"When they name us something, they hit us in the wing and we don't fly again," he would admit on one occasion, by way of relief, a politician with a long career in ministerial performances such as the Iñigo Cavero Democrat. He was Minister of Justice and Culture, twice, first with Suarez and then with Calvo Sotelo, dying in 2002 when he presided over the State Council, after having been the last to turn off the light of the headquarters of the extinct UCD and run With part of the debts. Of course, it did not reach the calamitous point of Antonio Maura Jr., minister in the Provisional Government of the Second Republic. Overturned in maintaining public order "at arm's length with the gangs of fools who were mortally wounding a newborn regime," he felt, a month after taking office, that he had ceased to be a minister to become "loquero greater than a loose and overflowed asylum. "

Iñigo Cavero assumed a kind of syndrome involving those who, as soon as they experience the sensation of power, reduce their ability to analyze and join in a blindness that makes them believe that there is no need to look beyond their noses. At first sight, and attending to the conduct by which it is guided, an unrecognizable Fernando Grande-Marlaska would also participate in it . Once a prestige judge ready to deal with matters of the greatest gravity and today elusive Minister of the Interior until he forsakes his subordinates in critical moments such as those in Catalonia. Much more appreciable that defection following the independence of the vote of the expulsion of the Civil Guard after dismantling an alleged terrorist group with acronyms of historical explosives brand (ERT) integrated in the Defense Committees of the Republic (CDR) that encourages Torra , at the maximum state representative in the community. However, it is not exactly your case. It is, however, a deliberate ignorance. Therefore, his behavior, with a clear contempt for the Benemérita, borders on indignity.

It would be said that we are before the first head of the history of the Civil Guard who behaves as if he were not in charge of the Armed Institute; his contempt borders on indignity

It would be said that he is the first chief in the history of the Civil Guard who behaves as if he were not in charge of the Armed Institute. If the socialist prime ministers of the branch, such as José Barrionuevo, presumed to have discovered the Civil Guard, it would now be said that Marlaska's clash with the Corps has served to discover a minister in the antipodes of when he wore toga. He looked like the knight without a sword played by James Stewart in the Capra movie. But, nevertheless, the worst thing is that, whether due to apathy, unconsciousness, frivolity, cowardice or blindness, internalize the disqualifications against constitutional Spain with its ominous silence.

If it was already strange that a year ago, after meeting with Torra at the meeting of the Security Board in Barcelona, ​​he announced that the mossos would remove the yellow ties, whose placement promoted the valid Puigdemont and that lit on his lapel as if it were the Great Cross of San Jordi, it was not less his anger at the heads of the Civil Guard for not detailing the dismantling, under the orders of Judge García Castellón, of the self-appointed Tactical Response Team for belonging to a terrorist organization, possession of explosives and conspiracy for the commission of havoc such as the assault on the Parliament. Nor has it been less than repudiate the impeccable address of General Pedro Garrido on Wednesday in the Barcelona celebration of the patron of the Civil Guard to placate a sulphurous independence that claimed the dismissal of this command with greater intensity if it is possible to dismantle the cell CDR terrorist.

As part of a State that has been left in the scrapes in Catalonia - and in the absence of the Minister or the Director General of the Civil Guard who would have had a few words of recognition to some subordinates who are giving the best of them -, the head of the Corps in the Principality flaunted constitutionalism: "We stand firm in our commitment to Spain to work for the freedom and security of all citizens. We demonstrated it two years ago, and we have done it again recently. And every time necessary we will do it again ".

Undoubtedly, an impeccable allegation of whom it was good to recognize two resistant of the Judiciary. On the one hand, he awarded a posthumous medal to Judge Ramírez Sunyer, the first togado to investigate the illegal referendum; on the other, he decorated the judicial secretary who had to go down the roof before the siege of the independentist pack of the Ministry of Junqueras and who dramatically personified the escape from Justice in Catalonia. That the general said in Catalan "we will do it again" (expression identical to the separatist slogan ho tornarem a fer ) was considered a provocation by the Generalitat by whom, justifying his harsh surname, also warned of the violent drift of the revolution of the smiles.

