What do Augusto Pinochet and Al Capone have in common?

What do Augusto Pinochet and Al Capone have in common?
They are both going down for tax evasion.

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Hopefully this time it won't be thrown out of court because the poor guy is a frail old man (who killed 3000 people, then proceeded with an assault on the working class in order to eliminate all the gains won by Allende). Happy 90th birthday, asshole!

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alfonse capone and augusto pinochet also have something else in common.

they both have funny names. heh

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I wrote these comments a couple months ago for Myrrander in his article, "Screw September 11"

Myrrander:

[sarcasm]But Allende did a bad thing. He started trying to turn Chile into a Socialist state.[/sarcasm]

Now, I'll forgive you all right here who keep confusing socialism with communism. You need to read more. They aren't the same thing.

Allende was a Marxist whose 1970 election campaign received much funding from foreign communists. Throughout his presidency he was a champion of the idea of a dictatorship of the parasite class. Regardless, to rest your laurels on the idea that socialism is not communism is to display a dangerously ignorant view of the nature of liberalism in general and leftist ideologies in specific. After all, modern "conservatives" were once liberals too, in an ideological sense. Liberalism is a never ending quest to move further to the left in response as a cure for the problems their own ideologies bring (for example...the reason why the welfare state isn't eliminating poverty is because we aren't giving the poor enough money).

Manopeace:

Allende was a great man, a democratically elected leader of his people, murdered in cold blood by the United States government.

Wrong. He was pretty lousy as president, he receieved a slim plurality of the votes and was elected by the Chilean Congress in a runoff, and was not murdered by the United States in cold blood. Try reading an objective source.

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This was truly funny! Yea I really heard about it today. But while Al did, Augusto may not. He is not in the best of health.

But it still is funny.

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