According to the magazine Foreign Policy, Somalia is the most dangerous place in the world. But who are the pirates? The starving people who attack ships, or the speculators on Wall Street, which for years beset the world now and receive multimillion-dollar rewards for their activities? Why does the world reward the loot? Why justice is blind in one eye?
Article by Eduardo Galeano
I want to share with you some questions, flies buzzing in my head:
the shoe of Iraq, who threw his shoes against Bush, was sentenced to three years in prison. He did not deserve, indeed, an honor?
Who's the terrorist? The shoes or tap? Not guilty of terrorism that the serial killer, lying, invented the Iraq war, murdered a lot of people, legalized torture and had to apply it?
culprits are people of Atenco, Mexico or Chile's indigenous Mapuche, Kekchies or Guatemala, or landless peasants in Brazil, all accused terrorists for defending their land rights? If the land is sacred, even if the law does not say, are not sacred also those who defend it?
According to the magazine Foreign Policy, Somalia is the most dangerous place in the world. But who are the pirates? The starving people who attack ships, or the speculators on Wall Street, which for years beset the world now and receive multimillion-dollar rewards for their activities?
Because the world rewards those who plunder?
Why justice is blind in one eye? Wal Mart, the company most powerful of all, bans trade unions. McDonald's, too. For these firms violate with impunity offender, international law? Is that why our time in the world of work is worth less than trash and are worth much less the rights of workers?
Who are the righteous and who is unjust? If international justice really exists, why not judges ever to the powerful? Are not arrested the perpetrators of the most vicious massacres? Is it because it is they who hold the keys of prisons?
Why are untouchable the five powers that has a veto in the UN? This law is of divine origin? Ensure peace by those who make the business of war? It's just that world peace is in the hands of five powers which are the five main producers of weapons? Without underestimating the drug traffickers, Nor is this a case of "organized crime"?
But do not ask for punishment against the masters of the cries of the world require, in all places, the death penalty. Only this was missing. The cries cry out against the killers who use knives, not against those who use missiles.
And we wonder: since these vigilantes are so overwhelmed by a desire to kill, why not require the death penalty against social injustice? It's just a world where every minute meant three million dollars to military spending, while the fifteen children die every minute from hunger or curable disease? Weapon against those who, to the teeth, called community international? Against poverty and against the poor?
Why are fervent supporters of the death penalty does not require the death penalty against the values \u200b\u200bof the consumer society, who daily threaten public safety? Or by chance does not invite crime bombardment of advertising that stuns millions and millions of unemployed or underpaid, repeating them day and night to be is to have a car, have branded shoes, take, take, and that who has not, is not it?
And why not deploy the death penalty against the death penalty? The world is organized in the service of death. Does not manufacture or death to military industry, which consumes the most of our resources and most of our energies? The lords of the world only condemn violence when others who practice it. And this monopoly of violence translates into an inexplicable fact that the aliens and also unbearable for the land that we still, against all evidence to survive: humans are the only specialist in mutual extermination and developed a technology of destruction is to annihilate, passage of the planet and all its inhabitants.
This technology feeds on fear. It is fear that makes the enemies that justify wasting military and police. And in the process of implementing the death penalty, this is to condemn fear death? It would not healthy to stop this dictatorship of universal scary professional? The sowers of panic condemn us to solitude, forbid us to solidarity: save what you can, destroy them to each other, the next is always a danger looming, eye care, this guy is going to steal, that will you violate this stroller conceals a Muslim bomb and if you look at this woman, this innocent-looking neighbor, is sure to infect you with flu.
In the world upside down, scare even the most basic acts of justice and common sense. When President Evo Morales has begun to re-founding of Bolivia to that country's majority Indian, stop being ashamed to look in the mirror, caused panic. This challenge was catastrophic in terms of traditional racist order, saying it was the united order possible. Evo was brought chaos and violence and blame their national unity would explode into pieces. And when the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced that he would refuse to pay debts is not legitimate, the news produced terror and Ecuador in the financial world was threatened with dire punishments, to be giving a bad example. If the military dictatorships and political thieves have always been pampered by the international banks, we are not already accustomed to accept as inevitable fate of the people who pay the tourniquet that strikes the plunder and greed?
But is divorced forever the good sense and justice? Not born to go together, and pranks, good sense and justice?
not common sense, and also for justice, this slogan of feminists who say that if we, the males, we stayed pregnant, abortion would be free? Why not legalize abortion rights? Is it because it can no longer be the privilege of women who can afford it and the doctors who can collect it?
The same happens with another scandalous case of denial of justice and common sense: why not drugs be legalized? Incidentally this is not, as in the case of abortion, an issue of public health? And the country that has more addicts, which has moral authority, which has moral authority to condemn those that supply your search? And why the big media, so devoted to war against the scourge of drugs, do not ever say that comes from Afghanistan almost all the heroin consumed in the world? Who's in charge in Afghanistan? That is not a country occupied militarily by the country that is attributed messianic mission to save us all?
Why not legalize drugs simply? Is it not because they give the best pretext for military invasions, and toast the juiciest profits to banks such as laundry work at night?
Now the world is sad because they sell fewer cars. A consequence of the crisis is the collapse of a thriving auto industry. If we had some shred of common sense and a little sense of justice would not have to celebrate this good news? By chance or the decrease of car is not good news, from the standpoint of nature, which is slightly less poisonous and pedestrians who will die a little less? According
Lewis Carroll, the Queen said to Alice how the justice in Wonderland:
- There you have it - the Queen said. It's stuck doing his conviction, but the process will only start on Monday. And of course, the crime will be committed at the end.
In El Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero proved that justice, like the snake only bites the barefoot. He was shot dead by reporting that his country condemned the bare born beforehand, 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 equal justice in the realm of injustice?
