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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Human Rights Reader 338</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>ON DEVELOPMENT, THE
LAW, EMPTY PROMISES AND RESISTANCE IN TIMES OF AGITATION.</b></p>
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<b style><span style="font-size:14pt">A cautionary tale:</span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></b><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Before the law, there is a
sentinel. A peasant approaches this guard and requests the permission to enter
the law. But the guard responds that, for now, he cannot let him in. The man
takes a moment to think and asks if later the guard would let him in. “It is
possible”, says the watchman, “but not now”. The peasant had not foreseen this
difficulty; the law should always be accessible to all, he thinks. The guard
gives him a little stool to sit on. There, the peasant waits days, months and
years. He tries to bribe the guard who accepts the bribes and says: “I accept
your gifts so you do not think you have omitted any attempt and effort for me
to let you in”. Time passes until he has only little more time to live. Before
dying he asks the guard to come closer. “What do you want now?”, he asks.
“Everybody seeks the law but, in all these years I have seen nobody else coming
to this gate, how come?”, the peasant asks, to which the guard replies: “Nobody
could, because this gate has only been for you, and now I am going to close
it”.</span>
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For the full Reader, go to<br><br><a href="http://www.socialmedicine.org/?p=6773">http://www.socialmedicine.org/?p=6773</a> <br></div><br>Claudio<br></div>