Dear friends, this is the translation of the statement from Quiliro to the exclusion from him and me on the P2P-lang-es maillist.
For me, this exclusion is an act of fascism: "If you are not my friend, you are my enemy". All Yes-sayer are grouped together. All Not-Yes-sayer are attacked and defamed. This method was applied for all those, who do not clearly behaved as friends and follower. But this methods are totally incompatible to the principles of P2P in a free environment. This is pure Stalinism. We never need the monotony in our search of the truth. In the monotony, we find no development. The unity in diversity is our principle. many greetings, willi Popayan, Colombia History of abuse of power I present the following chronicle as a meditation about how people which say they want the well being of society but they carry on actions that are contrary to it when they exert their power against a majority, or worse yet, a minority. Although exerting power over a majority is more scandalous, exerting it against a minority is more hurtful, unjust and perverse because of tho minoryty's low capacity to exert counterforce and defend itself. It all starts with a project in which four foreign people propose the ecuadorian government the change of the production matrix to one of libre knowledge. They speak of community and of sumak kawsay. They convince a lot of local and foreign activists that this can have big impact. However, some people begin to notice the inconsistency of this project and of its intent of attaining impact on the media instead of making real change since various of the participants show that tho project was acting against its own precepts of freedom, endogenous creation and inclusion. The proponents of the project use tools that are not free in networks that are not free, bring in foreign preconceived precepts and try to justify their suitability by promoting them instead of investigating what are the local people's needs. Finally they segregate the people that make observations to these practices by convincing a large majority of locals and foreigners that the project with such construction and its presence in media is better that the deep observations made by those who criticize it. This type of exacerbation of the feelings of the group causes that the activists charge in a blind persecution of those who do made observations by using tactics of discredit, censorship and banishing opposers from the project. This type of practice would not surprise me if it came from the extreme right or from socialism of the 20th century. However from a group of people that organizes horizontaly under the scheme of respect of all beings including of nature as is proposed in "sumak kawsay", anarchism, socialism of the 21st century and the P2P commons, I can not understand imposition, censorship and exclusion. Instead, the Right, Stalinism and Robespierre have characterised themselves by guillotining those who question their positions and decisions. A true progresivism evolves away from destructive competition into constructive collaboration within diversity. The contrary carries to self destruction. The story ends with the debate of censorship in other spaces of P2P and with the capture of the mailing list of the P2P Foundation in Spanish with its stealth change of name in light of the questioning of the list as it shows in: https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/p2p-lang-es/2013-february/000000.html This story is not new. It is the modus operandi of all dictatorships. It may be that I was the dictator. But then, where is my realm? Who can prove that I imposed my power and censorship upon others? If is not me but someone else then, who is the one which has this power? Perhaps I am an agitator. But it is to agitate the minds towards thinking and to not to letting them be manipulated by persons that use the feelings of the people against of their own deep interests. Saludos libres, Quiliro Ordóñez _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
