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 .

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 .

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 .