Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Neo-Nazi?

The Falange is most certainly not neo-nazi! Of course, CNN reported that today when bringing news about a clash between anarchists, republicans, and socialists.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/13/europe/EU-GEN-Spain-Right-wing-Rally.php
Right-wing rally gets go-ahead in Spain despite fears of violence
The Associated Press
Published: November 13, 2007

MADRID, Spain: A Spanish court has given the go-ahead for a far-right rally this weekend despite tensions after a fight between leftist and rightist gangs left a teenager stabbed to death, officials said Tuesday.
The demonstration will commemorate the killing of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1936 by leftist forces during the Spanish Civil War.
For decades the anniversary has served as a rallying point for small numbers of people nostalgic for the authoritarian rule of former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco, who died in 1975 after 40 years of hard-line government.
Primo de Rivera founded the Falange, the political movement associated with the Franco regime.
Annual events, including the anniversaries of the deaths of Primo de Rivera and Franco deaths, have attracted sympathizers carrying Franco-era flags — and, more recently, banners bearing anti-immigration slogans.
Madrid's regional government initially banned the rally because it considered its slogan — "Assassinated by Socialists" — provocative enough to trigger violent clashes, Justice Ministry spokesman Enrique Lopez told The Associated Press.
Rally organizers withdrew the slogan and reapplied for permission, and Madrid's provincial court ruled the rally could go ahead.
"In Spain we do not criminalize political thinking, however radical. It only becomes illegal when ideology actively supports violence," Lopez said.
The rally is going ahead despite a fight Sunday between far-right and antiestablishment gangs who clashed with knives, gas dispensers and other weapons inside a subway station in Madrid. A 16-year-old boy with the leftists was stabbed in the heart, and died. Eight other people were injured in the clash.
Police said they had wanted to ban the upcoming rally to avoid a repeat of such violence.
The demonstration is to include a march to the Valley of the Fallen, a massive monument housing the tombs of Franco and Primo de Rivera 54 kilometers (34 miles) northwest of Madrid.

Sorry CNN, but the Yolk was the symbol of the Catholic Monarchs...not somehow a nazi symbol.

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