UPyD and a dish of lentils
this season Catalan Some have accused Unión Progreso y Democracia any Citizen, refusing to agree on a common electoral bid, to divide the vote constitutional ... The tone is presented to citizens as victims of an upstart party that wants to replace it in its natural environment. The truth is that those who were in Citizens know that when Rosa Díez, Fernando Savater, Carlos Martinez and other personalities Gorriarán UPyD founded on a comparison between their leaders and teams, with all due respect, there was no color. Later comparison of the structures and internal development and bipartisan parliamentary gave us also the view of those who had opted for UPyD, but is that essentially we are talking of projects: one national and one regional openly, one is horizontal and the other Statutes bet for making him only the PSC competition ...
The discovery of these differences alone justify a separate supply, but is that there is no doubt about the convenience of staying strong in the lone-sometimes-uncomfortable position in which it was located Unión Progreso y Democracia since its founding. Nobody Citizens, or any party has been denied entry into UPyD, because of course we are not talking about ideological incompatibility if we understand the concept of ideology as traditionally understood. To which UPyD itself has refused, and I understand that should continue to do so respectfully but stubbornness, is to participate in regional commitments to use-that of "I support you in Madrid and you support me in Barcelona." This would be, clearly demonstrate the trajectories of the PSOE and the PP, the best way to become another home match against confederation of interests depending on where we presentásemos, and therefore incapable of defending global common interest: just what Spain do not need. In
UPyD must be very aware that if we persevere in this view clearly, sooner or later the electorate will recognize it. A democratic regeneration effects, have a nationalist party not only regional implementation is not having anything: non-point, but not escape the fact that it is the party with which some insist that rivals vain, citizens, is marketed as sets, can not influence national policy and promote fundamental reforms as we want. He already has demonstrated throughout an autonomous legislature. A regional party at best, get a seat on the distribution of sinecures, but can never put against the wall to the national institutions which are having in their hands the key structural reforms. The people who really want the healing of Spain waiting to hear about a national project, ie UPyD. As one wise friend, each book sooner or later find its reader. And, I add this and I's best to write well and soon slowly and poorly, because instead of a classical influence future generations would get a bestseller summer with someone handsome naked on the cover. And I do not want that.
regard to recent surveys, the thing is very clear and fits precisely with what I just said: the old parties And media-manipulated by them, and the moles who infiltrated and today UPyD UPyD campaign against them from within, more interested in promoting that UPyD Citizen. Often prefer a rival, sitting helplessly in the corner of his seat regional rather than a party with a real chance to press for change that the social partners more aware are beginning to clamor for Spain: the radical reform of the electoral system the state model or education. Only one party present in all or most of the national, regional and municipal governments will be able to promote such reforms and put in question the absolute power of traditional parties. And precisely why, I suspect, election surveys are favoring Catalan regional party that can never be undertaken, and the pundits in the pay of certain means are presented as the victim of misunderstanding and UPyD ambition, these upstarts. .. But we must never forget: our opponents are not those whom we are alike, but the major parties and interest groups who use them.
The strategy is loud and it seems incredible that some do not want to see it. And I do not know if this strategy will or will not short-term effect, or if Veciana Robles and get, as I believe, its entry into the Parliament or rather we have to wait other Catalan elections, but in any case we know that we sold our birthright evident throughout this issue of democratic regeneration by a simple dish of lentils. The future belongs to those who resist, and the Catalans have already been realized. Digital Journalist . Dear
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Runes Of Magichowmount Color
Letter to a Jewish friend about the Nazis
L ***,
Thank you for your message. I do not share their goals, but I'm glad, however, that has served as a reason to return briefly in better touch with many friends Zamora.
When I say I do not share their goals'm not talking about the Palestinian conflict. I, as I suppose you, as I think everyone should be respectful of fundamental rights and freedoms, I am a convinced Zionist-naive of me-only approve the establishment of an indivisible, secular law in Palestine, where Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together regardless of their religions. And of course you do not need any powerpoint to convince the overwhelming sadness that's behind the terrible images that reach us. Palestinian conflict would be much to discuss, for example, why Israelis maintain a fence like the one held in Gaza and not in the West Bank.
Anyway, those pictures you sent me what they mean and mean no more than what they mean. I think we do a disservice to those who want and need a reasonable debate and a reasonable context for this debate broadcasting a powerpoint matching sepia photos of the thirties and forties Germans with color photos of the XXI century Gaza. Photos all denote a violent inhuman and reprehensible as it is exerted on defenseless civilians. But there is one key element that makes the comparison explicit liar of the Jewish genocide do with the Israeli occupation of Gaza and West Bank, while the extermination of German Jews was an end in itself, carried out within a system totalitarian actions through carefully planned and inspired by a racist ideology, the state repression of Israel imposed on Gaza is not intended to exterminate the Palestinians, but the defeat of terrorist militias like Hamas, or based on the exaltation of racial hatred, but in a strictly defensive strategy (is not it time to assess what means the State of Israel for self-defense, or what it means every sector of Israeli society), nor the state to repress the Palestinians is a dictatorship, but the only democracy in the Middle East, a democracy where, incidentally, every day there are demonstrations against the blockade of Gaza and against the government of Netanyahu and nothing happens, a democracy where Muslims can go to college, to benefit public health, to be members of Parliament ... The pairing of black and white photographs and color is extremely efficient from the standpoint of propaganda, but it is absolutely false and in no way help resolve the conflict. Rather I am convinced that the less informed poison, which will conclude that today the Israelis actually behave like the Germans in 1939. If that was the goal of the dissemination of these photographs paired (drag to the spirits less critical by the most thoughtless), the authors of the assembly receive my congratulations saddened.
