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Why the outrage? The EPP has long functioned as mutual support organisation for Europe's right-zingers.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 06:05:14 PM EST
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Why the outrage? Because the PP is going to do their worst to trainwreck the peace process, and the EPP has shown their complicity already on day 2. And the ceasefire is not even in force yet.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 06:10:14 PM EST
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Because enough of this crap will get people killed again. Part of the trick here is to make the experience of denouncing violence a pleasant one for the bad guys as far as you can - you need to bring their supporters along so that the few hard-liners who will eventually splinter off into the Peoples Popular Front don't have any support. That's been done pretty well in the North, to the extent that the other group is the one feeling put upon now. I don't think there is another side, outside of the state security forces, in the Basque set-up?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 06:39:52 PM EST
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There hasn't been anti-eta paramilitary activity since the early 1980's (See my part-diary on State terrorism in Democratic Spain).

Colman, do you remember this, however?

El Pais: An association chaired by a PP cadre demands "filling the streets with resisting patriots"
"it will be necessary to fill the streets of Spain with resisting compatriots and that they do not resign themselves (...) There's no turning back. Tomorrow will be late". In an almost warlike tone and referring constantly to the reform of the Catalan Statute, Santiago Abascal, chairman of the Nuevas Generaciones (New Generations) of the PP in the Basque Country, presented yesterday the Foundation for the Defence of the Spanish Nation, not yet registered aas such, which he himself heads. The Ministry of Culture has rejected their application to be constituted as a Foundation on the grounds that its objectives coincide with those of the Ministry of Defence. For the moment, they are registered as an association.
This is from January 27, in the context of the Catalan Statute. But this guy is a prominent yong gun in the Basque PP.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Mar 24th, 2006 at 05:04:43 AM EST
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The PP doesn't want peace, they want victory. They are ideological heirs to the Nationalist side in the civil war. (See this old comment of mine)

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Mar 24th, 2006 at 05:07:55 AM EST
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