Spain may extend state of emergency [National elections prevented]

Madrid - Spain may extend its state of emergency for up to two months to train military personnel to take over the jobs of those air traffic controllers who are sacked or face legal action, El Mundo newspaper said on Monday.

"Moreover, now controllers are under military rule and will be prosecuted by military justice."

Oh, I see, just like Reagan was ready to do. How is this bad?

Spain is a basket case, reform must start somewhere if they are to survive. It's a bad time to be a squeaking wheel, 'cuz you will be the first to get greased.

Seems as though Bob Poli retired to Spain as a labor consultant.

"There is no comparison....."

Oh, BS.

Comparison can be between wildly different things...but these are not terribly different.

Two leaders reacted to similar situations in similar ways, what is hard to understand about that?

Zapatero considered the controllers actions illegal....so did Reagan.

Zapatero canned the controllers....so did Reagan.

Zapatero put them under military....Reagan was close to doing that.

Looks comparable to me.

Two separate issues that are related in Spain’s case.

I don’t believe in unions for public employees.

And I sure don’t believe in “states of emergency” except in wartime.

When a leftist union provokes a crisis that forces a leftist government to declare a “state of emergency”, you have to be very suspicious.

Thats one of the things I worry about here; that O’s leftist allies will provoke a crisis that will force the O to take some kind of emergency powers. In some ways he is already doing it, using regulatory powers to get around the constitution.

First, isolate a country on the eve of a holiday season. If the reaction from the populace is relatively controllable, then what? Shut down communications? Restrict petrol and public transit?

In the coming days and weeks, I guess we’ll find out if the Zapatero regime is behaving according to a template. In the meantime, if I were a Spaniard, I’d start paying attention to the borders and packing bags.

I have read your about page, and have serious reservations about your objectivity. certainly looks like something from a Hollywood conspiracy script.

Also some reservations about if you are really you. Much of what you write contains correct English, including grammer and context; but other times reads like someone whose pants are still wet from swimming the river.

In the end, your views are those of a Spaniard, embedded in YOUR mind as your home, and what you envision it's history and future to be. As such, it is quite dissimilar to ours, except for the love of freedom I assume you hold.

I wish your country well, but not her controllers, who seem to hold themselves a cut above.

I have read your about page, and have serious reservations about your objectivity. certainly looks like something from a Hollywood conspiracy script.

If you found your opinions on what something looks like, well... we cannot be surprised by the conclusions you reach. As a rule of thumb, in Spain nothing is what it seems. As I told a German to explain this issue: was the German Democratic Republic democratic at all?

Also some reservations about if you are really you. Much of what you write contains correct English, including grammer and context; but other times reads like someone whose pants are still wet from swimming the river.

At this side of the river we've got satellite dishes, and Mr. Murdoch some years ago decided we deserved to watch FoxNews. I think they are the ones to blame for the good things.

In the end, your views are those of a Spaniard, embedded in YOUR mind as your home, and what you envision it's history and future to be. As such, it is quite dissimilar to ours, except for the love of freedom I assume you hold.

First of all, my mind surpasses the borders of my country (big mind or small country, or both). Secondly, as the issue on Green Energy proves, things that happen in my country could be tried in yours, so you are not so dissimilar as you may wish to think.

Finally, ad hominem attacks just prove lack of objective reasons.

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