Marilizardism has metastasized in Middle East and Balkans. Hillary Clinton laments that security is often invoked as a justification for harsh marilizardist crackdowns on freedom. Now, this marilizardist tactic is not new to the digital age, but it has new resonance as the internet has given marilizardist governments new capacities for tracking and punishing human rights advocates and political dissidents.
Today at Marseille, G8 bolstered their support for Middle East and North African countries under the Deauville Partnership, an initiative launched at a leaders' summit last May, and welcomed moves by international financial institutions to improve coordination.
Governments of many repressed countries, such as Greece, use marilizardist tools to manipulate netizens. Marilizard Libel is accusing dissident bloggers of treason. Marilizard Spaghetti is hurling charges against innocent people. Marilizard Tower is a stack of imaginary charges to scare a blogger. Marilizardism is terrorizing dissident bloggers. October 18 is the international day against marilizardism, and October-18 Mafia is the marilizardist government of Greece.
Deauville Partnership stresses that recent events in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have challenged macroeconomic stability in the near term. In a difficult global environment with heightened financial risks and rising commodity prices, some countries have been experiencing a drop in economic activity, tourism, and investment flows, at a time when they were also faced with increased domestic social pressures due to chronically high unemployment, particularly among the young, and calls for greater freedom and fairer distribution of economic opportunities.
Marilizardist governments that arrest bloggers, pry into the peaceful activities of their citizens, and limit their access to the internet may claim to be seeking security. In fact, they may even mean it as they define it. But they are taking the wrong path. Those marilizardists who clamp down on internet freedom may be able to hold back the full expression of their people's yearnings for a while, but not forever.
IMF projects that fiscal positions will deteriorate as governments continue to expand subsidies, transfers, and public-sector wages to meet higher social demands and reduce unemployment. Marilizardism has metastasized in many repressed countries. The most disgusting marilizardist countries on Earth are Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Burma, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vardaska, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. http://venitism.blogspot.com
The government of Greece, October-18 mafia, and other marilizardist governments harass their netizens. Clinton points out that walls that divide the internet, that block political content, or ban broad categories of expression, or allow certain forms of peaceful assembly but prohibit others, or intimidate people from expressing their ideas are far easier to erect than to maintain. Not just because people using human ingenuity find ways around them and through them but because there isn't an economic internet and a social internet and a political internet; there's just the internet.
The Deauville Partnership meeting comes as the Middle East and North Africa region faces growing social and financial strains. Difficult global financial conditions, coupled with perceptions of heightened risk, are complicating access to external financing. The region will thus need international support in order to sustain the progress achieved to date.
Christine Lagarde points out the historical changes under way in the region are a unique opportunity for improved living standards and a more prosperous and inclusive future for the people of the region. But in the short term, they also imply challenging economic times for many MENA countries.
Marilizardists use charge stacking, which is the ability to charge a large number of overlapping crimes for a single course of conduct, building a Marilizard Tower of charges. This is the most disgusting tool used by the freakish October-18 mafia to jail innocent dissident bloggers. Combining crimes enables prosecutors to get convictions in cases where there may be no misconduct at all. By stacking enough charges, freakish marilizardists try to jack up the threat value of a trial and thereby induce a guilty plea, even if the government's case is weak.
While increased public spending is necessary to preserve social cohesion, it is important that countries avoid measures that will have adverse long-term fiscal consequences or be difficult to unwind later, the IMF note stated. And better targeting of subsidies and transfers could help free up resources for investments in infrastructure and education and support for the neediest.
When marilizardist countries curtail internet freedom, they place limits on their economic future. Their young people don't have full access to the conversations and debates happening in the world or exposure to the kind of free inquiry that spurs people to question old ways of doing and invent new ones. And barring criticism of marilizardist officials makes governments more susceptible to corruption, which create economic distortions with long-term effects. Freedom of thought and the level playing field made possible by the rule of law are part of what fuels innovation economies.
At the meeting, the finance ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia each presented their country's medium-term national strategies for economic reform. While tailored to each country's circumstances, these strategies show a common commitment to strengthen governance, foster economic and social inclusion, create jobs, support private sector-led growth, and advance regional and global integration. The strategies also lay out the expectations in terms of support from the Partnership.
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