Mounting Attack on Udalbiltza

With his boss Jose Maria Aznar in excellent stance with the big dogs the inquisidor Baltasar Garzon is free to do as he pleases when it comes to strengthening the political Apartheid stance against Basque society.

Five more members of Udalbiltza have been abducted by Spain's repressive forces deployed in Euskal Herria. Here you have an article regarding this new attack against democracy in the Basque Country:

Spanish Judge Orders Jail for 5 Basque Politicians

Fri May 23, 7:48 PM ET

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish High Court Judge Baltasar Garzon has sent to prison five leaders of a Basque local government association who he accuses of links to armed separatist group ETA, judicial sources said.

Garzon ordered the five, several of whom are town councillors, held without bail pending trial after questioning them Friday, the sources said.

The five are leaders of Udalbiltza, an association of Basque Country town halls created by nationalist parties, including radical groups such as Batasuna which was banned in March for not condemning ETA violence.

The five are accused of cooperating with an armed group.

Garzon described Udalbiltza in court documents as "a platform under the direct and exclusive control of ETA through ... Batasuna."

Garzon's move is the latest step in a wide-ranging crackdown by Spain's government and courts on ETA and people accused of being its political allies.

It came on the last day of campaigning for Sunday's local elections throughout Spain.

The five sent to jail include the mayor of the Basque town of Ondarroa, Loren Arkotxa, and town councillors Miren Josu Aramburu and Imanol Esnaola. The two other Udalbiltza leaders ordered held were Xabier Alegria and Joseba Mikel Garmendia.

Garzon released another politician on bail of 50,000 euro ($58,910) -- the mayor of the Basque town of Oyarzun, Xabier Iragorri.

All six denied any link to ETA, according to news reports.

Wednesday, a Spanish court ordered a radical seven-member group in the Basque regional parliament to be broken up, a step aimed at denying them powers that could aid ETA.

Batasuna attempted to run more than 1,000 candidates in Sunday's local elections under the party name AuB but had almost all of them struck down by the courts. Batasuna, which won 10 percent of the vote in the Basque Country in the last elections in 2001, denies it is part of ETA.

Since Spain is an openly fascist state the amount of money they demand for the political prisoners to be freed can not be called a bail, it is actually a ransom.

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