| Greatwyrm:
American advisors working for Chiang Kai Shek; US support for Greek neo-fascists against the communist party in 1949, the creation of KYP. 1953: US troops against Phillipino Huks, the instatement of Ferdinand Marcos; the CIA-organized coup of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. JFK's Alliance for Progress and the Bay of Pigs in 1961 - not to mention the embargo. The US military suppresses the revolution of leftist Juan Bosch in 1966 after turning the other cheek at the coup which ousted him in 1963. US forces oust leftist Cheddi Jagan in 1964 from Guyana, and US funds help the coup against socialist Joao Goulart in Brazil. Then there's the CIA's $10 billion smear campaign against Salvador Allende in 1964 and 1970. The military coup of Augusto Pinochet in 1973 with US-trained officers. US-funded Contras' terrorist war in Nicaragua after leftist Sandinistas take over the country from dictatorship in 1978. The US invasion of Grenada in 1983 to oust leftist Maurice Bishop.
Then there's the Vietnam War, Panama's Noriega, El Salvador and Haiti. Get it?
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |