Post by account_disabled on Mar 5, 2024 1:07:03 GMT -5
Metal workers coordinator Pedro Luis Angosto demonstrate in Spain, except for those who were and are in favor of prohibiting that right for everyone else. Throughout my life, as I went through each demonstration or each strike, I asked myself, very naively, why the police didn't beat up the bankers who fired people, practiced usury and eviction, the businessmen who exploited the workers. , to the millionaires who took the money to tax havens, to the fascists who defend the suppression of freedoms or to the politicians who did useless works or simply robbed the Treasury. In my years in Madrid (1977-1985) I was very struck by the effort that the police put into beating those who demonstrated to defend Public Education or labor rights and the tranquility with which they attended the anti-system demonstrations on November 20 in the Plaza de Oriente and surrounding streets, streets where some friends were crippled due to the total indifference of the competent authority.
The Spanish police were mediated by Francoism , which turned it into a class and regime force, completely alien to the Law and the defense of the well-being of the citizens who were then subjects. Democracy used many Francoist police specialists in torture and did little to reform the organizational chart, preparation and selection processes of the State security forces. Many police officers joined them thinking about fighting crime according to democratic laws, and many of Australia Phone Number them know how difficult it is to work in an environment in which the ways and desires of the old regime continue to predominate: They have to work to solve crimes and also against the inertia and obstacles put in place by those who remain tied to the past and impose, or at least try to, their extremely conservative character on the entire Body. Of course there are magnificent police officers dedicated to their work and concerned about protecting everyone's rights, but the sensation conveyed by actions such as that of the riot police in Cádiz - where many come from -, in Gamonal, in Sagunto, in Avilés, in Valencia and in so many other places it is far from being that of a police force that ensures the protection of our constitutional rights.
Anyone who has attended demonstrations that are not far-right knows the fear that occurs every time the gentlemen in charge of ensuring order and freedoms appear. And it is not normal, no citizen should feel insecurity, fear or suspicion when seeing riot police appear at a demonstration, because demonstrating is not a crime, but an inalienable right in all democratic countries. They will tell me that there are troublemakers who act violently, it doesn't help. Let them act solely and exclusively against them. On the other hand, the dominant ideological bias in the security forces as demonstrated by the majority affiliation to ultra unions, would not have been possible without the collaboration of Ministers of the Interior who show a clear identification with Narváez, that conservative general who assured that "tranquility comes of locks, and locks of locks.” Trying to contain a vital problem with roots as deep as they are obvious with riot control is nothing more than a mistake, it is like stopping a hemorrhage by amputating the lim
