Statement by Javier Sicilia

From Narco News:
Note: Javier Sicilia and the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity issued this statement following the passage of draft legislation for a National Security Law by Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies. The law, originally proposed by President Felipe Calderón to fight the drug war, would give the military greater powers to act against loosely defined “internal security threats.” Sicilia had been invited to speak with deputies on the Chamber’s Political Coordination Board about growing violence in the country, but canceled the appearance to announce that dialogue between the movement and lawmakers would be suspended. He gave the following statement outside of the Chamber of Deputies on August 4

JAVIER SICILIA: Before starting, and as is the custom each time the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity speaks, we want to begin this statement with passages from one of our greatest poems, Sunstone by Octavio Paz:

The world is born when two people kiss…
And the laws chewed away by the rats
The iron bars of the banks and jails
The paper bars, the barbed wire
The rubber stamps, the pricks and goads
The droning one-note sermon on war
The mellifluous scorpion in a cap and gown…
The schoolmaster donkey, the crocodile cast
In the role of savior, father of the people…
The uniformed pig, the favorite son
Of the Church who washes his blackened dentures
In holy water and takes classes in civics
And conversational English, the invisible walls
The rotten masks that divide one man
From another, one man from himself
They crumble
For one enormous moment and we glimpse
The unity that we lost, the desolation
Of being man, and all its glories
Sharing bread and sun and death
The forgotten astonishment of being alive

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