Showing posts with label PP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PP. Show all posts

7.19.2012

¡CRISIS!: Rey presente, Iglesia ausente


Vengo de un nuevo tour por Europa y al regresar a Spainistan, me sigue sorprendiendo que no me detengan; viniendo de Suiza o de Alemania, debería ser sospechoso de estar haciendo algo “ilegal” con mi dinero. Claro, que bien pensado, supongo que podría haber aprovechado para entrar con un par de bolsas de basura llenas de Euros de origen desconocido para lavarlos con la Amnistía Fiscal de Montoro; total, no me van a preguntar si es dinero manchado con armas, con drogas o con sangre de personas traficadas.

Llegar a casa y poner la TV no tiene precio. No voy a comentar aquí nada a lo que le voy a tener que dedicar post tras post, meneo tras maneo: la subida del IVA super-reducido, el impacto en los más vulnerables incluidos los dependientes, el patético trato por parte de TVE de la recepción de los mineros, el despido dictatorial de Fran Llorente y Juan Ramón Lucas, los incendios en la Comunidad Valenciana, el primer avión del Aeropuerto sin Aviones de Fabra… Ni siquiera el “que se jodan” de PerrAndrea Fabra.

No. Lo que me ha llamado verdaderamente la atención es una presencia y una ausencia.

La ausencia es la de la Santa Iglesia Católica y Apostólica Spainistani. Resulta en este caso curioso el silencio de esta institución creada en base al ideario de un azote del poder, de un radical revolucionario, de un defensor a muerte de los más desfavorecidos. Una institución anquilosada en su propia tela de araña de oro y platino, desquebrajada por un caso de corrupción en el banco de su propio Estado (¡su propio Estado!) de millones de Euros, resulta que… ¡no está!. Es sorprendente recordar sus manifestaciones políticas en contra del PSOE cuando ahora, más que nunca, ante el ataque masivo, planificado y sin piedad a los más desfavorecidos, la Iglesia Católica Spainistani no se pronuncia, perdiendo la poca legitimidad moral que tenía socavada a base de escándalos de pederastia e intentos recaudatorios con chantaje emocional, como hizo Rouco en el momento de pedir la X del IRPF para la Iglesia, al decir que si no lo hacían los españoles Cáritas podría desaparecer. Lo mejor fue escuchar al portavoz de Cáritas en Catalunya recordándole a este Ministro de la Oscuridad que la “iglesia de los pobres” sólo contribuye en un 2% a su presupuesto global... 

Eso sí, ahí tenéis la foto de uno de los poderes fácticos de Spainistan: "Mariano, ya está, ya me has dado el Código, ahora intentad tapar por qué teníamos más de 1.6 millones de Euros en la Catedral de Santiago que también nos robaron y, si podéis, devolvédnoslo". Nunca me hubiera imaginado que un cepillo da para tanto...

7.03.2012

The Spanish PARADOX: the Spainistani REALITY


The Spanish paradox - from this Blog's perspective, the Spainistani reality - is that of a country that is shocked, gets passionate, suffers, enjoys with the victory of the Spanish Soccer National Team - from this Blog's perspective, the Spainistan Homo Soccer-Sapiens National Team - whilst at the same time is able to forget matters of enormous importance for their inhabitants.

First, the National Team players have won as extra bonus for being the Eurocup's Champions, more than 300.000 Euros each. Would you guess where this money will be taxed?: actually NOT in Spainistan, BUT in Ucraine and Poland, as a financial strategy to reduce the taxes, as they already did in Viena in 2008. Isn't this amazing?: these are the "heroes" that today and during the next weeks and years the Spainistanis will be adoring. The initiative in www.change.org to donate these bonuses to social needs seems not being very successful so far...

