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malaise

(268,998 posts)
Fri May 17, 2013, 04:13 PM May 2013

Good riddance you scumbag of a murderer baby stealing fugger Jorge Videla

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/17/jorge-rafael-videla-argentina-dies
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Jorge Rafael Videla, a former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest days of its "dirty war" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, has died. He was 87.

The first president to head the military junta that "disappeared" thousands of leftists from 1976 to 1983, Videla spent his final years behind bars for human rights crimes, including the systematic theft of babies born to political prisoners in secret torture centres.

He died of natural causes in his cell in a prison outside the capital, Buenos Aires, where he was serving a life sentence, a government spokesman said on Friday.

"He spent his life doing great damage, which left a mark on the life of the country," Argentinian human rights activist and Nobel prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel said. "His death ended his physical presence but
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Good riddance you scumbag of a murderer baby stealing fugger Jorge Videla (Original Post) malaise May 2013 OP
I'm glad it was in a prison cell. BlueToTheBone May 2013 #1
The sad part is that they enrich themselves and live the lives malaise May 2013 #3
I know. We can only hope that karma is real. BlueToTheBone May 2013 #9
100% correct malaise May 2013 #10
Glad to see at least one of them die behind bars. He was luckier than his victims, regardless of sabrina 1 May 2013 #2
Across the globe malaise May 2013 #4
Mini-Hitler. Ikonoklast May 2013 #5
I don't support the death penalty but I know what you mean malaise May 2013 #6
But not as many as right here in the good 'ol U. S. of A. Ikonoklast May 2013 #7
Not sure - there is competition for evil on malaise May 2013 #8

malaise

(268,998 posts)
3. The sad part is that they enrich themselves and live the lives
Fri May 17, 2013, 07:20 PM
May 2013

of the rich and famous and only end up in prison in their old age. I guess this is better than nothing. I'd also like to see their enablers, financiers and allies overseas locked up. Kissinger is still walking around free.

BlueToTheBone

(3,747 posts)
9. I know. We can only hope that karma is real.
Fri May 17, 2013, 10:07 PM
May 2013

Because for the most part, they seem untouchable. We on the other hand, feel all the pain.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
2. Glad to see at least one of them die behind bars. He was luckier than his victims, regardless of
Fri May 17, 2013, 05:50 PM
May 2013

that. But there are so many more of them who are still free, right here in this country.

malaise

(268,998 posts)
6. I don't support the death penalty but I know what you mean
Fri May 17, 2013, 07:35 PM
May 2013

and there are lots of them in South and Central America

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
7. But not as many as right here in the good 'ol U. S. of A.
Fri May 17, 2013, 07:54 PM
May 2013

Only fear keeps them from doing the same thing to the rest of us.

Some of us would take as many of them as we could along with us to Hell.

Die Like A Lion.

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