Spain Politics under Zapatero, Blanco and Rubalcaba...
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and /or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
(Josef Goebbels, Minister for Propaganda, Germany 1925-1945)
"Politicians are like seagulls. They arrive from out of nowhere in a fluster, squawking, sticking their beaks in.... crapping all over everything and then flying off leaving a mess."
"Politicians are like nappies / diapers...They should be changed frequently, and for the same reason."
'Anyone who wants to be a politician should be automatically barred from being one.
(Not Josef Goebbels...)
The thing is of course that it would be no different if Rajoy and the PP were in charge. I was amused to see that Mariano did in fact get caught up (inadvertently?) when his flight from Lanzarote back to Madrid was grounded by the action...of course Snr. Smug-mug is now demanding a full explanation from the Zapatero government...yeah, him and a few thousand others...
Spanish politics, like Brit politics is, was and always will be hit the little man hard, fast and often. Spain is a country where in the event of an accident, the primary objective of any Accident Investigation seems to be to apportion blame and work out who to put in jail. It's not a case of establishing how or why the accident happened in the first place. If one looks upon the ATCOs walkout as an Accident Investigator would, the overwhelming evidence points to the primary suspect in this case as being AENA itself being driven by the government.
There are many similarities between the ATCO action and the governments reaction and the UK miners strike and the Thatcher government and UK media response...
Its all about killing the Unions, flogging off the family jewels to raise cash, (yet retaining a controlling interest) and keeping the little man under the thumb.
pp