Education, Incarceration, Drugs and Paranoia Part 2

I talked about education, incarceration and drugs in my last log entry but only touched on paranoia. Paranoia is, of course, usually a result of using several street drugs, primarily, but not exclusively stimulants or lack of education or intelligence. I lived in a trailer park for a while here in Humboldt County, California which was inhabited by "speed freaks". Not all speed freaks but a sizable percentage were. They would sleep a day or two at a time wake up and start another speed run. These runs would last for days during which they would get further and further "out there". They would become terrified of things that were not actually happening, things that could not actually happen and they would become accusatory. One neighbor lady who lurked near her front window most of her many waking hours would run out and accost passers by with accusations of all sorts. Her favorite was that these people were "getting in her head". When she did some really crazy thing it was because some particular person "was getting in her head and making her do it". About 2 A.M. one night a young man I didn't know knocked on my door and asked if he could use my phone as it was an emergency. I said he could and he proceeded to dial 911 while assuming a crouching position behind my metal table. He told the 911 dispatcher that people with guns were trying to kill him. By this time it was apparent that he was tweaking heavily and in a state of extreme paranoia. There were no people and no guns. My floppy drive made a clicking noise as it engaged and he said "there! You hear that...they're right outside the window and cocking their guns!". The sheriff arrived, he went out and got in the back seat as the deputy held the door open for him and they drove away.



I am half way through a book on the other September 11^th...September 11^th, 1973. That is a day the fascists hold in reverence as a milestone. Bear with me for a minute. This will tie together. It is the day that Salvador Allende was overthrown in a violent coup in Chile allowing CIA backed General Augusto Pinochet to assume supreme dictatorial power and create the first terrorist network, the prototype for those that would soon follow and the descendants of which we are now being attacked by. After murdering Allende a very popular elected president they created DINA, terror squads which went around rounding up suspected liberals and leftists. Many were tortured, murdered and their bodies hidden, often dumped from helicopters far out to sea. In short order this organization spread it's terrorist activities to other countries including Argentina which experienced an even greater reign of terror a few years later as their economy was simultaneously savaged with inflation over 1,000% as I recall. They even assassinated one of their "leftists" a couple of blocks from the White House in Washington D.C. They were spreading real fear but paranoia was the "justification" for the coup and "justification" for the subsequent death squads. The reason for the coup was that Allende was redistributing land which had been owned by a tiny fraction of the people of Chile. While claiming patriotism to Chile as their own some, if not many, of these factory and large land owners were working with our C.I.A. and extreme right wing elements in the Chilean military. This all came to fruit on September 11th, 1973 with the bloody coup.

While the basis of the coup was for the criminal aristocracy to regain their ill gotten gains the method of implementing it was paranoia. Fear of a "Communist" takeover and a resulting "totalitarian" regime. None of this was in the offing. There was no evidence of this what so ever. While the right wingers did everything they could to undermine Allende, mostly by creating economic upheaval; artificial shortages, closing factories etc and economic blockades by the U.S. Empowering the population to manufacture goods and farm themselves allowed the ecomony to do pretty well. After 17 years of economic and social devastation Pinochet was gone and socialist reforms were required to save lives and mitigate the unprecedented poverty Pinochet and his henchmen left in their wake. Socialist reforms greater than any Allende had planned. In Argentina where many thousands of "leftists" were "disappeared" while the fascists disappeared large chunks of the economy FDR style public works palns have been implemented and the recovery has been impressive. Not only the million or so people who have these good paying jobs but the people they buy their groceries from etc. are moving from poverty into the middle class.

Like the young man who came to my house and called the sheriff on himself enough of the Chilean population went along with Pinochet and his band of right wingers' claims of some imaginary emergency to allow themselves to actually become enslaved in a totalitarian dictatorship. Those who opposed this were educated on the whole while those who went along with it were poorly educated or poor students like Pinochet himself. Poorly educated or evil bastards.

The story of the evolution of opposition to Pinochet is an awe inspiring tale and I will write more about that when I finish the book. Pinochet was arrested in Britain and held in jail for 500 and some odd days for his crimes against humanity in spite of exempting himself and those who conspired with him. Henry Kissinger is also wanted in connection with the coup and death squad activities and has also exempted himself.

On a final related note I have moved all troll posts to their very own special page. I usually collect a few days worth at a time so recent ones may not be posted there yet. Aso I haven't done much editing so some are repeated as are some "comment deleted" ones. They think I am a fool for allowing open posting; as President Bush said of the "terists" who perpetrated the more recent September 11^th coup "they hate our freedom" and show their contempt (not to mention their brain deficit) by abusing it.