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Thread #125594 Message #3459619
Posted By: GUEST,Fred McCormick
31-Dec-12 - 12:47 PM
Thread Name: Viva Victor Jara !
Subject: RE: Viva Victor Jara !
Rog. I voted Labour through thick and thin, for almost fifty years, and I was appalled by the fact that a government which I had helped to elect hadn't got the guts to do the decent thing and honour Spain's extradition request.
Of course Jack straw's actions in this matter were as nothing compared to those of Maggie Thatcher. She, you may recall, had Pinochet's plane stopped on the runway, so that she could give him a present of a Spanish cannonball. This for the help which the Chilean government had supposedly given "us" during the Argentinean war.
"There's blood on the hands of the Whitehall ranks, who sold the tyrants guns and tanks". Ewan MacColl.