Blockades are long disgusting! | ¡Los bloqueos son repugnantes desde hace mucho tiempo!

By Francesco Zaratti, Vision 360:

The National Sport

Lawyers, famous for having won a lot despite losing all international lawsuits against the State, have ingrained the idea that blockades are a legitimate form of protest.

Every country has a national sport: in India, it’s cricket; in New Zealand, rugby; in El Salvador, it used to be gangs (which they overcame); in Brazil, football; and in Bolivia, blockades.

The sport of blockading involves obstructing a road to vehicles of all sizes, allowing only pedestrians with their belongings to pass through.

Blockading has very peculiar characteristics, which I will detail below.

It is not an individualist sport but a mass one. It mobilizes hundreds and sometimes thousands of players who move around, eat, and leave their jobs, all at the expense of a patron covering those costs or sponsors who contribute, freely obliged, to the sport’s sustainability. In fact, even though it is a mass sport, it is expensive, like Elon Musk’s space travel, which cannot be extended for long periods.

Blockading is a democratic sport: no one is discriminated against or excluded from participating; on the contrary, all new adherents are welcomed and encouraged to position themselves in the front lines of the blockade, while the organizers tend to humbly place themselves at the rear.

It is a sport that can be played in any corner of the national geography, although national and departmental highways, crossroads, bridges, viaducts, and places with hills, plenty of solid rocks, trees for chopping, and coca for the chemical industry are preferred.

Blockading is a sedentary sport: after an intense and enthusiastic start, athletes dedicate themselves to guarding the “blockade points,” sitting, eating, and drinking, even alcohol. However, this sedentary lifestyle ends when the opposing team appears, well-equipped and uniformed. It is the police who, more often than not, futilely attempt to intervene in the blockade. Then the game enters its dynamic phase, with tear gas launched from one side and shouts, insults, rocks, tree felling, and tire burning from the other. While it may not be defined as an ecological sport, it does fulfill Pierre de Coubertin’s Olympic motto: “the important thing is not to win but to participate.”

Indeed, another characteristic of this national sport is that no one wins, and everyone loses, including the players and the spectators powerless in the face of this form of “right to protest” that violates the rights of an entire country. In effect, it is self-gratifying for the athletes of this sport to harm others, especially the poorest and most defenseless in such situations, and even their fellow citizens who refuse to play.

The motivations of the players are varied and inventive, ranging from simple complaints to cosmic demands.

Blockades are always used to “protest.” Lawyers, famous for having won a lot while losing all international lawsuits against the State, have ingrained the idea that blockading is a legitimate form of protest. It is a curious theory according to which the rights of the majority are subordinate to the whims and abuses of effective minorities. It is no wonder that a neighboring country has banned this criminal sport (which is essentially a form of extortion) played by emboldened “picketers.”

Under the baton of a “great captain,” the coveted trophies range from the construction of a road, which will later be promptly damaged and blocked, the repair of a school, or the endorsement of a fraudulent candidate, to demands for impunity for crimes against children, women, and morality. However, there are no shortages of nobler laurels, such as the miraculous appearance of dollars and fuel or the resignation of the president of the State.

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