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Re: OT: Well, since today is "the" day...we gotta have some laughter....
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this it`s just a write from John Gerassi PhD of Quenn College, translated to spanish by Oskar Saraski, I know that this it`s a english language forum but this is interesting and it`s a view from all around the world, this does not reflect my point of view but........i`m not against it...
Reflexiones de un profesor estadounidense John Gerassi Queens, Nueva York (Estados Unidos), octubre del 2001
No puedo evitar llorar. Apenas veo a una persona en el televisor detallando la trßgica historia de haber perdido a uno de los suyos en el desastre de las Torres Gemelas, pierdo el control y me da por llorar.
Pero me pregunto por quÚ no llorÚ cuando nuestras tropas acabaron con 5,000 personas de bajos recursos en los barrios de El Chorrillo, en Panamß, bajo el pretexto de buscar a Noriega. Nuestros lÝderes sabÝan que Noriega estaba en otro lado, pero acabaron destruyendo El Chorrillo.
Porque quienes vivÝan allÝ eran nacionalistas que querÝan a los Estados Unidos fuera de su Panamß.
O peor a·n, por quÚ no llorÚ cuando asesinamos a dos millones de vietnamitas, en su gran mayorÝa campesinos, en una guerra planificada por el secretario de defensa, Robert MacNamara, quien sabÝa que no habÝa manera de ganarla.
El otro dÝa fui a donar sangre. HabÝa un camboyano haciendo lo mismo, tres en la fila, y eso me hizo recordar: ?por quÚ no llorÚ cuando el carnicero de Pol Pot acab¾ con otro mill¾n de seres humanos, a quien apoyamos dßndole armas y dinero porque era enemigo de nuestros "enemigos" (quien eventualmente detuvo los campos de la muerte)?
Para quedarme levantado y dejar de llorar, esa noche me fui a ver una pelÝcula. DecidÝ ver Lumumba, en el Film Forum, y de nuevo me di cuenta que no habÝa llorado cuando mi gobierno organiz¾ el asesinato del ·nico lÝder decente que el Congo haya tenido, y en su lugar pusieron al general Mobutu, avariento, vil y asesino. Ni llorÚ cuando mi gobierno sac¾ a Sukarno de Indonesia, defensor de la independencia de su paÝs y hÚroe de la II Guerra Mundial contra los japoneses.
Pusimos en su lugar a Suharto, quien bajo la tutela de los japoneses ha trabajado en eliminar a por lo menos medio mill¾n de "marxistas" (en un paÝs donde si la gente ha escuchado hablar de Marx, habrß sido cuando mucho de Groucho y en el televisor).
Anoche, mirando el televisor, lloraba mirando la imagen de ese padre que sufrÝa la pÚrdida de su ni±a de dos meses. Pero cuando recuerdo las muertes de miles de salvadore±os, tan grßficamente descrita por Ray Bonner, de la revista Time, o las violaciones de las monjas estadounidenses a manos de agentes entrenados y pagados por la CIA, ni una sola lßgrima derramÚ.
Incluso llorÚ cuando oÝ cußn valiente habÝa sido Barbara Olson, la esposa del Procurador General, cuyas posturas polÝticas detesto. Pero no llorÚ cuando Estados Unidos invadi¾ una maravillosa isla del caribe llamada Granada y mat¾ civiles inocentes que esperaban mejorar sus vidas construyendo un campo de aterrizaje para atraer mßs turistas, al que nuestro gobierno dijo tener pruebas de que era una base rusa, pero que una vez tomada la isla sigui¾ construyendo.
Por quÚ no llorÚ cuando Ariel Sharon, hoy primer ministro de Israel, organiz¾ y luego orden¾ la masacre de dos mil palestinos en los campos de refugiados de Sabra y Shatila.
Supongo que uno llora s¾lo por los propios. ?Pero es Ústa la raz¾n para demandar venganza contra quien estÚ en contra nuestra? Eso parece ser lo que los estadounidenses piden. Definitivamente eso es lo que nuestro gobierno quiere, y la mayor parte de nuestros medios de comunicaci¾n.
?En realidad creemos que tenemos el derecho de explotar a los pobres del mundo para nuestro beneficio, s¾lo porque gritamos a los cuatro vientos que somos libres y ellos no?
Iremos a la guerra. Definitivamente tenemos el derecho de perseguir a quienes mataron a nuestros hermanos inocentes. Y venceremos, definitivamente. Contra Bin Laden. Contra los talibanes. Contra Irak. Contra quien sea.
En este proceso aniquilaremos ni±os que no tienen a·n ropa para el invierno que se acerca, ni casa para protegerlos, ni escuelas donde aprender por quÚ son culpables, a la edad de cuatro o seis a±os.
Tal vez los evangelistas Falwell o Robertson dirßn que sus muertes eran necesarias porque no eran cristianos, y quizß alguien del Departamento de Estado nos confirme que eran tan pobres que muertos estßn mejor.
?Y luego?
?Podremos hacer lo que nos dÚ la gana? Con todas las nuevas legislaciones y vigilancia que nos espera, nadie se va a escapar, y nuestros presidentes corporativos se sentirßn complacidos porque todos esos que demostraban contra las corrientes globalizadoras ahora serßn parte del bando de los malos.
No mßs protestas en Seattle, QuÚbec ni en GÚnova. Paz, al fin. Hasta la pr¾xima vez. ?QuiÚn serß entonces? Un ni±o ya grande, que sobrevivi¾ la matanza de El Chorrillo. Una ni±a nicarag³ense consciente de que sus padres fueron asesinados por unos pandilleros llamados Contras, entrenados por el manual de la CIA, que dice que para acabar con un gobierno hay que darle duro al pueblo, matando a maestros y mÚdicos para desestabilizar los pilares del mismo. O tal vez sea un chileno enojado, que se entere de que toda su familia fue exterminada por el secretario de Estado de Nixon, Henry Kissinger, quien a pesar de ser un genio de la polÝtica mundial nunca pudo diferenciar entre comunismo y socialismo democrßtico, o ni siquiera nacionalismo.
?Cußndo aprenderemos, los estadounidenses, que mientras sigamos queriendo ser due±os del mundo para el beneficio de los pocos, nos va a tocar sufrir las consecuencias? No hay guerra que pueda detener el terrorismo, no mientras nosotros mismos usemos el terror para alcanzar nuestras metas.
Por eso ya no lloro mßs, y salgo a caminar. Pero salgo y veo gente que llora por los bomberos que perecieron y tengo que regresar y escribir esto. Mientras lo hago ahÝ estß el secretario Powell, diciÚndome que estß bien matar a estos ni±os, estos seres necesitados, que odian a EE.UU. porque nosotros somos civilizados y ellos no.
LlorÚ de nuevo. Y me dije, al terminar de escribir esto, que no lo debÝa enviar: muchos de mis estudiantes y colegas me iban a odiar, quizß hacerme da±o. Pero al ver la televisi¾n otra vez decidÝ arriesgarme. Tal vez, al leer esto, una persona mßs se pregunte: ?por quÚ hay tanta gente en el mundo preparada a morir s¾lo para darnos a probar un poco de lo que nosotros les venimos dando desde hace mucho?
John Gerassi, PhD Profesor de Ciencias PolÝticas Queens College Traducci¾n de Oskar Sarasky
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