Speaking of fascists. I think it is important to point out another right wing fascist monster who has been getting some loving on the far right again lately.

Let us talk about Augusto Pinochet.

For those who are not familiar with this wretched and vile abomination. He led a military coup in Chile in 1973, with the backing of the Nixon administration, that overthrew the elected government and sealed control of his power by becoming a dictator and massacring his opponents.

Under his horrible rule, thousands of people were disappeared by secret police. Torture was common place. Some reports have estimates of over 30,000 tortured. This by the way, was gruesome and primitive torture, there can be no debate about pliers and electric shocks to testicles or eyes being horrors. Summary execution was common place. Freedom of speech was abrogated with threats of death to oneself and one’s family.

Pinochet was eventually removed from power when he lost the support of the army and a non rigged plebiscite voted him out of office in 1988. He then became senator for life. At the time of his death in 2006, over 300 criminal charges were still pending against him in Chile for heinous human rights violations, tax evasion and embezzlement from the government. This scum was accused of having corruptly amassed a wealth of over $28 million while dictator.

Yet, certain insane wingnuts love this monster.

I never thought I would hear anyone go and argue that there was anything good or noble about this sick monster who was very much in the mold of Saddam Hussein - another monster whom we installed in power during that period. However through historical revisionism at we see him being rehabilitated.

Have no doubts. The people in the teabag movement like this sort of man. If they did not, they would not have the projection fears that they place on Obama so much. They are afraid that Obama will do to them what they want to do to others. The idea of getting rid of pesky human rights for those he does not like though, very much appeals to them.

How many of you have heard wingnuts debating if torture is OK? Answer, quite a few - even on these pages.

How many GOP types and even worse, Teabags routinely show nothing but contempt for the constitution and American liberties?

Make no doubts. We are looking at sick fascist cretins. For them, politics is not the democratic American inclusive ideal, but rather a brutal and exclusive ideal designed to control academic and personal political and religious liberties and to brutally keep certain “undesirables” down.