Presoak Is Not ETA

There is nothing I hate more than lazy reporting by so called photo-journalists.

Check the text that goes with this picture:

Villarreal's goalkeeper Javier Lopez Vallejo saves a penalty during a Spanish league soccer match against Athletic Bilbao at the San Mames stadium in Bilbao, Spain, Sunday Feb. 26, 2006. The game ended 1-1. Athletic Bilbao fans in background can be seen with banners supporting the Basque separatist group ETA, urging the return of all ETA prisoners to the Basque country. (AP Photo/Juan Manuel Serrano)

No matter what Juan Manuel Serrano wants to say, Presoak is not ETA.

Presoak is a human rights organization working in behalf of the must basic rights of all the Basque citizens jailed in Spanish prisons. What they do is to demand from Madrid to stick to Spain's own laws which dictate that prisoners must remain in jails nearby their towns as to ensure that their relatives, friends and loved ones are not taxed with extra expenses when it comes to visiting them in jail, which is one more of their rights.

Every year dozens of Basques are involved in traffic accidents up and down the Spanish geography in their attempt to visit those in jail. Many deaths have been caused in these accidents.

The policy of dispersion practiced by the Spanish judiciary represents a form of state sponsored violence. It is also a clear example of the state of exception aimed at the Basque society. Laws and regulations that apply to the Spaniards, do not apply to the Basques. Such thing is a violation of the UN's Human Rights Charter.

And I haven't even mentioned that many of those Basques jailed in Spain are political prisoners that have never been part nor ever supported ETA, they are in prison for the sole crime of being Basques and loving their ethnic and cultural identity.

Which comes to prove just how wrong this individual Juan Manuel Serrano is when he says that the Athletic de Bilbao fans are displaying banners in support of ETA.

Which begs the question, is he in the pay roll of the Francoists and Falangists that form the Partido Popular?

I think you know the answer.

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