Another element that bothers me the anti-Israeli campaign. According to the documents I've read or referred to, the sequence is as follows: some Islamists are trying to break the naval blockade of Gaza, since they have declared humanitarian intentions, they are offered a way (the port of Ashdod and a land crossing) to deliver food and other humanitarian aid so that both parties can certify, but they refuse, because in private, as well as singing in chorus the extermination of the Jews, have expressed their desire to break the lock or die as martyrs and go to paradise rights houris; unarmed Israeli soldiers boarded the ships (in international law, it is arguable that Israel has no right to do so and several internationalists have already positioned themselves for the approach) and the radicals beat up and stabbed until the soldiers pulls out and defend themselves, killing several of them continued to act triggered an international campaign against Israel in the context of which the English left is particularly combative.
And I wonder: where was the English left a few weeks ago, when Maoist terrorists killed 150 people on a train in India? Why no demonstrations? I wonder again: what was said when the English left behind some of the numerous executions of adulterers, homosexuals, Christians or democrats in Iran and other Islamic countries? Also: why the left English-the same that supported Judge Garzon's crusade against a dead dictator for thirty-five years has not ever said against the proven, effective daily and repression of the Castro regime against the most basic rights and freedoms of Cubans?
The questions are rhetorical, because I have the answer. The reason is that the English left, just like the English right and honorable exceptions-that is, it is extremely sectarian and prefers to cling to their prejudices and mythologies rather than face a reality that would divide up their deepest convictions. And so we look hair. Sectarian manipulations as I attached powerpoint serve no positive. The nuances, in which the Arab-Israeli conflict abounds, are necessary for understanding, and match one of the warring parties with the Nazi regime is less nuanced than I think.
proof that Israelis are not monsters hungry for death that yesterday Rachel Corrie was taken without shedding any blood, because, unlike the Mavi Marmara , did not travel aboard a rather radical organized to provoke confrontation. No doubt the Israelis are not going to shake his hand to defend their interests, and they will always understand that this guarantee defense, and indeed must be claimed responsibility for every crime and every abuse they commit. But comparing the Holocaust with Israel's fight against Hamas is, frankly, not telling the truth or ignore it. The State of Israel will or will not be right in their positions, but in no way comparable to the feudal hordes of Hamas and, of course, Hitler's Germany. Comparing them is lying and deprived of any right to those who do. I repeat: I never understood that the English left (as secular, as an advocate for minority rights) is very sensitive to violence collateral (if I may discredited term) engaged the Israelis in Palestine and, instead, is shown as tolerant and respectful of cultures in a non-collateral, but legal and exemplary, sealing the anus of homosexuals, stoning women for disobeying the brother who sells them and consider them unclean by menstruation, a left as critical of the walls of Gaza, and yet so inclined to Alliance of Civilizations with infamous medieval tyrants whose country is not that Christians or Jews can not go to college or to Parliament, no, is that there are because their services are prohibited, I have been killed or have fled. What strange fetish satisfied Islam to the English left, who daily forgives him a hundred times more violence than all that Israel can not forgive? Is the mark of anti-Western than it prestige in their eyes? Is that a speech so silly, so very lacking in nuance and, therefore, as harmful as aliquot and should receive some attention from us? I think not, so I will try to remain anti-Zionist, not Jewish, but not anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic, that then becomes what happens and will continue to happen, at least, several decades.
Finally, L ***, it says: a pleasure to hear from you although we disagree. A hug to you and everyone. Digital Journalist. The Balearic Lighthouse . 
Thank you for your message. I do not share their goals, but I'm glad, however, that has served as a reason to return briefly in better touch with many friends Zamora.
When I say I do not share their goals'm not talking about the Palestinian conflict. I, as I suppose you, as I think everyone should be respectful of fundamental rights and freedoms, I am a convinced Zionist-naive of me-only approve the establishment of an indivisible, secular law in Palestine, where Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together regardless of their religions. And of course you do not need any powerpoint to convince the overwhelming sadness that's behind the terrible images that reach us. Palestinian conflict would be much to discuss, for example, why Israelis maintain a fence like the one held in Gaza and not in the West Bank.
