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| The Open House Events: a pain in the Makhzen’s neck! | |
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| By Nadia Yassine, 05-26-2006 |
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| Yesterday, the Makhzen saw fit to test the efficiency of its new police forces. After they have shown the foreign enemy (who is it, by the way?) that our army that parades armless is prepared for defense, it is now the turn of the domestic enemy against whom they unleashed the new police troops tamed to perform exclusive feats as far as security operations are concerned: to capture women and children caught red-handed as they were involved in a crime of …communicating. |
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| In fact, the police raids in the premises of Al Adl Wal Ihssan (The JSM), semi-known and semi-recognized, are the obvious expression of the bad fright that the Makhzen has of transparency and communication. The appellation “semi” is also a Makhzen specialty that resembles the dance they appreciate very much: one step forward, three steps backward. The JSM is neither banned nor authorized, and let those who have undertaken law studies not try to understand: that’s unprecedented; there is nothing to understand about it. Banned when it becomes too open; easy-going and authorized when it channels the bad instincts of an over-excited youth after the explosive 5/16 events. Banned when I am invited in Germany by a center that is not too strategic; authorized when I am invited in the United States. Banned when our house events are as open as our hearts; authorized when our house events are against our will held in camera (with secret police infiltrations, of course). |
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| This time we are definitely banned, and even candidates for spending some nights in police stations: women, babies, men, visitors, JSM’s members, and equipment (stolen officially from the JSM.) |
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| What’s the matter, then? |
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| It is commonly known that among the JSM’s founding principles, transparency holds a place of choice. Out of faithfulness to this spirit, the JSM that is wrongly accused of adopting introvert and peculiar attitudes saw fit to organize open house events to expose, in all transparency by the way and to the public at large, its various objectives, workshops and programs. As the success of those open house events organized in several big cities was impressive, the regime had to react ... |
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| After resorting to repressive and drastic measures during long years behind the wall of silence, and as the new conception of power would have it, the Makhzen bets henceforth on slander and disrepute. Helped on by a tabloid press, the Makhzen does not care to hawk all sorts of nonsense against the JSM, which is deprived of having the least newspaper. The open house events were then a pain in the Makhzen’s neck in this strategy of systematic disinformation. |
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| As the atmosphere is rather over-excited in this year 2006, the Makhzen has enough constraints to kill two birds with one stone and make the best use of its police raids as well as of its military exhibitions. It is clear that those raids are also meant to impress the Moroccan people who get interested more closely in the JSM. The Moroccan people are thus reminded in a roundabout way that the Makhzen is not completely armless, nor completely gone out of its police logic, nor completely courageous… |
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| If the JSM is so courageous to organize open house events, the regime practises only the policy of hardly half-open house events in order to interrupt them at the least alert of a real societal movement embodied in the JSM… |
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