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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (5614)	3/13/2004 7:56:39 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 20039

MADRID INDY MEDIA: The Manipulation by the Popular Party (Aznar's incumbent party) acp.sindominio.net Translation follows: Miles de ciudadanos se manifiestan contra las mentiras del Gobierno La sociedad civil ha roto el estado de sitio informativo y de miedo en el que se la pretendía encerrar. Ahora mismo, decenas de iniciativas ciudadanas denuncian públicamente, en las calles y frente a las sedes del PP en toda España, la manipulación informativa y las mentiras interesadas con las que el gobierno pretendía erigirse en la única voz que interpreta y administra el miedo y la confusion tras el atentado del día 11. Una convocatoria insólita, realizada a través de SMS (probablemente, la primera manifestación de la historia convocada en tan pocas horas y exclusivamente mediante mensajería móvil), llamaba a concentrarse, en silencio y sin partidos, hoy a las seis frente a la sede del PP en Madrid. Y así ha sido, excepto en lo tocante al silencio: miles de personas han prendido allí la chispa que podría incendiar la pradera de que hablábamos hoy mismo. Su gesto se replica ahora por todas las ciudades de España, exigiendo "verdad y democracia", recordando que "nosotros dijimos no a la guerra" y retomando íntegro el espíritu del 15 de febrero que muchos daban por muerto: hemos vuelto a cantar entre miles de personas "que no nos representan" y "lo llaman democracia y no lo es". Rajoy intenta conjurar la amenaza que la sociedad civil le plantea con su presencia desafiante en la calle: ha calificado de "ilegales" e "inconstitucionales" y de "coacción al voto" las concentraciones enfrente de sus sedes. A las 12h de la noche se ha convocado de manera igualmente espontánea y horizontal una concentración en la Puerta del Sol. Los efectos de la protesta ciudadana en las elecciones son imprevisibles, pero la chispa de la rebelión cívica contra un gobierno atiborrado de mentiras y que ha hecho gala de nuevo de un cinismo de miedo está encendida. Una vez que la atmosfera del miedo se ha agujereado, el porvenir esta ahora abierto, depende de nosotros. Colectivo Editorial de Indymedia Madrid ******* Translation: Thousand of Citizens Demonstrate Against Government Lies Civil society is breaking away from the propaganda, fears and state of siege in which the government tried to lock it up. Righ now, tens of citizen initiatives are denouncing the government publicly, in the streets and in opposition to the seats of PP in all Spain, protesting the information manipulation and the self-interested lies with which the government tried to elevate itself to be the only voice that interprets and administers to the fear and the confusion after the attack on March 11. An unusual call, made through SMS (probably, the first manifestation of the history summoned in so few hours and exclusively by means of email), called to concentrate itself, in silence and without parties, today at six as opposed to the seat of the PP in Madrid. And thus it has been, except as far as concerns silence: thousands of people have caught there the spark that could set afire the same grassroots of which we spoke today. Its gesture now talks back by all the cities of Spain, demanding "truth and democracy", remembering that "we said NO to the war" and retaking completely the spirit of the 15 of February that many gave up for dead: we have returned to sing between thousands of people "who do not represent us" and "they call it democracy and this is not it". Rajoy (the PP candidate) tries to assert the threat that the civil society raises to him with its challenging presence in the street: he has described the protests as "illegal" and "unconstitutional" and as a "corruption of the vote", with the protesting crowds a threat to his seats in the Parliament. At Midnight, a crowd gathered in the Gates of the Sun has been summoned of equally spontaneous and peer-to-peer way. The effects of the citizen protest in the elections are unforseeable, but there is a spark of civic rebellion against a government of lies and thus has Gallic cynicism against the culture of fear been ignited. Once the atmosphere of fear has been breached, how the future is now opened depends on us. Publishing group of Indymedia Madrid