Anyway, those pictures you sent me what they mean and mean no more than what they mean. I think we do a disservice to those who want and need a reasonable debate and a reasonable context for this debate broadcasting a powerpoint matching sepia photos of the thirties and forties Germans with color photos of the XXI century Gaza. Photos all denote a violent inhuman and reprehensible as it is exerted on defenseless civilians. But there is one key element that makes the comparison explicit liar of the Jewish genocide do with the Israeli occupation of Gaza and West Bank, while the extermination of German Jews was an end in itself, carried out within a system totalitarian actions through carefully planned and inspired by a racist ideology, the state repression of Israel imposed on Gaza is not intended to exterminate the Palestinians, but the defeat of terrorist militias like Hamas, or based on the exaltation of racial hatred, but in a strictly defensive strategy (is not it time to assess what means the State of Israel for self-defense, or what it means every sector of Israeli society), nor the state to repress the Palestinians is a dictatorship, but the only democracy in the Middle East, a democracy where, incidentally, every day there are demonstrations against the blockade of Gaza and against the government of Netanyahu and nothing happens, a democracy where Muslims can go to college, to benefit public health, to be members of Parliament ... The pairing of black and white photographs and color is extremely efficient from the standpoint of propaganda, but it is absolutely false and in no way help resolve the conflict. Rather I am convinced that the less informed poison, which will conclude that today the Israelis actually behave like the Germans in 1939. If that was the goal of the dissemination of these photographs paired (drag to the spirits less critical by the most thoughtless), the authors of the assembly receive my congratulations saddened.
Another element that bothers me the anti-Israeli campaign. According to the documents I've read or referred to, the sequence is as follows: some Islamists are trying to break the naval blockade of Gaza, since they have declared humanitarian intentions, they are offered a way (the port of Ashdod and a land crossing) to deliver food and other humanitarian aid so that both parties can certify, but they refuse, because in private, as well as singing in chorus the extermination of the Jews, have expressed their desire to break the lock or die as martyrs and go to paradise rights houris; unarmed Israeli soldiers boarded the ships (in international law, it is arguable that Israel has no right to do so and several internationalists have already positioned themselves for the approach) and the radicals beat up and stabbed until the soldiers pulls out and defend themselves, killing several of them continued to act triggered an international campaign against Israel in the context of which the English left is particularly combative.
And I wonder: where was the English left a few weeks ago, when Maoist terrorists killed 150 people on a train in India? Why no demonstrations? I wonder again: what was said when the English left behind some of the numerous executions of adulterers, homosexuals, Christians or democrats in Iran and other Islamic countries? Also: why the left English-the same that supported Judge Garzon's crusade against a dead dictator for thirty-five years has not ever said against the proven, effective daily and repression of the Castro regime against the most basic rights and freedoms of Cubans?
The questions are rhetorical, because I have the answer. The reason is that the English left, just like the English right and honorable exceptions-that is, it is extremely sectarian and prefers to cling to their prejudices and mythologies rather than face a reality that would divide up their deepest convictions. And so we look hair. Sectarian manipulations as I attached powerpoint serve no positive. The nuances, in which the Arab-Israeli conflict abounds, are necessary for understanding, and match one of the warring parties with the Nazi regime is less nuanced than I think.
proof that Israelis are not monsters hungry for death that yesterday Rachel Corrie was taken without shedding any blood, because, unlike the Mavi Marmara , did not travel aboard a rather radical organized to provoke confrontation. No doubt the Israelis are not going to shake his hand to defend their interests, and they will always understand that this guarantee defense, and indeed must be claimed responsibility for every crime and every abuse they commit. But comparing the Holocaust with Israel's fight against Hamas is, frankly, not telling the truth or ignore it. The State of Israel will or will not be right in their positions, but in no way comparable to the feudal hordes of Hamas and, of course, Hitler's Germany. Comparing them is lying and deprived of any right to those who do. I repeat: I never understood that the English left (as secular, as an advocate for minority rights) is very sensitive to violence collateral (if I may discredited term) engaged the Israelis in Palestine and, instead, is shown as tolerant and respectful of cultures in a non-collateral, but legal and exemplary, sealing the anus of homosexuals, stoning women for disobeying the brother who sells them and consider them unclean by menstruation, a left as critical of the walls of Gaza, and yet so inclined to Alliance of Civilizations with infamous medieval tyrants whose country is not that Christians or Jews can not go to college or to Parliament, no, is that there are because their services are prohibited, I have been killed or have fled. What strange fetish satisfied Islam to the English left, who daily forgives him a hundred times more violence than all that Israel can not forgive? Is the mark of anti-Western than it prestige in their eyes? Is that a speech so silly, so very lacking in nuance and, therefore, as harmful as aliquot and should receive some attention from us? I think not, so I will try to remain anti-Zionist, not Jewish, but not anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic, that then becomes what happens and will continue to happen, at least, several decades.
Finally, L ***, it says: a pleasure to hear from you although we disagree. A hug to you and everyone. Digital Journalist. The Balearic Lighthouse .
Monday, May 17, 2010
Wording For Phantom Of The Opera Invitations
I can not sign for
Receipt of these invitations Avaaz.org. This campaign has 150,000 signatures "demanding to ensure the independence of the judiciary and respect for the laws applicable in the case against Judge Garzon, signatures will be delivered in the day in the Supreme Court and the Supreme Judicial Council . I have replied to the sender the following paragraphs, which summarize my position on this sad case.