Second, did you realise about who was invited in the VIP tribune, who's not losing any opportunity to go?. Well, together, with Felipito, "the Little Prince", son of our elephant-killer king, Mr. Rajoy was there. This person is not only sassy/cheeky enough to go paid by the Spainistanis, but he does so at the same time that Spainistan is LITERALLY BURNING; the most serious fires in the last 20 years are right now massacrating the Comunidad Valenciana; this is taking place whilst several newspapers published that the PP Government CUT in 15 milion Euros and more than 200 employees the resources allocated for... FIRE PREVENTION!. And all of this whilst public events so important as the Formula 1 in Valencia City are still being payed (hundreds of milions of dollars) by this same government... PURE SPAINISTAN!.

Third, in parallel to the party that Felipito, "the Little Prince" and Mr. Cut-Rajoy are having, half of Spainistan is at war due to the recent measure adopted by the government, forcing even the pensioners to co-pay and re-pay drugs and even some basic health assistance. It goes without saying that these persons already paid for this, as they were taxed during the whole life for it. Today, tomorrow, this and the nex month, the Spainistanies will also forget that the direct re-capitalization of the spanish banking system, presented as a big success by our government, will not bring but more cut and dismantlement of the Social Welfare State. You only need to take a look to this video to understand till which point the people is pissed off with the banks…

We could just continue with the fourth, the fifth, the sixth... New and systematic tax increases are announced, including electricity, gas, VAT and, WARNING!, taxes so far with the hyper-reduced 4% will increase to the 18% in few days time!.

We don't want to spoil anybody's party or enjoyment. We just would like to say that this financial and values' crisis in Spainistan is serious ill enough as for this year not giving so much importance to a group of soccer-players, politicians and bankers that are not only destroying this country, but also enjoying by doing and laughing at those most vulnerable.

7.02.2012

La PARADOJA Española: la REALIDAD Spainistaní

La paradoja española - o, desde la perspective de este Blog, la realidad Spainistaní - es la de un país que vibra, se emociona, disfruta, sufre, se enciende con la victoria en el fútbol de su Selección Española – o, desde la perspectiva de este Blog, la Selección Spainistaní de Homínidos Balompédicos -, mientras que al mismo tiempo es capaz de olvidarse de asuntos de grandísima importancia y trascendencia para sus habitantes.

Primero, los propios jugadores de la Selección, cuyas primas por haber ganado la Eurocopa ascenderán a los 300.000 Euros cada uno. ¿Saben dónde tributarán por este dinero?: NO en Spainistan, sino en Ucrania y Polonia, reduciendo así el pago de impuestos, tal y como ya hicieran en Viena en 2008. Estos son los “héroes” a los que hoy adorarán todos los Spainistanís; la iniciativa en Change.org de que donasen esas primas a fines sociales parece no tener mucho éxito…

Segundo, ¿quién estaba en el palco de honor hoy, quiénes no se pierden ni una?. Pues ahí tenemos a varios, entre los que destaca, junto al "Principito Felipito", hijo del rey asesino de elefantes, el Sr. Rajoy. Este “señor” no sólo tiene la caradura de asistir a costa del Estado al partido, sino que lo hace mientras Spainistán ESTÁ LITERALMENTE ARDIENDO; los incendios más graves en los últimos 20 años siguen ahora mismo devorando la Comunidad Valenciana; al mismo tiempo, varios periódicos publican que el Gobierno del PP redujo en 15 millones de Euros y en más de 200 empleos las partidas y personal dedicado a... ¡PREVENCIÓN DE INCENDIOS!. Y eso mientras se siguen subvencionando con fondos públicos eventos tan "importantes" como el circuito urbano de Valencia para la Fórmula 1: ¡Spainistán en estado puro!.


6.21.2012

Político-ladrones provincianos que roban al Tercer Mundo.


Se dice por ahí que la Comunidad Valenciana es “la Comunidad Autónoma Bananera de Spainistán”. Nosotras pensamos que no sería justo para ninguna República Bananera compararlas con lo que ocurre en esta región corrupta, chulesca y rancia de España.

