A DE!AkcióKözösség felvàllalja és gondoskodik róla, hogy a magyarság többé NE kerülhessen a NER-hez hasonló csapda-helyzetbe-/state capture/ Jogászabálytervezeteket fogalmazunk meg, és nyujtunk be, és követjük a törvénykezés folyamatát. Akciókozpontú szervezeti működésre törekszünk. Nyomoztunk, feltártunk, filmet forgattunk, felhívtuk a társadalmat CALL TO ACT!ON 2000 fős aktivista csoportot toboroztunk, oktattunk, szerveztünk, a transzparenciával és a nyilvánosság erejével gondoskodtunk a választás lebonyolításának tisztaságáról. A konfliktusokat kezeljük, mediálunk, tárgyalunk, bevonjuk a hatóságokat, az önkormányzatokat. Oda világítunk, ahová az árnyék vetül!
Elon Musk has been accused of attempting a coup or hostile takeover of the US government. His actions could better be described as a form of
What is ‘state capture’?
More accurately, Musk’s siege amounts to a form of “state capture”. This refers to:
“the appropriation of state resources by political actors for their own ends: either private or political.”
By this logic, Musk’s aim could be to capture different pieces of the US government and turn the state into a tool for wealth extraction.
State capture is a relatively simple but extremely destructive process. This is how it has played out in countries like Indonesia, Hungary, Nigeria, Russia, Sri Lanka and South Africa (Musk’s birthplace):
First, political and corporate elites gain control of formal institutions, information systems and bureaucratic policy-making processes.
Then, they use this power to apply rules selectively, make biased decisions and allocate resources based on private interests (rather than the public good).
In captured states, strongman leaders often use economic policy and regulatory decisions to reward their political friends. For instance, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Russian President Vladimir Putin and former South African President Jacob Zuma have helped their allies by:
making government anti-trust decisions
issuing permits and licenses
awarding government contracts and concessions
waiving regulations or tariffs
conferring tax exempt status.
State capture is fundamentally a predatory process.
Some sentimental thoughts on music and protest below the cut
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The South African comedian Trevor Noah has a lot of great stand-up clips from ~ 10 years ago where he talks about his home country: a diverse, chaotic place with many different languages, lots of tensions between different races and ethnic groups, and an uneasy balance of power between the public and authority.
Consider this clip where Noah talks about protests against President Jacob Zuma when it was found that he had allowed the Gupta family to engage in state capture:*
California is not S. Africa, but I think if you're a mixed person from Los Angeles like me, it's easy to find the humor relateable.
And it's true: protest songs and music are effective, tension-reducing, humanizing ways to sustain a movement while making the public aware of a social cause:
Protest song - Wikipedia
Thus I was delighted to see this video from LA Times 404 on instagram. LA Times 404 is the social media news division of LA Times, covering the important role of music and rhythm in the LA protests:
I speak the requisite amount of Spanish in LA to order tacos from a taco truck.
And yet I knew one of the songs sung by protestors would be the Mexican folksong Cielito Lindo because almost everyone in my community knows this song and its chorus:
Spanish:
"Ay ay ay ay, canta y no llores, porque cantando se alegran, cielito lindo, los corazones"
English (Source here via wikipedia):
"Woe, woe, woe, woe, sing and don’t cry, because singing, darling, lifts our hearts."
Similarly, compare the efficacy (or lack of) felt by in the typical "No justice, no peace!"
versus
the words "No, no, no, no, migra, no, no" set to melody as shown in the clip.
Good struggle requires good rhythm.
And LA...LA has a lot of rhythm.**
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*State capture is the political science term for a systematic process of government corruption by which private interests and enterprises gain control of government actions and decisions to the detriment of the public, often via collusion with elected officials.
State capture is common in countries with widespread corruption, rampant inequality, high rates of kleptocracy, undemocratic policy, and weak government regulation. It is often associated with developing countries.
**If you know anyone who thinks we've descended into violence out here in LA, maybe send this clip their way.
Where are the hackers who can track the cronies because there's an extensive network behind this? We know our intelligence and the tripartite structures have been infiltrated for years - the evidence is in state capture reports and Hackers SA leaks . And there's a looming second phase of this that could target our vital resources and send this whole country into a state of complete instability. We need people who can expose these networks.
Paul Kruger’s Transvaal Republic, the Afrikaner-governed state against which the British fought at the turn of the century, was riddled with nepotism and economic favours for the connected. The British administration which replaced it served the interests of mine owners on whom it bestowed special privileges. What today is called “state capture”, the use of the state to serve private interests, was common to Afrikaner and British rule. Given this history, it is not surprising that corruption was a constant feature of the apartheid period. Black people were its chief victims, since they had no rights and so no way of protecting themselves against abuse. The most corrupt period in the country’s history was the last few years of apartheid, when the attempt to combat the successful international sanctions campaign made corruption, protected by government secrecy, the core government strategy. This was often done with the collusion of private businesses.
Steven Friedman, 'Corruption is deeply rooted in South Africa’s past. This is why it matters', Independent Online
