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| By Nadia Yassine, on June 14, 2005
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| I herein send you the integral text of the intervention I was supposed to give live , but couldn’t, since I was forbidden to leave the Moroccan territory as a result of an interview I granted and which caused me to be sued for lese majesty . I was supposed to debate about that within the context of the Mediterranean social forum to which I was invited by the Catalan association “Sodepau” that I immensely thank for their open-mindedness. |
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| I was called for at the boarding room of the airport at the last minute and prevented from leaving; they say I provoked the king, in truth I challenged the Makhzenian mendacity. |
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| “Makhzen” is a Moroccan term for “regime”, etymologically, it means “store”, never before had the Makhzen merited its etymologic appellation better then it does today, lacking a clear strategy it has opted for a weekly balance sheets like storekeepers. |
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| My trial is for June 28,2005 while I still seek rehearing for the 4 month-suspended-sentence I earned consequent to a demonstration I held with the members of our movement on December 10, 2001; a demonstration in support of the MAHR (Moroccan Association for Human Rights: a left wing association ) and against human rights abuse at all levels. |
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| I’m liable to 3 to 5 years of imprisonment for the new charges. |
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| All the”democrats” are affected, the authentic ones (very scarce, even becoming extinct, who supported my right to free expression) and the fake ones who launched a real democratic tsunami against my right to think differently and independently. |
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| I’ve been the talk of the town during the last couple of weeks, because I dared commit such crime as …thinking otherwise, expressing an academic approach deviating from the traced norm. The fact remains that they unmasked themselves through a logorrhea full of hatred and bitterness for anything that might awaken Morocco from its sacred sleep. |
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| It’s the elite’s unanimity over the status quo and their non-assistance to a nation in danger of a heart attack, an old and chronic one since I’m borrowing the diagnosis from a speech of the late Hassan II (may God have mercy on his soul). |
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| In its storekeeper like calculations, the Makhzen (a concept that also has some etymological concordance with the idea of dam), kept me from leaving its territory, jealous of its missing human resources perhaps... |
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| I couldn’t attend the forum but, in the new globalized world, it’s useless to try to confine thought… how can one explain this to a storekeeper…!? Thanks to authentic democrats my intervention will be read in Sodepau. |
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| However, I still regret not having attended such a manifestation for two main reasons: First because of the huge respect we nurture for such movements that struggle for more equitable and humane societies. We believe it’s an opportunity for a real solidarity between people of good will to emerge and develop. And this perfectly suits our vision of the future. Partnership and solidarity are the antidote against a barbarian materialistic globalization. |
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| Furthermore, I’d have wanted to thank by word of mouth our Sodepau friends’ efforts, for they chosen to overstep emotion and go for an actual democratization of the movement. They opted for a true dialog not a deaf judgmental monolog. |
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| I thank them all so much as well as all those who supported me. I also thank Ms Nahla Chahal from the ICCPPP for inviting me to take part in a workshop regarding the same issue. |
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