Warning on Possible Mediatic Coup in Spain

Libertad Digital ^ | 20 February 2008 | Luis del Pino (transl. & cmmts. J Aguilar)

[J Aguilar]

Zapatero Before the Clock
by Luis del Pino

Yesterday, in the program La Linterna [the Lantern] conducted by Cesar Vidal [an Evangelist theologian and writer], I dared to make two predictions: that the campaign of aggressions was going to increase and that the government was not going to wait many days in bringing back to live the scarecrow of the extreme Right, to oppose it to the regional nationalistic and extreme Left violence that the own government encourages.

I was not mistaken, not even a bit, with respect to the second of the predictions: this morning, the newspaper [pro-Socialist] El País showed in its first page a title in which it accuses a general of making "a coup plea" in front of the leadership of the Army.

In fact, the prediction does not have much merit. In Spain, neither the extreme Right, nor the extreme Left really exist. Or, better, there are small groups at both ends of the political spectrum perfectly controlled, and manipulated by our own structures of the State. To anticipate, therefore, that the strategy of the tension consists of urging the aggressions of the extreme Left against the PP and, simultaneously, bringing back to live some supposed character of the extreme Right, in order to make the [Socialist] government appear like a centrist one in the middle of two opposed ends, is not a divination exercise, but simple logic.

Which will be the following step of the staging? Some letter by a military convicted for 2/23 [1981 coup attempt] requesting the vote for Rajoy? Some aggression by a false group of extreme Right against an office of the Socialist Party? Go you namely! As they do not have much imagination and they go at a constant pace, I suppose that they will bring one of those old-fashioned staging that so many times they have tried in the past. Although less and less, there are people who still buy that product, so they will try to stretch the representation as long as they can.

And which is the sense of that staged tension? On one hand, to create that sensation of confrontation that allows them to mobilize a part of their more radical voters. Concretely, the part of the electorate that considers that the Socialist Party is the same s**t that the PP [as they say] and who consider not pleasant to give their vote to Rodriguez Zapatero unless they think that "the enemy of the Right" is coming wearing their military boots and their greased bangs, ready to shoot the revolutionary youngsters by direct order of George Bush.

But that is only one part of the movie. Zapatero looks for, in addition, in a desperate way, a dramatic blow: some gesture from the ETA assassins that may allow him to return to toll the fictitious bells of peace. And the racket of the tension tries to introduce the public opinion, before that final gesture, in the most accelerated as possible spiral of events in which there is no space left for any calmed reflection: a tide of feelings, the news and sensations that make impossible, for most of the people, a critical assessment of the reality.

Like in the magic tricks, where the artist speech becomes faster and faster so we do not pay attention to the hand that manipulates the hat, Zapatero will increase step by step the level of noise, tension and drama, so that the rabbit of the negotiations with ETA takes all by surprise when it jumps to the scene from that hat on which Rubalcaba [Interior Minister] keeps constantly an eye.

But the magician plays, in this case, a race against the clock. And the negotiators at the other side of the table know it, so it is possible that they are making worth their advantage. Therefore, if time runs out, Zapatero will be forced to resort to the emergency plan: if he is not able to pull out from ETA a staging of a false surrendering of weapons, it will not have left another possibility that to try to sell us all some spectacular blow against the leadership of the terror group. "Will the Strategy advise" to arrest, for instance, Ternera or Txeroqui? We will see it in the next weeks.

The noise and the tension are the protective screen that Zapatero needs to face these three decisive weeks. So they will increase. We will have opportunity, in these next days, to see the less amiable face of a Zapatero for whom the clock is no longer an ally.

[J Aguilar]

National Elections will be held in Spain next March 9th.

2004 National Elections were preceeded by a terrorist attack copied from the Italian Strategy of Tension, specifically, the Bologna massacre.

The same tension tactis were used by the Socialist party to win, in coalition, the 1936 National Elections, after triggering the insurrection of the Asturian miners in 1934.

[Terriergal]

Sounds like the hegelian dialectice (thesis vs antithesis = synthesis)

[padre35]

Wow, one almost needs a course in modern Spanish History to follow the divergent lines of thought contained in there J Aguilar.

[Anti-Bubba182]

[J Aguilar]

tanuki, seems that Luis del Pino is answering your last question.

[J Aguilar]

No, it is simply the shameful story of the Strategy of Tension in Italy has not been publicized in the U.S.

It has been discovered in Italy, that both Left wing terrorism and Right wing one, that kept the country under tension during more than a decade, were controlled by the same structures.

It is like a puppet show, the puppets fight one against the other, and the people center their attention on them, but their strings are pulled by the same person.

