The PP organized a massive demonstration yesterday in Madrid to show their resolve to sink any initiative by Rodriguez Zapatero's government to stablish a dialogue with ETA aimed at negotiating an end of the violence generated by the armed group.
Such move towards peace has been celebrated among the Basque society, fully engaged in finding a resolution to the conflict.
The two main actors in yesterday's demonstration in Madrid were the Pocket-Size Francoist José María Aznar and his puppet, Mariano Rajoy.
The demonstration was allegedly called by AVT, and it was supposed to be in support of all the victims of terrorism.
Yet, the absence of two groups of victims puts in evidence that victims of violence were not exactly at the heart of this demonstration.
As we all know by now, the victims of 3/11 want nothing to do with AVT. They saw it clear during the proceedings by the 3/11 Comission that the AVT is controled by the PP.
But the real surprise came when "Basta Ya" also refused to take part. For years "Basta Ya" had been the PP's little darling in the Basque Country. At any chance they had, the people from this group would claim to be Basques that opposed self determination. But a few months ago, their leader Fernando Savater, realized they were being used to divide the Basque society, a simple tactic by totalitarian leaders like Aznar.
AVT says that dialogue with ETA is to betray the victims, they call Rodriguez Zapatero and phony for opening a line of dialogue. They conveniently forget to mention that Aznar and his PP also opened lines of dialogue with the armed group.
Double standard at its best!
The PP thugs are still upset for their electoral defeat that came as a result of them being caught red handed trying to profit politically from a terrible tragedy. And while they had their followers chanting rabidly against a dialogue to end the violence, against talks to have ETA giving up on their armed campaign, in Bilbo, thousands of Basques marched for peace.
That should tell "The West" a thing or two.
Such move towards peace has been celebrated among the Basque society, fully engaged in finding a resolution to the conflict.
The two main actors in yesterday's demonstration in Madrid were the Pocket-Size Francoist José María Aznar and his puppet, Mariano Rajoy.
The demonstration was allegedly called by AVT, and it was supposed to be in support of all the victims of terrorism.
Yet, the absence of two groups of victims puts in evidence that victims of violence were not exactly at the heart of this demonstration.
As we all know by now, the victims of 3/11 want nothing to do with AVT. They saw it clear during the proceedings by the 3/11 Comission that the AVT is controled by the PP.
But the real surprise came when "Basta Ya" also refused to take part. For years "Basta Ya" had been the PP's little darling in the Basque Country. At any chance they had, the people from this group would claim to be Basques that opposed self determination. But a few months ago, their leader Fernando Savater, realized they were being used to divide the Basque society, a simple tactic by totalitarian leaders like Aznar.
AVT says that dialogue with ETA is to betray the victims, they call Rodriguez Zapatero and phony for opening a line of dialogue. They conveniently forget to mention that Aznar and his PP also opened lines of dialogue with the armed group.
Double standard at its best!
The PP thugs are still upset for their electoral defeat that came as a result of them being caught red handed trying to profit politically from a terrible tragedy. And while they had their followers chanting rabidly against a dialogue to end the violence, against talks to have ETA giving up on their armed campaign, in Bilbo, thousands of Basques marched for peace.
That should tell "The West" a thing or two.
No Dialogue
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Basta Ya said no, eh? Wow, I am pleasantly surprised. When I first saw the story today, about the numbers demonstrating in Madrid, I was disappointed, but then I thought about how PP and their groups must have really organized this, and bused people in, etc. Also, I remember a poll I saw recently which stated that the majority of the Spanish people are behind Zapatero's offer, it was 65, 67 percent, something like that.
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In fact the numbers shown in some news wires are not correct. The true amount of people there was less than 300.000 people.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at this two links to read a bit about it:
http://www.elpais.es/archivo/pdf/20050607elpepi_19.pdf
http://wmute.blogspot.com/2005/06/cuantas-personas-caben-en-prncipe-de.html
And take a look at this article if you want to see how the demostration took place and what kind of people went there.
All links in Spanish, sorry.
Regards.