Saturday, September 15, 2018

Before peace, justice

When justice is on their heels, they seek refuge for a peace agreement.
It is the recurring story of those who abuse power against a citizen whose capital sin has been to leave the public space allowing politicians, businessmen, judges and corrupt military to seize control in all instances, in an almost absolute way. Corruption is lethal and in countries like ours it has been doubly devastating when from abroad and simulating "economic and / or military assistance" other governments decide on the future of the nation and the destiny of its inhabitants.
In this game of powers - and considering the skill of the strategies used to make the majority believe that their greatest enemy is a non-existent communism - the societies reach a point of saturation and that leads them to prefer any pact of peace badly devised before to continue an exhausting and sterile struggle to consolidate the rule of justice. That is when they end up declaring victors those who deceive them and who pledge the future of the generations to come by means of clandestine pacts with the enemies of the law.
Those peace agreements proposed by those who abuse power, those false mirrors in which the unwary look, represent a long-standing history in countries whose citizenships are already weakened by educational policies aimed at preventing them from training and learning about analysis and reflection deep, informed and free. Education is not for everyone and neither is it totally free. Educational systems in countries subject to the influence of the most predatory economic system in the history of mankind are designed to reaffirm the power over those who actually produce wealth, convincing them that this wealth belongs to others.
Hence also the invasion of religious doctrines sent from the heart of capitalism, whose work on private education towns facilitates persuasion, civil indoctrination and imposes its parameters of behavior based on submission, misogyny and resignation as spiritual values. It is the supreme lie dressed as a love of God whose influence in our impoverished and abused peoples represents an important obstacle to the development hopes of our countries.
The word peace is beautiful, as long as it is true and reflects the legitimate intentions of reaching a state of brotherhood, in an environment of respect for human rights, with freedom to live a functional democracy and with the ability to influence the common destiny. But it is also deceptive when it seeks to cast a veil of silence on the rot, the falseness of the prevailing system or the crimes committed by those who, in control of power, perpetrate on the citizens in a flagrant manner and with a guarantee of impunity. It is necessary to stay alert to detect when peace is involved in deceptive intentions; Once the defenses have been lowered, those who propose the pacts from their position of privilege will easily strike another blow against popular confidence.
The history of our peoples has demonstrated its tremendous vulnerability before the force and power imposed from other centers of economic and political power. They have prevented us from progressing and have bowed to international capital. In passing, they have cut off all attempts at political independence. That is why it is important to demand justice; recover the memory and never allow the establishment of agreements or pacts whose intention is to silence those demands. Peace without justice is not - and never will be - true peace.

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