Sometimes the stories end badly of history, but her history, not ends. When you say goodbye, you say goodbye.
translation: Emir Sader
Article published in Carta Maior
Article by Eduardo Galeano
I want to share with you some questions, flies buzzing in my head:
the shoe of Iraq, who threw his shoes against Bush, was sentenced to three years in prison. He did not deserve, indeed, an honor?
Who's the terrorist? The shoes or tap? Not guilty of terrorism that the serial killer, lying, invented the Iraq war, murdered a lot of people, legalized torture and had to apply it?
culprits are people of Atenco, Mexico or Chile's indigenous Mapuche, Kekchies or Guatemala, or landless peasants in Brazil, all accused terrorists for defending their land rights? If the land is sacred, even if the law does not say, are not sacred also those who defend it?
According to the magazine Foreign Policy, Somalia is the most dangerous place in the world. But who are the pirates? The starving people who attack ships, or the speculators on Wall Street, which for years beset the world now and receive multimillion-dollar rewards for their activities?
Because the world rewards those who plunder?
Why justice is blind in one eye? Wal Mart, the company most powerful of all, bans trade unions. McDonald's, too. For these firms violate with impunity offender, international law? Is that why our time in the world of work is worth less than trash and are worth much less the rights of workers?
Who are the righteous and who is unjust? If international justice really exists, why not judges ever to the powerful? Are not arrested the perpetrators of the most vicious massacres? Is it because it is they who hold the keys of prisons?
Why are untouchable the five powers that has a veto in the UN? This law is of divine origin? Ensure peace by those who make the business of war? It's just that world peace is in the hands of five powers which are the five main producers of weapons? Without underestimating the drug traffickers, Nor is this a case of "organized crime"?
But do not ask for punishment against the masters of the cries of the world require, in all places, the death penalty. Only this was missing. The cries cry out against the killers who use knives, not against those who use missiles.
And we wonder: since these vigilantes are so overwhelmed by a desire to kill, why not require the death penalty against social injustice? It's just a world where every minute meant three million dollars to military spending, while the fifteen children die every minute from hunger or curable disease? Weapon against those who, to the teeth, called community international? Against poverty and against the poor?
Why are fervent supporters of the death penalty does not require the death penalty against the values \u200b\u200bof the consumer society, who daily threaten public safety? Or by chance does not invite crime bombardment of advertising that stuns millions and millions of unemployed or underpaid, repeating them day and night to be is to have a car, have branded shoes, take, take, and that who has not, is not it?
And why not deploy the death penalty against the death penalty? The world is organized in the service of death. Does not manufacture or death to military industry, which consumes the most of our resources and most of our energies? The lords of the world only condemn violence when others who practice it. And this monopoly of violence translates into an inexplicable fact that the aliens and also unbearable for the land that we still, against all evidence to survive: humans are the only specialist in mutual extermination and developed a technology of destruction is to annihilate, passage of the planet and all its inhabitants.
This technology feeds on fear. It is fear that makes the enemies that justify wasting military and police. And in the process of implementing the death penalty, this is to condemn fear death? It would not healthy to stop this dictatorship of universal scary professional? The sowers of panic condemn us to solitude, forbid us to solidarity: save what you can, destroy them to each other, the next is always a danger looming, eye care, this guy is going to steal, that will you violate this stroller conceals a Muslim bomb and if you look at this woman, this innocent-looking neighbor, is sure to infect you with flu.
In the world upside down, scare even the most basic acts of justice and common sense. When President Evo Morales has begun to re-founding of Bolivia to that country's majority Indian, stop being ashamed to look in the mirror, caused panic. This challenge was catastrophic in terms of traditional racist order, saying it was the united order possible. Evo was brought chaos and violence and blame their national unity would explode into pieces. And when the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced that he would refuse to pay debts is not legitimate, the news produced terror and Ecuador in the financial world was threatened with dire punishments, to be giving a bad example. If the military dictatorships and political thieves have always been pampered by the international banks, we are not already accustomed to accept as inevitable fate of the people who pay the tourniquet that strikes the plunder and greed?
But is divorced forever the good sense and justice? Not born to go together, and pranks, good sense and justice?
not common sense, and also for justice, this slogan of feminists who say that if we, the males, we stayed pregnant, abortion would be free? Why not legalize abortion rights? Is it because it can no longer be the privilege of women who can afford it and the doctors who can collect it?
The same happens with another scandalous case of denial of justice and common sense: why not drugs be legalized? Incidentally this is not, as in the case of abortion, an issue of public health? And the country that has more addicts, which has moral authority, which has moral authority to condemn those that supply your search? And why the big media, so devoted to war against the scourge of drugs, do not ever say that comes from Afghanistan almost all the heroin consumed in the world? Who's in charge in Afghanistan? That is not a country occupied militarily by the country that is attributed messianic mission to save us all?
Why not legalize drugs simply? Is it not because they give the best pretext for military invasions, and toast the juiciest profits to banks such as laundry work at night?
Now the world is sad because they sell fewer cars. A consequence of the crisis is the collapse of a thriving auto industry. If we had some shred of common sense and a little sense of justice would not have to celebrate this good news? By chance or the decrease of car is not good news, from the standpoint of nature, which is slightly less poisonous and pedestrians who will die a little less? According
Lewis Carroll, the Queen said to Alice how the justice in Wonderland:
- There you have it - the Queen said. It's stuck doing his conviction, but the process will only start on Monday. And of course, the crime will be committed at the end.
In El Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero proved that justice, like the snake only bites the barefoot. He was shot dead by reporting that his country condemned the bare born beforehand, 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 equal justice in the realm of injustice?
Sometimes the stories end badly of history, but her history, not ends. When you say goodbye, you say goodbye.
translation: Emir Sader
Article published in Carta Maior
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