April 24, 2003
FASCISTS CLOSER TO HOME
Whatever label you put on a country's governmental system, when
it operates as a police state employing friends and neighbors to act as
informants against those that speak out against the current regime,
it's fascism. Due to recent economic turmoil, that's what's going on
in Chile. This is from today's Washington Post:
To his secret bosses in the Chilean military, he was known as "Agent
Miguel," one of at least a dozen government spies who had infiltrated
the ranks of the journalists, human rights activists, economists,
librarians and others espousing democratic reforms in Chile.
Finally, leftists have a legitimate beef about concrete
COINTELPRO-like programs operated in order to jail dissidents and
government critics. It's a disgrace. And U.S. human rights activists
need to wade into this shit up to their waists immediately.
Oops, I misread. This isn't happening in Chile. It's happening
in Cuba. I won't hold my breath for protests from the perpetually
outraged. Here's the article.
Posted by Lexiphane at April 24, 2003 9:32 AM
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