Don’t play
dumb Isaias! by Teodoro Petkoff in Tal Cual
Don’t you
think you have to ask that the parliamentary immunity of Adolfo Tascòn be
removed?
Prosecutor
Isaias Rodriguez has sent us a short setter congratulating Tal Cual on its
fifth anniversary. In a few lines he tells us: “Let this opportunity be an
occasion to wish for the recovery of the vocation for social service that has
always distinguished Venezuelan journalism, forgotten, at times, for the mere
interest of selling a product to obtain gains, or confused by the political stardom
assumed by part of the media in the last few years.”
Taking advantage of the suggestion,
we also wish for the recovery of the social vocation that should distinguish
the General Prosecutor of the Nation, forgotten, in these years, for the mere
desire of placing the institution that is supposed to guarantee legality in the
acts of the Government and the State, at the service of the circumstantial political
interest of President Chavez, to guarantee the impunity of the crimes by the
Government and the State. What Isaias says about the media and his criteria about
that will be left for another opportunity, because after the public recognition
made by the President of the Republic of the continued and systematic perpetration
of a crime by his Government, which was the elaboration and public broadcasting
of the roguishly famous list of Adolfo Tascon and of the use that official
institutions have made of it to violate the law and the Constitution, trampling
the human rights guaranteed by the latter, the “bicha”.
Chavez has already completed the
most important part of the investigation.
What he said is condensed in a
judicial aphorism which nobody can object: “When people confess, you need no
proof”. Chavez confessed that the McCarthyst list of Adolfo Tascon exists and
recognized that it had been used to deny work or fire Venezuelan citizens, as
well as to deny or make it difficult, to the point of humiliation, any
transaction with any official institution which any citizen attempted to make, in
legitimate use of his constitutional rights.
Will you reach, Isaias, the
Rangelian cynicism of saying that they were “exaggerations” of the opposition and
that there was no crime? This is now beyond doubt, because Chavez even
described the modus operandi. There was a crime. Its intellectual author
confessed. By the way Isaias that if he had not done it, you, not even if drunk,
would have thought of ordering an investigation about a crime that was public
and well known. That’s not the way you are. You don’t even dare to not laugh at
a single joke by him. You are scared of Chavez. But you have been liberated
Isaias, I the Supreme, admitted the crime. You have nothing to fear now.
It is now your turn to accuse the material
authors of the crime. I am not going to ask, because I know you will not go
there, even in the most daring of your deliriums, to investigate the intellectual
authorship. To charge the material authors you don’t even need the courage of Fermín
Toro. You have to start by asking Chavez to give you the letters that he claims
to have received in which the tasconian abuses were exposed to yhim. Using those,
you will have the name of the institutions and officials that committed the
crimes. You have to find out, Iasias, something which is not difficult, how was
it that Tascon obtained the lists for the consultative and recall referenda. At
the CNE, they can probably tell you. We are not going to demand, Isaias, that it
was your duty as Prosecutor, by just way of “notitia criminis”, that you were
obligated to investigate how during months, a Deputy of the Republic maintained
a webpage open so that all the little kings of the regimen could consult it. What
would be the point? But now, you can’t play dumb, Isaias. Don’t you think you have
to request the removal of the parliamentary immunity of Adolfo Tascon, to request
that he be tried? The matter is not just simply to “bury” the McCarthyst list.
Of course, that is not a bad thing, but the crimes committed in its name, can
not be buried. That is why you were named: to prevent that the Government bury
its own crimes.
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