Today’s Tal Cual Editorial
It is prohibited to inform by TEodoro Petkoff in Tal Cual
It was
inevitable. At some point, it had to happen that the General Prosecutor of the
Republic would attempt to cover up the sloppiness of his acts in the Anderson case via the
attempt to censor information about them. Isaias requests that it be judicially
“forbidden” to all kinds of media the publication of records from the Anderson file case. He is
threatening penal sanctions to those that would broadcast information that
would place in doubt the credibility of his “star witness”, the fake
psychiatrist Vasquez de Armas.
We are
facing a frontal attack against the exercise of freedom of speech. It happens
to be a crass and coarse attempt to silence the media in a case that shook
public opinion. If “verbatim” copies – as they are qualified by the request for
censorship- from the Prosecutors office leak from the Anderson case files, the responsibility should
not be put on the reporters, but on those that give it to them. If the Prosecutor’s
office presents as a key witness an individual of whom it has been shown with
documents that is a hardened criminal whose “specialty” is, precisely, the stealing
of identities and the forgery of public documents, which gives him little
credibility, it is not the Prosecutor’s office that has erred centrally leaning
in such a precarious testimony, but the media that committed a crime because
the discover the ruse and bring it to light.
Is the behavior of the Prosecutor casual and isolated? It
does not seem like it. If we put together this request for censorship with the “administrative
procedure” opened against Laureano Marquez and this newspaper in the context of
an article entitled “Dear Rosines”, it would indicate more that we are facing a
full force offensive, directed at silencing the media via the rogue utilization
of “justice”. It would not be the Government the one that would establish the mechanisms
of censorship” with censors provided with red pencils, the old fashioned way,
but the courts of “justice” in the supposed application of legal dispositions
so that in cases like this, “we protect justice and prevent the abuses of
freedom of speech”
And who protects the citizens from a “justice” applied in arbitrary manner,
to obstruct precisely the channels of information? Who would stop the abuses by
public powers, when they are committed, if little by little the possibility of
denouncing them is closed?
The investigation of the Anderson case has been plagued with
irregularities.
Particularly with all
of those parts relating to the “intellectual authors”, where the Prosecutor’s
office placed the leading role in a crude comedy of mistakes, unsustainable to such
a point that the court handling the case had no choice but to order the freedom
of those charged.
It was the media who made the contradictions and inconsistencies
of those charges visible. What they are now pretending is that the acts of the Prosecutor,
no matter how sloppy and erroneous they may be, be protected by a judicial
decision that would forbid speaking about them. Therefore, that they be secret.
Could it be that they are trying to
cover something up? “In the shadows of mystery only crime works” Words by
Bolivar.
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