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| Nadia Yassine, 16-06-2006 |
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| The scale of the scandal regarding the exam questions of the Baccalaureate [A-levels/High School Diploma] that have been leaked is a national disaster that has no equal but that of the damage caused by the structural adjustment to the national education in particular. On top of the international plundering, as debts are mechanisms for transferring the national wealth of the South to the North, there is the national plundering. |
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| Our country is not only plundered materially by those who rule us, but it is also the victim of a massacre in its dignity and its lifeblood. In « l’horreur économique » [the economic horror], Viviane Forrester described how much figures, however eloquent they may be, cannot express the truth of unbearable suffering, the pain of a broken heart, the tragedy of a family in mourning… |
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| The gap between the hollow slogans and the bitter truths is increasingly becoming wide. In such gulf falls everyday the young that are desperate, hopes that are assassinated, great minds that are nipped in the bud, wills that are dissected, prospects that are condemned. |
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| Reformulating the statements of Jacques Roux, Saint-Just said: “freedom cannot be practised except by men who are free from need.” |
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| It is indeed futile to count the material needs of Moroccans, as a Moroccan in need is a euphemism in most cases. Yet the most obvious and most urgent thing the Moroccans need to appreciate freedom is to free themselves from this regime that has no policy other than exacerbating the needs of the people in favor of a certain community. |
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| The Moroccan people are in a great need, the need to recharge their batteries, the need to be respected, the need to have hopes, the need TO BE quite simply…Because the Moroccan people ARE NOT, they are only a herd that the Makhzenocrats manipulate as they please, and despise shamelessly. |
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| All the Makhzen’s policies lie henceforth on creating false needs with a view to creating a diversion on the real ones. Juggling with needs is quite an art. They do it with total impunity, protected as they are by an archaic constitution and supported by an advanced state of corruption. |
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| Jean Ziegler is a troublemaker, an expert in that Switzerland that launders with consummate skill. A real spoilsport, he testifies in an excellent work titled «l’empire de la honte» [the empire of shame] (Fayard 2005, p 44) : |
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| “In Geneva I have a friend, a former private banker who has become a personal manager of fortunes. He works namely with Morocco. Among his long-time customers is a personality who, for more than twelve years, brings him every year around one million dollars in cash for investment purposes in the West. My friend is repelled by this state of affairs, but he still continues to do his job. He is a family man, and as he told me with good reason:“if I break off with this customer, he will not stop plundering his country for all that; he will only change his manager.” |
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| How much money will he deposit in Swiss banks the one who has sold the Baccalaureate’s exam questions this year, those of last year, and those of the years to come if nobody stops these cursed operations? And all those who plunder from all sides (of the rotation government) the Moroccan people in need, in extreme need …and those who plunder retail, those who plunder in wholesale, whose number is increasing day after day? |
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| Cry, O my beloved country!!! Cry and roll in ash if they ever leave you enough ash to roll about in, for even ash could be coveted by the vultures of all stripes that fight over what remains of your wealth. |
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| The Makhzen is a corruption in itself, and the Baccalaureate’s scandal, as well as the other scandals that have broken, are only the visible tip of a frightening and fatal iceberg. Degeneration is total. No law or reform can guarantee a change if moral strength does not intervene in this process of total decline. |
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| They may well give a face-lift to the constitution, put make-up on the mudawwana, introduce reforms in parliament, and opt for solving all issues by resorting to force. If the spirit of the laws is not supported by a code of ethics and principles inculcated by education, nothing’s any good: we’ll sink straight to the bottom, all of us. |
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| The rise of a nation, does it not lie first and above all in its moral strength? |
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| Benjamin Franklin, co-author of the US Declaration of Independence, was questioned by the young Danton: “the world is nothing but injustice and destitution. Where are the sanctions? To command respect, your declaration has no power, neither judiciary nor military...” |
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| With a self-confident tone, Benjamin Franklin replied: “That’s wrong!! Behind this declaration lies a significant, eternal power: the power of shame.” |
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| Benjamin Franklin meant that inside each self-respecting human being there is an insurmountable part that prevents him from doing certain things that are internationally recognized as shameful: like fleecing one’s fellow citizens, repressing them without good cause, debasing them, impoverishing them etc …since interiority is the distinctive feature of any human society. |
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| In Morocco, even shame has no more power. It has been neutralized like any power having the possibility of stopping another. Each time somebody intends to awaken that power, he will be utterly neutralized, perhaps even massacred. A Moroccan adage says: «dahra lahshuma 3la wjeh attarrah.» Literally it means that if somebody lives in the infernal heat of an oven, his face cannot blush with shame. A simpler rendering would say: if somebody does not come out of the oven, it’s… all over for him! |
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