People firing corrupt civil servants and officials: Tunisia revolt
Posted by: adonis49 on: August 15, 2011
People firing corrupt civil servants and officials: Tunisia revolt
Judge Mokhtar Meddeb revealed that magistrates removed 6 judges bought out by the entourage of ex-President Ben Ali. Fiscal civil servants expelled their corrupt director who was at the service of the mafia of Ben Ali. The newly appointed foreign minister Ahmed Adberraouf Ounais of the transitory government was prevented from entering his cabinet building: The crowed chanted “Go home. You have no longer our confidence”. This 75 year-old minister had delivered an interview the evening before that demonstrated that he didn’t get it that time have changed. The minister resigned the same day. Ten days later, it was the turn of the newly appointed French Ambassador to taking his leave of absence.
Foreign journalists had to agree that the Tunisian revolution is “polite and sympathetic”. Why, the people behaved correctly and civil in front of ministers and cultural centers, and never tried to break in or steal or raise brutal hell. For example, as a hundred Moslem salafists arrived in front of the assembled and knelt down for prayer, people just circumvented the praying Moslems and left them in peace.
General Rashid Ammar didn’t make a fuss when Ben Ali fired him for not shooting at demonstrators. Ammar just declared to the crowd that he is on sick leave. The officers attached to Ammar neutralized the troops of his nemesis General Seriati. As Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia, and the restauration of a provisional government, General Ammar asked the demonstrator to disband for void generates terror and terror brings back dictators, as what happened during the French revolution of 1789.
The revolution in Tunisia was Not a military coup in disguise as many Arab and western medias wanted us to believe. Ben Ali just lost the confidence and trust of his people, before he lost his army, and after his people discovered hunger and humiliation. The Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad will have to step down, even though he did not lose the support of his army and his people are not hungry, but simply because the Syrian people have got enough of 30 years of dictatorship of a family clan. Dictator Bashar Al Assad might institute reforms, but how could he regain the trust of a people vomiting anything that smack of absolute rule?
The women in Tunisia played a significant role in the success of this “Jasmin revolution”. Women marched in Bourguiba Avenue and courageously faced off the insults of the religious salafists. They also joined the civic demonstration on Feb. 19 reclaiming the institution of a secular State and dropping the clause in the Constitution that Islam is the religion of the State… The jurist Soukeina Bouraoui, author Raja Ben Slama, the human rights militant Sana Ben Achour discussed openly on women conditions on TV, using local Arabic dialect, on topics related to the veil, equal rights between genders…
The critical discussion is what kind of political system to establish? Is it going to be another Presidential system or a Parliamentary system? Both systems have far more serious disadvantages than a tradeoff political structure. What can guarantee avoidance of dictatorship, oligarchy, and mafia corruption?
It is a Constitution firmly applied,which does not permit exceptions to the rules, a constitution prohibiting any successive re-election of authority after the first term, even deputies of Parliament. Authority should not enjoy more than four years of government so that they fail to weave efficient mafia-type corruption systems. High ranking civil servants should not remain in their positions for more than five years, and they should revert to private life after early retirement. There are plenty of capable people in any community in order not to rely on the “intelligence” of a few.
Note: Article was inspired from the French book “Spring of Tunisia: metamorphosis of history” by Abdelwahab Meddeb
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