the middle of the night taking your neighbor whom nobody will see again dead or alive.
http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Andau-...=michener+the+bridge+at+ardenau&tag=ff0d01-20

I see. The Communists did it, therefore it is fine for the rightwingnuts to do it.

 

[NightFox]

Right, you want people to just disappear then? You think this is good from a moral point of view? Or are you just wanting a right wing dictator?

Uh..huh... apparently you are not familiar with communists "converting" people to their ideology. They always come at the middle of the night taking your neighbor whom nobody will see again dead or alive.
http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Andau-...=michener+the+bridge+at+ardenau&tag=ff0d01-20

I see. The Communists did it, therefore it is fine for the rightwingnuts to do it.

Indeed, the moral equivalence device hard at work...........

 

[defcon4]

I see. The Communists did it, therefore it is fine for the rightwingnuts to do it.

Just read the thread what I said about it.

 

[Toro]

No wonder Psycho7469 likes Pinochet.

According to the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig Commission) and the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture (Valech Commission), the number of direct victims of human rights violations in Chile, it accounts for at least 35,000 people: 28,000 were tortured, 2,279 were executed and around 1,248 continued as Disappeared. In addition some of 200,000 people have suffered exile and an unknown number would have gone through clandestine centers and illegal detention.​

Human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[frigidweirdo]

Right, you want people to just disappear then? You think this is good from a moral point of view? Or are you just wanting a right wing dictator?

Uh..huh... apparently you are not familiar with communists "converting" people to their ideology. They always come at the middle of the night taking your neighbor whom nobody will see again dead or alive.
http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Andau-...=michener+the+bridge+at+ardenau&tag=ff0d01-20

I'm sorry, did I get in the way of your deflecting.

What the hell do Communists have to do with this exactly?

I make a point that the OP was basically calling for a right wing dictator, and you then go off and speak about Communists.... please, tell me what the feck this has to do with what we're talking about.

 

[frigidweirdo]

So that makes his murders. terror, and torture okay?

Nobody said it was OK. Read the book..you will be enlightened, you will find all what you asked about in there...all and some...

The OP was calling for this kind of leader in the US. You'd think they were saying it's okay if they were actively seeking it.

 

[Pete7469]

This thread was more of a rebuke to another thread with the same title expressing the desire for a "president" like Ferdinand Marcos.

Of course I do not want a despotic junta to unseat the government and start killing people.

However if we are going to have one, I would prefer one that killed and expelled commies. Far less people will die that way, and if the fit the mold of Pinochet, they will relinquish power after a bloodless election.

Leftist despots NEVER go away without a war.