Pinochet to Bush - Coups then and Now
by Stew Albert
The Gore v Bush post-election was infinitely more exciting and
significant than the actual contest. Who would have thought that such a
boring and manipulated competition would culminate in an American style,
Supreme Court certified coup d^etat.
It like the Chilean coup minus bloodshed. The Republicans did not order
an air raid against Clinton^s White House. After four years of trying to
overthrow his government, the right-wing settled on a blow job and the
President^s unfortunate effort to conceal the stain. They failed to kick him
out. Clinton^s ugly behavior was too ordinary for a successful impeachment.
Fixing the presidential election was the next best step. All the
predictions said the race was close with Bush enjoying a slight lead. A
little rigging here, a little calling in some favors there, and the deed
would be done. The main objective in Florida, was too screw the Blacks and
Jews who would be voting for Gore. A neat trick would be to fool them in to
choosing the candidate they most hated, Pat Buchanan. And then let^s get a
lot of Blacks kicked off the voting rolls because they might be felons, make
^Black while voting^ a crime, why don^t we?
Election day was a drag for ^W^. He lost in the popular vote by three
hundred thousand and he didn^t do that well Florida. True, Jeb swindled all
those old Jews and felonious Blacks, in to actually voting for Buchanan! But
when all was said and done the Republican pollsters must have had Gore ahead.
The uncounted ballots would favor the Democrat. Why else would Bush scream so
loud against a true count? Gore offered him a state wide recount and he
turned it down. He knew he lost. Why else was the Bush family calling in
Godfather type favors from five Supreme Court Justices? Too hell with with
court and its good reputation - the Bush family was taking over the Oval
Office and that is now a fine place for fellatio, even by five justices in
Black robes.
I was in Chile during the Allende period and so much of what has been
going on here recalls that nation^s political agony. The resemblance dawned
on me when the Republicans began accusing Gore of trying to steal the
election. The Chilean right wingers accused Allende of plotting a coup
against the constitution. No such thing was true - it was they and the CIA
who were plotting to spill blood on democracy. It^s and old Company trick to
accuse your enemy of what you yourself are planing. And it wasn^t Gore but
Bush who was running down Florida^s streets with the purloined election in
his shaking hands.
The Chilean resemblance comes again by way of how all the Republicans
lined up with Bush. Was there a single Republican official anywhere in
America who said ^Hey now, a fair vote count is more important than us
winning.^ If such a Republican exists, I never heard of him. And so in Chile
all the centrist parties who claimed an undying love of democracy, supported
the military coup.
Consider the right wing Cubans paid by the Republicans, who rioted and
stopped the vote count in Dade County. How many CIA favors did the Bush
family call in? The CIA also organized anti-Allende riots in Chile. They
sabotaged the economy in the same manner that the Republicans sabotaged the
vote count.
And finally we have the Supreme Court. In Chile the top court declared
the coup legal and Pinochet president. Our highest court has returned the
favor.
Ah, but the reader will say, ^there are no military in the streets, no
round-ups, no murders in stadiums. No there aren^t. Not this time. But this
is our first coup, tell me why it will be our last.
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