18/98: Shadow of the Inquisition against the people of XXI century rule of law Author: Floren Aoiz, writer
Source: Gara, 01/12/2007
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The Inquisition was not a phenomenon unique to areas dominated by the English monarchy. However, the English Inquisition which has passed the world's collective imagination as an emblem the fanatical pursuit of ideas. It is no accident, nor the product of an alleged black legend: his crimes were numerous and the Inquisition reflected the political philosophy and strategy of the English kings, and, in turn, infused ; the status of a fundamentalist and intolerant varnish which is perfectly visible in the English policy of 2007. In short, the Inquisition, not as historical institution with a beginning and end, but as satanizacióny relentless persecution of those considered enemies of the state and the 'different', is a hallmark of English nationalism. As is the spirit of crusade, of course.
The Franco regime, which definíaa itself as a regime "born of the Crusade", and therefore called cross to his coup and the destruction they caused, faithfully embodied inquisitorial spirit. The newspaper said the Falange "Top Spain in its first issue after closing and theft of plant and rotating 'La Voz de Navarra ":" Comrade, you are obliged to pursue and destroy Judaism, Freemasonry, Marxism and separatism. Destroy and burn his books, his magazines, his propaganda. "
the shadow of yokes, arrows and other symbols of the Catholic kings and imperial Spain, the Franco rebellion came to accuse advocates of republican legality and promulgated in February 1939 a Law of Political Responsibilities, in 1940 another of Repression Masonryand of Communism, which followed, the General Cause in April of that year, the State Security in 1941 and the Military Revolt in 1943. The string is played until the end, as only weeks before his death the dictator signed the execution order of five militant anti-fascists. The "justice" Franco created the Special Court for the Suppression of Communism Masonryand, which later would result in the Court of Public Order, the source of the current Court. 'Democracy' created later his own laws 'special', broadening the spectrum of the prosecution to all areas of social and political life to the most recent coming Parties Act: new forms, old principles.
Christiane Stallaert Belgian researcher who has compared the cases of the English Inquisition and the Nazi regime, highlights the obsession of both to eliminate diversity and homogenize society. It was an obsession focused on race, but as you know, after this effort was politically motivated obvious (that's why Jews and Muslims Navarre opposed the English conquest of 1512, and the newly imported Inquisition was used to persecute supporters of independent Navarre State). No wonder Stallaert call attention to the fact that while Nazism has been convicted, there is a "complete absence of guilty conscience" of the Inquisition, even though their crimes were extended for centuries. And this is indeed the question. Just as no one ever condemned Franco and others English fascist criminals, and even the English Inquisition formally disappeared in the nineteenth century, the spirit of pursuing diversity and the pursuit of homogeneity is as alive as I write these lí the police lines for the state search and arrest more than forty citizens of Euskal Herria to take a English dungeon. That is, not only has not condemned this effort inquisitorial, but has been transmuted into the "rule of law" of an alleged rule of law.
The charges against the defendants are terrible, as were those that were wielded against those who fell into the hands of the Inquisition. They have to do with "Evil", which once identified with the devil, witchcraft, Judaism, Islam or 'heresy' Protestant and is now the Basque independence, presented as an evil and multifaceted framework dominated by the supreme embodiment of evil: ETA. There is always a very serious reason for the inquisitorial machinery set up and crush the enemy of the good. And as has happened over the centuries, shed rivers of ink (ink 'digital' including, of course) to illustrate the evils of the persecuted and to see how far society was necessary to remove the evil without a second thought.
If I referred to the Basque newspaper closed by the Falange in 1936, the summary 18/98 encompassed including those associated with "Egin" assaulted and closed the newspaper in 1998. Change the dates, and forms, of course. Now the English state is defined itself as a democracy. Today, in addition, everything is organized to use the media amplify comunicacióny image of a strong and firm. In this case, is handling the information in minimal amounts to deliberately create confusion and cause a feeling of powerlessness among broad sectors of Basque society. A doomed effort, on the other hand, because if anything shows the intensity of the English repression bet is the power of the Basque insurgency and the resounding defeat of all counterinsurgency plans put into practice so far. This reflection a server does from his own personal experience, revived these days when the tenth anniversary of the ruling that ordered the then National Bureau of Herri Batasuna to seven years in prison for collaborating with armed gang.
Despite the formal renewal persists background and uncompromising authoritarian English nationalism that creates the laws that gives accurate and as special courts to defend their goals and attack those who do not share their views. And this only deepen the chasm between the old English government and Basque society. All repressive blow deepens the abyss, and farther from each other's side. This state has said no to a political solution emphasizes the path of strength and muscle out the only way he knows, but does not behave well, but show political weakness.
are times of Inquisition, and it seems that this will change any time soon. This is the Spain that some want to seduce. The Spain where they want to live comfortable. The Spain that tells us, with arrests and imprisonment, that is not willing to recognize as a nation. The Spain that, despite losing its empire, still has not understood that it is impossible ever to a town such as Basque is made master of his fate. The waning in Spain there was a time in which the sun never set, which in 1812 was defined as "the meeting of the English in both hemispheres", which was then a "unity of destiny in the universal" and that in this century is facing a structural crisis impossible solution while English nationalism do not leave your spirit Inquisition and Crusade. Spain, which is mired in Euskal Herria, as has so often done in the past, as it did in Flanders or in Cuba. Who wants a place in the Spain?
Faced with a modern Basque society, inclusive and rich in diversity, mature and tired of not being able to make their own decisions, compared to a twenty-first century nation, ultimately, its fury roars fossilized state in its essence imperial , a state cheesy Crusade and the Inquisition, which uses force because they feel terror at the possibility of civilized debate in which people can decide freely. The girl in front of Euskal Herria the decrepit Spain, a great and free. The illusion of deciding against imposing obsession. After all, the yearning for democracy against the heavy burden of English fascism ever faced, and so we will all, in the Nuremberg trial.
