The year we lived dangerously (I)
King Felipe VI's message on this turbulent Christmas has been like the balm of Fierabrás to heal the wounds opened clandestinely by the amnesty. "Outside the Constitution there is no peace or freedom", said the monarch. He insisted on the "moral duty to preserve unity and solidarity among the Autonomous Regions".
On the stage, the national and European flags, the poinsettia and the family photo, on this occasion that of Princess Leonor's swearing-in in Congress, remained unchanged.
The King was tense, uncomfortable, because the current moment is serious. "We cannot allow the seed of discord to settle among us", he stressed with concern. A speech, however, for hope, firmly anchored in the backbone of our Transition: the Magna Carta of '78. We Spaniards have a King. Spain will move forward.
Necessity without virtue
Amnesty is the word that has changed our existence this year, the lever to overthrow coexistence by taking as a fulcrum the forgiveness and forgetting of the crimes committed by the coup perpetrators and the first pillar to build the wall of polarisation of the new Popular Front. An endless headache. Our president can only govern in a country in flames.
"How can so many kisses fit into one song", lamented Joaquín Sabina in "Peor para el sol", before recalling the drinks, the laughter and the excesses... Here, the drinks are on the Moncloa and paid for by the taxpayers, the laughter (laughter) comes from Waterloo and Mondragón and the excesses are called extreme right and extreme right.
This is the same feeling that the chronicler feels in order to give space in this BAHÍA-river to the innumerable news items, lies and concealments that we have suffered in the last five years. And especially in the last 150 days and 149 nights.
The two electoral contests have strained society from one side to the other. Parliament has been paralysed and the government, free of controls for seven months, has imposed the law of silence, anaesthetising it with the term prudence. The result: unbalanced pacts with the secessionists that can never be repaid.
The controversial "yes is yes" law that has left almost 150 rapists and more than 1,300 abusers on the street with reduced sentences under the banner of podemite progressivism has been forgotten. Who remembers the pardons and the reduction of sentences for corrupt embezzlers, who are the same, and the 150,000 deaths caused by the COVID pandemic? Four years ago the King demanded that politicians put an end to corruption. It is still there. Corruption, I mean. Because amnesty is corruption. Much need to form a government, yes; no virtue.
Harassment of the judiciary
There was no law for those affected by the ELA, but hours after 23-July, in an exercise of political cynicism, the Moncloa pulled the amnesty law out of its sleeve, drafted by the same criminals who were the beneficiaries. And the plumber Bolaños lied in Brussels, assuring that this torpedo in the heart of democracy was of no concern, zero.
This was already seen in the European Parliament eight days later when the president gave an account [the accounts of the Great Captain] of his rotating presidential term. Amnesty is of great interest in order to stay in power! Never before has a president been booed by all and sundry in such a predicament. He defended postulates incompatible with the European presidency of the 27; he only went to preserve his new seat. He spent the best of his energies, promising permanent payment to make Catalan, Basque and Galician official; in the end he only implored Catalan for the votes of Junts. Here, too, he did not keep his word. Minister Albares' mendicant gesture was pathetic from June to December.
Let us return to the story. Once the votes had been counted and translated into seats, President Pedro Sánchez opted to make an appeal to the "fat bitch" and flooded the amnesty with propaganda and constitutional legitimacy. The miracle of transfiguration.
Until the polls opened, amnesty did not fit into the Magna Carta. Now, with the TC under control, the Chief Legal Adviser of the Congress, a former Secretary of State for Public Administration, has been changed, and the legal expert in this matter has been purged on the spot, the bill with unsigned reports has begun to be processed with forceps. Another way of enabling legislation.
The CGPJ and the Supreme Court, the Prosecutors' Associations, the State Attorney's Office and even the Tax Inspectors have spoken out against this legislative outrage.
From the rostrum of the Congress, the spokesperson of the ex-convergentes del 3%, Mirian Nogueras - "the untouchable" - has pointed out with name and surname to magistrates, prosecutors and journalists - as when ETA - demanding that they be brought before the newly created parliamentary commissions to explain the "persecution and repression" they have exercised after the coup d'état of 2017. And it goes further: to 2012. It demands that they be condemned. We have already seen how the Historical Memory drawn up by Batasuna was prolonged like Franco's dictatorship from 1936 to 1983. The PSOE and PSC's swallowing of the law supports it all.
That is to say, to comply with the law is to mistreat Catalonia. Sanchismo has bought at the price of "extra virgin oil" a mendacious and dreamy story.
