Guaranis to be evicted from ancestral lands by 600 armed police and military in Brazil

Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 13 2004 @ 12:20 PM CST

And they say history is over!

This is merely a continuance of the state policy of stealing the land from it\'s disenfranchised minorities in order to turn their land over to capitalists who can then purchase and use the land for market oriented production.

This policy benefits the state in every way. Turning the land over to market production which helps booster the national economy. They can tax the new revenue and the land to fill the coffers of the state. And the peasants will most likely be forced to immigrate into the cities in order to make a living which is just fine to the capitalists and state as it provides a ready source of fresh and competitive labor that now participates in the national economy. It all leads to the funding of state devlopment.

The only problem as far is the state and capitalists is concerned is the possibility of rebellion. But the state always finds an excuse and a means to suppress rebellion or incorporate it into the state structure, most of the time. The first proactive step of course is to limit it\'s overt assualts on disenfranchised minorities.

This kind of activity is also occurring right now in Thailand and Burma from what I have read and probably a lot of other places as well.

Historically other examples are Britain in the 1640s with the fencing of the commons by the Fuedal Lords and their armies, in late and early 19th century in Mexico under the dictatorship of Poriforio Diaz, The United States in 17th and 19th centuries in the wars against the Native Americans and in Spain as early as the 1492 when the Spanish Crown and it\'s fuedal armies took over and drove the peasants from their land in order to turn it over to the market production of Merino wool in order to fund the growth of the Spanish Reconquista.

According to Anthony Beevors book the \"Spanish Civil War\" This market oriented production eventually led to massive soil erosion which resulted in ruining what was once know as the \'granary of the Roman Empire. This in fact lead to Spain\'s population dropping from an estimated 14 million in the middle ages to a little over seven million by the end of the 18th century.

In many ways this is what we are facing under todays market based and profit oriented economy. Namely environmental destruction on a worldwide basis. Not to mention the massive human rights abuses that are carried out under a market based system.

But perhaps enviromental degradation in itself should be viewed as a violation of human rights in the first place not meerly a crime against some inclusvie natural world but in fact a crime against human life.


http://www.akha.org/
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm SectionID=44&ItemID=3782
http://www.drugwar.com/akhaindex.shtm
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/IPEIE/
http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/humanrights/khrg/archive/
http://www.bilderberg.org/land/

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