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Lords, land and citizens


25 October 2024 - 10:02

The two main voters in Kanbo (the mayor and the prime minister) are the rabid ones. Three citizens have been beaten with a plainta, for protesting in favour of the eviction of the neighbor Marienea.Es the second time that, at 06:00 in the morning, they take us out of bed (with the neighbor), about ten with clots, putting our boils in the bag, registering the house and holding us in the cage for an entire day. Lately with a son and a friend labrador. One more issue, therefore, was another four, the same as it had in recent times (material deterioration, denial of tissue removal and DNA…).

In the first case they have refused to speak in Basque and finally the prosecutor, if he was in French, has ordered me to shut up, in a disdainful tone, bursting my Basque character and making it very severe that my language was insignificant. Pure humiliation.

Pressure, threats, impeachment, intimidation, prosecutions, a multitude of sanctions against citizens who dare to rise up against their projects. These are their weapons, their answers, to protect their personal projects. Yesterday I learned, in the morning, that Bouygues is once again calling us into question, because the convictions we suffered in the first trial are not enough for them.

A harsh reality is also a system which, ladies and gentlemen, in the hands of the great presidents, holds us as immovable under power, silent

In the claws of the lords, the countrymen rarely crawl. In the Middle Ages, the lords exploited the poor labourers, the humble beings, slaves of their servants, when their personal interests moved. The aristocratic regime gave them that capacity, that of today, the democratic regime leaves the same powers to the lords of the people, who are the ones who have the most with our votes. What skill!

The power we give them is not limited in any way to that, but they govern our territory like them, having the general interest at the tip of the pocket on the flanks. The owner of Marienea has no need, but the mayor has set up the funds he has between Kanbo and Itsasu to build, at the expense of all, the will of the people, the instrument of the labourers, the senses of the environment. A whole citizen movement has risen up against this disproportionate operation: local citizenship, elected opposition officials, the peasants in front of the people and the collectives waiting for the land have our lords all in front of them to deny, hide, lie, betray and oppress. And if this was not enough, in the case of the PLU of Kanbo, which enabled the Marienea project, the lawyers of the Basque Country Territorial Commonwealth, on behalf of all our elects, have announced that the magnificent grazing of Marienea, representing a sheep herd, has no interest in agriculture. And think about who's made the decision? How far do you take the joke, the contempt? We have a new expression that they are leaving the reality of our country in a normal game.

Justice, judging on behalf of the citizens, representing the citizens, we already have the typical catechism! It would be ridiculous if the system that is based on these words did not take us away or really spoil us. A harsh reality is also a system that, ladies and gentlemen, in the hands of the great gentlemen, keeps us in power as motionless, silent.

The one who does not move does not cure conflicts! Let's be alert!

Filipe Lascaray

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