One of the most important rights for life and health of a democracy is the right to demonstrate, in its various forms, meetings, public rallies, strikes. By virtue of the citizens who are willing to sacrifice some of their time and personal interests are expected to influence public opinion and, through them, the decisions of the authority, in this form of government-not forget-is mandated by a decision of the people
For exercise the right to demonstrate operate as legitimate means of influence is necessary to do so under a basic condition of any democracy: respect for liberty and the prohibition of force as means of political action. This idea, although elementary, seems to have lost the latest in the early years of this decade. So increasingly, groups or associations to defend their interests, whether private (better salaries, historic debt, working conditions) or public (quality of education, health services, etc.) Leverage dominant position they occupy in the dependency ratio as the product of the work they do, there remains a significant universe of other people, basic dimensions of their lives (health, education, civil procedure). The advantage is that those who must be served in these areas, they become used as instruments of pressure or bargaining chips, as compared to unemployment among health officials, teachers, or the Civil Registry officials, have no alternative meet the vital services which due to the strike, are unmet.
In these cases, the manifestation of the respective groups or associations do not operate like any other citizen, who assumes the costs to mobilize politically (in terms of personal time off costs for time not worked and even possibility of dismissal for failure of his contractual duties), but moving the consequences to others, institutionally caught in a dependent relationship with those who protest, but third to last, have not been involved in the conflict free. Put another way: we find here a group of people that an important part of their rights, they become hostage to those who demonstrate by a strike for their demands. However legitimate they may be, it does not detract from the correctness of the description. Thus, the right to demonstrate, as a legitimate form of influence over the authority by means of shaping public opinion, becomes pure and simple extortion under the guise of defending the rights, planting the seeds for effectively erode constitutional government looking to move the decisions to be taken under its democratic legitimacy by others obtained as a result of the use of force.
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