El ejemplo más reciente lo constituye el escándalo por el saqueo de fondos destinados a la Cooperación Internacional. 27 personas han sido imputadas, si bien sólo una permanece en la cárcel, el empresario Sr. Augusto César Tauroni. Más de 6 millones de Euros cuyo destino principal eran países necesitados de Centroamérica fueron ilegalmente desviados y realmente utilizados para la adjudicación “a dedo” de obras y para la compra de varias decenas de inmuebles (casas y oficinas) en el centro de Valencia. En todos estos casos estuvo directamente implicado el Sr. Rafael Blasco, Conseller de Solidaridad y Ciudadanía entre 2008 y 2010 y ahora nada menos que Portavoz del Grupo Popular en las Cortes Valencianas. El pasado 12 de junio se iniciaron los trámites para imputar a este personaje; al estar aforado, el caso ha pasado al Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana.

Todo este sucio y lamentable asunto ha sido destapado por Mireia Mollà, Diputada de Compromís, que impulsó una Comisión de Investigación en el Parlamento Valenciano. Este fin de semana, varios medios españoles publicaban una conversación interceptada entre el Sr. Tauroni y su abogado que reproducimos a continuación:

Tauroni: “Y luego habrá que meditar qué hacemos con la Mireia, si la denunciamos o qué hacemos con ella
Gómez Tejedor (su abogado): “La violamos o cualquier barbaridad de esta (sic), ¿no?
Tauroni: “Sí, lo que sea, pero...”.
Gómez Tejedor: “Más quisiera la pobre, en fin”.

Thieves-politicians steeling to the Third World


Somebody recently said that the Comunidad Valenciana (the paella’s region in Spain) could be considered the “the Banana Republic of Spainistán”, considering its lack of gobernance, the levels of corruption, the media manipulation, the use of force vs demonstrators, etc. Ok, we do really think that this statement wouldn’t be fair at all for the Banana Republics: comparing them with what’s going on in this corrupted, tacky-pimp and rancid part of Spainistan would just be an insult to their dignity.

The most recent example is the scandal around the plundering of funds assigned to International Cooperation (basically, charity). 27 people have been impeached, although just only one still remains in jail, the Valencian businessman Mr. Augusto César Tauroni. According to the information published so far, more than 6 million Euros originally assigned to charity mainly in Centralamerica, were actually used in order to arbitrarly allocate constructions (to enterprises closed to him) and to directly buying real state (houses and offices) in the middle of Valencia City. This was possible with the support of Mr. Rafael Blasco, Regional Councelor of Solidarity and Citizenship and currently Spokesperson of the PP in the Regional Congress of Valencia.

All of this dirty and pathetic issue was discovered, among others, by Ms. Mireia Mollà, MP of Compromís, a minor independent political party; she pushed already in 2010 for the opening of an Inquiring Commission at the Valencian Parliament. This weekend, ElPais revealed an intercepted conversation between Mr. Tauroni and his lawyer, that we literally quote hereinafter:

Tauroni: “… and now we must meditate about what we do with “the Mireia”, whether we denounce her or what we do with her
Lawyer (Gómez Tejedor): “We can rape her or doing her any other barbaric thing, what do you think?”
Tauroni: “Yes, whatever, but…”
Lawyer: “She’d like it so much, poor her, ok…”

6.20.2012

¡Goooool... de Europa a Rajoy! Sobre el rescate que no existe

Miren al Sr. Rajoy celebrando el primer gol de Spainistán un día después del RESCATE. En estos días que he tenido el Blog parado he estado dando una vuelta por París, Londres y Hamburgo; sinceramente, vengo deprimida al comprobar cómo la Europa de primera se ríe de nosotros. Desde los guiñoles de Canal+ France a las portadas de los periódicos alemanes, la burla siempre va por el mismo camino: el Sr. Rajoy y su esbirro Guindos se niegan a hablar de "rescate" tras la inyección de 100.000 millones de Euros. De hecho, lo mismo que le ocurrió a Zapatero con el término "crisis", increíble.

