We attend several weeks since our monitors to rioting in the Arab world. Even some newspapers are making their section. It started with a Spark, a person sacrificing themselves in Tunisia, burning alive to protest their plight, cornered person who seized the humble way of life, a cart of vegetables.
Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Morocco, Jordan, Iran ... The accelerated Western man has a limited attention span. Although the news has become obsolete, I think we are aware that this is first-rate historical events. Popular indignation get down tyrannical regimes always cause for joy. That the union of many men, a mass of faceless people, get what seemed impossible just a month ago utopia. Another story is the evolution after this break and how many of the real and legitimate demands of the people shall be assumed by the new leadership.
For years, our politicians or the authoritative voices of the mainstream media would have us internalize some "truths" we have accepted as dogma, as that the Arab countries were not prepared or interested in democracy. Citizens did not demand that neither liberty nor the exercise of popular sovereignty. We had milongas and that human rights are a legal body of Western heritage as a whole can not be extrapolated to the countries of Arabic culture. And we abide by blindly until our belief crumbles in a day. It was all a big lie. People take to the streets to defend their rights and freedom. Simple.
And then we react. Then expel the party of Ali Ben the Socialist International because suddenly we are aware that is an aberration. One country that practically yesterday, the International Monetary Fund infallible gave as an example (one was Ireland), suddenly becomes an outcast.
I have 40 years. I have met Gaddafi in power since I was a child, almost Mubarak. The "Realpolitik" pragmatism not only makes us live, and entertain tolerate dictatorships disguised as the then owners of the resources we need. In addition we are dedicated to selling weapons, those same weapons that at this very moment is massacring the people of Libya. Also Bin Laden was an invention of the CIA to fight against communism that he got out of hand. Is not it time to demand something of ethics in the actions of our governments?
How many lies we are able to withstand? Really there are no other solutions? Although little has been echoed in Iceland forgot the famous rescue of the banks. If you act recklessly pay for it. In the referendum was decided not to respond in bank debt and prosecute those responsible for the crisis.
The seeds of the Arab riots are a decisive factor: rising food prices and a strike that affects a huge, unaffordable for the whole of society.
If we take into account people who are taking courses in Spain are close to five million unemployed. A generation without hope. I read that we are the first or second drug country. All are joys. Do not have anything to do with the other phenomenon?
Meanwhile, we vote or not. You know I always win them and that your vote blank or looking for some renovation serves neither of symbolic testimony. The Act General Electoral Regime establishes a cheat and fake nationwide. True democracy does not exist. Votes do not have the same value. Is to perpetuate an evil system bipartisanship.
Although society seems asleep, if the situation continues to deteriorate, does not seem preposterous a scenario in which people take to the streets to call for reforms, demanding opportunity or hope. If prices continue to rise, freezing wages, increasing unemployment, we may be near a break in the request is recast the foundations of society.
As the song said Lluis Llach , "L'stake" we are all attached to it but if you throw them, one by one hand, some other, perhaps we can take it down.
The bright and clumsy censorship under Franco, left inexplicably published the song in its day (1968), even when he knew its success, the subsequent ban, which naturally caused the opposite effect and made a hymn. Now there is another more subtle form of censorship. Although we have access to more information than ever, the majority receives only what interests them in large groups, mainly representatives of economic interests. The real policy is increasingly less weight. Still existing network snipers, endangered species thrive if projects to finalize the net neutrality, but that's a topic for another article.
Our hands are tied but we can try, each from his post.
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