Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Anti Fungal Dietkaufmann



Lokarri thesis is usually based on with which I disagree. Regarding his latest initiative , it is based on: 1) The requirement for political parties (PSOE and interest) in the implementation of a dialogue process "will culminate in a political agreement to improve the coexistence of Basque society. " It also calls for a referendum in the Basque society to express their will, 2) The requirement of an end to ETA violence and any violation of human rights that make possible a peace process and to allow the Basque society to decide that consultation with complete freedom.

things first:

1) not require the State to its violations of human rights, civil and policy in relation to the Basque conflict, as it is required (and rightly) to ETA . I think it is necessary to check that, apart from the killings and threats from ETA, also by the state there are still other forms of violence serious enough to require her disappearance. I am referring, of course, to torture. Requiring only a party to any violation of human rights, while hiding the other party violates also suffers from a worrying lack of objectivity and even suspicious.

2) do not see how the unilateral end to ETA violence can lead to a peace process . In any case we would ETA to surrender and thus would not be needed any process of dialogue or negotiation, and certainly not peace as violence from the other party would still be present.

3) Lokarri requires a "process of dialogue that would lead to a political agreement to improve the coexistence of the Basque society", but does not at all who has to reach that agreement and how to improve the coexistence of Basque society . Lokarri's thesis is too open, so that it can be a simple political agreement between the PSOE and PNV culminating in a mere statutory reform with greater powers to the Basque Government, leaving intact the knots conflict (territoriality and self-determination). I think it is essential that agreement is also present the nationalist left, and if you agree with me Lokarri should specify in their approach. On the other hand, believe that the end of this agreement should not be "to improve the coexistence of the Basque society", but finally achieve minimum democratic standards that demands this, that all political projects are possible if they get enough support democracy and full respect for all human rights, civil and political rights.

4) Finally, Lokarri see your "consultation" more like an end than as a means . I think the end of any Basque type of process (call it "peace", "dialog", "negotiation" or as we like, words are not important) must be respect for all human rights, civil and political (and therefore all political projects), than for the Basque people to rule in a query about which know everything: their time, their purpose, their terms ...

On the other hand, perform a search in the current conditions (with outlawed political parties, with the threat of ETA violence and this, with hundreds of political prisoners in prisons, with the threat of torture and detention always present, with censored media, etc.). not only undesirable, but it is undemocratic. Would be as valid as any referendum held in a dictatorial system. To query the Basque policy is necessary that it has complete freedom to act, and today is not because that freedom is violated by both sides: ETA and the State.

Lokarri Supporting this initiative is an error because he confuses the problem and conflict, and could serve certain political purposes that currently go brewing in the kitchens of the PSOE and PNV. Perhaps Lokarri collaboration in that sense there is a conscious strategy at all, but is the least important thing is that it is absurd and distracts us from the real issues we must address if we find a solution to the Basque conflict.