COUP coming- bloodless or not?

[TexasProgresive]

I’ve never felt like I had anything of worth posting in my DU journal, but current events and recent opinions both in print and blogs made be remember the words of a novel.

Salvador Allende of Chile, the legitimately elected president of that country was deposed and killed by a US backed coup lead by Pinochet. Allende’s cousin, Isabel Allende, is a novelist living in California. Her first novel is The House of Spirits. I believe this is a fictionalization of the coup that destroyed her family, home and country, and she has wisdom for us.

This first quote is of Miguel the revolutionary lover of Alba the granddaughter of conservative Senator Trueba. Alba is so excited because the left won the election and their man is to be president--

”We’ve won, but now we’ll have to defend our victory,” Miguel to Alba.

Meanwhile at the headquarters of the Conservative Senator Trueba:

”It’s one thing to win an election and quite another to be President,” Senator Trueba said mysteriously to his weary co-religionists.

The shock of losing the election did paralyze the Conservatives for long. Used to working in secret even while they had long held power they mapped out their plans and so:
Following the election the senator

headed to a country house on the outskirts of the city, where a secret lunch was held. There he met with other politicians, a group of military men, and gringos sent by their intelligence service to map a strategy for bringing down the new government: economic destabilization, as they called their sabotage.

Back to the victors:

While the people were celebrating their victory, letting their hair and beards grow, addressing each other as ‘compãnero,’ rescuing forgotten folklore and native crafts, and exercising their new power in lengthy meetings where everyone spoke at once and never agreed on anything, the right was carrying out a series o strategic actions designed to tear the economy to shreds and discredit the government. The controlled the influential mass media and possessed nearly limitless financial resources, as well as the support of the gringos, who had allocated secret funds for the program of sabotage. Within a few months the results could be seen. For the first time in their lives, people had enough money to cover their basic needs and to buy a few things they always wanted, but now they were unable to do so because the stores were nearly empty.

This story ends as it did in Chile. The economic destabilization did not bring down the government and so the Conservatives let the military do their thing. One problem is the military refused to let the Conservatives rule again. The armed forces suppressed the right as well as the left.

I’m not saying that this is where our country is headed but we need to be vigilant. I’ve been reading posts of people discontented with our present government. Suck it up! To quote the Rolling Stones- “You can’t always get what you want but if you try with the help of your friends you get what you need.” (or something like that).

We are in danger of growing hair and beards and never agreeing on anything while the enemy cooks up their plans to destroy us.

[grasswire]

1. shock and awe, baby

The elites have always relied on the profit and power opportunities that exist in chaos -- and sometimes they manufacture the chaos.

[Occam Bandage]

2. Growing beards is a sure-fire portent of a civil war.

[Hardrada]

4. Hey! I know them all. But Little Mac has more of a goatee than a beard!

[Jackpine Radical]

5. ..

:rofl:

[DemocracyInaction]

11. Did 'ja know this (regarding the Civil War)

The south actually had the majority of power in the government (that's why afraid that a "no slave" policy in the territories could flip the blance). Anyway these bastards NEVER wanted to use taxes to build railroads, canals, etc. which were needed to bring this country on par with places like Britain, etc. So, they always threatened secession if they didn't get their way on any and every piece of legislation about any subject. Basically, finally the new guy-in-waiting, Abe, said "make my day"! He said to friends that it was now time to stand up to them because this was no democracy when all laws were subject to these handful of men threatening to lead their "white trash" (and they outright called the southern citizen "white trash")into secession. Maybe it's time for us to call our Wall Street "planters" out!!!!

[baldguy]

3. Americans don't like their domestic coups to be bloody.

With the huge uproar after JFK, the elites learned their lesson. Nobody was killed in the coup of 2000.

[Peace Patriot]

6. Yup. My advice: THROW DIEBOLD & ALL 'TRADE SECRET' CODE VOTING MACHINES

INTO 'BOSTON HARBOR' NOW!

Cuz that's how they're gonna do it.

[Tesha]

7. Hundreds of thousands were killed, but only seven or eight thousand were Americans.

3,000 on 9/11 and a bit more than 4,000 in Iraq (so far).

Tesha

[rug]

8. I think you're exaggerating Obama's threat to the ruling class.

[TexasProgresive]

10. My take is that they will use some covert

measures such as economic destabilization or somesuch- using the power they have in multi-media and that they hold the economic reins - banks, corporations and so forth. What I see that we need to do is recognize that the enemy is not us but is them and to act in one accord. I know that is as difficult as herding cats but we really need to pick our battles carefully and focus - we do have power if we don't allow the opposition to divide and rule.

[PurityOfEssence]

12. Word.

Time will tell.

[zeemike]

9. The economic destabilization has already began.

That is why banks are not lending the money they got and the credit cards companies are cutting off credit and raising interest rates, and the insurance companies raising rates.
All designed to make the US feel pain and discredit the present administration.