Freepers praise and adore Pinochet on this thread

[Fuzz]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201218/posts

Chile owes everything it is today to Pinochet and if it wasn't for him communism would be an even greater threat with power consolidation by the evil fascist states of Venezuela and Cuba.

Thanks to Jimmie Karter who certified Chavez's stolen election, a haven for muslim killers wishing to springboard to the USA has been enlarged.

Where is the enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine when its been sorely needed for decades?



DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!!!

Just yesterday, I reaffirmed on this website my support for Gen. Pinochet. He is my idol, my political hero-- a man who staedily and patriotically stood up against the tyranny of the Castro-styled Allende, saved his nation from a communist takeover, created (through the policies of the brillaint Milton Friedman) the most vibrant, open and productive economy in Latin America, and provided a strong alliance with the U.S. for 17 years.

Simply put, Pinochet is the greatest leader in Latin American history. To see these communist sons of bitches in Chile's court abuse their power --that PINOCHET'S RULE MADE POSSIBLE in the first place-- to tarnish and attack this great man makes me want to puke.

May these 9 Marxist, Maoist, Shining Path-adoring slimeballs on the court burn in hell for this.

VIVA PINOCHET!!!



VIVA PINOCHET!!!

You and I could be great friends.

To some extent Alberto Fujimori would be on the list of all-time greats, but the greatest was Francisco Franco!



South and Central America could use 10-12 Pinochet's.



Pinochet was an important figure and allies during the cold war. I believe it was better to have bureaucratic authoritative regimes rather than Marxist regimes where communist revolutions could be staged from. Pinochet squashed the communists and had all of Allende's surrogates running for the hills while foaming at the mouth!



...and now they take their revenge through the courts' system that Pinochet reinstituted.

[Cat Atomic]

1. Free Republic is a hate group. Alot of hate groups idolize dictators.

Dictators are like bizarro-Saints. You can pick the one that oppressed your chosen object of scorn, and call that man a hero. So Freeps like Pinochet because he killed "lefties". They'd probably like Suharto, too.

[madrchsod]

3. yes they are a hate group

and why we let people post threads from there...well that`s just my opinion

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2. The Hardcore-Freeper masses...

...regard military dictatorship and killing of political opponents (Pinochet reputedly killed about 50,000 people in 14 years) to be their optimum ideal of how a nation is run.

They don't regard democratically-elected leftist governments to be legitimate, which is why they have desdain for Allende. They only regard governments that serve interests of money and big business to be the natural leaders of any country.

I noticed one of the comments was praising General Franco of Spain. Franco's leadership of Spain took it from being one of the wealthiest countries in Europe to one of the poorest. During the 1950s and 1960s, Spain's GDP growth lagged behind even the stagnant Eastern Bloc. By the early 1970s, Spain's wealth had plummeted to even to that of North African countries.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. And Chile underwent nasty, nasty economic "shock therapy"

n/t

[Old and In the Way]

5. They are very stupid people.

What more can you say about them?

[lil-petunia]

6. you said it all.

I suppose they ignore the 10s of thousands gone missine and tortured? With Kissinger's OK?

[AP]

7. Such a drive to self-identify as anti-communist!

Allende's ideas about the economy were probably way more free (and fair) market than Pinochet's fascism, yet these people are so hateful of anything they think is slightly "for the people" that they'll totally ignore what they think they really believe in (functioning market places).

Kissinger and Nixon use the world bank as a spigot to turn off economic development in Chile to destroy Allende because they knew his FDR-style reforms were going to work.

What's worse? Trying to regulate a few easy-to-monopolize industries so that all the rest of the free market functions properly? Or asking the bond rating agencies to lower Chile's ratings (when there is no economic justification for doing so) just so that you can sabotage economic development?

[jonnyblitz]

8. you're not surprised are you?

I would expect them to support Pinochet. They support Sharon, too.