Its taxes again
General Pinochet might go to prison not because of human rights violations, but for… evading taxes.
To be honest, right now, it does not matter. I only want to see the assassin in jail.
Read please
To be honest, right now, it does not matter. I only want to see the assassin in jail.
Read please
posted by Doctor Marco at 20:16
7 Comments:
This seems to be a disgraceful way to end the chapter of Pinochet's 89 year old life.
--Alien's girlfriend
Gindy: thanks for commenting anyway. I have been very busy lately, no time to blog as I wish
Alien's girlfriend: I do not understand very well what you mean. Do you wish a nice ending for the life of a murderer?
What I mean, Dr. Marco, is that this is a disgraceful way to end anybody's life...a life of disgracing and disregarding the lives of other people is finally coming back to haunt him.--Hear, Speak, See no evil--A.G.
A.G. : I understand now what you mean. I agree with you
SebastianCraine: Although I think that all people who respect themselves should have an ideological background or framework, they should not be dogmatic. I do not use dogmas, I base the conclusions that I reach on facts. I will never say that Leningrad was occupied by the Germans, for example, and if I make a mistake I would publicly accept it.
Accumulation of wealth is not bad to a certain extent. However, it should be limited for the benefit of society as a whole.
I am sorry but I cannot debate with someone who is incapable of accepting a mistake. The city which you are describing is probably Stalingrad, a city that was occupied almost 90% by the Germans at its worse.
I am going to put an excerpt that at least will help you out with this piece of history
The city of Leningrad, now known as Saint Petersburg, saw one of the greatest human tragedies of the entire War. Leningrad, a treasure of classical and baroque architecture on the Baltic Sea, was a city with a pre-war population of three million inhabitants. By August 1941, the Germans had reached the city's southern outskirts. Finnish forces had meanwhile recaptured the Karelian Isthmus North-West of the city, which they had lost after the Winter War in 1940.
The city was completely cut off from all land access on 8 September 1941. As the Gulf of Finland was blocked as well, Leningrad's only contact with the outer world was a vulnerable waterway across Lake Ladoga, as Finnish command didn't agree to German requests to advance beyond the River Svir and to conquer the rest of the Lake's coastline. Since taking the city seemed too costly to the Germans, in the light of bitter Soviet resistance, they instead began the Siege of Leningrad in order to starve the city to death. Soon, electricity, water and heating for civilian housing had to be shut down. All public transportation stopped.
Thousands of Leningrad citizens froze or starved to death in the first winter of the siege alone, dying at home in their beds or collapsing from exhaustion in the streets. Meanwhile, German artillery kept taking the agonised city under fire. The siege of Leningrad was to last for 900 days, yet Leningrad did not surrender. During this terrible seige, the starving population were driven to extreme measures to survive, some resorted to cannibalism. When Lake Ladoga froze in the winter, the so-called Road of Life was opened to the Soviet-held southern shore of the Lake, with an endless trail of trucks bringing food and supplies to the besieged city and evacuating citizens on their way back. Both the food and the civilian transports were constantly attacked by the Germans with artillery shelling and air raids.
When Soviet forces eventually raised the siege in January 1944, over one million inhabitants of Leningrad had died from starvation, exposure and German shelling. The Soviet citizens who had collaborated with the Nazis and those who had participated in cannibalism were shot. 300,000 soldiers had perished in the defence and relief of Leningrad. Leningrad was awarded the title Hero City in 1945, being the first city to receive that distinction.
You are mixing Stalingrad with Leningrad.
Thanks for admitting the possibility of mistake, I will not continue pushing for more.
I will answer to your previous post, it is late and I am tired.
SebastianCraine
The term "Marxist beliefs" sounds extremely dogmatic, something that I probably would not accept. I need to question and Marx is always in question. A simple analysis of my 2 previous sentences, tells you that I do not have Marxist beliefs. What I have is an ideal for a better distribution of wealth. Analyze again my previous sentence. Better does not equal absolute equality among all people. The point is to find what degree of better is best. This is a matter of opinion and no better has yet been proven to be best. Some people believe the Nowegian model is better than the American model and viceversa. I just do not like to see uninsured people or beggars in the streets. As a consequence of what I have just said, accumulating wealth is not wrong, it is the degree of it what is has to be controlled in order to prevent the unevenness that leads to suffering of individuals. There is nothing dogmatic about that. Unevenness leads to instability. It is a historical fact. By preventing big differences in the amount of wealth of people of the same society we prevent its destruction. As I said in some other thread, it is a matter of survival, not of romanticism.
I see a strong influence of Nietzsche when I read "exert your will". I am curious to see how far do you carry his philosophy.
No country in the world has applied what Marx wanted to apply. The Soviet Union was not an industrialized country at the time Lenin seized power. The Soviet leaders tried to industrialize it by force, in order to make it look like what Marx proposed. Marxism was designed for Germany.
Try living in South America, one or two years. You will have a great experience there.
Stalin committed many crimes and his memory in the Soviet Union was downgraded by Khruschev.
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