Enough Deportations! Communiqué - SOV Jaén CNT/AIT.
Czytelnik CIA, Czw, 2010-09-16 08:01
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"Indifference is the same thing as a crime"
-Marek Edelmann, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The CNT from Jaén strongly condemns the horrific mass deportations carried out against the Roma in France. We denounce the intolerance of the neofascist government of Nicolas Sarkozy.
We believe that these deportations violate the fundamental rights of a group whose members are European citizens with full rights. The mass deportation of members of the Roma population is an act which denigrates us all, without exception, whether we are French or not.
We find it alarming that in a country lke France, which was the victim of nazism, for many years and has seen in the flesh what racial crimes mean (including mass deportations), is perpetrating this outrage. We believe that these acts are based in an institutional policy of stigmatizing the Roma people.
It seems that for the neofascist French government, all are guilty, they are all criminals, and all, without exception, deserve to be deported. Their lives are destroyed and they are thrown out of the country because they belong to a certain people. Everyone is made to pay equally, entire families, regardless if children and the elderly will see even further decline in their living conditions.
What drives the French Ministry of Internal Affairs are institutionally racist principles. It is a disgrace. It inexcusably identifies the gypsy people with theft, crime and drugs... They are accused of being anti-social... Everyone, without distinction. But why aren't the caste of bankers, speculations and other scum which have lead to the ruin of half the world with their shady schemes
accused of the same and why are they left peacefully at home? Is it that not everybody is equal? We don't they deport this class of scoundrels? Is it because they are not criminals, thieves and don't deal drugs? Is it that these the enemies of the people are not anti-social? Of course they are.
In order to combat organized crime, the first thing that has to be done is to get our hands on this bunch of thieves.
The war against the poor is getting worse and it is the duty, not only of the anti-racist and anti-capitalist activists, but of all good people, to stop these abuses that bring us back to the darkest incidents in the history of Europe. It is imperative we raise our voices.
Enough Deportations!
Secretary of Social Action of the CNT-AIT Jaén
