martes, 2 de diciembre de 2014

Civil Disobedience

In order for me to join a protest, I would have to feel tremendously attached to a certain ideal that I´m fighting for. When I see the news in my country I get really upset about all the chaos that´s surrounding us. Sometimes we don´t want to see it, but it is clearly in there. People think that if they don´t watch the news they´ll live more happy. But this way of thinking is what makes the politicians never feel afraid of stealing or commiting into something constitutionally wrong. If you know what´s going on, then you´ll protest, then you´ll want the change and make the politicians work appropriately to please its people.
People who protest are on their complete right to do so. I don´t judge them but what I would tell them, would be to not destroy any of our legacy and heritage. For example, this past November where thousands of protestors in Mexico City burned the National Palace door. That door was very special because our first president Guadalupe Victoria constructed it with his own hands when he suffered from Parkinson´s disease.
I have strong and drastic thoughts about protests. I believe that if the government doesn´t listen to our demands, we need to show violence to show our incomformity. At least we have to so in Mexico because the government won´t understand the seriousness of the problem. I´m glad that yesterday protestors, that are actually now being called anarchists by the government, took a police truck forcing the police to get off, and started driving around while the rest of the crowd cheered for them.
I truly believe a revolution is about to start sooner or later because all the things that have been happening recently in the country has helped the mexicans to open their eyes and realize how bad our situation is.
In this case, I would join a protest, but I get a little frustrated because I know things won´t change. They are probably starting to, but I don´t have a lot of patience and I like seeing drastic changes. Besides I sometimes the protests turn wild and the police arrests civilians, I would be afraid of that. There´s also lots of molotov bombing all around the place.
I support those people. I would love to give them weapons, and feed them in my house (that kind of stuff) not actually fight and cover my identity under a hood.
What I´m completely sure is that I would never protest for someone else´s cause or another country. I would fight for what I feel nationalistic about. It doesn´tt matter if it´s not the country you were born in.
I will always admire those people that had the leadership like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi because despite knowing they were less powerful, they fought and never remained quiet.

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