MARIANO CABRERO BÁRCENA - From La Coruña, España
Each passing day, every hour, every minute, every second ... I would say we are doing History, World History.
The books reflect the events reliably, so that future generations learn from past mistakes, and, well, undoubtedly, will build a better world to live and live together, rich with poor to rich and poor.
History is a subject that is always latent, alive and full of events: dangerous, bad and good, shocking, outrageous and so on. One can not forget ... ever since I was taught to remember the day on September 1, 1939, when 2.50 in the morning.
They began to hear the first shots of a war that lasted almost five years, the largest of the wars that have seen human eye had begun, was the most ferocious, the most expensive, the most bloody.
After he came to call the World War II. The causes of this global conflagration were diverse and different in nature. An American plane, the B-29 (on behalf of "Enola Gay"), to 8.15 on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters dropped on Hiroshima-the civilian population, the first bomb atom.
Then, on 8 exhausts 1945 the second atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki. Another man, Mr Harry S. Truman, the then chairman of the US-authorized the atomic bombing.
One can not forget ... ever since I was taught to remember World War II, Germany began, and showed us the extent to which human beings are capable of martyr, degrade, torture, rape ... to prisoners of war -Women and Children, as demonstrated in the extermination camps of European Jews by land: it was the Holocaust of Israel.
One can not forget ... ever since I was taught to remember the acts of harassment, which are being carried out by Jewish settlers against Palestinians, and the city of Hebron (West Bank), which can become a A new "Palestinian Holocaust". And this is happening in the twenty-first century: here and now.
But in Germany, the minister of Justice, Brigitte Zypries, trafficking, and his way of preventing and penalizing all forms of racism, antisemitism and xenophobia through the public display of Nazi symbols. And now comes to influence in the EU (European Union), for prohibiting the display above-symbols, medals swastika ...-, and to criminalize the denial of the Holocaust.
If we follow his advice literally get into a dark critical situation, in that it would limit freedom of expression. (There are far-right parties in Europe, I will not deny, for example: National Front in France, Germany NPD, the party of Romanian Corneliu Vadim Tudor.)
And they go, and is the perfect right to defend its ideals, wrong or not wrong, but ideals to the end of the day. If you deny historical evidence, which have been proven reliably, and above them and their consciences.
But these political parties have been defeated, no doubt, through the exercise of democracy, played by citizens when they meet the requirement to vote: yes, no or abstention.
Today Europe is operating under other parameters that uphold freedom of expression, and in all its nuances. We must promote the speech, dialogue, freedom of the press ... to not ever deny what the history books taught us, and will continue to do so, the events through the ages.
Because it's silly to try to deny that there was the Inquisition, the Holocaust, the genocide of American Indians by men who colonized the United States ... The historical truths can not legislate on the basis of views and historic proved unfounded, so that each We say what we find most appropriate in each moment.
But it is important to take the pen every day to distract, to teach and bringing the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, religion ... Knowing how and when to anticipate the event newsworthy.
We must try not to lie, it would do a more in two very specific cases: a) to save the life of a human being, and b) to praise the beauty of a woman. William Faulkner was writing that "I advise to become a good journalist-writer-a ninety-nine per cent of talent, ninety-nine per cent of discipline and ninety-nine per cent of work." And this is a truth as a temple.
The dreams of the nationalists, and throughout the world are on them. Remember the neo-fascist and David_Irving British historian, who was sentenced by an Austrian court to three years in prison for denying the existence of the Jewish Holocaust, and six years ago. Irving was released on December 20, 2006, and to leave said: "I refused, but now I have changed my opinion."
Perhaps awoke from a deep sleep, dreaming and dreaming, he returned to the daily reality of every historian, which prides itself on being so.
History can not be counterfeit because it belongs to us all the living. She teaches us, I think, in our intellect to remember the good and bad memories that have occurred, because if I lose the head-retentive memory cognitive bathed by fresh water from pure spring, I become the happiest of fatal, since only then would live and my dreams, and dreams would always be mine.
"[... ] I dream that I am here
of these prisons charged,
and I dreamed that in another state
I was more flattering.
What is life? A frenzy.
What is life? An illusion,
a shadow, a fiction,
and the greatest good is small:
that all life is sleep,
and dreams, dreams are.
In soliloquy of Segismundo Life's dream of Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Mariano Cabrero Bárcena
