Horroris Causa and Roman Circus

Good day,
Some decades ago, spanish students confered the Horroris Causa nobel prize 
to Henry Kissinger for his dedicated contribution to the genocides of Viet 
Nam, Chile and other places. Today, we need something similar to recognize 
the criminal killings of Bush/Blair, needed to saciate their bloody thirst 
and those of the world elites, supposedly in the name of US and UK normal 
people. The continuous raids over Irak are like bombing Germany today 
because of the genocide against jews during Hitler's time. Curiously, the 
old victims and anti-fascist fighters of those times, today are commiting 
genocide and apartheid against palestinian kids and youth, while a Nato 
functionaire, Solana, the eurosocialist/social-democrat, remains quiet about 
their depleted uranium toys which became important only when nordic people 
started to die.

Let me tell you about a recent chat -already mentioned to another list- with 
a wise friend who prefers to remain anonymous because we live in Colombia, 
where if you speak about social justice, our imperially supported para-gov 
forces may treat you as a disposable item. I told him that the world has 
improved a lot in human rights and democracy when compared to the roman 
empire times. He told me: "This time you are quite naive, Emilio. If you 
look fine we are doing the same: the main palque with elites, the tribunes 
occupied with people looking at the signals of elites and to the arena where 
many defenseless kids and persons are given to the beasts of hunger, 
exclusion, indiference or lost arrows, and other times, gladiators, from 
different origins and motivations, combat and wait for the finger up or down 
of the public, so then the Cesar, will accept "civil society's" opinion, to 
decrete the life or death of the gladiator that survived."

And he added: "What the public should do is to abandon the tribunes, stop 
being espectators, and get down into the arena, start talking among them and 
with gladiators, get to know each other, and something different will come 
out of this, not to become new elites, neither gladiators, but something not 
seen before. In some parts of the arena, the sand will be so hot by the sun 
of history, that perhaps the people will need to chat while jumping all the 
time, perhaps they end dancing, or perhaps fighting again. Anyhow, it will 
be much better than to stay at the tribunes. It is easier to say than to do, 
but it surely deserves a trial."

It seems to me that events like this debate-list and the meeting at Porto 
Allegre, or the Anti-Davos, indicate that an increasing amount of people is 
jumping into the arena.

Ok, thanks and excuse the tone of this post, because it is my wish that this 
is heard there as a cry from the South.

Emilio José Chaves Márquez

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