FORCE PUBLIC
Fruits of my land
Saul Hernandez. TIME columnist.
We are not nor speak Danish Police Swedish or Swiss Army.
The children of people without much education to know how to add and subtract, we put weapons, uniforms and badges, and give them greater responsibilities than those of a judge and then pass over like anything. When an officer leaves his home, knows that the Colombian is more reason may be wary of his return: no one knows if they return. You do not have the salary of a senior official, can not afford to escort him for threats, it is not uncommon. On the contrary, he is the one guard, he is the last line of defense of famous people and ordinary citizens.
The cop knows he must face the worst of society, the most dangerous offenders homeless and more obnoxious. They put them in front whether it is to capture the drug lord, which promises lead or silver, what would you choose? - Or withdraw from a quarter to a homeless triple six bathed in their own urine. And as non-stick, tire, falter. The yuppie gets tired of winning millions in the stock market. It tires the athlete achieve success. Tires telenovela heartthrob siliconudas their partners. Stops
police to a drunk driver is not sweet pear. And, tired of dealing with who knows how many street urchins, feral, pickpockets, thugs, traquetos, swindlers, rapists, hijackers and others, take to heart its functions and hits a Want to Hold the city, among many, in clear superiority ... A despicable act, no doubt. But from there anything is weighted, just criticizing the brutality of the military and demand sanctions.
Same with the military forces, infiltrated by drug traffickers and guerrillas, nothing new. Pablo Escobar left the warm sheets and the leaders of the Farc is any journalist without much stir, but not the law. When a van, the others have already returned by the grace of bribery and gift. Sean
police or military, the scandals are the order of the day: drug seizures return to the hands of its owners by magic and many uniformed extras are short hours in robberies, extortions and kidnappings with the same tranquility of the liguita asking not to impose a traffic ticket.
But in addition to death, police and soldiers harass prison, disability, dismissal. Can sin by default or by excess and ruin their lives and those of others even without fault. In the comfort of our homes, branded as cowards who flee from certain death when the enemy surpasses them in strength, and villains who are not wanting to get caught fire against unarmed civilians without calculation, as the six children killed in Pueblo Rico ( Antioquia) in August 2000.
course to justify these behaviors or derogate from their responsibilities to members of the security forces is impossible. But wonder so many scandals in a body of 380 thousand soldiers is tantamount to ignoring the idiosyncrasies of Colombia and the origin of most of the members of our forces. Is that we are not speaking Danish or Swedish Police or the Swiss Army, not from educated families-if they exist in Colombia, nor have they been trained in schools tri ...
What right do moral judgments about the conduct of these public servants without analyzing the causes? Did Colombian society cares a whit that they are cannon fodder of our violences, people expendable? Can we call for any sacrifice on our behalf?
The truth is that security in general, the 'democratic', the public, including legal force component required, and that is constituted by giving the little bit of land, more or less. But everything, absolutely everything, you can go to ruin if we do not find ways to improve the crop. Taken
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