The Devil's Excrement

The McCarthyst list exists by Teodoro Petkoff in Tal Cual

The President, from the Guayana
region, ordered Governors, Mayors and Ministers to “file and bury Tascon’s list”,
that McCarthyist piece that makes these revolutionaries relatives of that North
American Senator that unleashed a “witch hunt” in his country in the 50’s.

Chavez says that “that moment is
left behind” that “the famous list surely fulfilled an important role at a
certain time, but that is past”. The President told us that he had received
letters that “make me think that still in some spaces they have Tascòn’s list
on the table to determine whether a person will or not work”

“A confesión de partes, relevo de
pruebas” (When people confess, you need no proof) Mr. Prosecutor, can you, with
the diligence that is customary in you, begin to act? It is only a matter of guaranteeing
the respect of the rights and constitutional guarantees, like the Constitution
says. The shamelessness of the “process”
has no parallel. The President of the country himself, the highest functionary
in the nation, the number one public servant, admits-without blushing or shame-
that in his “revolution” a list of
political preferences is used to give or take jobs away. And that before-and this
is perhaps worse- it had full justification: “It filled an important role”, to
say it with his own words.

What was that role, Mr. President?
To scare, to threaten, to coerce those that were on the list so that, for
example, they would not exercise their right to vote against you? What other
role could it have been?

You see, Mr. Prosecutor, there is material.
And if you are lacking it, look again at the “bicha” (Constitution)

You don’t even have to read it all

In article 3, so that I don’t have
to go far, it reads: “the State has as its essential end the defense, and the development
of the person and the respect for his dignity, the democratic exercise of
popular will, the building of a just society which is peace loving, the
promotion of prosperity and well being of the people and the guarantee of fulfilling
the principles rights and obligations recognized and consecrated in this
Constitution”.

But the height of cynicism is that
of Deputy Adolfo Tascon, that outstanding student of Jose Vicente Rangel.

“My intention was never to
persecute anyone. That is not revolutionary behavior, that is fascist behavior”,
says Little Adolph. And he adds that he withdrew his masterpiece-the list- from
his webpage, once the recall vote was over.

That is, once it “fulfilled an important
role”

What is clear is the existence of the
list and its use-cowardly, lowly, illegitimate-it is a crime and the state is obligated
to correct what happened during that period that began before August 2004 and it
only admitted publicly recently via the President of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela himself and by Adolfo Tascon

If the Prosecutor- and his buddies
of the Citizens Power, that is Mundarain and Clodosvaldo- need something more
to act, it should be sufficient that they jump to Article 21, paragraph 2: “Will
adopt positive measures in favor of groups that may be discriminated,
segregated or vulnerable, will specially protect those persons that for one of
the reasons specified before, will find itself in manifest weakness and WILL
SANCTION the abuses and mistreatment that is committed against them”

You can Mr. Prosecutor, you only need the will.

This story will continue.

This entry was posted on April 18, 2005 at 4:26 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.