EXCUSE THE MOLESTIAS.-Eduardo Galeano.
Page 12, May 8, 2009
me share some questions, flies buzz my head. Is it fair justice? Are you standing on your feet a just world upside down?
The Zapatista Iraq, which gave the Zapatazos against Bush, was sentenced to three years in prison. Do not you deserve, rather, a medal? Who is the terrorist? Does the shoe or shoe?
Not guilty of terrorism, the serial killer that lie invented the Iraq war, killed a mob and legalized torture and ordered to apply?
guilty
Are the people of Atenco, in Mexico or Chile's Mapuche Indians, or the Kekchi of Guatemala, or Brazil's landless peasants, all accused of terrorism to defend their right to land?
If the land is sacred, although the law does not say, are not sacred, too, who defend?
According to the magazine Foreign Policy, Somalia is the most dangerous of all. But who are the pirates? Will starving that assault ships or Wall Street speculators, who have spent years raiding the world and are now getting multi-million dollar rewards for their labors? Why the world rewards those who pillage and why justice is blind in one one eye?
Wal Mart, the company's powerful of all, bans trade unions. McDonald's, too. Why do these companies violate, with criminal impunity, the international law? Is it because in the world of work is worth our time unless the garbage is worth much less the rights of workers?
Who are the righteous and the unrighteous who? If international justice really exists, why have not judged the powerful? Prisoners are not the authors of the most ferocious butchers. Is it because it is they who hold the keys of prisons and why they are untouchable the five powers with veto in the UN? Is that right has divine origin?
Velan for peace "that make the business of war? Is it fair that world peace is in charge of the five powers are the main producers of weapons? Without underestimating the drug, is not this also a case of "organized crime"? But do not demand punishment against the masters of the world, cries of those who demand everywhere, the death penalty. Of course. The cries cry out against the murderers who use knives, not against using misiles.Y one wonders as these vigilantes are so mad desire to kill, why not require death penalty against social injustice? Is it just a world that every minute of three million dollars goes to military spending, while fifteen children die every minute from hunger or curable disease? Against whom is armed, to the teeth, the so-called international community? Against poverty or against the poor?
fervent Why capital punishment does not require the death penalty against the values \u200b\u200bof the consumer society, who daily threaten public safety? Or do not invite crime bombardment of advertising that twists to millions and millions of unemployed or poorly paid, repeating night and day to be is to have, own a car, have branded shoes, take, take, and who has not, is not it?
Why not implemented the death penalty against death? The world is organized in the service of death. Or does not make death the military industry, which consumes most of our resources and much of our energy? The masters of the world only condemn the violence when exercised by others. And this monopoly of violence results in an inexplicable to the aliens, and unbearable for the land that we still, against all evidence, survival: humans are the only animal that specializes in mutual extermination, and have developed a technology that is annihilating destruction, by the way, the planet and all its inhabitants.
This technology feeds on fear. It is fear which manufactures enemies to justify the police and military waste. And in train to implement the death penalty, what if we condemn to death to fear? Would not it be healthy to end this frightening universal dictatorship professional? The sowers of panic we are doomed to loneliness, we prohibit solidarity: every man for himself, aplastaos each other, the neighbor is always a danger that lurks, eye, very careful, he will steal, you violate that, the stroller a bomb hidden Muslim woman and if you look, that innocent-looking neighbor, is sure to spread you swine.
In the world upside down, afraid even the most basic acts of justice and common sense. When President Evo Morales started the re-founding of Bolivia, for this country's indigenous majority stop being shy to look in the mirror, caused panic. This challenge was catastrophic from the standpoint of traditional racist agenda, saying be the only possible order: Evo was brought chaos and violence, and because of her national unity would burst, broken into pieces. And when Ecuador's President Correa announced that he refused to pay legitimate debts, the news caused terror in the financial world and Ecuador was threatened with dire punishment, being given such a bad example.
If military dictatorships and political thieves have always been pampered by international banks, have we not already accustomed to accept as inevitable destiny of the people that pay the big stick and hit him greed loot it? But will they have been divorced for evermore common sense and justice? Do not born to walk together, very closely, common sense and justice?
Is not common sense and justice, that slogan of feminists who say that if we, the males get pregnant, abortion would be free? Why not legalize abortion rights? Is it because then no longer the privilege of women who can afford it and doctors who can collect it?
The same applies to another scandalous case of denial justice and common sense: why not legalize drugs? Is not like abortion, a public health issue? And the country that contains drug, what is moral authority to condemn those who supply the demand? Why the mainstream media, as enshrined in the war against the scourge of drugs, never comes from Afghanistan say nearly all the heroin consumed in the world? Who's in charge in Afghanistan? Is not that a country militarily occupied by the country that is attributed messianic mission to save us all? Why not legalize drugs a good time? Could it be because they provide the best pretext for military invasions, as well as providing the most handsome profits to the big banks at night working as a Laundry?
Now the world is sad because they sell fewer cars. One consequence of the global crisis is the decline of the thriving automotive industry. If we had any other sense, and little something of the sense of justice should not we celebrate this good news? Or is the decline in cars is not good news, from the point of view of nature, which is slightly less poisonous, and pedestrians, which die a little less?
According to Lewis Carroll, the Queen said to Alice how justice works in Wonderland: "There you are," said the Queen. He is locked in prison serving his sentence, but the trial did not begin until next Wednesday. And of course, crime will be committed at the end.
In El Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero found that justice, as the snake only bites the barefoot. He died with bullets, they complain that in his country pre-born barefoot convicted for the crime of birth. The result of the recent elections in El Salvador, is not somehow a tribute? A tribute to Archbishop Romero and the thousands like him who died fighting for a fair justice in the realm of injustice? Sometimes the wrong end of history stories, but her history does not end. When you say goodbye, say goodbye.
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