Opinion

Motherland is not for sale

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Enough is enough! and President resign! These have been the two messages that tens of thousands of citizens from all over Spain have written in the Madrid sky of the Plaza de Colón for Pedro Sánchez to take note that he will be the only one responsible for granting illegal pardons to the Catalan politicians who staged a coup d'état in October 2017. A pardon against the reports of the Supreme Court that tried them. Those gathered will not admit any sympathy for these coup plotters, nor will they understand the magnanimity in their pre-emptive surrender. 

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The sun was mercilessly beating down on Madrid (84.2º F ) at one o'clock in the afternoon on this last Sunday of spring. Thousands of throats had chanted slogans against the social-communist government, but especially against the leader of such an out-of-tune orchestra. Banners were simple and handmade.

A failure in the public address system delayed the event by 40 minutes. The staff stuck it out. Rosa Díaz, the leader of the Union 78 political platform, closed the event by denouncing that "pardons are blackmail, the greatest attack on democracy and freedoms. It is a crime that aims to break Spain, to repeal the Magna Carta that enshrines equality and ends up violating the Law of Laws". Rosa said that "we will not tolerate any longer being silent or locked up at home, new attacks on justice, - for sale to use it as a means of payment in the "negotiations" and the division of powers" - and confirmed that "we will return to the streets to denounce Sánchez's lies".  They continue to talk about the prisoners but they have sworn to use dialogue with the coup perpetrators to achieve amnesty and the referendum. We are here to say No to pardons". 
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Political parties attended together, but not in a jumble. There will be no photo to manipulate. Casado, Ayuso, Mayor Martínez Almeida, Abascal, Monasterio, Arrimadas and Villacís. All greeted Cayetana, while many citizens called her president. We had to be there against Sánchez and the coup plotters because the coup plotters and the secretary general of the PSOE are against all of us. And against Spain. Not a single vote for such a manipulator of sentiment who speaks more lies than words. 

A young Catalan, Yeray Mellado, who had come from Barcelona, encouraged the young people not to resign themselves either to nationalism or to the national government. Civil society fulfilled its role and decent citizens attended the meeting. Andrés Trapiello, who is always far from the spotlight, opened the meeting: "This is a demonstration of public utility, not like the pardons; we are not here to debate programmes but to say 'No to the coup plotters'. The writer from León asked himself, "What has changed in Spain so that pardons were seen as undesirable a year ago and today they are trying to convince us as necessary and indispensable?"  Trapiello ended by reminding us that moral and political acts have consequences, and this one of ours is a moral and political act. "We have come together, people from the right, the centre and the left, to say in public what we have said in private: no to pardons.
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Let's not get into the war of figures; the Government Delegation began by providing 2,000 people one minute after midday. False. Of course the figure could have been very close to 100,000 people. Free and equal citizens. The event closed under the shadow of the largest flag in Spain, 294 square metres (21 x 14), escorted by an ocean of red and yellow flags that people of all ages and conditions carried with pride and dignity. Not a single incident. All free, all equal. A minute's silence for those absent from the pandemic. A trumpeter broke the silence by playing the National Anthem. At the end shouts of ¡Viva España! Emotion and pride in being and feeling Spanish. It was worth coming to defend, once again, the Unity of the Homeland. 

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Magnanimity with the coup plotters 

The Secretary General of the PSOE was clear at the last political conference: "No more pardons for political and economic reasons. It disgusts me". But as vice-president Calvo would say: "He has never said that as president". We are dealing with an impostor, a liar, a liar, a fraud, a deceiver, a liar, a liar, a cheat and a fraud doctor with slaves paid with public money. Pedro Sánchez the Magnanimous is not a collaborationist; he is the promoter, the ambassador plenipotentiary of the coup in Catalonia. The pardon is an insult and a prevarication because he knows that it is illegal and that Junqueras' letter is one more lie to weaken the rule of law. Thus he reveals in his ERC Road Map. 