------ Dear Luis (and co-Avaaz):
presented the case as if Garzon was the victim of an arbitrary perpetrated for ideological reasons. Nothing is further from the truth.
is not true that, as they say, international law aside the Human Rights Act 1977 amnesty. At that time Spain had not ratified any treaty or convention that obliges the state to prosecute those crimes, so that the amnesty law was perfectly valid at the time and extinguished the corresponding criminal liability. The Constitution, moreover, provides arguments against the repeal of the Amnesty Law, Article 9.3 provides the non-retroactivity of punitive provisions are not favorable or restrictive of individual rights. The Constitutional Court has never doubted the constitutionality of the amnesty law, which still is valid for all purposes under views and opinions. English all the signs were the generous amnesty law as an end to war and dictatorship. A law which, incidentally, was in his day with the congratulations of people suspected of sympathy as little as Santiago Carrillo Franco and allowed direct his life in a democracy to former criminals on both sides. Nobody is going to justify the crimes of war and the Franco regime, but in the transition we found an instrument of mutual forgiveness Spain has brought very positive results.
anyway If not, Garzón not be the only judge to be perceived. Missing Garzon, the judicial system will provide an alternate process may continue open. Forgive me, but suggest that it Garzon suspended to prevent the investigation of the plot Gürtel insults the intelligence of the citizens.
The truth is that Judge Garzon has to ride roughshod law. There is no crime worse than that committed by those who, having committed to enforcing the law, knowingly violate them. It is called transgression, and if there does not matter who has said a group of right-wing, ultra-left group or association stamp. Transgression will be or not according to objective criteria, not ideological. Personally I think Garzón has done great services to Spain, but also that it has been thought over of law and decorum. Order the death certificate of Francisco Franco was just the funniest episode of madness.
Moreover, there is nothing more undemocratic than questioning the legitimacy of the institutions if their actions do not match our vision of things, and pretend that a popular change the course of a judicial process is simply a coup. The rule of law requires, precisely, that the law is enforced even when we do not like the consequences. So sometimes an ETA is free that no one understands that it is free, but if we are a democracy, laws must be fulfilled in all cases. With an ETA or a judge Franco. In fact, items footnotes of your message may add hundreds of articles by experts who claim processing impeccable judge. In any case, democracy does not consist in the fact that everyone thinks of what you do not understand, but that all institutions abide by what we found that among all handed down on what is in its strict knowledge and competence. The asamblearismo is never democratic. One million persons charged sentimental reasons but ignorant of the law demonstrated outside the door of the Supreme Court would not change one iota the legitimacy of this or the truth of his statements.
will understand that it can not sign or spread your proposal. It seems a step in the drift guerracivilista our politicians, especially those on the left, have undertaken since our foolish president of government was determined to return to 1936. There are crises and corruption that impairs our democracy, because both can fight from strong institutions, is the weakness of institutions and our immaturity as a nation which puts us on the brink of banana republic, and the crisis and corruption are largely consequences. A great demonstration of that immaturity is precisely the systematic questioning of the highest courts in recent years by individuals and institutions with varied ideological reasons (Where statute, case Garzón).
I can not sign and, moreover, I urge you to reconsider and withdraw the initiative, if you care more about peace and justice than revenge.
Best Regards. Digital Journalist . 
Receipt of these invitations Avaaz.org. This campaign has 150,000 signatures "demanding to ensure the independence of the judiciary and respect for the laws applicable in the case against Judge Garzon, signatures will be delivered in the day in the Supreme Court and the Supreme Judicial Council . I have replied to the sender the following paragraphs, which summarize my position on this sad case.
------ Dear Luis (and co-Avaaz):
presented the case as if Garzon was the victim of an arbitrary perpetrated for ideological reasons. Nothing is further from the truth.
is not true that, as they say, international law aside the Human Rights Act 1977 amnesty. At that time Spain had not ratified any treaty or convention that obliges the state to prosecute those crimes, so that the amnesty law was perfectly valid at the time and extinguished the corresponding criminal liability. The Constitution, moreover, provides arguments against the repeal of the Amnesty Law, Article 9.3 provides the non-retroactivity of punitive provisions are not favorable or restrictive of individual rights. The Constitutional Court has never doubted the constitutionality of the amnesty law, which still is valid for all purposes under views and opinions. English all the signs were the generous amnesty law as an end to war and dictatorship. A law which, incidentally, was in his day with the congratulations of people suspected of sympathy as little as Santiago Carrillo Franco and allowed direct his life in a democracy to former criminals on both sides. Nobody is going to justify the crimes of war and the Franco regime, but in the transition we found an instrument of mutual forgiveness Spain has brought very positive results.
anyway If not, Garzón not be the only judge to be perceived. Missing Garzon, the judicial system will provide an alternate process may continue open. Forgive me, but suggest that it Garzon suspended to prevent the investigation of the plot Gürtel insults the intelligence of the citizens.
