September 11, 1973
September 11, 2007
September 11 should not pass without rememberance of honorable people who died in an act of disgraceful cowardice. A building symbolic of democratic government had its dome blown to bits. A respected president died of an apparent suicide in the face of probable execution at the hands of thugs. Then followed concentration camps and inquisitions, and a fascist government installed – one of the great criminals of the 20th century, Augusto Pinochet, came to power.
September 11, 1973 was the day the democratically elected government of Chile was overthrown in a US backed coup d’etat. It is a dark day in history.
May we never forget. May we 34 years later vow that it never happens again.
September 11, 2007 at 12:35 pm
And then there’s September 18, 1931, when the pissant pacifists of the world sat around and watched the Japs march into Manchuria.
When are you people going to learn?
September 11, 2007 at 7:06 pm
You’re right – Chile was about to invade. Good thing we stopped them. And Pinochet? A peach of a guy. I see your point.
September 11, 2007 at 8:16 pm
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