[IMC-Editorial] Please submit this for me!

[Sam Hall]

Hi,
 
For some reason I can not submit my articles to you. It's probably a government conspiracy or something. So can I ask one of you to make sure it gets done?
 
Thanks,
Sam Hall (Author)
 

Notes for the editor:

Political and economical facts on Spain gathered from Arc Media's Interactive Atlas 2002. The rest is from recent CNN and other television news reports. I hereby state that every aspect of this document can be backed up directly by one of the two above resources (apart from my own speculation, which is never presented as fact). I have no political affiliation what so ever and this was intended to be a non judgmental and objective report.

 
Title:
Terrorism in Spain
 
Summery:

Report on the recent bombings in Spain and the Spanish governments attempts to implicate ETA, the Basque separatist terrorist organization.

 

Content:

Don't be fooled by the Spanish government that ETA is responsible for the recent bombings. Despite the fact that an Islamic tape was found, one only has to look at the nature of ETA to realise it was certainly not them. Let's start by looking at the act itself though. Ten bombs in total were coordinated to go off at about the same time. This is a very deliberate and well-organised action. ETA denies having been responsible. If they were responsible then they would surely want people to fear them directly. That's how terrorism works. The only way this would not be the case is if a small group of misguided members acted without approval from the rest of the organisation, or after having carried out the attack, the organisation decided it was a bad idea. The amount of planning that is required for an attack of this magnitude would make it highly unlikely and unusual that either of these events occurred. They can almost certainly be ruled out.

 

But if that doesn't convince you, do some research on ETA itself. ETA is an extreme leftwing terrorist organisation fighting against what it sees as fascism. Leftwing groups traditionally rely on support from lower classes and attack wealth and power. What benefit could they possibly gain by blowing up trains full of (presumably) the class of people they seek support from? Past ETA attacks generally include assassinations of high profile government employees. This is more like what you would expect from a left wing terrorist organisation.

 

So why would the Spanish government lie about such a serious issue? Well one reason is they hate and fear ETA, but they need the population to hate and fear ETA just as much as they do. It makes intelligence gathering much easier when the population is on your side. The United States can see the game they are playing and are assisting them to fudge the truth to the rest of the world. Perhaps after the next election they will begin to reveal the facts they knew about the true terrorists. Only after the government has guaranteed to strip the people of any number of personal freedoms in order to protect the population and crush ETA. 

 

Spain itself is quite a good place to live and work at the present time. Far better for the working class than the United States. But the government will soon be forced to change all this. Slowly but surely, the work forces need to be downsized, unions disbanded, benefits cut, etc. All in order to compete with the rest of the members of the EU1. When these changes begin it is important that the working class feel powerless to prevent them. The existence of organisations such as ETA make this goal far more difficult. The government's main objectives should be public hatred of ETA and then it's eventual demise. After this the government will make sweeping changes to the detriment of the working and middle classes. The sooner they can accomplish this, the firmer their economical foothold within the EU will be.

 

It's also interesting that Spain had absolutely no warning that terrorists were planing to attack. It's well known that Spain is a major entry point into Europe for cocaine from Latin America. One would expect various nations' intelligence agencies would be keeping constant tabs on Spain for this reason alone. Though Spain's own intelligence is weak, many of its neighbors (supposedly allies) have exceptional intelligence organisations. Are we to believe that none of these organisations noticed Middle Eastern terrorist in Spain, when in Bali, the US was aware of Indonesian terrorists on there own turf. Not knowing what security measures are in place in Spain and how effective these are, I can't say for sure if this was negligence on the part of Spain and it's allies or not. Though it is rather suspicious to say the least.

 

This brings me to one final point. The government say that ETA have been planing larger scale attacks. While that's no doubt true, surely this is some kind of clue that an attack was due. Why did they not say they were aware that a large-scale attack was being planned, though could not be sure when and where it would occur? Instead they say they had no idea that a terrorist attack was being planned at all? Perhaps it's because they are lying, perhaps not. But you have to consider the implications for if they were lying. What is the extent of the lie? Could those deaths been prevented? I'm sure we'll never know for certain.

 

Footnote 1. Without going into detail about European economics, since all members in the EU now share one currency, Spain needs to face unregulated competition. Spain’s labor costs are relatively high compared with other EU countries. If Spain don’t reduce these costs they will find few markets prepared to buy from them, even within Spain itself.

 




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