The truth is that Judge Garzon has to ride roughshod law. There is no crime worse than that committed by those who, having committed to enforcing the law, knowingly violate them. It is called transgression, and if there does not matter who has said a group of right-wing, ultra-left group or association stamp. Transgression will be or not according to objective criteria, not ideological. Personally I think Garzón has done great services to Spain, but also that it has been thought over of law and decorum. Order the death certificate of Francisco Franco was just the funniest episode of madness.
Moreover, there is nothing more undemocratic than questioning the legitimacy of the institutions if their actions do not match our vision of things, and pretend that a popular change the course of a judicial process is simply a coup. The rule of law requires, precisely, that the law is enforced even when we do not like the consequences. So sometimes an ETA is free that no one understands that it is free, but if we are a democracy, laws must be fulfilled in all cases. With an ETA or a judge Franco. In fact, items footnotes of your message may add hundreds of articles by experts who claim processing impeccable judge. In any case, democracy does not consist in the fact that everyone thinks of what you do not understand, but that all institutions abide by what we found that among all handed down on what is in its strict knowledge and competence. The asamblearismo is never democratic. One million persons charged sentimental reasons but ignorant of the law demonstrated outside the door of the Supreme Court would not change one iota the legitimacy of this or the truth of his statements.
will understand that it can not sign or spread your proposal. It seems a step in the drift guerracivilista our politicians, especially those on the left, have undertaken since our foolish president of government was determined to return to 1936. There are crises and corruption that impairs our democracy, because both can fight from strong institutions, is the weakness of institutions and our immaturity as a nation which puts us on the brink of banana republic, and the crisis and corruption are largely consequences. A great demonstration of that immaturity is precisely the systematic questioning of the highest courts in recent years by individuals and institutions with varied ideological reasons (Where statute, case Garzón).
I can not sign and, moreover, I urge you to reconsider and withdraw the initiative, if you care more about peace and justice than revenge.
Best Regards. Digital Journalist .
Friday, March 5, 2010
Red And White Diet Pills From Brazil
Garzón against the fascists, more freedom
Facebook I announced in my next visit to Palma Rosa Díez: Thursday 11 give a lecture at the Club Opinion Diario de Mallorca and Friday 12 make a statement about political corruption doors Parlament de les Illes Balears. A friend in the network, one of those who call themselves progressive and do not understand the essential freedoms that applied to the good, but not to bad, he writes in the comments a question: "Will you give a lecture at the Casa Gallega?" referring to some absurd and interested controversy around some words of Rosa that any child at the breast without ill faith and without manipulation would have understood in the right direction.
But no. I have answered that the conference would give Rosa today in the Faculty of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and some "students" nationalists have popped it, she and the students who wanted to hear, with an incredible violence. How would that have had to give the video on the news of Antena 3, Cuatro, Telecinco and La Sexta, normally do not talk about Rosa Díez even if they are paid. I wonder will he condemn the Galician Parliament this fact or is reserved for colloquial expressions out of context? "Condemn the violence if instead of pointing fingers Rosa as a gun she had been called" Basque in the pejorative sense? Do we condemn the perpetrators of Roberto Blanco Valdés, who plant bombs at the door of his house in Santiago to defend freedom? Games progressives can see the video and follow horny, because it is very funny to see how buffeted by Rosa and his companions and threw red paint, how to fly paper in its path, how threaten it, as clubbing and dented his car to break the headlights. Hilarious. May continue to comment on stories taken out of context, by pandering to the only political leader to put in place to demagogues. That should be a lot smarter and more courageous to stand up for freedom of expression. For what concerns me in this particular debate, I'm with Rosa Diez and Roberto Blanco Valdés, whose serenity lesson I would be worthy, I'm with freedom, with the future of my children, with those who fight for can not be citizens first and second, citizens can voice their ideas peacefully, and citizens who have to leave escorted to a room called academic shameful that some people consider their ideas violence prosecuted with impunity while others look away. And I'm not the fascists, but even with those who look the other way, much less with those who laugh at the joke. There are jokes that are not funny. Digital Journalist. Libertad Balear . 
Facebook I announced in my next visit to Palma Rosa Díez: Thursday 11 give a lecture at the Club Opinion Diario de Mallorca and Friday 12 make a statement about political corruption doors Parlament de les Illes Balears. A friend in the network, one of those who call themselves progressive and do not understand the essential freedoms that applied to the good, but not to bad, he writes in the comments a question: "Will you give a lecture at the Casa Gallega?" referring to some absurd and interested controversy around some words of Rosa that any child at the breast without ill faith and without manipulation would have understood in the right direction.
