POPTART ([email protected])
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:56:39 +0930 (GMT)
They've told you that...Pinochet killed and tortured thousands of people.
The truth is... Pinochet never ordered to kill anyone and there's no proof whatsoever of any of those stories about people dissappearing and being tortured by Pinochet. Don't get me wrong, some people died, but
that's because of the situation the country was in at that moment. The communists had to be taken out of the government and force was used, the communists fought back. In other words, a civil war.
Bono tells Pinochet to ask for forgiveness and stuff like that. But let me ask you something, who is sorry about all the soldiers who died on that day?, the communists were not innocent little white doves! they had terrorist groups to back them up! soldiers are people too, they have families, they love, they are normal people who one day decided they had to dedicate their lives to defend their country, a lot of them died, but does anyone give a shit about them?, has U2 ever done a song about a soldier's family or something like that?. I don't blame U2 for not knowing the truth... after all "the media is the antichrist"... and that's why people in other countries get all those twisted stories about a 'madman' who one day decided he had to take over a country..."?"
Did you know that during the communist government you had to wait about 3 hours just to be able to buy one piece of bread? and just one! you weren't allowed to have more!, money was useless, there was nothing you could buy. Also, if you had a large property such as a big house or a farm, it was legal for people to go and take it from you! During those years my father was working on a storage company and one of the things he had to do as part of his job was to stand guard every night to prevent people from taking over the shop, and it wasn't just him, there were all the other workers, his boss and sometimes firemen who voluntarily helped people to defend what was theirs. That's where a lot of people died too, since those events of taking over a place weren't pacific, there was usually a gun fight involved. It was an anarky and Pinochet had to do what nobody else dared to do.
I love U2. But I think Bono is wrong in talking about something he knows nothing about, but, as I said before, I don't blame him since what he knows is just the crap the media is giving him, things such as this which I read on Wire yesterday:
"...Imposing authoritarian right-wing rule, Pinochet banned political
parties and shut congress, implemented a curfew for more than a
decade and persecuted known leftists."
After reading that I had to write this letter...curfew?, banned political parties?, persecuted known leftists?...No way! none of those things happened!, Pinochet's dictatorship must be the only dictatorship where you were free to say whatever you wanted, think the way you wanted, also the country's economy improved so much that it raised Chile above the rest of the countries in South America... shame it's not like that anymore... democracy came together with crime and corruption.
What happened in Chile on that year will always be understood by those who were there at the moment, and I think it should be forgotten, a lot of people from the two sides involved, died that year, but I think it's time to forget the past and work together for a better future.
-POPTART
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