2007-07-03 00:44

by Vasil Kolev

There was a protest today on Eagles’ bridge on the flash mob principle on the Strandzha problem. I should’ve gone…

But I’m finding that in fact I need to think a bit on what’s happening…
(the last three things I’ve read, were “The GULAG Archipelago”, “Slave to Freedom” by Yordan Bozushki and “Putin’s Russia” by Anna Politkovskaya, and now I’ve started with “Control over the special security forces” – they’re pushing me to some such thoughts, especially after reading the definitions of citizens’ society).

I’m sitting and wondering, why are we demonstrating. Honestly. I can’t deny the pleasure from the adrenaline and the crowd, especially when you know what you’re fighting for and that thing is just the right to breathe… But it seems that I’ve became too cynical and I’m wondering, what’s this going to accomplish? Even if the public opinion sides with Strandzha (and I don’t mean just the 10000-20000 demonstrants and such), there aren’t elections soon, so not a lot of people will go on getting dividends from this, and it’s much more possible all the hate to be directed to an not-directly-elected-by-the-people institution, like the High Administrative Court, and to stay at that. The minister might even get some dividends from it from the appeals.
(and looking at how little information is there in just a few media outlets, it seems to me really not too likely that someone is working on the scandal to use it – even if it is, his/her PR is not really good, or is just working only over the net)

Still, there’s remaining feeling for the Sizifial pushing of the rock. About that it’s going to go quiet after a few months, because the people get tired – in the end there will be just a few left, who can easily be crushed… For that in the end we’ll be behaving humanely to organizations/institutions/creatures that have done nothing to deserve this respect. Because of that in the end we’ll have to go to EU to push our government, so something changes, which will be the final slap in the face – because we can’t fix our problems, we’re going to hope that someone else will fix them for us. It’s somewhat pathetic.

The bad thing is that the solution that I have in mind includes selective murdering of the people that do such things – one by one, until by Pavlov’s method they don’t get a conditioned reflex that when they try to the same shit as the ones with Strandzha and Irakli, to get paralyzed.

And the idea stays – these people need to be hit there, where it hurts. Otherwise there’s nothing to make them stop.

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