Karim Tabou Defies Arbitrariness and Oppression
Political Column from September 2, 2024
This morning, I fulfilled the obligation to sign the judicial control register at the barracks under the internal security jurisdiction.
Although I am arbitrarily forbidden from the right to expression—a measure flagrantly violating my constitutional rights, liberties, and civil rights imposed within the framework of my judicial control forbidding me from writing or expressing my political opinions—I consider writing and publishing this column to be much more than an act of resistance against arbitrariness. It is a duty to ensure that such a precedent is not used as a “judicial” cover for auctioning off our freedoms.
I remind the public that there is no judicial decision against me that strips me of my political and civil rights. This is merely a judicial deviation, among many others, that contradicts the spirit of justice, which, in other places, is the guarantor of freedom. Given the current circumstances, I have therefore decided to dedicate my political column this week to the upcoming September 7, 2024, elections.
Of all the elections organized since independence in 1962, the one scheduled for next September 7 is shaping up to be unique in the political and media annals of our country. The consensus is almost unanimous outside the interested and clientelist circles: a bland, lackluster, most disgraceful electoral campaign, devoid of any political substance. Its unfolding resembled a real pandemonium where clowns, agitators, useful idiots, gallery entertainers, with poor and infantilizing speeches, compete.
Not a single word on the rampant human rights violations, freedoms, political-media lockdown, projected militarization of the administration, the state of justice, schools and universities, cultural regression, brain drain, anti-corruption mechanisms…
Lies have reached an outrageous level. The electoral promises have exceeded all comprehension, and the figures quoted, especially regarding the country’s economic growth, unemployment rate, cereal harvest, automobile construction… leave even the most seasoned and knowledgeable economic circles perplexed.
Diplomatically, the country is at the center of an unprecedented storm. Chaos reigns. Lacking strategic and proactive vision, the improvisation and approximation demonstrated by the diplomatic apparatus, hampered by the internal situation, puts the country at risk of absolute isolation on the international stage! A bureaucratized, populist diplomacy, still clinging to the slogans of the 70s, struggling to adapt to the world’s changes.
The call made by the head of state—minister of defense and assured candidate for his own succession—to the Egyptian authorities to open the borders and allow the Algerian army to deliver aid to the Gazans, who have been enduring a religious cleansing and ethnic extermination war for months, raised a media outcry in Egypt and worldwide, and indignation from the Palestinians themselves, who find such remarks excessive, demagogic, and unsubstantial!
No political or ideological doctrine can and should tolerate the exploitation and instrumentalization of a suffering people in electoral skirmishes and petty political calculations. The Palestinians, besieged by fire and famine, deserve much better than the demagoguery of pompous slogans.
The other assertion by the head of state, during one of his electoral outings, that Algeria achieved economic performance in 2024 that propelled it to the rank of the third world power highlights the extent of the poverty with which the affairs of the state are managed and the deafness of our leaders.
Blinded by their pathological obsession with clinging to power, the country’s leaders, surrounded by political charlatans and clowns, are subjecting the country to one of the most dramatic political trials in its history, whose consequences for its prestige and image will be even more disastrous.
While it gravely damages the country’s honor and historical capital, this infantilization has the merit of providing tangible proof of the expiration of an obsolete, politically incompetent, and sterile political system, historically disqualified, morally condemned, whose regeneration belongs to the realm of utopia.
We are probably on the eve of the final stage of the great political and historical sifting that has been underway since February 16, 2019, in Kherrata. This decantation will inevitably result in the advent of a democratic state free from all impostures and all “fakes”: Fake candidates, fake presidents, fake elections, fake parties, fake civil society, fake media… etc.
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Glory to our martyrs.
Karim Tabou.
September 2
