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Post by Smithee on Jun 22, 2013 22:30:59 GMT 10
"Everything is politics." - Thomas Mann.
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2014 7:01:07 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 5, 2014 11:09:59 GMT 10
Interesting that the 1820 declaration was in the context of "the special circumstances of the time" (perhaps the recent Napoleonic wars).
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 11, 2014 18:55:23 GMT 10
41 years ago today... "Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seed which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shrivelled forever. "They have strength and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested neither by crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history. "Workers of my country: I want to thank you for the loyalty that you always had, the confidence that you deposited in a man who was only an interpreter of great yearnings for justice, who gave his word that he would respect the Constitution and the law and did just that. At this definitive moment, the last moment when I can address you, I wish you to take advantage of the lesson: foreign capital, imperialism, together with the reaction, created the climate in which the Armed Forces broke their tradition, the tradition taught by General Schneider and reaffirmed by Commander Araya, victims of the same social sector which will today be in their homes hoping, with foreign assistance, to retake power to continue defending their profits and their privileges. "I address, above all, the modest women of our land, the campesina who believed in us, the worker who labored more, the mother who knew our concern for children. I address professionals of Chile, patriotic professionals, those who days ago continued working against the sedition sponsored by professional associations, class-based associations that also defended the advantages which a capitalist society grants to a few. "I address the youth, those who sang and gave us their joy and their spirit of struggle. I address the man of Chile, the worker, the farmer, the intellectual, those who will be persecuted, because in our country fascism has been already present for many hours - in terrorist attacks, blowing up the bridges, cutting the railroad tracks, destroying the oil and gas pipelines, in the face of the silence of those who had the obligation to protect them. They were committed. History will judge them. "Surely Radio Magallanes will be silenced, and the calm metal instrument of my voice will no longer reach you. It does not matter. You will continue hearing it. I will always be next to you. At least my memory will be that of a man of dignity who was loyal to the workers. "The people must defend themselves, but they must not sacrifice themselves. The people must not let themselves be destroyed or riddled with bullets, but they cannot be humiliated either. "Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free men will walk to build a better society. "Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers! "These are my last words, and I am certain that my sacrifice will not be in vain, I am certain that, at the very least, it will be a moral lesson that will punish felony, cowardice, and treason."
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 11, 2014 19:09:47 GMT 10
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves." - Henry A. Kissinger.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 14, 2014 11:40:42 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 18, 2014 1:35:06 GMT 10
Philalethes, Volume 66, No. 4, Fall 2013, p.136: “What can we do to emphasize that Masonry is a force to be used and not a form to be served?” - MW Bro. Martin H. Voss (GM, Minnesota, 1961). “The only hope for continuous achievement in Freemasonry is through the generation of force and not through the perpetuation of form.” - MW Bro. P. Dean Gerber (GM, Ohio 1991/2).
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 18, 2014 1:44:39 GMT 10
“Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.” - Ginetta Sagan.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 20, 2014 10:39:43 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 20, 2014 10:41:52 GMT 10
Allegory of Freemasonry and the Paris Commune, 1871 (colour litho), Moloch (Colomb B.) (1849-1909) / Private Collection / Archives Charmet / The Bridgeman Art Library
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