is clear that we all suffer from some level of double standard: we will be forever more generous in our judgments to those who we like or agree with us, we, with the highest often very sympathetic to us when we would not with others.
is not something that is bad or good. It's the kind of thing just so, are like that. But our intimate double standard, one with which all have to live, requires certain limits. So if we aspire to be someone with a minimum of consistency and intellectual honesty.
This is a case looking at what is going on (and) France in recent weeks, which is certainly a disastrous example of double standards and almost crazed overwhelmed. Until recently, Sarkozy's government was more than comfortable with the various dictatorships have begun to fall in North Africa. The Tunisian government kleptocrat was suspiciously close to the Foreign Minister of France, Michèle Alliot-Marie. The minister committed so many indiscretions in the latter period his tenure in office borders on suicide: first, he spent his last vacation in the country, riding in the private plane of a businessman ally of ousted dictator today, then already in crisis gave public advice to Ben Ali on how to deal with the masses, and even nearly close the sale in riot gear to Tunisian security forces. Security forces who filled the prisons political prisoners, who never imported to France.
In the final debacle, the minister began to deny any relationship with the tyrant, he lied repeatedly about his closeness to the government, lies and all I have discovered, have even gone to light his family's business circle Ben Ali.
cause drama The issue today, but France has never had qualms, as they have not had the other European countries to finance, protect and negotiate with dictators around the African continent. They have never seen Africans as more than former colonies unworthy of democracy, children who are better off with a authoritarian father with an open democracy. That spirit
shockingly contrasts with what is happening around the case of Florence Cassez ordered today. It is clear that Sarkozy seeks to lift its image with a fit of patriotism, and incidentally save the head of his minister RR. EE. She, star of the allegations in the affair Cassez, seeks to divert attention from the scandal in which it is stuck by his ties to Ben Ali and it does the most vile, igniting the flame of contempt for Mexico, end another former colony, and not them.
That view is filtered not just through governments, but even the media. The coverage of El Pais in Spain on this issue is fully aligned with the French discourse, completely ignoring the victims, the four trials and all other details that contribute to at least consider their potential liability in a despicable crime. One you have to understand: it is a journalistic tradition that privileges the drama to the precision and bias information colonialist.
The decision to devote the year to Cassez Mexico, hoping to make it the new Ingrid Betancourt is not only rude but diplomatically incomprehensible. Kidnap entire cultural community who had many years working for this exchange is a huge injustice, worthy of the young Napoleon to Sarkozy brought inside.
I know that the PGR does everything wrong, and this case is no exception. I have no doubt that mistakes were made due process unfathomable, but not reading the testimonials I have many doubts about the responsibility of Cassez in these cases.
Thus, while France punishes Mexico-or rather, the Mexican artists and intellectuals, "the extreme generosity that this same government had only weeks ago with a totalitarian regime is a dramatic example of double standards. No surprise, but certainly sad that so many pay for the questionable France has chosen causes fly.
This, as the classic, too, shall pass. But no longer an illuminated sign that Europe is, like us, lost in its labyrinth of folds and lies. We live in sad days all we want France. Very sad.
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