First rescue operations
We content ourselves with fine words and attractive pictures to forget and make people forget the hideous image of a disgraceful past.
The new king's young advisers seemingly want to ward off Moroccan malaise with media incantation: why not put on a show and dispense smiles if we cannot afford food and jobs?
The young entourage thinks it can easily erase from people's minds the evil memory of the period in which Tazmamart torturers ruled supreme. It helplessly endeavours to adorn the time where Hassan's "demoncracy" swore that the elections had never been falsified, that the government of the country was done with devotion and loyalty and that "l'alternance consensuelle" (the alleged consensual changeover of political power) was and still is an appreciable asset highly advocated by democracy.
The young entourage thinks it can easily erase from people's minds the evil memory of the period in which Tazmamart torturers ruled supreme. It helplessly endeavours to adorn the time where Hassan's "demoncracy" swore that the elections had never been falsified, that the government of the country was done with devotion and loyalty and that "l'alternance consensuelle" (the alleged consensual changeover of political power) was and still is an appreciable asset highly advocated by democracy.
The young who acclaim Mohammed VI have turned away definitely from a political community conspiring willy-nilly with the old Makhzen, which betrayed the principles of paraded Islam. They have equally turned aside from Hassan's democracy, drained of its substance and fashioned in the style of a certain despotism fearing neither God nor man.
The young advisers are fully aware of the lack of points of reference and of the identity gap felt by the boat people generation, which flees from poverty-stricken Morocco to the lot that we all know.
They would combine outdated and modern slogans to make those who have lost confidence in everybody adopt an alternative credo. The national anthem and the red flag at school would implant the feeling of loyalty in tender hearts. Solidarity campaigns and the five-dirham badges would establish the new "culture of public charity". Engaging with one's hand on one's heart in morning greetings before the national flag, and singing at the top of one's voice the national anthem will, helped on by destitution, soon discredit the new fetishism.
Changing the ideological paraphernalia could never breathe into Moroccans a new spirit that will set them in motion and reassure them about their future. The annual periodic charity shows have become a tradition which is now putting down roots in the Makhzen's agenda with the view to normalise relations with beggary.
Who do you think are you deluding? Are you trying to take for a ride the young desperados who sell their scanty family possessions to be sent to kingdom come on Tangier's jury feluccas?
Those who lack sound principles and strong will search for second-hand points of reference in the ready-to-wear slogan market. Go on and satisfy the hunger of the famished people by endless fairy tales! Paint in glowing colours to the thirsty horde the mirage of a hospitable oasis in the desert of false promises! Disillusion will only be greater and the consequences more disastrous.
Those who lack sound principles and strong will search for second-hand points of reference in the ready-to-wear slogan market. Go on and satisfy the hunger of the famished people by endless fairy tales! Paint in glowing colours to the thirsty horde the mirage of a hospitable oasis in the desert of false promises! Disillusion will only be greater and the consequences more disastrous.
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