El Jefe Maximo:

You make some interesting comments for someone with your pen name.

As far a Pinochet is concerned, I am not aware that he did anything wrong, other than the accusations made by communists and communist sympathizers. And since I don’t believe anything such people say, I have no reason to agree that Pinochet did anything wrong. Even if some of the people on his side acted excessively, (and I don’t concede that they did), on balance, Pinochet was a great liberator and hero.

It is precisely because Pinochet thwarted the goals of Stalinists, and for no other reason, that he is hated so much by the left. The people who wanted to hang Pinochet don’t give a damn about a few dead civilians here or there. The Pinochet haters are the type of people who would regard any number of deaths in Chili as necessary expenditures if the result was a Marxist dictatorship. The left will use concepts of human rights only so long as it serves their purposes…..just as they use human rights advocates when, and for so long, as it suits them.

If you ever feel compelled to give mercy to those who moments before were very willing to steal your property, enslave you or kill you, after they “cease resistance”, you would be wise to remember that “surrender” is a western, bourgeois concept.