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Ingrid Betancourt in his book The rage in his heart, that the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers in a secret meeting in mid nineties, confessed they had bought more than 100 parliamentarians. Soon came the process 8000 that made clear the intimate relationship between drug trafficking and politics. Now, more than ten years later, the ghost comes alive with the "para-politics' and there are many who wonder if Congress is or is not legitimate. Perhaps the correct question would be: Have you ever been legitimate?
economist Alejandro Gaviria said in The Spectator, that Congress is every so often the favorite target of critics for being tough on that corporation makes the accuser look good. All the frustrations of Colombians are directed towards the political elite because they are not forgiven the great power they hold, the high salaries and the continued enjoyment of the property and public property in exchange for so little benefit to the country. Thus, nothing is easier than exacerbate tensions against this clique mediocre. Gaviria added that this situation of permanent discredit political activity away from honest people and well prepared.
And is that old saying that politics is like sausage, which are delicious but it is best not to ask how to do (Bismarck). If politics is the continuation of war by other means (Clausewitz) and if anything goes war, it is expected that the pulse for power, in principle, and tenure, once achieved, constitute a dynamic than in other areas are unacceptable.
economist Alejandro Gaviria said in The Spectator, that Congress is every so often the favorite target of critics for being tough on that corporation makes the accuser look good. All the frustrations of Colombians are directed towards the political elite because they are not forgiven the great power they hold, the high salaries and the continued enjoyment of the property and public property in exchange for so little benefit to the country. Thus, nothing is easier than exacerbate tensions against this clique mediocre. Gaviria added that this situation of permanent discredit political activity away from honest people and well prepared.
And is that old saying that politics is like sausage, which are delicious but it is best not to ask how to do (Bismarck). If politics is the continuation of war by other means (Clausewitz) and if anything goes war, it is expected that the pulse for power, in principle, and tenure, once achieved, constitute a dynamic than in other areas are unacceptable.
Unfortunately, this reinforces the temptation to cross the fine line between what morally acceptable, clearly unethical and overtly criminal. This is what should be a difference in the current scandal to condemn the latter. Colombia
lived many years without God commanded the First Law to bosses or local political people, until they were displaced by guerrillas, drug traffickers and paramilitaries. For lack of political affinity, bipartisanship was once the military objective of the guerrillas and their representatives do not other was to accept the paramilitaries not only to maintain political control but to preserve their lives. This perversion is the legacy of cowardly governments that ignored their responsibilities and refused to fight the guerrillas on the ground that their allegedly altruistic purposes deserve the awards were excessive.
Until then, do a trial is reckless. No one is constrained to kill unless the State has blatantly violated the social contract: it has broken. The problem is that as absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton), some politicians, in their regions, they went from living in collusion with the paramilitaries and, Later, complicity, linking directly with crimes of various kinds to appropriate public money or land to peasants and to eliminate political rivals.
However, most lawmakers are not investigated by the commission of crimes so serious but for alleged paramilitary influence in their choice. In some cases the circumstances are clear 'atypical' in which they were elected, with many votes in his favor in areas where paramilitary domination years ago did not go get a few votes. In other cases investigated, the influence is not obvious and even looks unnecessary. So it can not
descartase que en este escándalo de la ‘parapolítica’ hayan otros intereses, sin duda malsanos y oscuros. En el caso del 8000, el interés de fondo fue el de no dejar gobernar a Samper y hoy puede haber un propósito similar. A muchos políticos les están cobrando el hecho de haber sobrevivido al predominio de la guerrilla en sus zonas de influencia, las que después fueron copadas por las autodefensas. Eso los convertiría automáticamente en aliados de los ‘paras’, lo mismo que el haber tenido reuniones con ellos para hablar de su desmovilización; haber ido a Ralito es un crimen, pero haber ido al Caguán o a campamentos guerrilleros no. Son curiosidades de una justicia parcializada.
Por eso is a fallacy that the Congress is in crisis of legitimacy and then has to close. Is that Congress has never been clean and take much for one day it is. Nobody would beat their breasts if the President would be closed but that fujimorazo seen as more harmful startup authoritarianism. Therefore, Uribe sends a good signal to to disagree with those outings populist. Instead, there are others like Gustavo Petro César Gaviria or stripping the copper to ask for early elections of 2010, including the presidency without election. How about the cynicism! 3301940916609711
lived many years without God commanded the First Law to bosses or local political people, until they were displaced by guerrillas, drug traffickers and paramilitaries. For lack of political affinity, bipartisanship was once the military objective of the guerrillas and their representatives do not other was to accept the paramilitaries not only to maintain political control but to preserve their lives. This perversion is the legacy of cowardly governments that ignored their responsibilities and refused to fight the guerrillas on the ground that their allegedly altruistic purposes deserve the awards were excessive.
Until then, do a trial is reckless. No one is constrained to kill unless the State has blatantly violated the social contract: it has broken. The problem is that as absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton), some politicians, in their regions, they went from living in collusion with the paramilitaries and, Later, complicity, linking directly with crimes of various kinds to appropriate public money or land to peasants and to eliminate political rivals.
However, most lawmakers are not investigated by the commission of crimes so serious but for alleged paramilitary influence in their choice. In some cases the circumstances are clear 'atypical' in which they were elected, with many votes in his favor in areas where paramilitary domination years ago did not go get a few votes. In other cases investigated, the influence is not obvious and even looks unnecessary. So it can not
descartase que en este escándalo de la ‘parapolítica’ hayan otros intereses, sin duda malsanos y oscuros. En el caso del 8000, el interés de fondo fue el de no dejar gobernar a Samper y hoy puede haber un propósito similar. A muchos políticos les están cobrando el hecho de haber sobrevivido al predominio de la guerrilla en sus zonas de influencia, las que después fueron copadas por las autodefensas. Eso los convertiría automáticamente en aliados de los ‘paras’, lo mismo que el haber tenido reuniones con ellos para hablar de su desmovilización; haber ido a Ralito es un crimen, pero haber ido al Caguán o a campamentos guerrilleros no. Son curiosidades de una justicia parcializada.
Por eso is a fallacy that the Congress is in crisis of legitimacy and then has to close. Is that Congress has never been clean and take much for one day it is. Nobody would beat their breasts if the President would be closed but that fujimorazo seen as more harmful startup authoritarianism. Therefore, Uribe sends a good signal to to disagree with those outings populist. Instead, there are others like Gustavo Petro César Gaviria or stripping the copper to ask for early elections of 2010, including the presidency without election. How about the cynicism! 3301940916609711
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