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"El que se enoja..."

Submitted July 4, 2006 - 10:56 pm by Al Giordano
Jules,

Of course I read all your fabulous insults. They weren't filtered. I just didn't feel offended by them. Was that their intent? You picked the wrong guy for that. Taking offense is always a decision on the part of he who chooses to feel offended. I often repeat the adage, "there can be no taking of offense among revolutionaries."

Of course I see the anger behind your words and I think of the very Mexican adage, "el que se enoja, pierde," or "he who gets mad, loses." Your comments cross over from riteous indignation (always interesting) to spleen-splitting (rarely interesting). But, hey, if I'm not making people angry I'm not doing my job.

Re, the special polling places: The great majority of them were not in vacation areas. Period. End of story. People do not typically vacation in Juarez or Hermosillo or Coatzcoalcos. The presumption that those in Mexico who travel outside their towns are only the comfortable can be disproved by a walk through any city every day: indigenous campesinos who left their farms (largely thanks to NAFTA) and are ambulant sellers on the streets of Mexico City or Puebla or stuck at the border in Tijuana and every other place. And, I repeat, there are tens of thousands of them just up the road from you, in work camps. They have electoral credentials from back home. They were denied their vote. Perhaps some who were denied their vote in Cancun or Veracruz or Acapulco were vacationers. But the great majority of special polling places were not in those kinds of places.

You're a very sensitive guy. It is part of what aids you as a journalist. But, sheesh, you are still smarting over private comments six years ago! That to me is an indication that you do not handle criticism well. And, based on your own words, you find this post-electoral dispute very stressful.

Take a walk. Stop and smell the roses. But shield your virgin eyes from any newsstand today, where the weekly Proceso cover has a photo of IFE chief Ugalde with the headline: "Arbitro Complice" ("Complicit Umpire") and the daily Por Esto headline in your part of the woods is "Inacceptable" ("Unacceptable") about the election fraud of 2006. Tomorrow, Wednesday, lots of very stressful truths will also begin filtering out. Oh, and you might also wish, as part of this stress reduction program, to avoid exposure to the text we just posted of Subcomandante Marcos' statements last night.

salud,

Al

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