Al mismo tiempo, tenemos el escándalo Dívar; para mis queridos amigos extranjeros: el presidente del Consejo General del Poder Judicial se ha dedicado en los últimos 4 años a hacer 31 viajes a hoteles de lujo en el sur de España. Con un coste (estimado) de 70.000 Euros gastados del erario público, y mientras él clama que el coste no es alto porque los hoteles "eran sólo de cuatro estrellas", una señora de 80 años ha tenido que pagar más de 400 Euros de taxi para poder dar testimonio en la Audiencia Nacional de Madrid dentro del proceso de recuperación de la Memoria Histórica de las víctimas republicanas asesinadas por Franco.

Finalmente, en Spainistán todo el mundo traga con esta mierda. ¿Por qué?, ¡muy sencillo!, porque la selección española, "La Roja", está jugando la Eurocopa. Eso es lo que importa, junto con Nadal en el tenis o Alonso en la F1.

Spainistán es un Estado intervenido, gobernado por un partido ultra-liberal de derechas, provinciano en su pensamiento, que no habla idiomas ni tiene peso en Europa, que recorta Sanidad, Educación y Pensiones mientras entrega decenas de miles de millones de Euros a bancos gestionados por ellos mismos y que ahora quiebran... Pero Spainistán les vota.

Panem et Circenses, Pan y Circo. Spainistán tiene lo que se merece. Este país no merece la pena, Europa no se lo merece. Mirad al Sr. Rajoy celebrando el primer gol de Spainistán un día después de la intervención. Antes Grecia que Spainistán!.

5.30.2012

Making fun of Spainistan

The end of the "Toro" brand?
 Not so long time ago, during Zapateros’ mandate (the former socialist Spainistan President), the Partido Popular (PP) and its more ultra-fascist line decided to critizise the lack of defense of the Spanish identity by its government. This was theoretically based on his weakness (they called him “bambi”) in several key issues: an excessive position for dialogue in foreign policy; a too opened management of the Catalan and Basc nationalisms, or his isolation within the Europe starting the financial crisis. The conclusion by the more Castellan-Spanish Extreme Right was always the same: Bambi-Zapatero has diminished all what is related to the grandious concept of “Spain” and of “being Spanish”.

It is absolutely amanzing to see now how in less than 6 months in power, Spain has never before been so directly and viscerally attached, till the point of ridiculing both internally and specially internationally, in many aspects, events and fronts. We are going just to focus our attention in those more histrionic, presenting them the more to the less serious:

Foreign policy. During the recently done French elections’ Campaign, Mr. Sarkozy dedicated a sustainedand systematic aggressive narrative against the “Spainof the socialists”, trying in this way to attack its rival, the Frenchsocialist Holland. Sarko had no mercy with Spainistan unemployment rates, corruption and the Economical Apocalypsis, not precisely helping the government of Rajoy (also liberal) to improve their public image for the financial markets. No news from Rajoy.

Economy. Latin America rose up in front of the megalomaniac Spanishness of the PP’s ultra-right. First, Argentina, with the public nationalization of the Spanish monster gas company Repsol-YPF; Bolivia afterwards, with the nationalization of the Spanish electricity company Red Eléctrica Española. Both gave us two direct punches not only to the Economy, but also to the Spainistani Foreign Policy. No news from García-Margallo (the Spainistan Foreign Policy Minister) and some pathetic news from José Manuel Soria (the Spainistan Minister of Industry).

National policy. As we already said in our previus POST, the ultra-right Esperanza Aguirre tried to politicize a sportive event when she attacked directly the identity of the Basc and Catalan nationalisms, besides counting with the complicity of the Spanish TV, that tried to manipulate the reality in order to hidden the whistling against the Spanish Hymn. The final ended up with the senyera and ikurriña (Catalan and Basc flags) tied up together in brotherhood against the most rancid and aggressive imperialist Spanish nationalism. No news from Esperanza Aguirre.

