jeudi, juin 08, 2006

Collective violence is not for no good reason

OLIGANTHROPIA


Why so much violence? During the month of May, riots have taken place in several Brazilian prisons, were organised by a major criminal gang, whilst, at the same time, members of the same criminal gang, operating outside the prisons, engaged in systematic acts against civilians on the streets and in malls, perpetrating other crimes. This week, a peasant civil right movement tried to break into the House of Representatives in Brasilia and committed assault on the security agents of the Congress. These episodes of hysterical aggressiveness are never gratuitous: they are the reaction of a part of human population who has undergone greater violence.
So it does not matter whether it is Athens, Rome, Baghdad, Montreal, Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo: the war is on. Unlike in old Sparta and in present day Baghdad, the war is not by the wealthy aristocracy on the Eilotes or poor Arabians. But that was nothing new: during the month of may of this year of 2006, once again the Brazilian poor were channelling their anger in the wrong way against an establishment that feeds up on them, which has for years been shrinking the real purchase power of their wages by several means, increasing the taxes they pay, cutting their retirement pensions and taking their jobs out all at the same time.
Administration after administration, the self-proclaimed Nationalists, Conservatives, Liberals, Centrists, Moderate Leftists, Leftists and Marxists have been doing exactly the same: transferring income from the poor and the middle class to the already fat zillionaire financial portion of the elite. All of them have carrying out the same continued economic policies that cut investments in public sectors, concentrate income and consequently downgrades quality of life and worsen perspectives for the future. It is no exaggeration to say that the Military Regime was actually the Bankers’ rule, for no other sector of the economy has prospered more than them. After the re-democratisation of the country, civilian administrators have followed the same philosophy throughout more perverse and cynical methods, which made up the most fascist form of ideology called ‘neo-liberalism’ or simply the ‘financial market dictatorship’. Although all empirical evidences show that these policies produce nothing but disaster, and notwithstanding the arguments for these policies are mediocre, formally incorrect and inconsistent and immoral, the Nations’ leader cynically and arrogantly insist on them, mocking on others’ intelligence. Virtually all candidates, during their campaigns, admit that the economic policies are obviously criminal and dumb, but, shortly after they win elections, they change their speeches and start defending the visible massacre of their own constituents.
The scenes of extreme collective violence coordinated by the organised crime were clearly the logical result of dissatisfaction situation, where the angry masses were used and manipulated by unscrupulous gangsters, who are themselves both serial killers and mob bosses. That was the first incident of this type and magnitude in Sao Paulo though, it has already been the daily routine in Rio de Janeiro. The largest South American country has been in a state of civil war for decades: the only peculiar fact is that the rebels, who want vengeance against the moral, physical and economic violence they have undergone, have no true leadership to mobilise a concerted and effective action, and that is one of the main reasons the civil war has not ended yet.
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posted by Tony Marmo @ 4:07:00 AM