But no. I have answered that the conference would give Rosa today in the Faculty of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and some "students" nationalists have popped it, she and the students who wanted to hear, with an incredible violence. How would that have had to give the video on the news of Antena 3, Cuatro, Telecinco and La Sexta, normally do not talk about Rosa Díez even if they are paid. I wonder will he condemn the Galician Parliament this fact or is reserved for colloquial expressions out of context? "Condemn the violence if instead of pointing fingers Rosa as a gun she had been called" Basque in the pejorative sense? Do we condemn the perpetrators of Roberto Blanco Valdés, who plant bombs at the door of his house in Santiago to defend freedom? Games progressives can see the video and follow horny, because it is very funny to see how buffeted by Rosa and his companions and threw red paint, how to fly paper in its path, how threaten it, as clubbing and dented his car to break the headlights. Hilarious. May continue to comment on stories taken out of context, by pandering to the only political leader to put in place to demagogues. That should be a lot smarter and more courageous to stand up for freedom of expression. For what concerns me in this particular debate, I'm with Rosa Diez and Roberto Blanco Valdés, whose serenity lesson I would be worthy, I'm with freedom, with the future of my children, with those who fight for can not be citizens first and second, citizens can voice their ideas peacefully, and citizens who have to leave escorted to a room called academic shameful that some people consider their ideas violence prosecuted with impunity while others look away. And I'm not the fascists, but even with those who look the other way, much less with those who laugh at the joke. There are jokes that are not funny. Digital Journalist. Libertad Balear .
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
You Are My Brother Thank You
linguistic imposition, now in theaters
I just read an online debate about the extent by which the Catalan government intends to impose at least fifty percent of the programming of the theaters is offered in the vernacular of this autonomous region, which has caused a major upset in the group of businessmen concerned. As always, some speak of freedom of choice and trade, and more to protect a language in itself, they say, ignored forty years of Franco regime could not survive. Someone, referring to the graffiti appeared on the walls of cinemas most reluctant to lose money ( "marginalizes the cinema Aquest català!" ) compared with Nazi signs from the thirties to the door of establishments run by Jews ( "Resist the Germans! Jews Do not buy in stores!" ). And some commentators criticized the exaggerated comparison. It is true that is forceful but also timely: the matches we would be much more obvious if not for the fact that we only know, horror, historical implications of the two situations compared.
is not the same say "So and so is Nazi that" the Nazis began doing things like making Fulano ". Nor is equal say "this is a Nazi nationalist" (which may be descriptive) that "all nationalists are nazis" (which is unfair.) However, the important thing here is that the graffiti on the door of film adds nothing to the democratic debate or any debate, it can only be to intimidate, coerce, pointing to that should be excluded from the community, that deserves public censure or perhaps punishment. In this rule of law for judges, but the author of the graffiti the rule of law does not care, because he only aspire to achieve is a country forged around a distinctive and exclusive: the language he and his men have decided that the territory itself in living with others who do not speak or think like him. The painted facade is indeed a fascist. And the Catalan authorities do not prevent or condemn, but instead encourage this type of behavior, are fellow travelers of fascism and political leaders of any aggression resulting from this state of affairs. Not all nationalists are fascists, but to me it seems to me that all nationalism involves a germ without the fundamentalist and totalitarian that its meaning can not acquire or hold, and that too often results in taxation or violence in any of its forms and intensities. The imposition on the cinemas of the obligation to provide the customer contained in a particular language-like pre-labeled in the same belongs to a totalitarian conception of how things should be: "Reality is wrong, so cambiémosla" .
Imagine a country where social diversity lies not in the language, but in religion, as indeed happens in many places such as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Germany. A true democrat in that country establish a secular state and religious freedom that allows each citizen (or each dealer, or each consumer) choose to manifest religion or engage in private life. In contrast, a religious nationalist legislate that every library should contain at least fifty percent of Lutheran books, or private television salute to spectators at least half of the morning with a Muslim prayer, or that more companies ten employees at least half of these were Catholics. Ie associate the concept confusing, if not false, which is often called collective or national identity with one of the social traits or cultural mind-religion or, rather, one of the religions, and consider the preservation, promotion and after the imposition of the single most important trait that individual freedom to buy, study or work without the same freedom conditions and effectiveness (communicative, educational, commercial, etc.).. legislate religious nationalist ad hoc, it devoted considerable resources to public and civil servants would also create an affine and a network of patronage as widely as possible, directly dependent on the prosperity of business relating to religion, all accompanied by a " religious policy "that would end up imposing on governments, schools, media and all services under the pretext of protecting the collective identity, encroaching on the public sphere and the private ... Religion is or may be an important element of free individual personality, a cultural trait passed down from parents to children belonging to both the private sphere and for which, as it seems to many Westerners since 1789, the powers of the State should be limited to guarantee freedom of exercise. The difference between understanding or not understanding this premise is that unfortunately there has been between Germany and Bosnia. O between Germany 2010 and 1935. Or, in the germinal stage, between respecting freedom of others and paint the front of the cinema with veiled coercion.
Well, the state intervention that seems unimaginable and never tolerate in favor of a religion we have meekly accepted in recent decades in much of Spain when it came to that invention sociolinguistic of "native languages" , To the astonishment of other European countries, scorn us, deterioration of our freedom and breach of the economy, to the point now threaten our existence and promote public protests with increasing frequency ... I suspect, however, that the latter is a sign of change. In our country there today a new policy option radically committed to freedom and, therefore, very critical of nationalism, whether linguistic or otherwise, and there are also citizens who want to vent that suffer extremely poor democracy: a system stuck in clientelism, mediocrity and prejudice. Unfair and boring shake the tyranny of language is only one of the tasks ahead, but certainly not least, on the road to democratic regeneration. Digital Journalist . 