Finally, in sports, and again with our French friends, a campaign was done with the puppets of Canal+ (guiñoles in Spanish), attacking and questioning the successes of Spanistan Sport (in soccer, tennis, cycling…), suggesting in a sharp and direct way the use of illegal drugs by Spainistan sportsmen (SEE VIDEOS BELOW). Also, in society events, last weekend took place Eurovision, in which Spainistan was once again object of fun by our English and Dutch colleagues; they suggested that given the Spanish economical situation, our representative was kindly asked not to win the competition as, in case this may happen, Spainistan would not count with money enough in order to organize Eurovision next year…

Curiously enough, these two last events DID genrate a reaction from the government of Spanistan!. The question of the puppets became a question of national interest, with the Ministers of Interior and Foreign Affairs doing public statements about it, aggressively saying that a letter would be sent to the French Government (whilst nothing was done related to the shameful statements of Sarkozy!!!). For Eurovision, the reactions by some Spainistan Television shows affiliated to the PP have gone beyond xenophobic violence in their speeches…

It is impossible for us to add something else. This is the level of politicians, identity and representation of Spainistan.

A group of hurt former Spaniards.

5.24.2012

Ultra-fascism, soccer, monarchy and politics


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.

5.21.2012

The explosive Spainistan’s Minister of Defense (*)


This post is based on Jordi’s Calvo post with the same title

Although Spain has a “Ministry of Defense”, in Spainistan we rightly call it the “Minister of War”, which is exactly his final aim and raison d’etre. Five months ago, the Partido Popular took government in Spain; the Government Cabinet was nominated soon and with no few surprises, that we will also elaborate in future posts.

Probably one of the most stricking surprises was the nomination of the Spainistani Minister of War. His name is Pedro Morenés (see picture) and, what was our surprise when we discovered that this guy has been regularly linked to the production and selling of some of the most socially controversial and rejected weapons existing!!!. We are talking here serious business: nuclear weapons and cluster bombs.

Mr. (Mr.?) Morenés was the President of MBDA Spain. MBDA is a multinational enterprise that builds ASMP-A missiles, nuclear-type missiles. Actually, MBDA is owned by three of the enterprises that de facto produce nuclear weapons: EADS, BAE Systems and Finmeccanica. The last one is participated in a 2.01% by the Lybian Investment Authority (LIA) under the former Gadafi Govnerment which, by the way, did very lucrative busniness with this dictator.

In fact, this is not the last link between the Minister of War Mr. Morenés and Gadafi: to our surprise, Morenés was advisor to Instalaza, a Spainistan company producing and selling cluster bombs just before it was forbidden by law. This company sold bombs to Gadafi, and they were used against the civil population in Libia, as shown by Human Rights Watch.

The conclusion is straightforward: Spainistan has a Minister of War that directly contributed to the production and selling of nuclear weapons and cluster bombs, and that indirectly, yet with a strong cause-effect relationship, contributed to the killing of civilians in Libya via his friend Gadafi. Finally, difficult to see how this monster will keep his impartiality and neutrality versus the Spainistani Military-Industrial conglomerate...

Shame on Spainistan,
A hurt former Spaniard

5.14.2012

Bankers, Politians and Corruption

Very few times we will do something like referring to other's articles in this Blog; but the majority of those, it would be about pieces that clearly reflect a "relationship" between two or more of the factical powers that govern Spainistan and that we try to denounce here (see the Objectives of this Blog for further information).


This Elpais article tells a tale (in English) about the relationships between the Spanish Banking system, the political gobernance (or better, how does the Partido Popular "understand" and "interpret" it) and corruption with impunity. It says it all, so I will just shut up...

