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Joke justice

By: psr, 2006-08-10

As every year, Spain is affected by lots of forest fires this summer. I have no figures for each year, but “lots” is the proper word to use, even if all we had to suffer were a couple of small fires. One single forest fire is one too many. What’s truly infuriating is that most of these “wild” fires are not wild at all, but are all intentionally provoked with the goal of burning down a complete forest or vegetation area.

Even though year after year some measures have been taken to discourage deliberate burning of vegetation (such as curbing the re-assignment of land usage for burned down areas), year after year one important detail is left forgotten: The sentences that those who plan and execute the scorching. …