Showing posts with label Egypt Libya Tunisia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egypt Libya Tunisia. Show all posts

Saturday, March 5, 2011

The right to insurrection

Article. 5 of the Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793 states: "When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of it, the most sacred of rights and the most essential duties. " Also art. 7, paragraph 3, of the Portuguese Constitution of 1976 recognizes the right of peoples to self-determination and independence and development, and the insurrection against all forms of oppression.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, already longing for the 'cap'

Jump caps in North Africa and the Arab world, perhaps from the Mediterranean to the Gulf. Jump caps of dictators and autocrats in the West, not only Italy, was short-sighted friend to the end, because it protected him from the risks of terrorism and fundamentalism and guaranteed energy supplies. And here we are now more than ever Maramaldo to praise the fallen, contrary to the overthrow by the people, by Ben Ali first, then Mubarak, Gaddafi today, tomorrow, who knows, the same people who, until the day before their misfortune, we had received with many honors in our buildings, we had left to plant the tents in our public gardens and teaching catechism to our 'virgin'.