Iván García, Translator: Raul G.
Democracy is stammering. Let's take a look.
I think it's a good thing that bloodstained dictators, who savagely
violate the essential freedoms of their citizens, be forced to face the
bench of an international court that actually works. Not the current one
which is stuck on intentions only.
Justice should be fair for everyone. Anything contrary is simply not
justice. First World leaders who break the law should also be sentenced.
Or, they should at least pay attention and respond to the accusations
submitted by groups and social movements.
Silvio Berlusconi, ludicrous Italian president, should be forced to
comply with the laws regarding the corruption of minors. And if it is
proven that he committed the crime, he should go to jail. Like anyone else.
No one should be above the law. If young gang members are sentenced to
several years behind the bars for robbing a gas station, the same should
apply to bankers, managers, financiers, or even presidents of countries
if they engage in corruption.
But the law is too far out of balance. Why are figures from the
financial world, which are the main culprits of the current
international economic crisis, not in jail?
In the United States, the country at the epicenter of the financial
disaster, only Bernard L. Madoff, the investor who provoked the worst
embezzlement in history when he magically made millions and millions of
dollars disappear, has gone to jail.
I doubt that Madoff is the only one guilty of a global crisis which has
affected each and every inhabitant of this planet. I read with much
horror that, instead of punishing the responsible bankers, they are
instead rewarded.
The financiers sent home for doing a bad job left with shocking bonuses,
as if to keep them from worrying. And those who replaced them are making
more money than their predecessors.
Talk about some binge. They spend the money of savers and pensioners in
speculative moves which result in pure illusions, and later, when the
panic spreads and they are left with no cash, they run to beg the State
for money.
Those who caused the current international economic disaster should pay
for their errors. The bill should not fall on the citizens of Portugal,
Ireland, Greece, and Spain, among other nations, which have only worked
a lot and very hard throughout their entire lives.
Wherever it is they live, autocrats should not feel very safe either.
Before pulling the trigger or sending people to humid and gloomy prisons
just for thinking differently, they should know that there is a
world-wide organism which is making sure that governments comply with
the norms and rights inherent in man.
Real democracy should involve everyone. Large nations and small nations.
Rich and poor. But to this day, some powerful people are evading the
laws. It's not just.
Translated by Raul G.
April 13 2011
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