September the 11th - terrorist 30th anniversary

[miriam_e]

Today is the anniversary of an incredibly evil terrorist act in which thousands of innocent people were killed.

30 years ago the USA assassinated the democratically elected president of Chile and installed the dictator Augusto Pinochet. 5,000 Chileans lost their lives due to U.S. terrorism.

Now, anybody who knows me realises that a very large number of my friends are American citizens. I am not anti-USA. But I do get scared when I think of how the people in power there have built up such a deep bank of resentment against the USA which exposes all my friends to great danger.

All terrorism is evil! There can never be any excuse to justify it.

Comments

[striver.livejournal.com]

Great post! Thanx

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I just wish I didn't have to.
It is a pity the media in USA don't use national pride to show how such things do a great injustice to the many good things that come out of USA. Instead they do their best to bury the knowledge and most people never hear of the horrors perpetrated by your leaders. Witness then the dismay, lack of comprehension, and righteous indignation of US citizens when those who feel badly done-by hit back at USA. (I feel that there is never any excuse for terrorism, but undertanding where it comes from is necessary for prevention.)

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[jenna2.livejournal.com]

Ouch Mims,

What one doesn't know about US history the things they do not teach. I think that you get what you give tenfold and if the US is/was assassinating people then the pay back is going tobe really bad. Sigh..... Some idiot will read this and go into conniption fits over what you said Miss anti-America..You and i both know that is malarkey you are just better grounded in history and the effects there of. It's such a bummer to find out your own country has been involved in such things with all the sorrow that has been dished out here and around the world one would think people are over it and stop doing hateful things to each other but as they say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.. All those hot shots are so busy "protecting" their power they have no time to "protect" the people or improve their lives Such a sad thing.

Be well
Jenna/Bun

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

It is the same thing here. I doubt that many people here know that Australia colluded in the destruction of East Timor by Indonesia. Then when the UN stepped in to protect the people, Australian politicians acted so good about protecting the East Timorese, while going behind their backs and swindling them out of the majority of their oil reserves.

In USA, because you are so much more powerful, the evil of your leaders becomes so much more dangerous -- not only to others but also for yourselves. Here is a partial list of why much of the world is worrying about the current desire of your government to rule the world.

1953: U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran.
U.S. installs Shah as dictator.

1954: U.S. overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala.
200,000 civilians killed.

1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.

1963-1975: American military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia.

September 11, 1973: U.S. stages coup in Chile.
Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende assassinated.
Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed.
5,000 Chileans murdered.

1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador.
70,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns killed.

1980's: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets.
CIA gives them $3 billion.

1981: Reagan administration trains and funds "contras."
30,000 Nicaraguans die.

1982: U.S. provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.

1983: White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.

1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington.
U.S. invades Panama and removes Noriega.
3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties.

1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S.
1991: U.S. enters Iraq.
Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait.

1998: Clinton bombs "weapons factory" in Sudan.
Factory turns out to be making aspirin.

1991 to present: American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis.
U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions.

2000-01: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afganistan $245 million in "aid."

Sept. 11, 2001: Osama bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to murder 3,000 people.