Flashback on Pinochet & Left on National Review Online

Flashback on Pinochet & Left on National Review Online
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When South Africa recently refused to extradite the former Ethiopian ruler Mengistu back to his homeland, there was not a peep of protest, though all of Pinochet’s crimes could have been fitted into an afternoon of Mengistu’s rule, and the tortures practiced in Chile were but therapeutic procedures by comparison with what was done in Ethiopia.
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It was his achievements, not his faults, that were so hated.

Priceless!

RIP Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte

1915 - 2006

Thanks to the old bolshevik-killer for changing the tide of not only South American but Global history! MSM of course call him "dictator", but the love and respect of his grateful countrymen tell another story - at the cost of some 3,000 lefties thrown out of helicopters over the Pacific, he righted wrong and set the country on unprecedented democratic and economically liberal path. The country, his country!, today is undisputably the richest and best run south of Rio Grande. As a wise rebbe said centuries ago: "By the fruit shall yee judge..." !

The genuflecting Indian

Well, it´s not only me who thinks about the MaoBadBoyz as murderers, Manvendra Singh even favorably compares Osama bin Loaded to Prachanda - the former killed FAAAR fewer people!

The genuflecting Indian is back at it, grovelling lest the foreigner be displeased. It was a trait observed by a number of 19th century British officials. And it is on display even in the 21st century — supposedly the century India will arrive on the world stage. It certainly can’t if its arrival is preceded by such sycophancy.

We first prostrated ourselves when the Nepali Maoist chief Prachanda visited New Delhi. And the same was repeated for Hu Jintao, the President of China.

Nepal was six years old as a democracy, with multi-party electoral choices, defections, skullduggery and everything else that happens when the vote determines the voice. In those six years the followers of Chairman Mao could not convince the people of Nepal to give them an electoral majority. So what did they do? They began their own long march to death, despair and destruction. This war on the state began in 1996, and has, hopefully, ended in 2006. The death toll is estimated to be about 13000. Prachanda, the same person now feted as a leadership speaker, led all of this devastation.

In his numerous appearances in Delhi, Prachanda’s consistently tried to come across as a saviour statesman. But his task was made easier by the grovelling Indian, who obediently accepted this metamorphosis, sans a squeal. Not a word about the consequences of this destructive decade, in Nepal and in India.

Nepal’s Maoists believe, as do their Indian clones, in the use of violence for furthering political goals. It is an integral part of the Maoist Holy Grail. Now put this operation in a different context. Amongst those in the immediate neighbourhood who believe in the use of violence for furthering political aims is Al-Qaeda. So then, would Osama bin Laden make it to the podiums that Prachanda did? Why not? After all, Osama’s terrorists have killed fewer people than Prachanda’s fanatics. The only difference being that while one claims to be on a mission from god, the other swears it is all for the people.

It is the People’s Republic, of course, that makes Indians grovel even more. True to their understanding of the host’s psychology, the Chinese toyed with us by reiterating their claim over Arunachal Pradesh in the hours before Hu Jintao was to land in India. Many were naturally agitated. But there were some, expectedly, who were ready to genuflect even in the face of this provocation. Some even went further and declared that the Chinese ambassador’s line was not the policy of the People’s Republic!

Through the history of the world, any utterance of the ambassador has been regarded as the policy of his government. The ambassador speaks for his government. If he doesn’t, then he is either recalled by his government, or asked to explain his case by the host country. It is a matter of great shame that in this case neither happened. Beijing didn’t think its ambassador in New Delhi said anything wrong so there was no reason to recall him. And New Delhi didn’t think Beijing’s ambassador said anything wrong enough to be called into the ministry and asked to explain.

To top it all, the Indian government went into overdrive to prevent Parliament from putting together a resolution stating that Arunachal Pradesh is an inalienable part of India. The plea taken was that President Hu was still in the country and nothing should be done to spoil his mood.

I remembered late Gen BC Joshi’s visit to China. It was the first by an Indian army chief. It was while he was still visiting that the hosts decided to test a nuclear device. His mood was of little concern to the Chinese hosts. But the Indian is willing to forsake national statements so as to pleasure the guest.

This trait is the big difference between the world’s last two civilisational states. Over many centuries, China was colonised by India. Intellectually, that is. In the 21st century, Chinese scholars would be the first to acknowledge this, and Indian scholars the first to express their ignorance. Because over time India and China went into decline as foreign rule cemented its grip on both. But while the Chinese have rid themselves of that colonial clasp, Indians are still in its clutches.

Economists in India are having a busy time as charts and graphs show upward trends. But all of it will mean nothing until a basic flaw in the mind is rectified. The opposite of grovelling is not growling, for there are other equally effective methods of keeping the spine straight. The day our leaders realise this, India would stand a better chance of making that great leap forward.

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Maoists thrash NC-D worker

KATHMANDU, Nov 1 - In yet another blatant violation of the ceasefire code of conduct, Maoists brutally thrashed a Nepali Congress - (Democratic) activist in the capital.

On Sunday evening, Maoists abducted Prabin Khadka of Bishnu Budhanilkantha VDC-4 from Chu Fan Restaurant, Maharajgunj, and released him on Tuesday evening after beating him mercilessly. Khadka was admitted to Medicare Hospital, Chabahil, in the evening, with deep bruises on his soles, thigh and back.

Maoists handed over Khadka to his relatives at Brighter Tooth Paste Factory in Thimi. "After abducting me, they hit me with sticks on different parts of the body," Khadka, 30, said. He claimed that the Maoist tortured him and added that they had beaten him over a hundred times on the temple, charging him with being involved with gangsters Chakremilan and Tejendra.

The victim's brother Shyam Khadka said that before abducting his brother, the Maoists had threatened him (Shyam) over telephone and demanded he surrender to Maoists.

Binod Bhattarai, NC-D chairman of Kathmandu Constituency number 3, informed that Khadka was released when party president Sher Bahadur Dueba and minister of state Ramesh Lekhak took initiative in the matter.

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Ah, the bearers of progress and humanity, proud heirs to Stalin-Mao-Pol Pot legacy, spreading the "good news" like the bruises on Prabin's body!

Same things happened in autumn 1947: 4-5 months before communist takover in Czechoslovakia. Democratic MP Dr. Hora complained of communists excesses of EXCATLY the same kind, while the country was still nominally democratic, to the then No.2 communist leader, General Secretary Rudolf Slánský. He laughed it away saying: "We have different democracy!". 2 years later he was arrested, tortured, and confessed. In 1952 they hanged him. His old comrades. Something Baburam Battarai should keep in mind: Revolutions, after devouring it´s innocent victims, tend to turn on it´s own: Trotsky, Slánský, Lin Biao.

Pity we cannot reverse the order...

Four Set Free from Maoist Custody in Bhaktapur

THT Online

Kathmandu, November 2 A team of National Monitoring Committee on Code of Conduct for Ceasefire (NMCC) on Wednesday got the safe release of four civilians from Maoist custody in Bhaktapur. All of them were taken into Maoist custody on charges of hooliganism, possessing illegal arms and raising money posing as Maoists. The Maoists had detained all the four in a warehouse of an old carpet factory near Brighter Tooth Paste in Bhaktapur. The Maoists released the abductees in the presence of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) officials, the NHRC said in a statement, adding that the four were handed over to their families. The team led by NMCC member duo Taranath Dahal and Padam Lal Biswokarma on Wednesday visited the warehouse and set them free them from captivity. They had visited the place acting on a tip-off. The victims who were set free by the NMCC team were found to have been severely beaten up and blindfolded while in Maoist detention. Those released are Shyam Dahal of Maitidevi, Rajendra Man Shrestha of Gyaneshwor, Biswa Ram Maka of Bhaktapur and Daba Lama, a Nepali Congress cadre from Sindhupalchowk. After being brought to the Babarmahal-based NMCC office, NMCC member Dahal told reporters that they found the four persons blindfolded when they visited the warehouse-turned Maoist custody. Dahal said the local Maoists who were guarding the warehouse did not initially allow them to visit the place. But they managed to set them free after they contacted Maoist leaders and the local Maoist cadres cooperated with them. Dahal said that they, however, could not set free the fifth one named Subirman Singh Basnet running a poultry firm at Sitapaila, Kathmandu. A Maoist cadre said they had arrested him on charges of possessing a country-made pistol. Basnet admitted to possessing the pistol for his personal safety, according to Dahal. --- The kathmanduites are at last getting the same medicine the maobadboyz dished-out for 10 years in the countryside - kind of forced-learning by experience! All the huaghtiness and scorn of the King-hating media have now disapeared and nobody feels safe - first time in the Valley! Ah, such a lack of imagination - did they thought the blood-thirsty leopard will change spots and become children-friendly labrador?