I would not like to begin this article without expressing my solidarity – as I already did with the international Hermoso – with the police officer on whom a protester planted a kiss in a “surprise, unexpected, sudden and non-consensual” way.
The event dates back, like everything in our lives, to October 1, 2017. I imagine that this public servant has gone through a six-year ordeal, with no more support – or not – than that of his partner, grandmothers and who knows if – I don't have all of them – his companions, capable, on top of that, of playing tricks on him.
The rivers go to the sea and in Spain the kisses go to the court. Now it is up to the justice system to pay attention to the complaint, if only to dismiss its processing. If successful, we already have a brawl, with the incentive of knowing if it was a libidinous or patriotic kiss, since the protester was trying to transmit to the world her condition as a Christian, one of those who not only turn the other cheek but also their lips (all for the Republic!).
At this grotesque point, my servant doubts whether the judicial system is capable of processing all the lawsuits that society so generously and abundantly sends, especially if we continue to lose common sense and make a Vietnam out of any episode.
I say that the means of justice are limited. The great national specialty is not paella a la marinera but the conviction of each and every citizen that their rights – or desires – are alien to public spending. It seems to me that the State does not spend a euro that it has not taken from you before. Or after...
And I do not want to say goodbye without reiterating my empathy with Jennifer Hermoso and the anonymous, dedicated national police officer, who said he felt “disgusted” by the reported kiss. I hope they overcome the trauma as soon as possible.
In the meantime, as they say in these cases, let's let the justice system do its job and if it lacks the means, either they put in place - it won't come from another inheritance tax - or we put aside minor matters, such as business bankruptcies, cases of political corruption or the lawsuits settled with knives on public roads.
The first is the first.
