Macri's Security Minister appoints fascist ideologue Carlos Manfroni as chief congressional liaison

Argentine President Mauricio Macri's Security Minister, Patricia Bullrich, appointed the openly fascist writer and academic Carlos Manfroni as the Ministry's new Secretary of Legislative Affairs. The appointment has not only created controversy in itself, Manfroni personally has also now been denounced by employees at the Security Ministry for creating "persecution on account of political, trade union, and ideological affiliations."

Manfroni, 62, is well-known in Argentina as a far-right Catholic ideologue. He is a vocal opponent of ongoing trials for crimes against humanity and has written numerous apologist works exalting the Dirty War. He first made news in 2012 for helping organize the right-wing cacerolazo protests against a rumored bid on President Cristina Kirchner's part for a third term (something she never sought). Manfroni also runs a tax-exempt "foundation for public ethics" and teaches a course on the subject at the Argentina Catholic University; the course is sponsored by the U.S. Embassy.

Manfroni has recently been columnist for the far-right newspaper La Nación, and during the 1976-83 military dictatorship contributed to the extremist, anti-Semitic monthly Cabildo.

Some of Manfroni's statements over the year have included:

Democracy and freedom are products of the filthy French Revolution, which, worse still, fabricated the idea of love of humanity - pure intellectual masturbation.

It is a heresy to think that authority rises from the bottom up; indeed, in the organization of the Church, power descends from the top down.

Liberalism is an infectious disease

Progressivism carries the stigma of Jewish and Masonic temporalism. The materialistic Jewish people instruct the children of Zion to seek power.

Rock is the most subversive, anti-Christian, and countercultural artistic movement of all time. The intemperate pace exacerbates passions and creates a hypnotic state of brainwashing "Satanic messages," Manfroni assured, "can be heard when you play certain songs backwards such as 'Empty Spaces' by Pink Floyd."

The 'philosophy' of Rock leads to the desperate desire for death and leads to suicide, as evidenced by the lyrics. It offers the possibility of becoming an animal or a sissy. One of the greatest exponents of Satanism is the group Kiss, whose members use make-up in a diabolical way. They, like many others, are homosexuals and drug addicts.

Artists are parasites on society, and useless to all men of goodwill. They're spoiled Marxist children.

Any distortion of culture, he concludes, "should be considered subversive and as such eradicated."