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Tony Rubolotta

When Liberty is the Minority View
May 28, 2009

We are faced with the ultimate nightmare of any democratic republic, and that is the possibility of the tyranny of the majority voting liberty out of existence. Constitutional safeguards are only as good as those charged to safeguard them, and in this respect government officials in every branch of government who take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution have been the worst offenders. The integrity of our political process has been compromised by rampant voter fraud, a tidal wave of illegal campaign contributions and a complicit media. We won’t know just how permanent and deep the damage is until 2010, if we have that long and if it can be corrected at all. A change of the guard is no guarantee the rule of law will be restored.

What have others done when faced with the dissolution of their liberty by a majority bent on mob rule?

Marxist Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile in 1970 by a plurality of just over 36%. Realistically, left leaning votes totaled about 64%, a clear majority that favored socialist policies and agreed to an Allende led coalition. Allende’s reforms were mostly in the form of huge wage increases, but only for his supporters in favored unions. These were funded largely by property seizures of foreign and locally owned industries.

Once the economy had been plundered, the inevitable shortages socialism produces began to appear, food being the most critical. Chaos followed as Allende’s most strident supporters began taking over factories, shops and farms, erected barricades and armed to defend the property they had seized. Allende did nothing to stop the mobs or their illegal actions and ignored pleas by the Chilean congress to either resign or establish order. The army had remained politically neutral but Chile’s descent to Marxist mob rule was the last straw. Augusto Pinochet led a coup in September, 1973 to remove Allende and restore order.

The left wing version of these events can be found on Wikipedia. More thorough and objective research reveals the extent to which the left has gone to propagandize these events through exaggeration, omissions and outright lies, particularly disregarding terrorist activities by the communists prior to Pinochet’s takeover. The army and a sizeable minority of people in Chile were not going to allow their liberty or property be seized by a Marxist and his mobs, so they fought back and won. This is why the left despised Pinochet and carried a vendetta against him for the rest of his life. The reforms instituted by Pinochet significantly reduced poverty and strengthened economic liberty, and the left hates him all the more for that. Full civilian rule under a new constitution was restored to Chile in 1990.

We saw very much the same drama play out in Haiti with the election of Marxist Aristide in 1990 with 67% of the vote. A little less than 8 months later, Aristide was removed by an army led coup that had enough of his Marxist policies and chaos. Clinton intervened on behalf of Aristide to "restore democracy”, which was basically Marxist mob rule and a tyrant. Haiti’s military leaders capitulated under threat of armed intervention by Clinton. The bloodbath that followed Aristide’s return as the mob exacted vengeance is seldom if ever mentioned in left wing accounts of this period in Haiti’s history. Political opponents were hacked to death by roaming mobs and the government ran a terror campaign against opponents of Aristide.

Aristide dissolved the army and installed a civilian police force, his enforcers to carry out his policies and terrorize or eliminate opposition. Aristide was again thrown out of power in 2004 by a rebellion after he had rigged the elections in 2000 and had an opponent murdered in 2003. The regime that followed wasn’t particularly democratic, but they had enough of Marxism, election tampering, mob rule and authoritarian Aristide.

Marxists gaining power through the democratic process in Chile and Haiti expected their opponents to roll over and die as they lost their voice, their liberty and their property, but it didn’t happen. Those people had to fight, and yes, they had to kill to remove the tyrants that thought an electoral majority gave them the right to abuse the minority. The left condemns these minority revolutions and the thousands of deaths they claim followed. The left never condemns the millions of deaths that precede and follow a Marxist revolution.

The Weather Underground matter-of-factly discussed the need to murder 25 million Americans if their revolution succeeded and imposed Marxism. How many others they estimated would be placed in re-education or detention camps we don’t know. You may be thinking these academic types that are now teaching in universities would never actually kill that many people and you are right because they would have someone else do it for them. I have never heard that Pol Pot, Hitler or Stalin for that matter actually killed anyone with their own hands. They had plenty of stooges and obedient followers to do their dirty work. With Marxism it is always kill them before they kill us, and better to kill too many than not enough.

The only thing you should read into this story is that free people, cognizant of the historical realities of Marxism and totalitarian government, may fight back when the horror is thrust on them. How they fight back depends on the means they have available when tyrants rule. The minority that rejected Marxism in Chile and Haiti fought back and won. The left condemns them for daring to defend their liberty against tyrants emplaced by majority rule. I applaud their resistance to tyranny. I hope it never comes to this here, but I have no intention of rolling over and dying for a chanting mob of cultists claiming the right to end my liberties because they are the majority.


About Tony Rubolotta
Tony Rubolotta works in the technology industry.