What the Spainistanies deserve


We are seriously starting to believe that the Spainistanies have what they do actually deserve. Since the right-side Partido Popular took over the government in Spain 5 months ago, they have taken all necessary measures to (1) dismantle the welfare state in Spainistan (previously known as “Spain”); (2) break up their own electoral promises; (3) contradict their own political program; (4) and blindly serve the Merkel-European dictatorship based on the austerity narrative coming from the European Union and the financial markets.

Despite of the above, the recently published poll on social research done by the Centre for Sociological Research (a public institute), shows that whilst the Partido Popular has only lost 4 points in the voting intention, the PSOE (the socialist alternative) has only gained 1, hence keeping the distance between the two in more than 10 points!.



This is absolutely unveliebable and clearly shows what are the priorities of Spainistanies, what is the social and political support of the right and extreme right in Spainistan, and how Spainistanies prefer not to look at the reality, but to “enjoy” with stupid entertainments such as soccer (fútbol), TV realities, and going to the church or supporting the monarchy.

Spainistan and Spainistanies have what they do deserve: a sinking country, with almost 6 milion unemployed people, with almost 50% unemployment rate of those under 25 years old, with public and health education being dismantled and with anachronic, oldfashion, hyper conservative and extreme right institutions such as the catholic church, the army, or the monarchy in place. All of this at the same time that the government is injecting public money to the financial and banking system.

5.08.2012

Mr. Rajoy, the President of Spainistan

I would kindly ask you to see the video below yet a previous contextualization is needed: it is the 10th of April 2012, Tuesday. The week before, the Spanish government had approved the most restrictive Budget ever in the Democratic history of Spain. But a big surprise went on public on Monday, when journalists and Spanish society "discovered" ('cos it wasn't included in the Budget official proposal) that the Government had approved an extra 10.000 million Euros cut on public Health and Education. Spanish society was obviously in shock, not only due to the measures themselves, but also on the way they had been done.


Well, so... here we are. After the first public appearence of Mr. Rajoy in the Senate, that was done for other business and not at all to explain the above, everybody was waiting for our president to explain how it came such as law-decree, restricting the most untouchable components of our wellfare state.


Now you can see his reaction...




... and if you are still interested about my opinion, please continue reading. 

5.07.2012

No access to healthcare in Spainistan Banana Republic

Only in Banana Republics, as Spainistan is starting to look like, you may find situations such as this one: now, following Mariano Rajoy's brutal neoliberal cuts ("reforms" according to their narrative), de facto economically and finantially intervened by the European Union technocracy, those without-papers (the "sin papeles" in Spanish or "sans papiers" in French) would not benefit anymore from access to healthcare.


The government aduces that emergency and maternity services would be in any case granted. However, as many reports show (among others, this from MDM - Médecins Du Monde / Médicos del Mundo - Spain), this measure is all but adequate, simply because:



  1. It is completely discriminatory. It lefts people out of the system simply by being "no-nationals". Moreover, it exclude the most vulnerable, those without any kind of regular paper in Spainistan. By the way, one Spanish politian, when presenting this measure, referred to the "Rumanians" as the worst case, as they obtain the European Card in Spain and, when getting back to Rumania, still get re-paid health services... I do apology here to all Rumanian people for this stupid bastard comment.
  2. It is anti-constitutional. The Spanish (not the Spainistanish :) Constitution includes the Universal Right to Health in their articles 15, 40 and 43; any limitation to this right goes against the constitutional text and therefore, against the Spanish People, where Sovereignty laids.
  3. It is fully hypocrite. We will further develop this in other posts, yet it is necessary to say that the main argument aduced is that there is a "call effect" generated by the massive free offer of services that the Spanish Health system does. However, those criminalised with this decree are precisely those who are using the less the system; according to MDM report, only around 4% of it!!!.
... and many other reasons. The Church, the Army, the Bank... many institutions makes us shame of being Spaniards, but this measure is probably one of the most awful, abject and F-A-S-C-I-S-T measure taken by a Government that, I'm sorry, it cannot be defined otherwise but as a FASCIST oliogarchy.

From a Hurt Former Spaniard