Pretty, sounds like you're sitting this out, so why does your opinion matter? Voting for a candidate that will go nowhere and doing nothing elsewhere to make a difference. Johnson will lose, either at least try to make a difference for his campaign or move aside.
Johnson is going to take some votes from both camps.
Look Jake, the little fascist is saying what we all know. If Trump wins, I hope you can live with it.
You're an idiot. Pinochet was not a fascist. He was the head of a legal military junta and a hero. I'm a capitalist, not some corporatist piece of shit like Hillary and the Democrats.
Augusto Pinochet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pinochet assumed power in Chile following a
United States-backed
coup d'état on 11 September 1973 that overthrew the elected
socialist Unidad Popular government of President
Salvador Allende and ended
civilian rule. Several academics have stated that the support of the United States was crucial to the coup and the consolidation of power afterward.
[6][7][8]Pinochet had been promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Army by Allende on 23 August 1973, having been its General Chief of Staff since early 1972.
[9] In December 1974, the ruling
military junta appointed Pinochet
President of Chile by joint decree, although without the support of one of the coup's instigators, Air Force General
Gustavo Leigh.
[10]
From the start of the new
military government harsh measures were implemented.
[11] During the period of Pinochet's rule, various investigations have identified the murder of 1,200 to 3,200 people with up to 80,000 people
forcibly interned and
as many as 30,000 tortured.
[12][13][14] As of 2011, the official number of deaths and
forced disappearances stands at 3,065.
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By "harsh measures" you mean fighting a civil war against communist insurgents, many of whom were sent from Cuba.
From the same link:
Human rights violations[edit]
See also:
Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–90) § Human rights violations, and
Human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile
Pinochet's regime was responsible for various human rights abuses during its reign, including
murder and
torture of political opponents. According to a government commission report that included testimony from more than 30,000 people, Pinochet's government killed at least 3,197 people and tortured about 29,000. Two-thirds of the cases listed in the report happened in 1973.
[141]
Professor
Clive Foss, in
The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (Quercus Publishing 2006), estimates that 1,500–2,000 Chileans were killed or
"disappeared" during the Pinochet regime. In October 1979, the
New York Times reported that
Amnesty Internationalhad documented the disappearance of approximately 1,500 Chileans since 1973.
[142] Among the killed and disappeared during the military regime were at least 663 Marxist
MIR guerrillas.
[143] The Manuel RodrÃguez Patriotic Front, however, has stated that only 49 FPMR guerrillas were killed but hundreds detained and tortured.
[144] According to a study in
Latin American Perspectives,
[145] at least 200,000 Chileans (about 2% of Chile's 1973 population) were forced to go into
exile. Additionally, hundreds of thousands left the country in the wake of the economic crises that followed the military coup during the 1970s and 1980s.
[145] Some of the key individuals who fled because of
political persecution were followed in their exile by the
DINA secret police, in the framework of
Operation Condor, which linked
South Americanmilitary dictatorships together against political opponents.
According to
Peter Kornbluh in
The Pinochet File, "routine sadism was taken to extremes" in the prison camps. The rape of women was common, including sexual torture such as the insertion of rats into genitals and "unnatural acts involving dogs." Detainees were forcibly immersed in vats of urine and excrement. Beatings with gun butts, fists and chains were routine; one technique known as "the telephone" involved the torturer slamming "his open hands hard and rhythmically against the ears of the victim," leaving the person deaf. At
Villa Grimaldi, prisoners were dragged into the parking lot and had the bones in their legs crushed as they were run over with trucks. Some died from torture; prisoners were beaten with chains and left to die from internal injuries.
[146] Following abuse and execution, corpses were interred in secret graves, dropped into rivers or the ocean, or just dumped on urban streets in the night. The body of the renowned Chilean singer, theatre director and academic
VÃctor Jara was found in a dirty canal "with his hands and face extremely disfigured" and with "forty-four bullet holes."
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