I just read an online debate about the extent by which the Catalan government intends to impose at least fifty percent of the programming of the theaters is offered in the vernacular of this autonomous region, which has caused a major upset in the group of businessmen concerned. As always, some speak of freedom of choice and trade, and more to protect a language in itself, they say, ignored forty years of Franco regime could not survive. Someone, referring to the graffiti appeared on the walls of cinemas most reluctant to lose money ( "marginalizes the cinema Aquest català!" ) compared with Nazi signs from the thirties to the door of establishments run by Jews ( "Resist the Germans! Jews Do not buy in stores!" ). And some commentators criticized the exaggerated comparison. It is true that is forceful but also timely: the matches we would be much more obvious if not for the fact that we only know, horror, historical implications of the two situations compared.
is not the same say "So and so is Nazi that" the Nazis began doing things like making Fulano ". Nor is equal say "this is a Nazi nationalist" (which may be descriptive) that "all nationalists are nazis" (which is unfair.) However, the important thing here is that the graffiti on the door of film adds nothing to the democratic debate or any debate, it can only be to intimidate, coerce, pointing to that should be excluded from the community, that deserves public censure or perhaps punishment. In this rule of law for judges, but the author of the graffiti the rule of law does not care, because he only aspire to achieve is a country forged around a distinctive and exclusive: the language he and his men have decided that the territory itself in living with others who do not speak or think like him. The painted facade is indeed a fascist. And the Catalan authorities do not prevent or condemn, but instead encourage this type of behavior, are fellow travelers of fascism and political leaders of any aggression resulting from this state of affairs. Not all nationalists are fascists, but to me it seems to me that all nationalism involves a germ without the fundamentalist and totalitarian that its meaning can not acquire or hold, and that too often results in taxation or violence in any of its forms and intensities. The imposition on the cinemas of the obligation to provide the customer contained in a particular language-like pre-labeled in the same belongs to a totalitarian conception of how things should be: "Reality is wrong, so cambiémosla" .
Imagine a country where social diversity lies not in the language, but in religion, as indeed happens in many places such as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Germany. A true democrat in that country establish a secular state and religious freedom that allows each citizen (or each dealer, or each consumer) choose to manifest religion or engage in private life. In contrast, a religious nationalist legislate that every library should contain at least fifty percent of Lutheran books, or private television salute to spectators at least half of the morning with a Muslim prayer, or that more companies ten employees at least half of these were Catholics. Ie associate the concept confusing, if not false, which is often called collective or national identity with one of the social traits or cultural mind-religion or, rather, one of the religions, and consider the preservation, promotion and after the imposition of the single most important trait that individual freedom to buy, study or work without the same freedom conditions and effectiveness (communicative, educational, commercial, etc.).. legislate religious nationalist ad hoc, it devoted considerable resources to public and civil servants would also create an affine and a network of patronage as widely as possible, directly dependent on the prosperity of business relating to religion, all accompanied by a " religious policy "that would end up imposing on governments, schools, media and all services under the pretext of protecting the collective identity, encroaching on the public sphere and the private ... Religion is or may be an important element of free individual personality, a cultural trait passed down from parents to children belonging to both the private sphere and for which, as it seems to many Westerners since 1789, the powers of the State should be limited to guarantee freedom of exercise. The difference between understanding or not understanding this premise is that unfortunately there has been between Germany and Bosnia. O between Germany 2010 and 1935. Or, in the germinal stage, between respecting freedom of others and paint the front of the cinema with veiled coercion.
Well, the state intervention that seems unimaginable and never tolerate in favor of a religion we have meekly accepted in recent decades in much of Spain when it came to that invention sociolinguistic of "native languages" , To the astonishment of other European countries, scorn us, deterioration of our freedom and breach of the economy, to the point now threaten our existence and promote public protests with increasing frequency ... I suspect, however, that the latter is a sign of change. In our country there today a new policy option radically committed to freedom and, therefore, very critical of nationalism, whether linguistic or otherwise, and there are also citizens who want to vent that suffer extremely poor democracy: a system stuck in clientelism, mediocrity and prejudice. Unfair and boring shake the tyranny of language is only one of the tasks ahead, but certainly not least, on the road to democratic regeneration. Digital Journalist .
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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semilingualism and second-class citizens
The known cases of children Ibiza and Valencia, students, public school system English who are prevented examined in their native language (English, official nationwide), are evidence of an unusual phenomenon in Europe, which only occurs in the Faeroe Islands and in bilingual regions of Spain. It is only the visible tip of an iceberg that has long opened a leak in the ship of equality.
