Finally an article that veers away from the usual non sense coming out of Madrid's Ministry of Propaganda.
In this article appeared at Yahoo News, Zapatero is shown as the poor politician he really is, standing above the mediocrity of the Spanish political class.
Here you have it:
People around the world will soon realize that only Zapatero and his government are to blame for the failure of the Peace Process initiated by ETA's call for a cease fire.
The article also sheds some light on how things work in Spain and it goes like this: political parties in Spain are forced to maintain a level of respect towards law and justice because Spain is part of the European Union and Europeans are obsessed with presenting themselves as an open minded, progressive and law abiding lot. So Spain has resorted to a dirty little trick, it has created a number of organizations that act as NGOs but that in reality are groups designed to carry out Madrid's dirty jobs.
Ermua's Forum is just one of them.
What makes things worst for Zapatero is the Ermua's Forum is known for its extreme right inclination, they were created by Josá María Aznar's underlings, among them the philosopher in charge of coming up with a wide range of excuses for the excesses committed by Madrid in the repression of the Basque society, his name, Fernando Savater.
So, the fact that José Luis Zapatero is resorting to Aznar's mongrels to punish the Basque politicians that took part in the aborted Peace Process gives us a measure of were Zapatero's morals stand, right next to those of a genocidal maniac like José María Aznar.
This should worry Spaniards more that it worries the Basque public, in its obsession with outdoing the Francoists in the Partido Popular, Zapatero is willing to take his once upon a time Socialist party down the totalitarian path.
And all of this just because the members of the PSOE, just like the members of the PP, are unable to renounce to Spain's colonialist past and once for all allow the nations captive within the Spanish State to go their own way. Meaning, the Spanish politicians are people living in the XXI century with a XV century mentality.
In this article appeared at Yahoo News, Zapatero is shown as the poor politician he really is, standing above the mediocrity of the Spanish political class.
Here you have it:
Spain court orders trial over ETA talks
By DANIEL WOOLLS, Associated Press Writer
Tue Oct 30, 10:52 AM ET
The president of the Basque region and two members of Spain's ruling Socialist party were ordered Tuesday to stand trial for meeting with a banned separatist party — a ruling that was an embarrassment for the government in Madrid.
The three may have committed a crime because the Supreme Court declared the Batasuna party illegal in 2003 on grounds it was part of the militant group ETA, said Roberto Saiz, an investigating magistrate at the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque country.
The ruling was an embarrassment for the government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero because he has staunchly defended his failed bid to negotiate peace with ETA last year in secret talks. Now, two underlings must stand trial for essentially the same effort with ETA's political wing.
Patxi Lopez and Rodolfo Ares, both senior members of the Basque branch of Zapatero's party, met publicly with Batasuna leaders in July 2006 when optimism over an ETA cease-fire was high. Basque President Juan Jose Ibarretxe did so in April 2006 and January 2007.
ETA reverted to violence with a December bombing that killed two people after peace talks with the government went nowhere. ETA said Zapatero reneged on promises of political concessions.
Two activist groups in the Basque region that opposed peace talks with ETA — the Ermua Forum and Dignity and Justice — had asked the Basque region's highest court to act against Ibarretxe, Lopez and Ares for meeting with Batasuna leaders.
Prosecutors had said they saw no evidence of a crime, and that the court could not act only at the request of private parties. But Saiz rejected this argument, saying he could order a trial even though prosecutors representing the state were opposed.
A spokeswoman for Ibarretxe, Miren Azkarate, said the ruling went against "Basque society and their majority will to reach peace."
There was no immediate comment from Zapatero's government.
People around the world will soon realize that only Zapatero and his government are to blame for the failure of the Peace Process initiated by ETA's call for a cease fire.
The article also sheds some light on how things work in Spain and it goes like this: political parties in Spain are forced to maintain a level of respect towards law and justice because Spain is part of the European Union and Europeans are obsessed with presenting themselves as an open minded, progressive and law abiding lot. So Spain has resorted to a dirty little trick, it has created a number of organizations that act as NGOs but that in reality are groups designed to carry out Madrid's dirty jobs.
Ermua's Forum is just one of them.
What makes things worst for Zapatero is the Ermua's Forum is known for its extreme right inclination, they were created by Josá María Aznar's underlings, among them the philosopher in charge of coming up with a wide range of excuses for the excesses committed by Madrid in the repression of the Basque society, his name, Fernando Savater.
So, the fact that José Luis Zapatero is resorting to Aznar's mongrels to punish the Basque politicians that took part in the aborted Peace Process gives us a measure of were Zapatero's morals stand, right next to those of a genocidal maniac like José María Aznar.
This should worry Spaniards more that it worries the Basque public, in its obsession with outdoing the Francoists in the Partido Popular, Zapatero is willing to take his once upon a time Socialist party down the totalitarian path.
And all of this just because the members of the PSOE, just like the members of the PP, are unable to renounce to Spain's colonialist past and once for all allow the nations captive within the Spanish State to go their own way. Meaning, the Spanish politicians are people living in the XXI century with a XV century mentality.
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