BIKO WAS MURDERED 36 YEARS AGO TODAY....
you can blow out a candle but you can't blow out a fire....
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Oh....and cheers from the dog...
My friend at the talking dog is the only person I know personally who was around to actually witness the events of the U.S. 9/11 in NYC---so I always find his comments pertinent...and lest I forget that the dog's college roommate is now the figure head for this formally great country (making his comments perhaps more pertinent....) I leave you with this from the dog.....
A song to commemorate another 9/11 ....
Seems my country managed to screw with Chili on this same date (although a few years earlier)....the land of Allende and my favorite poet Pablo Neruda...
this from Firedoglake.....
"The band who performed it, Inti Illimani, from Chile, was out of the country touring in Europe when the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a military coup supported by the U.S. on …. and get this … 9 11 1973. Their friend and fellow performer Victor Jara was arrested and tortured along with over two thousand of his countrymen in the National Stadium.
Victor, hands broken, a guitar thrown at him and mockingly told to try playing now, actually began to sing with many of the other victims before he was shot through with machine gun fire and his body thrown in the street in Santiago.
After fifteen years in exile Inti Illimani returned from exile. This song was written to commemorate their return to their homeland.
Two 911s, one of which when considered against the background of the other perfectly illustrates the horror of American exceptionalism . The puppet dictator installed by the US in Chile on 911 1973 ran concentration camps for political dissidents for decades and ruled the country with an iron fist . This event was far worse than our own 911 in the US. This short film does a remarkable job of documenting this and I highly recommend the few minutes it takes to watch."
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