Batasunizar el futuroThere will be pardons, amnesty (forbidden by the Magna Carta after the release of all political prisoners, including those of ETA for blood crimes); There will be no political and economic disqualification and they will call a Referendum for secession (independence) and proclaim the Catalan Republic, by more than eight seconds between his current priority partner, Pere Aragonés and Carles Puigdemont who will return from Waterloo in praise of nationalist sainthood. Another protomartyr like Pujol and his saga of crooked people. Not since Ferdinand VII has there been such a felon, such a coward and such a traitor in Spain. He promised to fulfil and enforce the Constitution but his real mission is to try to deceive the secessionists so that he can stay in La Moncloa for two more years. Sánchez cannot be magnanimous with anyone because he is not a man of honour as we learnt from Aristotle.Batasunizar el futuro

Black triennium

Why should we now launch the Pedralbes Agreement-capitulation with 21 points hidden from public opinion? So as not to give an account of the management of three lost years.  Because it has not yet assimilated the defeat of 4M, the lies of the pandemic; the 140,000 (invisible) dead of the coronavirus. Long live 8M! we have turned the corner on the coronavirus and now let's have fun, lied Pérez-Castejón. This is his legacy: the unemployed have increased by 650,000, the ERTES -workers in limbo- exceed 670,000, the debt has increased by 235 billion and the request for credits until 2023 will exceed 825 billion euros. With an inflation rate of 2.7 per year, with rising oil prices (15 euros more for taking the deposit from January); with pensions that will be revised every five years and with an inhumane rate hike - the July bill will be astronomical - neither with the European funds will we get out of poverty nor out of the hunger queues. And what about the selfemployed and their confiscatory rises! This government, with Marlasca at the head, is only concerned with saving the terrorists who will be at home for Christmas and breaking the Single Social Security Fund despite the fact that the State Lawyer's Office has already informed the president that it is unconstitutional. But who is in charge of the State Attorney's Office and the Public Prosecutor's Office? The Constitutional Court has already declared the appointments of Iglesias and Redondo to the National Intelligence Centre to be unconstitutional. Any responsibilities? None. The Constitutional Court itself has ordered the destruction of the Barajas tapes of the "Delcy case". And now, at the behest of VOX, it is foreseeable that it will declare the confinement unconstitutional for tyrannically applying the state of alarm.  It is scandalous that the High Court has allowed the government to hold us hostage for more than a year.  We are moving from tyranny to a dictatorship that will end by breaking up Spain as a result of the dialogue of the head of the government, who thinks only of himself. No one with less empathy, no one so selfish, no one so disloyal. This guy is the number one public danger to health, economy, education, democracy and society. He doesn't give a damn about Spain and the Spanish people. What he cares about is power and the photo with Biden. This black triennium is worse than the seven years of Zapatero and Rajoy together. 
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With an elephantine government, 22 ministries, I thought that, with a few exceptions, they were a team of professionals. Instead, they are incompetent and servile. When you see three magistrates (Robles, Marlasca and Campos) supporting pardons for the coup plotters so as not to antagonise the beautiful Sánchez -beautiful but without brains- you come to one conclusion: they can only be part of a team led by a Chamberlain who will bring us dishonour, indignity and then "war". Dividing society is the greatest achievement of this political adventurer. Now he begs for sympathy. A cynic who does not even deserve contempt for his arrogance.  If he wants dialogue, let him do it in the Parliament of the Nation in the light of day, not with the opacity that consecrates him as the darkest leader in history, even more so than his admired Leninist comrade Largo Caballero, who led us straight into civil war.
Confrontation as a strategy.

The most outstanding feature of this useless and incapable government is lies and propaganda; it is on these two pillars that it has built a philosophy of life that buys wills, televisions and media that make money out of silence. What will they do when they stage the final coup d'état and unilaterally enact the independence of Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, the Basque Country and Navarre, half of Aragon and the surrender of the cities of Ceuta and Melilla?The confrontation against businessmen, the Bank of Spain, the self-employed, -traditional trade unions are more subsidised than TV3-, restaurants, travel agencies, bars, bullfighting, hunting, power stations, lithium extractors, farmers, stockbreeders... They only defend their friends the wolves, the seagulls, the coup plotters and the ETA members.  Ethics and austerity have vanished from the code of conduct of a ministerial team that has humiliated Juan de la Cierva and has just banned from the national awards such eminences as Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Gregorio Marañón and Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo. The first, for being a Francoist who had nothing to do with Franco; he did not even know him. The other three scholars because they were men. Of course, the Minister of Universities, the 'Cataliban' Manuel Castells, will "pay homage" to Leopoldo Alas Clarín, who died in 1906 "because he was assassinated by the Franco regime in 1936". Confrontation as a strategy is fascism in disguise. Fascism and cowardice. Our action after the assault on Ceuta and Melilla by the Moroccan government is a product of the weakness of a social-communist government where, despite the absence of Pablo Iglesias, the Bolivarian and feminazi line continues to prevail. They pay lip service to dialogue but theirs is imposition by means of the Official State Gazette.
 

