You can't deny that, despite Mr. Sánchez's unprecedented resilience, in recent times the Spanish government seems to be one of those guys who go to the dentist and come out with his head bandaged. As if that weren't enough with the electoral traffic, the lack of momentum in the polls and an economic situation between gloomy and sinister, now the funny subject of espionage explodes in his hands without even (in the dates I refer ) to have the consolation of being able to attribute it to Mr. Rajoy, a wildcard more than burned at this time.
An affair, by the way, in which there is the ridiculous paradox that Sanchez is ashamed of having spied and is proud to be spied on, when in a moderately serious country his feelings should be just the opposite: he would have only spied for perfectly justifiable reasons and would have been spied on by unfortunate security breaches.
Fortunately for Sánchez, there is nothing that expires as quickly as the interest in serious and urgent matters. I refer to the facts: the covid is no longer talked about, Mr. Casado seems as remote as the Goth kings, and people plan their vacation trips as if the war in Ukraine was unfolding in Alpha Centauri.
Obviously, there are a lot of things I don't know about the use of the famous Pegasus system, but given the general context of the story, I don't think I'm afraid if someone ventures. And not because a foreign government has spied on the president and his ministers: these misunderstandings are happening everywhere. Suffice it to say that the CIA did not smell that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction (if it smelled, it is much worse), or 9/11, or the Russian invasion. of Crimea to see where things are going in this matter.
The kick-ass will be something more than those who came to believe that it was a great idea to gossip about certain political opponents. This is what happens when national security is confused with more or less massive phenomena of political dissent; or when it is believed that the reason of state goes beyond liberal principles and, moreover, the error is fixed with high doses of graponeria.
It is true that I could be reprimanded for drawing such conclusions without waiting for the declassification of secret documents or the final result of the judicial investigation, but, as someone said, if you go next to a fence and see that two come out long, pointed ears and you hear a roar, you don't have to jump in to know that there's a donkey behind you.
Look no further than the Catalan pro-independence movement - those shady people struggling in the manipulation of young children (not very successful, given the results of Vox in Catalonia) and the recruitment of elderly women to face the police -, of which it seems that some were spied on with a court order and others without, which says a lot about the nonsense we are witnessing.
Remember that in the whole case of the trial no court needed to intercept the communications of the investigated politicians. Probably because everything they did was more than documented in the official newspapers and in statements to the media, that if they sinned against something it was not secrecy, but rather an overwhelming exhibitionism. And this is what some have described as the most important challenge since the beginning of democracy. They must be the ones who think that once the military coup and the assassin terrorism of ETA were small mischief. However, even in the face of this evidence, there are few voices outside of independence who question a change of approach (judicial, it seems) that seems to legitimize the intolerable interference of these wiretaps.
It's not weird. Liberals - those who believe that the defense of freedom must be dogmatic, without any concessions to opportunism, even if it is not possible to show that, apart from the positive effects, their violation may have some detrimental consequences "- shine for his absence in our country. And the phrase is not from Mr. Rufián, but from Von Hayek.
Because those who define themselves as liberals in Spain are those who trust everything in tax cuts or advocate for minimal state intervention except when it comes to fighting ideological opponents or the rights of pregnant women. And so we go.
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