This is
just another post whereby you realize till which extent all the elements
mentioned in the title are actually linked up in Spainistan and feedback each
other till the more absolute stupidity.
The polemic is installed in Spainistan some
days since, focused in the statement done by Ms. Esperanza Aguirre (“Esperanza”
in Spanish means “hope”) on the soccer final of the Kings’ Cup, with Barcelona team Vs. Bilbao,
a Vasc team. Yes,
yes, you are not dreaming: in Spainistan is perfectly possible that the
President of the Madrid
Regional State
makes statements about soccer!. Ms. “Hope” said that if the fans of Barcelona
and Bilbao make fun again during the national Spainistani hymn, by whistling or
any other means, the camp should be
immediately closed, fans expelled and the match if so, be played “closed
doors”, as making fun of the National Spainistani Hymn is indeed an offence
punished by criminal law.
My foreign
readers should know that during the 2008-09 Kings’ Cup final, that was also
played by Barça and Bilbao, it came to happen that at the beginning of the
match and during the national hymn, both fans and supporters (around 80.000
people!) started to whistle with a loud crash and showed clearly against the
monarchy as an institution (the King, his son and other members of the
Spainistani monarchy symbolically “chair” this match, as it was also done for
decades by Franco, the Spanish dictator). The commotion in Spainistan was even
greater when TVE (the Spanish TV) censored these images (this reality!), and it
could only be seen through the Catalan and Basc Country TVs. You can see all of this in these videos:
A more detailed video can be found here.
Political
reactions, including some of the same party of Ms. Esperanza Aguirre (the PP),
took place immediately, qualifying them as “unacceptables” and of “politizising
a sportive event”, but the key thing
isn’t here. What Mr. Hope actually was trying to do was to divert attention
from a political news that came to light some days before: it was publicly
known that the Madrid
Regional State
(that she is the President of) had doubled its deficit, jumping from the
announced 1.1% to the 2.2%. This is particularly shameful in Spainistan at
the moment because (1) the PP had repeated that the deficit in Spainistan was
the only responsibility (and heritage) of Mr. Zapatero, the former socialist
president; and (2) that the Region of Madrid, together with Valencia and
Castilla La Mancha, where the perfect, good models of excellence as they all
are managed by the PP (all of the 3 regions account for almost 35% of Spainistan
deficit!!!).
Conclusion: in Spainistan we have politicians
able of (trying to) transform a sport event in a ultra-liberal fascist
manipulation of a political scandal of corruption and mismanagement, making it
up of an act of support to an institution heir of a dictatorship as it is the
Spainistani current monarchy.
