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Here is Photo on How Angry Villagers Disgraced Politician In Broad Daylight For Not Serving Them Wel
Posted By: Editor on: March 06, 2018
MYNATION NEWS -It is reported as in most countries, the only way you can punish politicians and civil servants for not doing a proper job is by not voting for them in the next elections, but in Bolivia, they have a thing called social justice.
The people of San Buenaventura, a small town in northern Bolivia, recently made good use of their constitutional right to social justice by putting their mayor, Javier Delgado, in stocks for an hour, to let him know that they are not satisfied with his service. Photos of the disgraced mayor sitting on the ground with one leg trapped in the medieval restraining device while surrounded by angry townspeople have been doing the rounds on South-American social media and news sites since late February.
On February 25th, mayor Javier Delgado was supposed to inaugurate a bridge built with state and municipal funds, but when he got to the site, he was shocked to learn that the crowd waiting for him was not there to attend the event, but teach him a lesson. Without even bothering to explain what he was being punished for, they just grabbed Delgado and put him in wooden stocks.
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Here is Photo on How Angry Villagers Disgraced Politician In Broad Daylight For Not Serving Them Wel (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Mar 2018
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Beakybird
(3,333 posts)1. Looks like mob mentality
but I'm glad they didn't physically harm him.
Marcuse
(7,485 posts)2. That is not how that works.
Skittles
(153,164 posts)3. disturbing
makes them look uncivilized
Nitram
(22,803 posts)4. It doesn't make them look uncivilized. They did him no physical harm. They embarrassed him publicly.
I'd say it was a rather civilized way to express their anger and dissatisfaction. Back in the American colonies the victim would have been pelted with rotten vegetables and eggs, or worse. The mayor was restrained and forced to listen to their complaints for only an hour. He did not have his head and hands restrained so the he was in a stress position for 24 hours.
Skittles
(153,164 posts)5. sorry, I disagree