One Word: Taiwan

Dean Esmay is your classic example of someone that comes across as politically correct and delivers lines that seem to be balanced and intelligent.

But it takes the pushing of one button to expose them. In this case I used a simple one.

Phonies that reject the right to the self determination of the Basque Country, rush to say that the Basque Country has been part of something called Spain for a long time. They forget about the part of the Basque Country in France, every single time.

They also say that the Basques give up their right to self determination because they allow a few terrorists to blow up things and kill people.

As if the Basques were going around telling other Basques, go blow something, go kill someone. The fact is, ETA is un the run and hiding in France, in Spain AND IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY.

At the time when the violence against the Basques was on an open and large scale, there was many among the Basques and the international community that thought of the members of ETA as freedom fighters, they were after all responding with violence to the violence generated by Hitler's last standing underling.

But today, although torture, illegal detention, targeted killings, state of exception and other niceties by Madrid and Paris are still present in the Basque Country, the big picture tells the Basques that just like they promised the Allies at the end of WWII, they must negotiate their self determination through peaceful means, and that is why the large majority of Basques repudiate ETA and its violence, just like they repudiate Madrid's violence.

So, it is people like Dean that allows ETA to take over the right of the Basques to their self determination, one of his readers even places the decision of Basque independence on the Spaniards.

Later, when they talk about Taiwan they will say the exact opposite, because their media told them to think that way regarding that issue, and since using your own brain can be a burden, they do as they are told.

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