{"id":15897,"date":"2013-01-24T15:45:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15897"},"modified":"2013-01-24T15:45:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:45:37","slug":"subcomandante-marcos-them-and-us-the-lack-of-reason-among-those-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15897","title":{"rendered":"Subcomandante Marcos: \u201cThem and Us: The (lack of) Reason among those from Above.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chiapas: release of new communique by the EZLN hours before the arrival or Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto to lands under its influence<\/strong>
\n20 January, 2013 – SIPAZ<\/p>\n

On 20 January, there was published the first part of a new message signed by Subcomandante Marcos entitled \u201cThem and Us: The (lack of) Reason among those from Above.\u201d The communique is written as a parody, from the perspective of those who speak \u201cfrom above.\u201d It asserts among other things that \u201cWe are those who command. We are the most powerful, although we be few in number. It does not matter to us what you do-think-hear-or say, just as long as you are deaf, mute, and stationary. We can impose a government onto somewhat intelligent people (although these are difficult to find in the political class), but we select one who cannot even pretend to know what is going on. Why? Because we can […]. We can use the police and the military apparatus to persecute and incarcerate various criminals, but these criminals are a vital part of our operations. In exchange we can choose to persecute you, beat you, arrest you, torture you, imprison you, and kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The powerful are said to affirm that \u201cwhat truly is a danger, a veritable chaos, is when whoever makes herself into a collective, ground, band, race, or organization, and then come to learn how to say \u2018yes\u2019 and \u2018no,\u2019 and that these come to agreement among themselves. Because this \u2018no\u2019 has to do with those like us who command. And this \u2018yes\u2019\u2026 Well, this is a calamity; imagine that each person construct her own destiny, deciding what she will be and do. This would be like claiming that we are superfluous\u2013that we are the ones who are left over, the ones who are not necessary, the ones who should be incarcerated, the ones who should disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n

It should be mentioned that the communique was released a few hours before the arrival of President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto to Chiapas to present the National Crusade against Hunger in the Las Margaritas municipality. This crusade has as its budget close to 4 billion pesos, and it seeks to be deployed in some 400 municipalities with the highest indexes of social marginalization. Notably, Las Margaritas is one of the poorest municipalities in the country; it is considered to be a Zapatista bastion, being one of the cities that were taken peacefully by the EZLN on 21 December 2012. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chiapas: release of new communique by the EZLN hours before the arrival or Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto to lands under its influence 20 January, 2013 – SIPAZ On 20 January, there was published the first part of a new message signed by Subcomandante Marcos entitled \u201cThem and Us: The (lack of) Reason among those from Above.\u201d more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3000],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15899,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions\/15899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}