July 17, 2005

Interesting facts about Salvador Allende (1908–1973).

  • President of Chile (1970-73).
  • Killed in CIA-backed coup, 1973.
  • Deposed by General Augusto Pinochet.
  • Believed that surgery could make a male homosexual heterosexual.
  • Wrote doctoral theses in 1933 at age 25 in which he asserted:
  1. Jews have a disposition to crime.
  2. The mentally ill should be forcibly sterilized.
  3. Alcoholics should be forcibly sterilized.
  4. The U.S. Constitution is a "living" document.
  • Advocated compulsory sterilization program while health minister from 1939 to 1941.
  • One of the founders of the Chilean Socialist Party in, uh . . . 1933.

Wikipedia bio: Salvador Allende.

From The American Roots of Fascism, by John Ray<-- Simply Morbid Herald <-- The Telegraph.

OK. . . . No. 4 is a lie.

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