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Guy Courchesne
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 Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject: just out - Pinochet arrested |
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| Just announced. Chile's Pinochet placed under house arrest. |
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Paulie2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Why would they arrest his house??? |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject: new anti-terror law |
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| His house was indicted on charges of aiding and abetting genocide, kidnapping, and torture, which of course, the General himself is accused of. |
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Paulie2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like a 'house of horrors' if you ask me... |
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moonraven
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Sort of like Paulie's rubber room. Or should be.
You forgot money laundering, extorsion and diversion of public funds, Guy.
The old geezer has been under house arrest before--from October 1998 to March 2000 in London. I'll believe it when I see him behind some real bars. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:34 pm Post subject: only one thing to do |
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| We can only pray to the Good Lord for that day |
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Paulie2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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I suppose a rubber room wouldn't be all that bad...rather hard to match the decor - I'd suspect!  |
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moonraven
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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Not so fast, Guy:
From Yahoo News:
"Pinochet, who resides in a Santiago mansion and recently turned 89, could be placed under house arrest after formal notification of the charges, which usually takes a day." |
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Guy Courchesne
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Paulie2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like it could be fabricated, Guy...sort of like MR's election fraud stories... |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:52 pm Post subject: yeah? |
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| Sounds like or reads like? You should really read a little more |
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moonraven
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Of course his lawyers are appealing the house arrest dictamen on the basis that it violates his human rights.... |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:44 am Post subject: read that too |
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| Yeah, I couldn't help but roll my eyes reading that. Death will be the only justice that finally apprehends the General. |
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moonraven
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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From ZNet, December 14th, 2004
Pinochet's Arrest
Kissinger's should follow
by Roger Burbach
and Paul Cantor
"...Innumerable reports in this country beginning with a 1975 U.S. Senate document titled Covert Action in Chile have made it clear that Kissinger was responsible for directing the CIA and other intelligence agencies to destabilize the Allende government. Kissinger�s motivation was to prevent what he considered a communist government from gaining a foothold in Latin America. �I don�t see why we need to stand idly by and let a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people,� he said after Salvador Allende was elected president.
Now Pinochet�s arrest reminds us that Henry Kissinger and others in our country responsible for undermining democracy and condoning human rights abuses need to be held accountable for their crimes. Until that happens the rest of the world has a right to be incredulous when our leaders proclaim they want to spread democracy and human rights abroad." |
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moonraven
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| Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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And the latest: Pinochet left his oceanside estate to go into Santiago for routine medical examinations--and just like magic those routine exams turned into a stroke???!!!
From Yahoo News:
..."Gen. Pinochet suffered a new brain vascular accident with loss of consciousness," Santiago's Army Hospital said in a communique Saturday. He has developed moving and neurological problems, "but he has evolved with stable vital signs," the hospital said.
Pinochet's spokesman, retired Gen. Guillermo Garin, said the former ruler was rushed to the hospital after "he felt bad during breakfast � as if he would faint, and doctors decided to take him to the hospital."
Pinochet's motorcade entered the hospital in the upscale Providencia district under heavy guard. Minutes later, his wife, Lucia Hiriart, and army commander Gen. Emilio Cheyre also entered, along with several other Pinochet relatives.
Pinochet had an unusually active day Friday. He left his country residence at Los Boldos, where he would serve out his house arrest if the court upholds the order by Judge Juan Guzman, and traveled the 80 miles to Santiago, where he visited his office, saw his dentist and later met with supporters.
....Wow! A tough day--and now this....but, according to his doctors, he is EVOLVING (????!!!!) I wonder which species he is approaching now on the food chain.... |
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