[3AngelaD]

What is a “mediatic coup”? Is he saying that Rodriguez Zapatero will engineer some kind of terror attack before the election? Or by jihadists? Isn’t that why Aznar’s party LOST the last time?

[Terriergal]

yes — that is the same principle of the hegelian dialectic method of bringing about consensus.

It’s an evil system. They seem to think by pitting one side against the other you will come out with some pragmatic compromise that will be ‘right.’ but this method is never useful at figuring out what is morally ‘right.’ Marx appropriated this system of thought and applied it politically.

http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm

[oblomov]

We don’t see too much Counterrevolutionary commentary here on FR. Conservatism should be a big tent. Welcome!

[J Aguilar]

Check that Aznar did not need to "engineer" any attack because he was winning in the polls. The mastermind behind 3/11, who is still unknown, was clearly someone that did not want Aznar's party to continue ruling Spain.

Check also that before last 2004 National Elections, there was also a disinformation campaign in order to build up tension in the Spanish public opinion on an imminent ETA big attack.

Therefore, structures that support the Spanish Socialist Party and ETA have collaborated before in manipulating the public opinion.

Probably now they are thinking in something similar. A big terrorist attack is unlikely, however, they may try to stage big impact news, such as rapid conclusion of the negotiations they are carrying out secretly with ETA followed with the surrendering of some weapons; a big operation against ETA in the negotiations aren't sucessful, or even some statements by one of their puppets in the army.

The strategy is to keep the people under tension, so they cannot think rationally. It is like heating a metal, once warm enough you can hit it with a hammer (impacting news) and give it the shape you like. Since they and they collaborators and supporters really control all the media, they can proceed with such tactics.

Check for instance that they are hiding, before an astonished world, the difficult situation of a part of the Spanish banking sector.

They can fabricate the situation they need. They can even transform an attack that wasn't Islamist into an Islamist one.

Spain is the perfect dictatorship. And I don't think Rajoy's PP could change that.

[J Aguilar]

Thank you, oblomov.

Thank you too, Terriergal. I think you are right: the Hegelian dialectic is used by collectivist ideologies to advance their agenda against Freedom.

Both Socialism and Fascism used it. Fascism, as an evolution of Socialism, is highly compatible with it. Therefore, not be mistaken about who really are behind the Spanish Socialist Party. They have used the same tactics Hitler did in 1933 to achieve power.

You see Angela, the Reichstag Fire as another mediatic coup (big impact news produced by the National Socialist Party itself) that justified before the German public opinion the seizure of absolute powers by Hitler.

It is always the same story, the same strategy and the same tactics.

[J Aguilar]

More about Socialism and Fascism here:

Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg

[3AngelaD]

Qué coincidencia. Acabo de comprar ese libro.

[Terriergal]

yes and no one learns from history. :-( Or at least, not enough of us!

[tanuki]

So he is. I hope the Socialists are not projecting themselves onto this ‘threat from the Right.’

[tanuki]

Actually, I should have said ‘projecting themselves onto BOTH threats from Left and Right’-but of course, that is precisely what they are doing. I guess my bias is showing!

[J Aguilar]

Angela,

Sí que es coincidencia / Yes, it is a coincidence indeed.

tanuki,

ETA has "participated" in all Spanish National Election campaigns, usually killing someone seven to fifteen days before the voting day. It is very very unlikely that they do not contribute -in their way- to this one.

The information I have indicates a possible agreement between the Socialist party and ETA in order to stage a surrendering of some weapons before the elections.

So, I think in this situation, the far Right scarecrow is being brought into life in order to identify the citizens that might tell that it is all a deception, a staging before the elections and nothing else, as far right people.

As in the last national campaign, the pieces are begun to be moved into their "combat stations", so when something happens, the strategists of tension can lean on them to carry out their agitation operation.

Both the Socialist party and ETA have a lot to lose in this elections, I am sure they are preparing something, although ETA brutality may hinder a final agreement in the last minute.

Regarding the Socialists and the Far Right, -I owe you an article about the Socialists' well covered-up "dangerouses liasons"- their relations have always been good.

Already in the early 1970's, the secret services of the Francoist regime protected them in order to create a barrier against Communism. In the late 1970's, the Spanish Socialist Party was secretly financed, among others, by the far Right German millionaire Flick. His father had been judged at Nuremberg.

There has been always a good relation between the far Right and the Spanish Socialist party and, usually in continental Europe, a good relation between the far right and the Socialists since Bismark used them to crush the classic liberals of the German parliament between 1870-1880, founding the traditional German National Socialist ideology that a tavern brawler called Hitler simply dared to carry out to its final consequences.