I don’t think there’s any way to avoid violence.  The underhanded techniques being used by the government, the sense of self-righteousness that allows and justifies these techniques, makes violence the only alternative.  I will not be at the demonstration tomorrow, nor at the warning demonstrations to come in the next few days – not because I’m afraid of violence but because I have other things that are also important in life to do.  I would also give anything to be able to imagine a viable alternative, a way to save this country, and I can’t.  It’s weird because I always believed it is better to give in than to endanger lives.  I would have been one of the first conversos in the Spanish Inquisition, but here I fear that protest is the only way that lives can be ultimately saved.