Friday, March 24, 2006

Aaron the American Basque-Phobe

Thanks to his unique way to link to the worst right wingers in the blogosphere, über Basque-phobe Franco Alemán guided me to one of those blogs that allows you a peek into the minds of the most backwards elements of American society.

These individuals are so obsessed with the self righteous war on terrorism that they are willing to side with good old fascists all over the world, as long as their red-white-and-blue point of view is echoed as to ensure that the present war for oil profits is presented to the public as a holly war against those who hate our western values.

In his post called "Time Out", this gentleman by the name of Aaron Hanscom goes on and on about how bad things are in Spain now that Francoist José María Aznar does not run the show. It is funny how someone that quotes Islamic law is so willing to side with a fella who belongs to a party founded by Manuel Fraga, a minister in Franco's regime who is known for being a Holocaust denier.

The post presents so many meaty statements that I will have to dedicate more than one post to correct all the misconceptions and lies.

So, lets get started with the very first paragraph:

Fifteen years ago 12 year-old Irene Villa lost both of her legs in a bombing by the Basque terrorist group ETA. On Saturday, she elegantly expressed why hundreds of thousands of Spaniards were braving the freezing cold and rain of Madrid to protest their Socialist government. “We want to make sure that [the government] does not negotiate with murderers and that terrorism is not seen as a way to achieve a political end," she said, with other victims of ETA at her side. Unfortunately, the Spanish prime minister has a habit of listening less to the victims of terrorism than to the very terrorists themselves.
He starts out with a tear-jerker and then goes into a lie. Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards, heh, the PP can only wish to summon all that people in a Spain that today understands what the right wingers stand for, which is deception.

And right off the bat, an attack against Rodriguez Zapatero. If Rodriguez Zapatero is honest on his announcement that he wants a peaceful resolution to the Basque conflict, then he will be making sure that there is no more victims of violence in Spain, not among the Spaniards, nor among the Basques . Everybody wins, including the victims that joined the PP tugs on that march, because there will be no more people joining them.

An important thing to point out here is that Irene Villa belongs to an association called Asociación Víctimas del Terrorismo, known as AVT. The AVT is a satellite group for the Partido Popular that among other things, rejects entrance to the victims of the actions by the GAL, and also harasses the victims of 11-M because the latter refuse to give José María Aznar's government a clean slate on what took place in Madrid that day and the way they handled the situations in the first couple of days after the attacks.

More son this soon to come.

Oh, and before I forget, Aaron, a Basque-phobe is just the same as an anti-Semitic, meaning, someone that hates an entire society just because of what the members of that society are. Just like other people hates the Jewish community for no reason, there is those like you that hate the Basques just because your friend José María Aznar hates them.

And gosh darn it, Aznar was your ally in the war for oil profits, sorry, the war on terrorism.

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1 comment:

  1. He claims that ETA killed 800 people in 30 years? He's making numbers up.

    And arguing that Basque efforts at indepence have precipitated Catalan efforts at independence seems ridiculous on its face.

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