Massacres and dates

[Celso Alvarez Cáccamo]

Dear Maggie,

Thank you for your information. As I said in the CRITICS-List, where I
cross-posted my message, all I'm trying to do is understand public words
being said about this tragedy. Even today, when apparently ETA has denied
any involvement in the massacre, and there are other evidences pointing to
a "Islamic" group, the Spanish government insists ETA is the main suspect.

>I am sure that today everyone on the Discours list shares the pain and grief
>of the people in Spain.

It was horrible, undoubtedly. Spaniards have TV cameras to see to talk
(rather, to listen) about it for forty-eight hours straight. Spain has no
TV cameras in Baghdad, Istambul, Chechnya. Life is the more valuable the
farther West.

The conservative Spanish government is going to give the Spanish
nationality to immigrant families of the victims. In Spain, in order to be
legal, you have to die. "Entre los muertos identificados, hay 12
nacionalidades", the TV has just said. The press already calls the massacre
"11-M", parallel to "11-S" (September 11, 2001). The Melting Pot of Death.

After the attacks, the Popular Party in power practically unilaterally
decided the end of the electoral campaign for Sunday's elections. But it
lied: Today it was the Grand Finale, with millions of people being led to
the streets in demonstrations "Together with the Victims. With the
Constitution. Against Terrorism", and all the other parties followed
suit.  The Popular Party is trying to emphasize that the murderers were
ETA, their necessary arch-enemy. The Socialist Party is leaving the door
open to the possibility of Al-Qaeda, which would be a blow to the PP's
international policy toward Iraq. It's a sickening funny game.

-celso