During the afternoon of yesterday I was reliving the sensations of the great manidestaciones in 2003 (against the war in Iraq and the mismanagement of the Prestige disaster.) For a long time since I went into the street like yesterday, because you know that the marches of the Family Forum and the Catholic Church are not to my liking. And yesterday was a great satisfaction to see the Calle de Alcalá Puerta del Sol and full to the brim-Republican-supporting people and asking Judge Garzon once and for all justice. Jussticia and let them find in so many English ditch their relatives killed by the Franco regime.
The greatness of our transition, much praised on many levels, is also, paradoxically, its most thin and dark. The wounds were not closed in the last half of the seventies and are not closed now, because nobody is allowed to close. While there is only one missing, killed one buried in a ditch, the wounds remain open. While the most rightwing and reactionary scurfy follow, with proclamations only own past, working with the successors of the murderers who have complaints against judges, the wounds remain open. While in the judiciary continue to allow entering only part of her children and grandchildren of those who were judges Franco, will continue to fall far short of full democracy with a judiciary truly independent.
Garzón is not my cup of tea, but that does not mean believing that it is conducting a real persecution against him led by the envious and spiteful, with clean hands and Democrats Falange to Fenton lifetime, and with the connivance of the supposedly democratic right. Because what this judge has done is not illegal, and yes he is the shameful 1977 Amnesty Act, which contravenes international agreements signed by Spain because of maintaining impunity for murderers who committed crimes against humanity, a crime that never expire. The genocidal Franco deserve the same contempt as internationally wake genocidal Nazis.
When told this to a voter of the right, his argument is to resort to more elaborate Paracuellos. Paracuellos was a massacre in the midst of a civil war. There was also a despicable actions of the Allies in the Second World War, and few Germans refer to them as a justification of the Nazi genocide. But here we speak only English Civil War, as its name suggests, was a war and every war involves despicable actions of its contenders. The mere war and is negligible. Here the talk is to do justice for crimes committed during nearly forty years of dictatorship. Yesterday we ask tens of thousands of people throughout Spain, Portugal, France and Argentina is that it compensate the victims and put in place the murderers. The dock to which Garzon wants to bring the criminals who should occupy Franco who, instead, take up our institutions.
