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[internationalguy]

Dropped from a plane? Really?

 

[CarryOn]

Dropped from a plane? Really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights

 

[internationalguy]

Oh my God

 

[camberiu]

Oh my God

Even the Brazilian generals, during the darkest periods of the dictatorship in Brazil, thought their Argentinian counterparts were batshit crazy. The Brazilian generals were not "humanitarian" by any stretch of the imagination, but dropping people from planes in the ocean and kidnapping newborns was too much even for them.

 

[Joe]

Hi,

Why worrying about getting robbed during 76-83 if you could get kidnapped, tortured and then dropped from a plane while you were still alive. Do you realize what you are posting?

Cheers!

Are you talking about 76-83 Argentina or the USA today?

http://youtu.be/8gQzrWzGyhQ

 

[steveinbsas]

Dropped from a plane? Really?

This has been brought up in the past: http://baexpats.org/topic/19402-whats-happening-to-this-country/

One page one of the thread,

mercjoe said:
I would set on fire Kirchner houses and hotels, believe me. And there lots who would also do it. But most are just sedated for some reason.

I'm a local and I can't understand it either.

That might be the reason, indifference and resignation. "Y bue.., ¿ que le vas a hacer ?" most actually believe there's no hope and this will never get better. And they don't believe they have the right to claim for their real "needs".

As strange as it might look that's the way it is. There are lots like me totally confused and perplexed though. We've been through crap in the past, but I've never thought it could get this far.


steveinbsas said:

Does "I'm a local" mean you are a citizen of Argentina?

Even if you aren't, perhaps you can appreciate that some things in this country have changed...for the better.

Forty years ago your first sentence would definitely have resulted in your arrest.

Then you would have been lucky to only have a "device" that delivers an electric shock inserted in your anus (and used with skill as you are interrogated).

That certainly would have been better than being thrown out of an airplane (alive and unsedated).

Hopefully, it won't go that far...again.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

My dad tells me that during that time he could be taking a train deep at night with my mom and not even worry about getting robbed. Not for one second. Neither me nor my dad support the dictatorship but their was virtually no "civil" crime during that time. He never really worried about being captured by the government or being killed by a Montoneros bombing either.

Tell that to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_Hagelin or her parents.

 

[Joe]

Tell that to http://en.wikipedia..../Dagmar_Hagelin or her parents.

Okay are we back to posting straw man argument examples?

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Okay are we back to posting straw man argument examples?

This was not an isolated case.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Dropped from a plane? Really?

And choppers .. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/25/world/cashiered-soldier-in-argentina-tells-of-death-flights-by-army.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onie_Duquet