<div>On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Chuck wrote:<BR><BR>> They held government power, didn't they? They enacted their ideas  <BR>> using the power of the government. This clearly makes them  <BR>> authoritarians. It would be news to many people that the  <BR>> Sandinistas were anti-authoritarians who were somehow using their  <BR>> government for anti-authoritarian goals.<BR><BR>Are there no degrees of authoritarianism in your view of governments?  <BR>Are they all domineering brutes? Sandinistas didn't shoot their  <BR>opponents, which might have been a mistake.<BR><BR>Doug<BR>******************************************</div> <div> </div> <div>Fidel gave Salvador an AK47 during his visit to Chile.  Allende ended up firing it on the last day of his life.  I remember a photo of him, aiming skyward from a balcony, helmet on, as the chief government building was being bombed on that fateful September 11th.  It was made into a poster and was last seen by yours truly in my favourite bar in the East Bay.  </div> <div> </div> <div>Henry K was quoted as saying something about how irresponsible the people of Chile had been to elect a socialist....</div> <div> </div> <div>Best,</div> <div>Mike B)</div><BR><BR>Read "Penguins in Bondage":<br>http://happystiletto.blogspot.com/<p>  <hr size=1>Get your email and more, right on the <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42973/*http://www.yahoo.com/preview"> new Yahoo.com</a>