Since the late seventies (and it has rained), Canadian J. Cummins, an international authority on learning of languages, has emphasized what he calls interdependence theory. According to Cummins, proficiency in a second language is largely proportional to the competence acquired in the mother tongue which is essential and indispensable factor for the acquisition of language skills in general and, therefore, to achieve intellectual achievements, whether academic or professional performance. Cummins defines its threshold theory different types of bilingualism: semilingualism with a poor level in both languages, bilingualism is dominated by one of the two languages \u200b\u200band additive bilingualism, with high levels of both. Faced with the subsequent acquisition of native language literacy and second language (and third), according to this body of theory lead to a desirable additive bilingualism, language immersion in the mother tongue semilingualism would direct cause, ie a poor acquisition of two languages \u200b\u200b(whether imposed by the educational system as the mother) and, therefore, a reduction of the powers of abstraction and problem solving with implications negative for school success and a mature personality.
Language immersion children do not speak Catalan in Galicia, Basque Country, Navarra, Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands has therefore implications beyond the question of identity, a question which, of course, but anyone interested politicians have made her flag and livelihood. Added to other factors common to the rest of the English educational system, dipping deep into the poor quality of education because it puts political goals totes (the promotion of a language or allegedly own identity) to the objectives that should be the priority of the education system (to ensure dense and critical education: educating citizens). Also unfair because it violates individual liberty, the immersion is therefore profoundly inadequate with regard to the purposes of education. Due to the immersion, as evidenced by national and international reports, the significant decline in academic standards of universities such as galloping or reduction UIB competitiveness of regions like Catalonia or traditionally vibrant Basque Country, several generations of English have seen their professional qualifications (the real one, not reflected in the certificates issued by the system), their employability and their ability to criticize the political system and access to consumer goods. Are second-class citizens, just the thing for those politicians who have promoted this state of affairs and that, however, their offspring enrolled in private schools where they can choose the language of instruction. Second-class citizens on the other hand shaping a country less competitive and less worked, burned to the economic crisis that other countries manage to overcome more easily. Neither
immersion advocate radical PSOE and its partners nor the invention trilingual PP Feijoo and solve this problem. From UPyD appeal to common sense: do not want semilingual citizens or semi-free, nor semiinstruidos. We want first-class citizens and our effort will be aimed at ensuring freedom of choice of language used in teaching their children. It is our commitment from our foundation and take you to the institutions with the confidence of citizens. Digital Journalist . 
The known cases of children Ibiza and Valencia, students, public school system English who are prevented examined in their native language (English, official nationwide), are evidence of an unusual phenomenon in Europe, which only occurs in the Faeroe Islands and in bilingual regions of Spain. It is only the visible tip of an iceberg that has long opened a leak in the ship of equality.
Since the late seventies (and it has rained), Canadian J. Cummins, an international authority on learning of languages, has emphasized what he calls interdependence theory. According to Cummins, proficiency in a second language is largely proportional to the competence acquired in the mother tongue which is essential and indispensable factor for the acquisition of language skills in general and, therefore, to achieve intellectual achievements, whether academic or professional performance. Cummins defines its threshold theory different types of bilingualism: semilingualism with a poor level in both languages, bilingualism is dominated by one of the two languages \u200b\u200band additive bilingualism, with high levels of both. Faced with the subsequent acquisition of native language literacy and second language (and third), according to this body of theory lead to a desirable additive bilingualism, language immersion in the mother tongue semilingualism would direct cause, ie a poor acquisition of two languages \u200b\u200b(whether imposed by the educational system as the mother) and, therefore, a reduction of the powers of abstraction and problem solving with implications negative for school success and a mature personality.
Language immersion children do not speak Catalan in Galicia, Basque Country, Navarra, Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands has therefore implications beyond the question of identity, a question which, of course, but anyone interested politicians have made her flag and livelihood. Added to other factors common to the rest of the English educational system, dipping deep into the poor quality of education because it puts political goals totes (the promotion of a language or allegedly own identity) to the objectives that should be the priority of the education system (to ensure dense and critical education: educating citizens). Also unfair because it violates individual liberty, the immersion is therefore profoundly inadequate with regard to the purposes of education. Due to the immersion, as evidenced by national and international reports, the significant decline in academic standards of universities such as galloping or reduction UIB competitiveness of regions like Catalonia or traditionally vibrant Basque Country, several generations of English have seen their professional qualifications (the real one, not reflected in the certificates issued by the system), their employability and their ability to criticize the political system and access to consumer goods. Are second-class citizens, just the thing for those politicians who have promoted this state of affairs and that, however, their offspring enrolled in private schools where they can choose the language of instruction. Second-class citizens on the other hand shaping a country less competitive and less worked, burned to the economic crisis that other countries manage to overcome more easily. Neither
immersion advocate radical PSOE and its partners nor the invention trilingual PP Feijoo and solve this problem. From UPyD appeal to common sense: do not want semilingual citizens or semi-free, nor semiinstruidos. We want first-class citizens and our effort will be aimed at ensuring freedom of choice of language used in teaching their children. It is our commitment from our foundation and take you to the institutions with the confidence of citizens. Digital Journalist .
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