If in the first instance the minister became the Swede who is not, then he grumbled against who commands some public servants to whom so many never owed so much being so few. But they show a courage that leads them to preserve their obligation against any inconvenience. Including lacking a minister to defend them, instead of putting his head under the wing like the ostrich. With great perplexity, Marlaska adopts what the sociologist Saka Tong, a Japanese by birth, but raised in Mexico, calls "the manual of the crouching perfect," where he advises to escape unharmed from any potentially conflictive situation, never to be taken for granted. Thus, Marlaska makes no problem of any matter, no matter how serious it may be in Catalonia.

In the same way that it is clear that the acting Government would have preferred that the Judas operation against separatist terrorism had not anticipated the 1-0 sentence, which would have been reckless knowing the immediacy of the explosive plans, would also have grateful for the silence of General Garrido. Beyond that, according to Voltaire, "in every matter of importance there is always a pretext that is put at the forefront, and a true reason that is disguised." This true reason is none other than the design of the PSOE that any solution for Catalonia is to be understood with ERC, as is the case with the PNV in the Basque Country.

In this sense, the Government can not but congratulate that, in response to the change of position of the State Advocacy, the Supreme Court is inclined to condemn by sedition nine of the 12 accused of 1-O-Junqueras, Forn, Turull, Rull, Bassa, Romeva, Forcadell, Cuixart and Sànchez-, not because of rebellion, as argued by the investigating judge Llaneras and the State Prosecutor's Office. With this resolution of the Second Chamber of the High Court, the historical comment of Torcuato Fernández Miranda that he was in a position to offer King Juan Carlos the candidate who had asked him to relieve the paleofranchist Arias Navarro and that it was a plug for the Transition. Thanks to his Sadduce traps and his lobbying in the Council of the Kingdom, which the monarch should propose to the monarch, he managed to put the name of Suarez in the matute. If the Monarch had the president he wanted, Sanchez probably has the sentence he was pursuing.

Waiting to know the tenor of the ruling, advanced by THE WORLD, it costs God and helps to understand that the facts judged are a mere crime against public order (sedition), and not a rebellion against the constitutional order and territorial integrity of Spain by declaring its promoters independence in Catalonia. Our Solomon, giving priority to unanimity, have opted for this intermediate route that, apparently, will free them from inconveniences. First in the Constitutional Court where Cándido Conde-Pumpido dwells, the guardian among the rye, and then in the Strasbourg Court. However, many citizens will agree with that French socialist deputy André Laignel who said "you are legally wrong because your cause is politically minority."

But it is that, besides, apart from the years of punishment for sedition - they oscillate between 10 and 15 years of imprisonment and disqualification for the same period -, these High Doers of Justice are inclined to open the door of betrayal by wanting to dismiss the request of the Public Prosecutor so that the convicts do not access the third degree until they complete half of their sentence. This, without ruling out, other measures of political grace that will make a judicial resolution of this substance could be, instead of a bulwark, an incentive for a secessionism to which concessions only serve to stimulate demands by understanding them as weaknesses.

Sanchez probably has the sentence of the 1-O that he pursued

Since the Spaniards are no longer ignorant of their history, they despise it , they are condemned to repeat it tragically, according to a compatriot like Santayana who left for the United States and even modified his first name. Thus, the socialist heirs of that Indalecio Prieto who confided to Azana that "Companys is crazy; but crazy to lock up in an insane asylum," as they now slide over Torra, they honor him every two by three after committing two coups against the legality Spanish. First in 34, two years after the approval of the Catalan Statute, and another in the middle of the Civil War. Instead, they sentence General Garrido to silence, along with his last from Catalonia, following the wake of General Batet, after quelling the coup of Companys and entering him in jail. Rehabilitated after the controversial triumph of the Popular Front in the February 1936 elections, he would return to the streets shortly after setting foot in the street.

In a way, like two parallel lives, Generals Batet and Garrido suffer from the solitude of Sheriff Will Kane that Gary Cooper embodies in Solo in the face of danger. While awaiting the announced irruption of the heartless Miller brothers, Judge Mettrick recommends that you give up. Preparing his escape, he puts in a saddlebag the flag of the Union, the scales of Justice and the mallet, the attributes of his high magistracy. They, like that movie sheriff, are heroes without a statue or stadium name.

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