Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Votes in Favor of Self-Determination

I went to the dentist this morning and there was quite an improvement, they have to pull out my three remaining wisdom teeth and they have to work on a molar that appears to be cracked, other than that everything is peachy.

Now, it is time I talk about politics, and guess what, I am a happy camper!

Last week there was elections in Spain, and the Spanish junta did all they could do to defeat the independentist movement in the Basque Country, well, they failed, again.

They outlawed a political party for alleged ties to the pro-independence group known as ETA (nevermind that England deals with Sinn Fein who openly claims to be the IRA's politicial arm). The candidates of the banned party presented themselves as independents in each of their towns but just a couple of weeks ago the Spanish courts banned them also.

The fascist Prime Minister thought everything was ready for his party to take over thinking that the Basques would not be able to pull together.

Wrong!

The Basques retaliated by voting for the moderate independentist parties. Basque parties once again dominate the Basque Autonomous Community. To make matters worst to the fascists up to 150,000 voters casted nule votes, that amount is the people that was going to vote for the outlawed candidates, on the last elections it was only 10,000 of them.

The message is clear, the Basques long for self determination, and the international community does a disservice to justice by turning their back on the issue, ironically enough, Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio (who is a Basque that changed her name from Jauregi to the Spanish translation of Palacio) is in Palestine brokering a peace deal between the Palestines and the Israelis. She met with Yasser Arafat who is accused by the West of harboring terrorists (somehow they keep quiet about the truly terrorist actions conducted by the Israeli military againt Palestinian civilians), but at home she belongs to the only remnant of Hitler's political and military meddling in Europe and as part of the Francoist party Partido Popular she refuses to acknowledge the Basque struggle for self determination and takes the same blind position that Madrid has towards the independentist dreams of Basques, Catalonyans and Galizans.

That on my dictionary is called hypocrisy.

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