[KingSnorky]

I don’t put anything past a Marxist. That’s why I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to learn that Spain’s Socialist Workers’ Party colluded with with whatever terrorist group was behind the 3/11 attacks.

But regardless whether it was the ETA or al-Qaeda, the result is the same — Spanish voters surrendered. As Mark Steyn points out about the 3/11 attack in his book “America Alone”, “no one will remember the footnotes, the qualifications — just the final score: terrorists toppled a European government.”

[J Aguilar]

...the result is the same, Spanish voters surrendered

That is true. Democracy has been in Spain just for 30 years, and no one have ever wanted to explain or teach the Spaniards what is all about. Some kind of soft-dictatorship-without-Franco has been preferred. Nothing alike the Anglosaxon political systems.

As Mark Steyn points out about the 3/11 attack in his book “America Alone”, “no one will remember the footnotes, the qualifications — just the final score: terrorists toppled a European government.”

I disagree. Terrorists only killed people. The Coup d'Etat was carried out by the ones that fabricated evidence and pumped lies into the public opinion. In the Reichstag Fire, the name of the scapegoat blamed by the Nazi party is left behind. What is remembered is that Hitler assumed extraordinary powers.

IMHO, 3/11 will be remembered by the fact that the media lied, knowing it or not, but lied; collaborating, again, willing it or not; in the violent removal of a legitimate government from office.

And this, in the times of Internet, will have its impact.

It might not be perceived in the US, land of freedom; but here in Spain the 3/11 case is pushing Internet beyond any previously known limit.