Spain's government takes its re-enactment of the Second Republic too far in economic realism
By Gerald Warner
September 25th, 2009
The most loathsome government in Europe, outside of Downing Street, is in deep doo-doo and it is a joy to behold. The ludicrous regime in Spain of José Luis Zapatero has driven the country into bankruptcy. From its inception, as a consequence of a knee-jerk, eve-of-poll hissy fit by the electorate after its conservative predecessor stupidly blamed the Atocha station bombing in Madrid on ETA instead of al-Qaeda, the Zapatero government has been little more than a Spanish Civil War re-enactment society.
Persecuting the Church, trying to force doctors to commit abortion against their consciences, pulling down statues of General Franco and renaming streets in honour of Red murderers, digging up “victims of fascism” who (whoops!) embarrassingly turn out to be corpses from the independence struggle of 1808-14 – no student union extravagance of gesture politics has been neglected. Zapatero even acquired membership credentials for the Dead Poets’ Society with his attempt to disinter García Lorca for propaganda purposes. It was all good, clean fun – a real agitprop knees-up, while it lasted.
Unfortunately, Zapatero has now gone too far in his attempt to resurrect the obscenity that was the Second Republic, by replicating its economic achievements. Informed commentators (as distinct from the government) are now forecasting a full-blooded depression in Spain, with unemployment reaching 25 per cent – just as it did under the Republic. Wages have to fall by 10 per cent in real terms, say the experts: try telling that to the comrades in the trades unions. Youth unemployment has already reached 38 per cent. Unemployment benefit has added 3 per cent of GDP to the budget deficit.
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Just got back two days ago from my first visit to Spain. What a beautiful country and extremely friendly people. I was very pleasantly surprised how well our group of Americans was treated. I would go back in a minute. They were heartbroken at losing the 2016 Olympics and to that end it seemed like all of Madrid was undergoing some kind of construction. We all wondered who was going to pay for this massive infrastructure construction.
Well, shame on him. There are no connections between the two. None. Nada. Zip. ...
NCPPF (National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom) Executive Director Kit Gage is a veteran legal activist, serving also as head of the National Lawyers Guild, founded in the 1930s and officially cited as a legal front group for the old Communist Party. The NCPPF has acted as a legal-aid office of sorts for members or alleged members of a wide variety of terrorist groups, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [piasa note : supported by Libya & Baathist Iraq], the Egyptian Islamic Jihad [piasa note : EIJ is a member of Al Qaeda], Hamas , the Basque ETA separatist group of Spain, the FALN of Puerto Rico, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Shining Path of Peru, and for Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of the 1975 murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. --------------"Undermining war on terror : Muslim groups weakening fed laws under guise of protecting civil liberties," World Net Daily, March 10, 2003
1999 to 2001 : (MERCY INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR HAMID AICH AIDS TERROR GROUPS -- INCLUDING SPAIN'S BASQUE SEPARATISTS ETA; See RESSAM, ALQAEDA, DUBLIN CELL) It is believed that between 1999 and 2001, Aich assisted 22 Islamic terrorist organizations, and even funded non-Islamic groups, for instance giving $200,000 to the ETA, a separatist group in the Basque region of Spain. Aich was also the director of Mercy International’s Ireland branch. (This charity has several known al-Qaeda connections by this time (see 1988-Spring 1995 and Late 1996-August 20, 1998).) Despite these connections, he will continue to live openly in Dublin after the newspaper discloses his location. [Mirror, 9/17/2001]--"Profile: Hamid Aich,"http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=hamid_aich_1