Stephen McBride ([email protected])
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 17:57:34 -0000
Mind you, as I once said to a street seller of this magazine, shortly
after the events of 1989 in the Communist world, "Living Marxism?
Living?!"
As ever,
Stephen
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From: "Wayne Hall" <[email protected]> (by way of Ozymandias <[email protected]>)
Subject: UN: Pinochet
A certain "Bernard" has made some interesting comments on the
Living
Marxism discussion site:
"The arrest of Pinochet is part of the new era of international
policing
under the guise of humanitarianism...."
"Pinochet's arrest is a disgusting violation of diplomatic immunity. If
Chile arrested the British ambassador that would be seen as
human rights
abuse but when Britain arrests Pinochet it is seen as pro-human
rights and
not an interference in international law...."
"The brave people who survived Pinochet's brutality have now been
incorporated into victim culture thanks to Amnesty International. In
turn
this leads to countries like Chile losing what little autonomy they
have
under the dictatorship of the New World Order. At least Pinochet
was a
dictator in his own country."
My comments:
The co-optation of "the Left" and its concerns by the New World
Order
since the defeat of the Soviet Union presents clear parallels with the
period of the Stuart Restoration, when dissenters and non-
conformists were
similarly co-opted by the Jacobites. All the more reason why a new
William
of Orange-type political settlement is drastically needed, not just in
Britain but internationally, or at least on the level of the European
Union. The longer the present situation continues the greater the
threat
to all semblance of legality in international relations.
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" - Walt Whitman
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