I have not in my long time as a discusser of political issues encountered somebody so hypocritical and bloody-minded, I am astounded I really am. I imagine (and hope) that anybody reading this thread will never take you seriously again, for you are an 'appeaser of tyrants', to coin your own facile term, that would put David Irving to shame.
While it is certainly true that the political situation was deeply complicated in the time preceding the coup, and there was indeed widespread unrest from both the working class supporters of the socialist movement and the forces representing the capitalist elite who felt their interests threatened (and it must be noted that the CIA has admitted its involvement in this unrest, with the sponsoring of business lockouts and anti-government media propaganda - which interestingly parallel the exact tactics used to attempt destabilisation of the current Venezuelan administration in the last four years), which culminated in the Christian Democrats breaking their coalition with Allende's party and joining the right-wing nationalists - together they held a majority in congress, but not the two thirds majority required to force allende to step down, and so they tried to undermine him with this motion that you have quoted, later used as justification by the Coup plotters. In actual fact, the only part of this document (which was of course drawn up by Allende's enemies, and makes no specific reference to any named events, and is a translation posted on a clearly extremist website, so Im still unconvinced of its wording) that relates to any sort of action against allende's administration is this -
'to likewise point out that by virtue of their responsibilities, their pledge of allegiance to the Constitution and to the laws they have served, and in the case of the ministers, by virtue of the nature of the institutions of which they are high-ranking officials and of Him whose name they invoked upon taking office, it is their duty to put an immediate end to all situations herein referred to that breach the Constitution and the laws of the land with the goal of redirecting government activity toward the path of Law and ensuring the constitutional order of our Nation and the essential underpinnings of democratic coexistence among Chileans;'
And this part was aimed at all the branches of government, not just the miltary - it was therefore clearly intended to undermine and embaress the government into backing down on some of its proposals, but to say that it is directly ordering a coup is a large leap of faith... especially as Im pretty sure that Pinochet didnt 'redirect government activity toward the path of Law' or ensure the 'constitutional order of [the] nation', and certainly didnt 'ensure democratic coexistence between Chileans', as his 17 years of Dictatorship made clear.
Still denying those 3000 dead as well Titus? Id like an explicit reply as to whether you deny that 3000 people were murdered by the Pinochet regime, and please post explicit evidence (ie not vague wording about constitutional disorder) to suggest anything like this level of barbarity took place under Allende - numbers of dead, etc.
