SITREP Chile: Police Violence in the streets
The Saker
ABOVE: The people demand a new Constitution.
Note from the Saker: A Chilean friend sent me the video below with the following explanation:
A commission has been established to analyze the Emergency State declared by the President of Chile, Mr. Sebastian Piñera.
The commission has asked a constitutional lawyer, Mr. Jaime Bassa to issue an statement.
Summarized, he states the following
1.- what is happening at the moment is that an exception to the exceptional state is what best describes the situation. What is happening on the streets of Chile has absolutely no constitutional support and is pure factual State Violence. Being very responsible with the wording, can be said that the constitutional norm establishes different ways to execute this exceptionalism. They can be gradually selected according the severity of the emergency: from external to internal shock.
This means that the limit of citizen guarantees restrictions it will depend on the seriousness of the threat. This is a key issue. What has been declared here is an emergency state, and this facilitates ONLY the President, to limit the exercise of freedom of movement and reunion of the population.
2.- He can delegate this function on a local authority, but this has not happened.
3.- however factually other liberties have been severed: information and press freedom, freedom to express opinions, against the right to peaceful protest at home. People are being detained in places that have not been authorized by law to serve to this purpose, people have been taken prisoners from their homes. This means that factually the military institutions is acting with no control and as if martial law had been declared, which is not true, ONLY an emergency state has been declared, as above described.
This is all very dangerous and mainly illegal.
5.- This law was originally issued in 1985 and reformed in 1990. This is the first time this law is used for a political situation, as before this time it has been only been used in catastrophe instances; earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, fire, etc
6.- actual curfew is also illegal and people who disobey it are not legally committing a crime, and should not be detained, it is an offense to be punished only by fineWhat the initial twitter video shows is exactly the abuses currently being committed by the chilean armed forces against the population, totally illegal and with no political responsibility!!
He talks a lot more but I think this is quite enough to understand why this is illegal.
Meanwhile, Piñera has laid off the parliament at plenum!
My intuition tells me that this all has a lot to do to change the legislation to make if fit for the TPT. (See explanation below). I think the establishment, PC included are behind this emergency state, but now they are losing control of it.
ADDENDUM
What is this TPP11 that the Chilean bourgeoisie, currently headed by Piñera, is trying to push down the throats of the Chilean people? (This in addition to the brutal regime of neoliberalism in place since the Pinochet days, with only cosmetic "adjustments".)
Basically, this treaty, like all transnational treaties, reduces a nation's ability to govern itself in a sovereign manner, making it difficult for it (assuming it has the nclination to do so, which often is not the case due to the doemstic elite corrption) to protect its environment, its workers, and its resources, for example, if commercial interests complain, and so on.
Note that this treaty was promoted among the last pending things of the government of Michelle Bachelet and it has been embraced by this government. Its main objective is to reduce the range of freedom of the State in the economy within a wide range of matters, including; economic, commercial, social and cultural rights, making it difficult to find new forms of national autonomy and alternative development strategies.
Protected democracy for transnationals
At the beginning of March (2019), almost one year after the US withdrawal from the TPP, Donald Trump is considering rejoining the agreement because the group of countries totals 13% of the world economy and covers 498 million people, and that before the exit of the United States it had reached 40%. The US was earlier the main commercial partner (and proponent) of the pact.
SELECT COMMENTS
The cops are not our friends. The cops were never our friends. The cops are the clenched fist of the State in protecting the status quo and ‘The System’ – in this case the Neoliberal economic order with all its attendant structural violence. They protect Power.
Countless examples abound where people have challenged and protested against rank injustice and oppression, and watch what is done to them by the States thugs.
Look at the sheer violence meted out to the Gilets Jaunes in France, the Catalan protesters in Barcelona, the protesters in Chile, in Ecuador, Occupy protesters in New York: elderly people pepper sprayed in NY, women, including pensioners, waiting to vote in Barcelona savagely beaten by the brave men in blue. The States enforcers….
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Hi Gezzah. We have a saying in New Zealand. I have even seen it spray painted on a freeway overpass in Auckland. “Support the Police, beat yourself up.”
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You know how it goes-protestor arrested for damaging police property ie a cop’s size twelve boots, with his head.
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Snow Leopard…. To my shame, I only went to the North Island once, and that was to Wellington, tho recall seeing similar graffiti in Christchurch. The above video showed what the cops are for, however, as you no doubt have, I’ve seen much more graphic violence and thuggery from these uniformed stormtroopers in various clips online.
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Yet the fakestream presstitutes ONLY whine about non-existent ‘police brutality’ in Hong Kong, even spewing hatred at a cop who fired on a terrorist thug as the thug was attempting to bash him to death or maim him with a ‘little’ steel bar as the ABC presstitute called it.
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Mulga…. My rule of thumb: if the presstitutes either ignore or downplay mass protests going on; the Gilets Jaunes being a prime example, then you can almost bet your house on them being genuine anti neoliberal, anti establishment protests.
If they repeatedly focus on ‘protests’ ad nauseum in countries that by Pure Coincidence happen to be demonised, designated enemies of the Anglo Zionist Empire, such as, ohhhh, let’s see, how about China; then you can also almost bet your house that those protests are fake, and being directed by NED, Soros, and Staff at United States Embassies.
The ABC presstitutes fully revolt me by the way. They make my skin crawl. Just needed to add that.
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