After Tunisia and Egypt, Algeria? That's what some media suggest that highlight the events that have just suppressed it unfold. Events on which occasion, President Obama, the European Parliament, Berlin and Paris Bouteflika demanded commitment to "proceed with the transition to democracy" and "let the events unfold freely."
But this support to the "democratic opposition" in Algeria, when we discover who it benefits, is not trivial. Behind the current unrest in Algeria, in fact very limited, there is only one party - the Rally for Culture and Democracy Said Sadi - and belts (mainly the National Coordination for Democracy and change and the League for Human Rights Rights). Is it a mass movement? Not at all: in the last election in which he participated he scored 2% National! Is this a party leader who must bring in its wake the progressive forces of Algeria? Again the answer is negative, the RCD is an isolated movement whose action has been denounced by both the Socialist Forces Front and the Workers Party, the two main left parties in Algeria, by local Islamists .
It must be said that the Rally for Culture and Democracy has nothing to please. Regionalist party created to defend the cause of the Berbers, it was characterized by its hostility to democracy - in the aftermath of the 1991 legislative elections, he was clearly called for the annulment of the results, not hiding his preference for a judicial solution after The FIS victory, his rabid hatred of the Islamists - some of its executives were accused of having led the creation of a death squad anti-Islamic: The Organization of Free Young Algerians, his opportunism - it will be part of the coalition government formed December 24, 1999, with Islamists - and its compromise with the West, symbolized by the friendship between Said Sadi, its leader, Bernard Henri Levi.
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Who cares Wisconsin :
If there is, in short, everything the Department of State, Western embassies and the Propaganda Staffel system may assess a political party, Surely they will understand that the Algerian people is in turn less receptive ...
Never mind, the Great West to always several irons in the fire and so the U.S. Embassy interested in Algiers, at the same time, with extreme attention to Abdallah Djaballah, a dissident of the Algerian Islamist movement has suddenly received a lot of ways and openly by diplomats Yankees.
Wisconsin Who cares?
media that we hide nothing, now, the unrest in the Maghreb are strangely very quiet regarding the situation in Wisconsin, where thousands of Americans took before the parliament of that State, of imitate the Tunisian and Egyptian practices to bring down the Republican Governor Scott Walker.
Saturday, February 20, it was six full days a crowd estimated at 70,000 people during the busiest, was besieging the Capitol in Madison and nothing suggests that the matter should be resolved in the short term.
What is the reason for popular anger? A law under discussion in Parliament, which has every chance of being adopted and drastically reducing the wages and rights of state officials.
Before going further, it should be noted that the U.S. is a federal state. As such, if private sector employees are protected by federal laws, and So therefore the same rights throughout the national territory, officials (except those of federal agencies) depend on the goodwill of States, even for some counties or cities that employ them.
In last November's midterms are the representatives of the Republican Party, Tea Party option (1), who obtained the majority in Wisconsin.
In January, newly elected officials have passed the first law to eliminate almost all taxes on large companies, especially multinationals, installed in the state. This resulted in a loss of earnings for financials public and $ 170 million, while the annual budget of Wisconsin for many years was in equilibrium (that of 2010 had even been closed with a slight surplus), forecasts a net fiscal deficit.
An intelligent would normally be seen it coming and did not so significantly reduced the corporate taxes. Otherwise, he would have admitted a miscalculation and would be part of its income for tax cuts. The governor has chosen Scott Walker, meanwhile, a different way: for a balanced budget, he decided it was enough to reduce spending state by reducing the cost of its officials. This not by lowering wages, but which ultimately is the same, transferring their charge to most of the retirement and social security administration was paying previously.
Salaries Public Service is already low in Wisconsin, many officials (including university teachers ...) testified that the consequence of this reform would not permit them to live on their wages and they should therefore engage in another profession in parallel to get by ... As case in many third world countries.
In addition, all officials were particularly sensitive at a symbolic level, Scott Walker, as a vulgar or Ben Ali Mubarak, has also announced it had placed the National Guard on high alert to cope popular resistance. But the last time the National Guard had been deployed in Wisconsin as part of a social conflict on ... May 1, 1886, during the movement for the eight-hour day. She then opened fire on striking steelworkers killing seven people!
There is no real need to wonder why the mainstream media does not speak of Wisconsin while we currently bassinent with Algeria ... There the Native Americans reject liberalism and show us his misdeeds while in Algiers agents of influence of the Empire trying to establish a more liberal and more open at the Grand West (2). It is good for big brother that we ignored the resistance of some and we are positively informed of the actions of others ...
Yet there is more risk that our future if we do not react in time, more like the officials of Madison, only one of trabendiste Algiers.
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We do not endorse all the writings of Christian Bouchet, but admittedly it is sometimes very perceptive.
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