martes, 13 de noviembre de 2012

Am I asking for a blood bath?

Asking for police intervention in a campus smacks of far right-wing politics. Images of the Kent State massacre, Mexico 68, Tiananmen Square and other similar episodes come to mind.
Well, this is not the case here. I am asking for the intervention of the Mayor´s local police force, with specially trained units which routinely act in cases such as this one.
This is not exactly a gung-ho, trigger-happy National Guard.
We are talking of personnel with no gun power, whose only equippment are shields, helmets, boots, batons and in some cases pepper spray.
Granted, batons by themselves can be deadly enough.
But wait! In Mexico City it is mandatory that this units are to be escorted by perssonel of the local Ombudsman. And the local Ombudsman has shown, time and tome again, to be biased in favor of the crooks I mentioned in the previous entry. To give some examples: the Mexico City Ombudsman has taken seriously three complaints against my person. One of them is, textually,  for me daring to question (in private) a professor about his behavior in the university senate. Then a student says he is gravely offended because I twitted "Hi, sunshine, nice to see you woke up early today." And another professor accuses my of being a "lesbophobe" who refuses to publish her work, in my capacity as head of the publishing board of the university, because of my views on sexuality. It is a shame, first, that this board has not received a ms. from her during my period. Then, I do not care what other people do in their private life. And in last term: I do not evaluate manuscripts. By the way: the Ombudsman never saw it fit to inform me of this "grave" charges of human rights violations. I am not making this up. I am not pulling your leg.
But then there is more: no one, here in Mexico City, can prohibit, in police actions such as the one I am demanding, the presence of NGOs and the media, some of which are, again, heavily biasased in favor of the "strikers."
Summing it up: by refusing to send police units to liberated the UACM campus, the Mayor is not a high- minded statesman concerned with the safety of idealist young people, but a calculating poltician who refuses to pay a political price for enforcing the law.
And his rivals, with clout in the media, would surely make him pay dearly.
So, how naive am I? Well, I want him to know that his inactivity has also a political price attached to it. For one thing, I will never again vote for his party, or for him, in my life. I won´t get fooled again.
Many people tell me that I have to realize that my workplace, with all of its pecularities, was created for political reasons in the first place. That may very well be the truth. But I refuse to be part of a scam. The people of this City don´t deserve it.   

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