Can Lives: The reason for the police force in Barcelona ---- When the force of reason is
subjected by reason of force, everyone can not discuss the law and the law. In this
situation, the law is arbitrary and its application is not from a rule of law, but a state
of abuse where violence monopolized by the government is privileged interests. In this
case, resistance to abuse is legitimate; even better, the right to resist and defend
themselves is the only true law. Therefore, from the point of view of freedom, dignity and
reason, the true sources of law, the protest against the demolition of the busy and self
Can Lives in the Sants area, is you can longer justified. Its demolition was not used as a
pretext for violence intolerable itinerant minorities "benefit of malaise," as claimed by
the authorities (and the police union UGT): it is simply a proof of institutional
barbarism, free and wild, as usual.
The city called Barcelona is no longer a colony organized by a broad community of people
as when it was founded; it is no longer an industrial city filled with factory workers as
before; Barcelona's metropolitan area is an open and peaceful space in which consumers
every human movement must be regulated and controlled to ensure its transparency and
function. These are not people who order in Barcelona but a political and financial
vertical and authoritarian, and usurping parasitic caste, who made urban management his
privileged lifestyle. What matters for leaders is the "Barcelona brand", that is to say,
the city gives itself a smooth and quiet picture, such as a mall or a park thematic
favorable to business, shopping, merchants recreation and tourism. It is evident that the
spectacle of a consumable Barcelona needs a space without contradictions or ambiguities,
completely submissive and scope of the buyer.
The new urban model can not allow the existence of truly public spaces, without mediation
or barriers, and even fewer sites managed horizontally on the contrary, everything must
work in a hierarchical framework and "monitoris?" where technology, decrees, street
furniture and urban serve spoilers leaders. The exercise of authority under these
conditions is fundamentally policeman; In this phase, the policy coincides with the
repression management, monitoring and order are one and the same, so that the government
is mainly from the Ministry of Public Order. The policy is then not a matter of
politicians but relentless security forces. All political and social problems that
aberrant model city constantly causes will never be recognized as such since the
population has no right to complain of the best of all worlds. The only response from the
dominant power confiscated the popular decision is violence.
It is clear that in the case of Can Vies, municipal authorities have never had the
intention to propose alternatives that are outside the formal bureaucratic system, and
that any meeting was sentenced to manipulation and deceit as by proposing a space under
unacceptable guardianship they were only trying to delete the placeholder. The policeman
disproportionate device to expel shows. They had not expected with other collectives or
support center neighbors. They did not expect either to the solidarity of other areas as
was the case in the morning. That is why the forces of order were initially unfair
surprises. Where was the gun ultrasound and why they did not immediately use flash-balls?
This is what is called the representative of the police union SMT-CCOO, because I must say
that repression is a work of mercenaries employees regulated by convention and balls FOAM,
and what interests the unions do is thoroughly and without risks. The answer everyone
could see. Quasi-military occupation of the area, indiscriminate police violence, arrests
and injuries ...
All media effort Trias Mayor, Councillor public order Espadaler and Councilman
Sants-Montju?c district Jordi Mart?, was first to defend the violent police action,
"guardian of law OWNED "and" executor of an award of the Tribunal Supremo. " In fact, they
did not give too many explanations: "I do not know where we would go if the police had to
be justified" (Espadaler), "the police are right. When Mossos act, there is a reason
"(Triassic). Second, the effort was to present the protests as emanating from violent
groups infiltrated, the idea being to divide between peaceful protest and radical
"anti-system" in order to "find formulas consensus" with each and clubbing and imprisoning
others. It is an old political tactic used when the force did not give the expected
result. Demagoguery of leaders is disgusting, but it is what it is. We are not accusing
the authorities of lacking subtlety, the only thing they lack is scruples! Thus, we are
not faced with an unusual and isolated event in a perfect democratic framework where all
have their place and opportunities. In reality the iniquity of the authorities and the
brutality of the police will become more common if the population does not resign himself
to do what they order. Because the population is never right, it is not sovereign because
it has no power, or rather, it does not have a monopoly of force as the law of domination
gives the power. The total domination of capital requires a type of urban space managed as
a business and pacified like a prison. In this space, there is no room for meetings or for
forms of life on the margins of the market economy. Here, the frame can not be more
authoritarian and politics can not be distinguished from social control. In a world facing
totalitarianism, political management is repression.
Can Vies was a stone in the shoe of power in Barcelona. It seems that this is not without
difficulty that he could remove it. Resistance to demolition has been exemplary in more
ways than one, proving that there are people who do not fit the behavior of slave being
asked. This is a reason to rejoice. And as the stones should not miss (there today many
busy places), we expect in the near future to have much more!
The struggle continues. Can Visca Lives!
Review Argelaga
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
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