24 OCTOBER 1998, Page 70

High life

A bunch of hypocrites

Taki

TNew York alk about perfidious Albion. Or shame. Shame is a word that helps define the Blair government. A great friend of perfidious Albion comes to England for medical reasons, and for political reasons only — I repeat, for political reasons only — he is arrested and the cowardly Blair washes his hands.

General Pinochet came in good faith. As good a faith as when he provided a safe haven for the SAS commandos during the Falldands war. But there's more to Pinochet than just being a friend to the cheating, lying British. He saved Chile from a Marxist who would have turned totalitari- an at the first opportunity. Most of the people who ended up dead were Marxists who don't mind murdering cops and sol- diers but who expect kid-glove treatment when caught. He performed an economic miracle, with Chile now enjoying the high- est standard of living in South America. He established the foundation of a democracy and market economy, and relinquished power voluntarily.

This is the man whom a publicity-seeking Spanish lefty judge has brought charges against. Many of the Spanish citizens who the judge claims were murdered by Pinochet's military were most likely mem- bers of that international brigade of Marx- ist troublemakers who made the rounds during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. I say good riddance.

Perfidious Albion is breaking interna- tional law, no ifs or buts about it. Under the Chilean constitution, General Pinochet is immune from prosecution there. How is it possible that some lefty scumbag can demand his extradition, and for Blair and his goons to give in? I demand the extradi- tion of Castro for killing thousands, impris- oning hundreds of thousands, and shooting down unarmed planes, but the Spanish government accords him a hero's welcome. How is it possible for a Downing Street lackey, a PR flack like Peter Mandelson, not good enough to polish the general's boots, to call him a brutal dictator? What kind of world are we living in when an odi- ous bunch of hypocrites can imprison a hero, while they ignore the real murderers among us. Monsters like Castro, Honecker, Alley, Mladics, Milosevic, Karadzis, the list is endless.

Mind you, I am not surprised. This last year I have repeatedly written about the thoroughly despicable opportunists who govern us. This odious bunch doesn't even have the courage to admit that this was a sting operation. General Pinochet entered perfidious Albion with the full prior knowl- edge of the government and the Foreign Office. How ironic that the man who will make the final decision, Jack Straw, saw his son arrested for selling a small amount of drugs, forgiven and eventually cheered and welcomed to Oxford University. Straw, a student organiser who has never held a proper job until now, is not a big enough person to decide Pinochet's fate. Pinochet, Franco and Lady Thatcher are the three leading statesmen of the last 50 years. Franco saved Spain from communism and then from the Nazis. He managed the tran- sition to democracy brilliantly. There are those who dislike him, but they are puerile, soft weaklings hiding in cloisters and indulging in Clinton's favourite pastime, masturbation.

But facts are facts. Franco, Thatcher and Pinochet saved their respective countries, just as sure as Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot murdered their own people. As Edmund Burke had warned, evil succeeded under those evil men because good people did nothing. The men who are now hounding General Pinochet are not good people. They are those who not only turned a blind eye to evil, but went so far as to cheer. Labour scum like Jeremy Corbin should not be permitted to utter a word against Pinochet. Not when you sing the 'Red Flag' unashamedly in front of the graves of 100 million victims.

The wanton slaughter of tens of millions by the left is the greatest crime in history. Yet those who shamefully turned their backs on anti-communism are now sitting as judges on a hero such as General Pinochet. It is par for the course. This week the Draft Dodger proclaimed the week of 18-24 October as 'National Character Counts Week'. He even gave a brief speech about character. Imagine. The Scumbag is giving us lessons in character, and General Pinochet is arrested by the cowardly British on a phony charge. It really is time to move to Kosovo.