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SANTIAGO, Chile - Chilean police took fingerprints and mugs shots of Gen.
Augusto Pinochet on Wednesday following his indictment for the killing and disappearance of nine dissidents during his dictatorship -- the first time he has had to submit to a police booking.
Pablo Rodriguez, a lawyer for the 90-year-old ex-dictator who ruled Chile from 1973-90, called the procedure "an affront to a former President of the Republic."
But government spokesman Osvaldo Puccio said the booking of Pinochet "shows that in Chile all citizens are equal before the law."
Okay, they are still saying he is unfit for trial due to health reasons, but has been healthy enough for a bit of world travel recently. This will be the Saddam trial of Latin America.
Also Wednesday, a Chilean appeals court upheld a life prison sentence for Pinochet's secret police chief, who was convicted of killing 12 suspected urban guerrillas in 1987.
Retired Gen. Hugo Salas can still appeal his sentence before the Supreme Court.
Sixteen of Salas' subordinates in the Central Information Central, the feared security service of Pinochet's 1973-90 rule, were also sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to 15 years.
All were convicted in the killing of 12 suspected members of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, a pro-communist guerrilla that fought Pinochet's regime.
The government said at the time that the suspected guerillas had been killed in clashes with security agents, but a judicial investigation revealed they were assassinated in three separate incidents after being arrested.
Now, all I can ask of Lady Justice, is that Kissenger is called up as a material witness, and maybe Bush Sr. too. Hell, a boy can dream.
Why? From my personal dossier of Chile (I got one for almost every country in the world)
Chile
Well, well, looks like the CIA puppet is currently getting his come-uppings in Chile. Pinochet is the CIA's bitch, though it took several tries to get the blood merchant in power. Though they tried to rig both the 1958 and 1964 elections, amazingly it took until 1973 before the United States undermined the oldest functioning democracy in South America. What was their crime? What had these people done that we needed to save them from themselves in the name of the red, white and fucking blue? Those "little brown people" had the gall to elect whomever they felt. Fuckers. Worse yet, in 1970 they even elected a socialist physician named Salvador Allende president! Commie bastards.
Well, of course Nixon, who nearly overthrew the U.S. Constitution during this time period, ordered the CIA to prevent Allende's inauguration. Fuck 'em if he was popularly elected, jive-ass turkeys gotta recognize that it's America who is the pimp of this hemisphere. And if they ain't gonna follow Pimp Master Uncle Sam's orders, then she is gonna need a bitch slapping. Since the Chilean army would have none of the coup attempts, they tried to off the chief of staff, General Rene Scheider. This blew up in their faces, and solidified popular support for Allende. This really pissed Nixon off.
"Make the economy scream," President Nixon told the CIA Director Helms, who is one of our best war criminals; trust me, history will validate this point. The agency trained troops of the fascist variety (which will be a recurring theme in these essays) in guerrilla welfare and bombing, and they were soon waging a campaign of sabotage. With strikes funded by U.S. corporations like ITT and the CIA-linked media running a yellow press, including within the country's largest newspaper, the political arena soon turned caustic.
When the coup finally came in September 1973, the most extreme fascist members of the military led it. Allende was assassinated, though the CIA says he committed suicide by shooting himself with machine gun, kind of like Foster's death in a D.C. park. Thousands of "radicals," all culled from a list that was provided by the CIA, were killed, opposition parties banned, universities put under military control and fear reigned. A regular America, I tell ya.
The king of the situation was Pinochet, who relished in his power, especially at Colonia Dignidad. This was a wicked prison ran by ex-patriot Nazis who use to boast that the Nazi death camps' work was being continued there. The CIA had officially turned a democratic peace-loving nation into a killing zone.
¡Viva Chile! ¡Viva Allende! ¡Viva Justicia!