Fascists love anniversaries.......

[marmar]

..... just sayin' :tinfoilhat:



General Augusto Pinochet and his supporters consistently referred to the events of September 11, 1973, not as a coup d'etat but as "a war." Santiago certainly looked like a war zone: tanks fired as they rolled down the boulevards, and government buildings were under air assault by fighter jets. But there was something strange about this war. It had only one side. .......

For the Chicago Boys, September 11 was a day of giddy anticipation and deadline adrenalin. Sergio de Castro had been working down to the wire with his contact in the navy, getting the final sections of "The Brick" approved page by page. Now, on the day of the coup, several Chicago Boys were camped out at the printing presses of the right-wing El Mercurio newspaper. As shots were being fired in the streets outside, they frantically tried to get the document printed in time for the junta's first day on the job. ......

The proposals in the final document bore a striking resemblance to those found in Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom: privatization, deregulation and cuts to social spending - the free-market trinity.

- from Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"