You'd think we would have learned our lesson long, long ago--in 1776 for starters, wherein American protestors against unjust British laws were treated as "terrorists"--but no, we had to go through it all over again at various junctures in our history, notably treating Native Americans as "terrorists" (whose lands had been massively, illegally and often brutally stolen and who had every right to fight back), treating labor union activists as "terrorists" (whose right to organize and rights to decent wages and working conditions were, time and again, violated) and during the anti-communist crusades of the 1950s when all leftists were suspected "terrorists" and were often harassed, spied upon, denied employment, interrogated and robbed of civil and human rights on the flimsiest associations with "communists" or suspected "communists." It is also egregiously notable in U.S. foreign policy--for instance, two million people slaughtered in Southeast Asia and over 55,000 U.S. soldiers killed because the U.S. equated communists with terrorists, and furthermore equated any and all social justice and independence movements with "communism."
Whoever is INCONVENIENT to the rich few gets targeted by "anti-terrorism laws." It is inevitable. It has happened over and over and over again.
It is no surprise whatever that the rightwing government of Chile is using "anti-terrorism" laws against the Indigenous. They are probably being advised by the CIA and the Pentagon--if not funded and "trained" by them to smash the Indigenous land movement with "anti-terrorist" tactics (pre-emptive assassination, torture, infiltration, creation of agents provocateur, gun-running, use of death squads, economic destruction, dirty tricks and all manner of foul play). Of course Chilean fascists are fully capable of the worst horrors all by themselves but they have been traditionally funded/"trained" by the USA. The two rich elites, theirs and ours, and the thugs that these elites employ, are closely allied, historically and now. Whenever we see this kind of fascist activity in Latin America, we can be fairly sure that our tax dollars, our agencies and our military are intimately involved. And who is the big bully of the world on quote unquote "terrorism"? Who is the biggest scofflaw? Who is using "terrorism" to rip up the Constitution and numerous international laws? Who is using it for oil wars and anonymous drone-bombings around the world, assassinating "suspected terrorists" without benefit of trial and anyone else standing around including hundreds of children?
The police state culture is infectious. The U.S. is not only selling this abroad--peddling it, followed or accompanied by numerous greedbag war profiteers--but is also SETTING AN EXAMPLE of how you can trash human and civil rights for the convenience of the rich and powerful using "anti-terrorism" as your flag.
It is downright sickening to see what we have become--or, rather, what our government has become--and how others have been encouraged and enticed down this fascist path. Look at Colombia, for godssakes! Or England for that matter (with surveillance cameras everywhere and out-of-control dark agencies just like our own--what an irony!). The only real resistance to it I see is in the LEFTIST governments of South America. And let us hope that when Chile elects a Leftist government this year--socialist Michele Batchelet is way ahead in the polls--Chile will join the better part of South America in rejecting this new form of fascism--the "war on terror" that BECOMES the "terror."
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