Vilnius

Läser att Vilnius tar emot skadade oppositionella från Ukraina för vård. Var där för ett par år sedan och mötte vänliga människor i en vacker stad. Glädjen över att få ha rätten till ett demokratiskt samhälle hade tagit sig olika uttryck. Till exempel hade en byst över Frank Zappa placerats bara för att. Nu tänker du för att vadå? Ja, välj själv.

Ett fenomen som jag blev svårt förtjust i (antagligen för att det kändes ytterst ”Monty Pythonskt”) var fristaten Užupio Res Publica med sin alldeles unika konstitution. Läs och begrunda några av artiklarna.

Everyone has the right to live by the River Vilnelė, while the River Vilnelė has the right to flow by everyone.

Everyone has the right to hot water, heating in winter and a tiled roof.

Everyone has the right to die, but it is not a duty.

Everyone has the right to make mistakes.

Everyone has the right to be not loved, but not necessarily.

Everyone has the right to love and take care of a cat.

Everyone has the right to look after a dog till one or the other dies.

A dog has the right to be a dog.

A cat is not obliged to love its master, but it must help him in difficult times.

Everyone has the right to be in doubt, but this is not a duty.

Everyone has the right to be happy.

Everyone has the right to be unhappy.

Everyone has the right to be silent.

No one has the right to violence.

Everyone has the right to understand.

Everyone has the right to understand nothing.

Everyone has the right to be of various nationalities.

Everyone shall remember his name.

No-one can share what he does not possess.

Everyone is capable of independence.

Everyone is responsible for his freedom.

Everyone has the right to cry.

Everyone has the right to be misunderstood.

No-one has the right to make another person guilty.

Everyone has the right to be personal.

Everyone has the right to have no rights.

Everyone has the right to not be afraid.

Do not defeat.

Do not fight back.

Do not surrender.