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I tried to orange pill a group of people.
By sending them some info about the Volcano bonds of Bukele.
I was proud!
And then someone came with this negative link about Bukele’s human rights policy.
When you read this and you have some tatoos as a foreigner you are scared. Because it looks like police can just puck you up and put you in jail just because you have sone tatoos. Without a just trial. It looks like you coukd get mass trial and your human rights would’t be respected in El Salvador.
Because it looks like a wild west regarding justice and human rights in El Salvador. Human rights for the gang members!!
So Bukele could feel like the saviour for unslaving people from global monetary prison.
But on this issue of dealing with gangs and human rights he could have a narrow cord to dance on.
Down there are all the human rights organizations watching him closely about how he deals with human rights.
Up here are people like bitcoiners that cheer him up to keep walking. They don’t want him to fall down. Volcano bonds yay. Making bitcoin legal tender hooray. Putting gangs in jail without trial, silence?
Human rights is a global rights. People and investors watch human rights when they are going to invest in your country.
They know that customers care about human rights.
When you are orange pilling the global population you also have to take care of human rights.
Don’t put bitcoin in prison Bukele. Handle the human rights correctly or this could backfire back to El Salvador.
Mainstreet media will pick this up and go deep.
And everybody will forget about your beautiful volcano bonds. About your Bitcoin as legal tender.
What do you think?
Have you been to El Salvador?
Are you from El Salvador?
What is the story of human rights there?
Let me know your thoughts.
You can add narrative to anything.
The article quotes "More than 6,400 documented human rights abuses have been committed during Bukele’s state of emergency and 174 people have died in state custody, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said earlier this month." But what does this say about Bitcoin and financial independence? Is there a connection??
Likewise, I can cherry-pick any bit of information: "Between September 2021 and May 2022, the USA expelled more than 25,000 Haitians without due process</a>, in violation of national and international law." Again, what does this have to do with Bitcoin?
Bukele is being tarnished by traditional media (which has ties to the government and big corporations).
If the original article wanted to do some real journalism about the gang ms-13 or human rights violations, then they should also mention the radically declining homicides rates:
Number of Yearly Homicides: 2023 (1st Jan to Jul 15) = 81 2022 = 495 2021 = 1147 2020 = 1341 2019 = 2398 2018 = 3346
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Yeah, he's putting many innocent people in jail, as a heuristic to reduce crime. One could argue it's a good thing, because crime levels have come down considerably and people can finally go out, enjoy a walk in the park etc. If 1000 innocent lives are saved from murder and 100 innocent lives are wasted in prison, a simple statistic like that would still support his policy.
But on the other hand, there is a difference between an ordinary ganster doing something bad to you and the state doing something bad to you. The state is a ganster too, but with much more power and special rights ordinary gansters don't have. So when innocent people go to jail, it's potentially a worrisome development, because it could lead to something worse. Bukele is often described as a dictator, but one that the people of El Salvador actually like and want. Some say good-willed dictators are better than democracies. But can we trust he'll remain (or even is) good? Trust in a person or institution is not in line with the philosophy of Bitcoin.
If most criminals are men, jailing all men would reduce crime by an order of magnitude or two, but as a man I wouldn't support such a policy.
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