Eleanor Rigby
Babyface
Hello, friends from around the globe... I don't usually post so most of you know me as drew - most of you probably chatted with me but hardly saw my very few posts.
I noticed you took time to start a thread on my country. I appreciate that a lot, considering these are very bad days for everyone and these disasters haven't made it any easier on any of us.
The number of dead go up to 30 now, all of them but one died murdered by the police (the other one was a 15-year-old kid who was shot by a supermarket owner who was trying to defend his business).
The police acted against all national and international laws - and in case it wasn't enough STUPIDITY and DEAFNESS for mr. De la Rua he claims not only to not know who is responsible for the deaths, but doubts the death themselves!!! Ok, this man will pass to history as the most idiotic president ever... (The organism providing the information on dead since the riots began is an official one).
The law enforcement officers WEREN'T WEARING THEIR BADGES, used not only tear gas but 2 blocks away from my house (I had to run away in my bike when I was sitting in a cyberbar nearby) they were using THROW_UP GAS, which has been forbidden by the UN years ago.
The federal police used CANS AND WHIPS to BEAT PEOPLE UP, including a group of about 15 people who were protesting silently and in a pacifist way, and pushed the mothers of the dissapeared with horses as they were doing their weekly round (remember the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the ones Bono had up on stage on the Pop Mart tour, the ones which inspired the song "Mothers of the dissapeared"?)
People were held in prison for exercising their legal rights to PROTEST - let's not even take into account the ILLEGAL state of siege that mr. De La R?a declared wednesday night. The Argentinian Consitution states that the president CANNOT make this kind of decisions without the approval of the total majority of the Congress. This did not take place, because by the time mr. De La R?a sent the passed law to the Congress they had gone home about 5 minutes before (yeah, right, he didn't get that on time
7 Mothers of the dissapeared are in the hospital from rubber bullet - related injuries. I'm talking about 70-80 year old women.
As the police officers were saying they were only using rubber bullets and they were shooting randomly, you could see the pictures of the DEAD kids and the people holding the metal bullets that killed those guys my age - and the pictures of these so called "random" shooting, randomly aiming to the front
The police drove madly along the streets trying to run people over.
Not only did many people lose their businesses and their lives of underpaid hard work, but died in terrible pain.
Yesterday the police officially "apologised". Yeah, that will do it
So there won't be a happy christmas here. Nothing to celebrate. I feel hopeless. I feel like I would have gone to the Plaza de Mayo if I hadn't moved to the suburbs two months before and being unable to get to the city and probably would have been a victim too - hell I'm 18, the age all criminals are, aren't I officer?!?!
Very peaceful christmas to you all -
WAR IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT (John Lennon)
*drew*
[This message has been edited by Eleanor Rigby (edited 12-22-2001).]
[This message has been edited by Eleanor Rigby (edited 12-22-2001).]
I noticed you took time to start a thread on my country. I appreciate that a lot, considering these are very bad days for everyone and these disasters haven't made it any easier on any of us.
The number of dead go up to 30 now, all of them but one died murdered by the police (the other one was a 15-year-old kid who was shot by a supermarket owner who was trying to defend his business).
The police acted against all national and international laws - and in case it wasn't enough STUPIDITY and DEAFNESS for mr. De la Rua he claims not only to not know who is responsible for the deaths, but doubts the death themselves!!! Ok, this man will pass to history as the most idiotic president ever... (The organism providing the information on dead since the riots began is an official one).
The law enforcement officers WEREN'T WEARING THEIR BADGES, used not only tear gas but 2 blocks away from my house (I had to run away in my bike when I was sitting in a cyberbar nearby) they were using THROW_UP GAS, which has been forbidden by the UN years ago.
The federal police used CANS AND WHIPS to BEAT PEOPLE UP, including a group of about 15 people who were protesting silently and in a pacifist way, and pushed the mothers of the dissapeared with horses as they were doing their weekly round (remember the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the ones Bono had up on stage on the Pop Mart tour, the ones which inspired the song "Mothers of the dissapeared"?)
People were held in prison for exercising their legal rights to PROTEST - let's not even take into account the ILLEGAL state of siege that mr. De La R?a declared wednesday night. The Argentinian Consitution states that the president CANNOT make this kind of decisions without the approval of the total majority of the Congress. This did not take place, because by the time mr. De La R?a sent the passed law to the Congress they had gone home about 5 minutes before (yeah, right, he didn't get that on time
7 Mothers of the dissapeared are in the hospital from rubber bullet - related injuries. I'm talking about 70-80 year old women.
As the police officers were saying they were only using rubber bullets and they were shooting randomly, you could see the pictures of the DEAD kids and the people holding the metal bullets that killed those guys my age - and the pictures of these so called "random" shooting, randomly aiming to the front
The police drove madly along the streets trying to run people over.
Not only did many people lose their businesses and their lives of underpaid hard work, but died in terrible pain.
Yesterday the police officially "apologised". Yeah, that will do it
So there won't be a happy christmas here. Nothing to celebrate. I feel hopeless. I feel like I would have gone to the Plaza de Mayo if I hadn't moved to the suburbs two months before and being unable to get to the city and probably would have been a victim too - hell I'm 18, the age all criminals are, aren't I officer?!?!
Very peaceful christmas to you all -
WAR IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT (John Lennon)
*drew*
[This message has been edited by Eleanor Rigby (edited 12-22-2001).]
[This message has been edited by Eleanor Rigby (edited 12-22-2001).]