Stop Jasmine!
The pictures have thick skin, habits too. The hordes of tourists, landed at Tunis airport, were received by posters with a smiling man, rather swarthy, stood against the backdrop of Sidi Bou Said. Commenting, the inevitable: "Smile, you are in Tunisia." Tourists do not smile, they are tired and then it's hot and the bus is not air conditioned, that the travel agency had not anticipated, so they do not smile.
In the lobby of the airport, they were harpooned by a man in baggy pants, a tray on his head: "From the folks jasmine, fresh To his hand, hanging a bunch of flowers closed tight on a piece of wood, acting rod.
Eager to find out about this jasmine that went on (and could) my Tunisianité, I went on Google, line jasmine White dicotyledonous plant belonging to the genus Jasminum "A few lines later, I discovered that the white jasmine, a native of China has taken on the shores of the Mediterranean and was awarded the blazon Emblem of Tunisia. Who has made this decision? Was it during one of the CMR of the old regime, in which case we would not have been informed, as of course. Now I hold the information, I understand better why the pretty flower is accommodated as many sauces: summer jasmine, happiness jasmine jasmine-tourism and more recently "jasmine-revolution," but here, the jasmine is blocked and this reeks of cliché accommodation and protectionism.
So why is the jasmine in the events of January 2011? If it is to give a dimension to the revolution "soft", only by looking abroad, eager to rounding angles and close the topic (to switch to something else) could put jasmine on poverty, favoritism, anger and the dead! No one has told these "lovers of Tunisia" that the jasmine was absent from our funerals? How indecent allows them to glorify the sacrifice of jasmine Mohamed Bouazizi and those that followed! Even in death, we continue for some to look like a tourist brochure. Such is the view that the West and our European friends are on us! Our gravity is jasmine, our revolts feel good, even the tear gas had a sweet aftertaste, is this the reason for which they have failed to quell the crowd, which would have prompted a French arms company to deliver tear gas not "Jasmine" on demand "friend Ben Ali ;?
After all, only Tunisia still does not, before the eternal, this former French colony in respect of which Mr Sarkozy, to justify his government's silence, remembered the reserve duty, reserve which he had parted curiously face trouble elections in Côte d'Ivoire. The French reservation is similar to those reservists conciliatory one leaves in certain circumstances and we keep warm in others.
The "revolution-jasmine" us, in any case, revealed how some French government officials were fond of our hospitality. Feet in the water, nose full of flowers, they saw only blue. In the hollow of luxury homes where they were graciously hosted, they discovered not misery surrounding how could they pu? Between planes, private jets and sedans, the trip is opaque. The heady smell of jasmine prevented them from sniffing the corrupt regime that stunk the streets and prevented eleven million Tunisians breathe breathed them the flowers, and then they were not Tunisians. Since then, Mr. Sarkozy has proposed a law dictating the tourist movements of his ministers, the measure is more conservative than one way: whenever one of them taking holidays on the Mediterranean, a revolution bursts in the weeks that follow. What make is that they must leave in their wake a whiff of human rights which mingles with the scents of jasmine local ...
purely Tunisian citizen Suggestion: parque jasmine away from foreign policy makers, Make it a strictly national, point out its limitations: flower fragrant, pleasant to smell, leisure-oriented summer and have no pretension to become the emblem of our country. Please disseminate information to the August foreign analysts.