"We were the protectors of the land and the inheritors of the natural forces," he says.
It is a challenge to those who in the past week, after throat-clearing on the horrendous murder of Charlie's staff and their protectors, have attempted to switch the focus to the magazine's supposed Islamophobia.
Between supporters of the shoot and protectors of birds of prey, feelings were running high, he explained.
So confident was Pinochet in his protectors in "the free world" that on 17 September 1976 he ordered the killing of Orlando Letelier, Allende's former defence minister, with a bomb planted in his car in Sheridan Circle in the diplomatic heart of Washington itself.
For a year now Beer, a 45-year-old warehouse worker, and dozens of other "protectors" have kept camp on a strip of farmland designated for fracking on Dutton Lane in Upton, three miles north of Chester.
"I'm fully supportive of the protectors here.
They bet that, by multiplying the existing fear and misinformation about Ebola – a disease most Americans know little about – they could ultimately manipulate everyone and proclaim themselves the protectors of the people by "protecting" the public from a disease that hasn't killed a single American.
The police are too often regarded as predators rather than protectors.
Mr Karzai, in turn, railed against his protectors.
The Americans publicly call for free trade in farming (which would help commodity producers), though in fact, as big subsidisers and protectors of farms, they would find real reform very hard.
However, this time, the army is expected to indulge in whatever amount of coercion and vote-fiddling is needed to produce a "yes" vote.General Than Shwe, the army chief, and other junta leaders are said to believe their own propaganda about being the people's protectors and the guardians of the nation.
