My Spanish Relatives Upset By Terrorism: Wish For the Good Old Days of Gen. Francisco Franco

3-12-04 | Pinochet

[pinochet]

As my freeper friends are aware, my mother is an immigrant from Seville, Spain, while my father is an Spanish-American whose family has lived in Florida since 1821, just when America was begining to take control of Florida from Spanish control.

I still have relatives living in Seville and Valencia, including an elderly aunt.

My Spanish family is outraged by the massacre perpetrated by Islamo-fascists. They are also angry at the government of Prime Minister Aznar, for not having done enough to protect the Spanish people from terrorism, especially when Spain was heading for the election season when the government is normally at high alert over Basque ETA violence.

I talked to my elderly aunt in Seville today, and she says that, if Generalisimo Franco were still in power today, this type of outrage would never have happened. During the days of the Falange, the Islamo-fascists would never have been allowed to enter Spain in the first place, let alone be allowed to bring in their explosives.

Gen. Franco specialized in kicking commie butt, which made him hated by leftists around the world. If he was in power, Islamics wouldn't even have dared to carry out attacks in his country.

[niteowl77]

Francisco Franco was nobody's fool; he was one of the few European leaders that tweaked Adolf Hitler's nose and got away with it. Supposedly, when Hitler left Spain after an unsuccessful (for him) meeting with Generalissimo Franco, a furious Fuehrer remarked to people on the train that he'd rather have his teeth pulled than try to bargain with Franco again. Like Marshal Mannerheim of Finland, Franco has had over fifty years of horrible PR courtesy of the "progressive" press.

Today's bombings were truly horrific, and my heart goes out to the Spanish people. My sincere hope is that Spain will find the perpetrators of this atrocity quickly, and deal with them summarily.

[OldFriend]

I actually heard that talking head make the comment that if Mary Jo were alive, Ted Kennedy would have done so much for her and her generation.

[TaMoDee]

You forgot to mention the Goode Olde Franco allowed the Germans to practice dive bombing tactics on the Basques

[Verginius Rufus]

In the movie The Great Escape, the escaped POWs who make it to the Spanish border (I forget how many made it there, whether one or more) are safe from the Germans.

[B-Chan]

Gen. Francisco Franco is a hero of the Third World War. Thanks to him, Spain was prevented from becoming a Mediterranean version of Warsaw-Pact Poland.

The fact that he is near-universally hated today is proof that he was a great man and a great friend of the West.

The Generalissimo knew how to deal with enemies of la Patria.

¡Viva Cristo Rey! Arriba España!

[TaMoDee]

Swiss Border maybe?

[Kenny Bunk]

Death does not prevent many Democrats from voting. Their party knows the meaning of loyalty.

[Snuffington]

That's almost a pretty good synopsis of European politics. Give them democracy, and they love the largesse available from the public funds. But they can't provide any security. Eventually, they turn to a dictator. Now and then there's a revolution or war and the cycle begins again.

If only they'd seriously study American Republican conservativism, they'd realize they can have both a republic and security. But that seems to be beyond them. That's why many of our ancestors left the place to come here.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think it's the POW played by Steve McQueen who goes to the Swiss border (don't remember if he was able to get in), but there is definitely a scene in the Pyrenees where someone (or more than one escapee) is being guided to safety in Spain.

[GOP_1900AD]

Arriba! Y venceremos contra terrorismo y communismo!

[nkycincinnatikid]

I am just going by memory here but I think that the condor legion air wing loaned by Germany to the nationalists was very much under Francos direct command. After the western press outrage over the destruction of Guernica it was convienient for Franco to spread his hands and say " who? me? "