Retarted gorillas

子どもたちへ　：

外国でも一番市民に暴力をふるうのは警官。
この新聞も 「 脳なしのゴリラども 」 と警察のことを。

　　－　A letter from a friend　－

Dear Eiji !

how are you my friend ?

i just wanted to drop you a few lines, just to
know how you were doing and to let you know
about something in my country that might interest
you... Unfortunately, these are not good news,
since people are being beaten up and the beauty
of nature is being torn appart ...
this link that i'll send you, shows the general
situation in my hometown, although the website
has information about the whole country.

http://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/09/21/beat-up-nature-lovers-in-boquete/

i hope you are doing fine, and let me know about
you and your thoughts regarding this situation !

cheers !

　　- Bananama Republic (Oct 8, 2010) -

　　Beat up nature-lovers in Boquete!▲　That will teach her to protest against
　　　an illegal road on her property!

Since our visionary maximum leader,
il Duce Martinelli, rammed this so-called
“sausage law” through the assembly, our heroic
national police has become increasingly creative
in cooking up new funky schemes for fun and profit.
And so, after the Battle of Bocas, the magician
tricks with Valentín Palacios, human trafficking and
the vice squad raiding dangerous schoolgirls in
underwear, they’ve now introduced a new
attraction to the numerous great things the
mountain village of Boquete has to offer:
Beat up environmentalists!

Boquete, dear readers, is an immensely popular
destination for tourists and retirees who visit the
small town and its surroundings primarily because
of its stunning natural beauty.
These nature loving visitors can choose from an
endless list of paths to follow, rivers to raft, birds
to watch and comfortable hotels to spend the night.
But for the local authorities, this was apparently
not enough.
They thought that was was needed was more lively
entertainment, más movimiento, as they say in
Panamanian. Or: Bring the successful Bocas concept
to other tourism destinations as well!

And so it happened that this Monday morning the
20st, the known local nature-lover
Carmencita Tedman woke up, only to discover that
some men with heavy machinery were busy to
illegally construct a road on her property. Obviously she protested, and soon the corregidora
arrived, with the police.
A corregidor, for who doesn’t know this, is the lowest
level judicial authority in the country.
They usually do not have a legal background, don’t
know the law, and are easy to bribe.
No doubt this one in Boquete, one Walkiria Castillo,
had been handsomely rewarded for her services by
those behind the illegal road construction, because
even for these most retarded members of the
judiciary it is unusual to order the police to beat
someone up – yet that is exactly what she did.
And so the policemen – one of them listening to the
name Osvaldo Cerracin – being the brain dead
gorillas they are, beat her up.
For good measure they threw in some pepper
spray as well, because anyone knows that nature
lovers are dangerous! So, retirees and tourists, from now on: Hide your
binoculars, your birding guidebooks, walking gear
and everything else that might mark you as a lover
of Boquete’s natural beauty! After all, it is much
more fun to see others being hit with those tropical
hardwood sticks than to undergo the Boquete
police treatment yourself.