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Minister Darias should be reminded of this with her ministerial order against the majority of the Spanish population - thirty-two million citizens - after being slapped in the face by the Spanish National Court. Never have so few done so much harm to so many. The deplorable performance of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya - but where did they get this uncomfortable lady to watch and listen to? in the two most recent scandals, the invasion of our Spanish provinces in North Africa and the arrival in Spain of Brahim Ghali with double false documentation - " a different identity", as spokeswoman J.M. Montero would say - confirms that Spain is in the hands of a handful of unprincipled politicians and a party that, with the exception of García-Paje, does not deserve a vote until the year 2051. Or even beyond.  It will be able to continue overruling Parliament, intimidating the judiciary, staining the robes of the Attorney General's Office with the dust of the road and pressuring the State Attorney's Office so that its reports, contrary to the Supreme Court, can justify the outrages committed. He may control all the powers. He may rule, but he will never govern because he is an unscrupulous Caesar. Batasunizar el futuroMr Sánchez, you are pure chaos. Decisions are not taken by ministers, but by you personally, without telling the others. They put up with you because they are a bunch of losers. How long will you continue to abuse our patience? Colón's answer was clear: Elections now. Spain does not deserve a government that lies and is a vassal of Puigdemont and Junqueras. The worst thing about this dark triennium is not that it divides, multiplies us by zero and ruins us. The worst thing is that, petty rascals like Illa, - "I am in favour of an agreed referendum for coexistence"- what the hell is that! or Iceta, - "people from Navarre are already playing in the Division of Honour with Basques and Catalans" -, from the PSC they are always imposing their thesis of accepting a preventive surrender. And Dr. Sánchez is leading the process.    

Last 4M, Madrid-Ayuso-Freedom kicked Iglesias first out of government and then out of politics; Spaniards from all over Spain have already condemned this infamous government: neither forgiveness nor oblivion. Not one vote for the traitors of the homeland. Not a return to communism. No to the useless people who are going to pardon themselves in order to continue squatting in the presidential palace. Spain, Mr. President, does not deserve a government that laughs at all of us and betrays the Constitution, the highway that has led us to Europe and to enjoy the best period of our lives. You have all the right in the world to commit suicide with all of your PSOE, Podemos and +M militants, but most Spaniards do not share the soul of slaves like your alter ego Iván Redondo to throw us down the ravine and follow him to death.  

You can manipulate the photo of the crowded Colón wrapped in that sea of national flags, on 13 June 2021. The previous time we broke your initiative to surrender to Torra. You may call us fachas if you feel like it.  You are just a poor man without a soul, without a heart and without a brain. You must be shameless to enter the hole in which Ortega Lara was locked up a week after you left in the hands of the PNV party one of the prison guards who held him for 532 days and 531 nights!

After destroying Spain, where is your victory, Mr. Sánchez?  We went to Barcelona on October 8 (2017) to defend the unity of the Homeland. Free and equal. We went back there two more times. We were in Plaza de Colón on October 11, 2019 to prevent you from negotiating a rapporteur with the coup plotters. We know it well for demonstrating against ETA. Today we have returned to stop you from granting pardon, amnesty and referendum to rebels subsidised with our money. And we will be back there until the next elections send you to the dustbin of history. You can't fool us all all the time. The street has lost respect for you. You can only travel in the Falcon anymore. People jeer at you because they don't like you. That's why they don't vote for you. Nor will they vote for you. 

Don't ask for us to understand your villainy. Your convictions are smoke and your word is worthless. We are sure that you will impose pardons in spite of 62 percent of Spaniards. And despite the Madrid demonstrations. He will have to pay this bill with 100% VAT at the ballot box because corruption and cowardice - the pardon is the greatest of cowardice and an insult to all Spaniards - neither pay nor prescribe in democracy.

Learning to breathe

There is no pain deeper and more extensive than that of losing a child. It will last a lifetime. I know this from my own experience shared with other families who have said goodbye to a loved one before their time. I fully understand the grief of Beatriz, at the death of her two precious daughters Anna and Olivia. We share that infinite suffering, we will pray for the girls, for her and for the whole family and we appeal for that love for the little ones to give her the strength to go on because life is everything. She will need the help of specialists and all the affection of the world around her. Faith is stronger than hate, dear Beatriz. You are not guilty of anything.  And the best therapy for the attitude of a scoundrel who wanted to take revenge and hit you as a woman and as a mother where it hurts the most, your daughters, is to believe that they have gone to the next room and are still waiting for you. God bless you, Beatriz!

Antonio REGALADO runs Bahía de Ítaca at: aregaladorodriguez.blogspot.com