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FROM CHILE, WITH LOVE II...The Only legitimate authority

THE ONLY

LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY

IN A DOMESTIC DISASTER

Quake chaos trumps Chile's fear of using military

Crowds cheered soldiers who hauled off looters, and many questioned why it took so long to send in troops.

By PATRICK J. MCDONNELL, Los Angeles Times

Last update: March 2, 2010 - 9:36 PM

CONCEPCION, CHILE - The Chilean army marched into this wrecked city Tuesday, rounding up looters and receiving the applause of besieged survivors of the weekend's massive earthquake.

Despite Chile's tortured history with the military, the armed forces now are being looked at by many here as their savior -- a necessary, if slow-in-coming, show of force in the face of utter disaster and deteriorating security.

"They should have done this a long time ago," civil engineer Carlos Aguilar, 42, said as soldiers armed with M-16s pulled a group of young thieves from a disheveled Cruz Verde pharmacy and loaded them into the back of a van. The crowd that gathered applauded and shouted words of thanks. "If they need to, they should shoot to kill," Aguilar added, echoing the sentiments of numerous people here.

Marlene Elizabeth Franco, a 39-year-old mother of three, said roving bands of vandals had been terrorizing neighborhoods in the aftermath of the magnitude-8.8 quake that roared through central and southern Chile before dawn Saturday, killing at least 800 people.

"It feels like we are living in a war zone," she said through tears. ..."I believe in democracy," she continued, "but right now we have complete disorder."

.....A pall of acrid smoke hung over Concepcion on Tuesday

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FROM:

Agreement of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile:

23 AUGUST, 1973

"...14. That the Armed and Police Forces are and must be, by their very nature, a guarantee for all Chileans and not just for one sector of the Nation or for a political coalition. Consequently, the government cannot use their backing to cover up a specific minority partisan policy. Rather their presence must be directed toward the full restoration of constitutional rule and of the rule of the laws of democratic coexistence, which is indispensable to guaranteeing Chile’s institutional stability, civil peace, security, and development;"

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