The situation is so serious that the judiciary has denounced the facts before the European Commission because for the first time the rule of law and judicial independence are being directly attacked. As in Hungary, as in Slovenia, as in Malta, as in Hungary.
Knowing that the laws do not allow judges and magistrates to attend parliamentary summons because they would be guilty of prevarication if they revealed any information known during the process, the socialists authorise these commissions so that Batasunos, ETA members, Yolanda's sumarísimos, scorned podemitas and Catalan coup plotters can mercilessly and without measure attack the judiciary.
Each commission - twelve more have been created in this legislature - costs about two million euros a year in bonuses for the deputies; the experience of this short legislature reaffirms that nationalism and this government are insatiable. And incompatible with democracy.
Babel of languages
Basques, Catalans and Galicians (the Galicians of '35) have demanded to use their languages without translation, in contravention of the agreements of the Congress Bureau, which does not allow the use of languages other than Spanish to be extended beyond the plenary sessions.
While we are on the subject of languages, let us remember the mistreatment to which the Generalitat has subjected the European mission that has come to study the discrimination suffered by children who want to go to school in Spanish. Fascists and racists have been the two most repeated adjectives to the European delegation, after the socialists abandoned it, by order of the PSC.
As if the damage were not enough, the President of the Government himself, received in the Palau with the honours of a foreign head of state, has committed himself in little more than an hour of his visit to develop a law on multilingualism.
On the pretext that Catalan is in danger - yet another lie - it will be enshrined that all citizens with their own language will be able to address the Administration throughout the national territory in their vehicular language. Reason: to collapse the Institutions from the Health to the Judiciary, from the Congress to the Senate, from the Army to the Ombudsman in order to force all bodies to receive and issue reports, opinions and answers in the co-official languages. They will end up introducing Catalan in public and public schools. They call this siege of the State normalisation.
In short, torpedoing the functioning of all public bodies and creating a Babel of languages with reinterpretations that distort communication. To put it another way: to corner Spanish in the bureaucracy and in the classroom. Pure and simple Nazism protected by unredeemed victimhood. Another fictitious (political) confrontation provoked by the enemies of Spain, whom Sánchez treats with a silk white glove as if they were benefactors of humanity.
Moncloa does pay traitors
This government of the Popular Front maintains throughout the year the Feast of the Three Wise Men. Neither from the East nor from the northern lands of the North. The president always has a full wallet and pays in cash. Sánchez offered to explore the Fiscal Pact (singular) if Aragonés desisted from the 1-O referendum. It is an unsolvable conditional like Poincaré's conjecture or Riermann's hypothesis. We already know that it is impossible because Junts, ERC, Bildu, PNV, PSC and BNG.
As the Molt Honorable pointed out, "Mr. Sánchez said no to pardons, and there they are watching time go by [like the Puerta de Alcalá]; he said no to amnesty and it is being debated urgently, nocturnally and with malice aforethought; he said no to international verifiers and there are already two, one for Junts and another for ERC; Mr. Sánchez has said no to the referendum and he will allow it", say all the shareholders who tied the socialist comrade to the rack of power.
The partners know that the president always says yes to their blackmail. The Moncloa always pays traitors. So that they don't lack "nothing", it gives them 1,800 million as a Christmas bonus to increase the Mossos staff by another 3,600 troops.
It is worth remembering that the Catalan and Basque police are paid monthly by the Ministry of the Interior. But there is no authorisation from Marlaska for Cibeles to level the staffs with 1,000 municipal police officers that it would pay for with its own budgets. This is the asymmetrical equality of nationalism in the time of Don Pedro. An unequal symmetry that they will continue to call coexistence. The inexhaustible wellspring of money for the separatists is infinite in the midst of a drought.
A few hours earlier, he had returned the Pamplona City Council to Bildu. It has left the Navarre Corporation in the hands of Joseba Asirón, a man who has humiliated part of the female Consistory and with special viciousness the female councillors of the PSN. A textbook abuser. But the feminists remain silent. Even Montero and Belarra. Pelillos a la mar. Progressives are never sexist.
As Transport Minister Óscar Puente assured, "Bildu has the right to political life because it is a democratic progressive party". In the same sense, in the last plenary session, spokesman Patxi López described the demonstrations called by the UPN and attended by Núñez Feijóo as "anti-democratic". The wall widens and spreads (to be continued)
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