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Blackmailing works on Spain’s PM RodrÃguez Zapatero

By: psr, 2007-03-05

Finally, as expected, the Spanish government of PM RodrÃguez Zapatero gave in to the blackmailing of the criminals of ETA. The jailed ETA man who went on a hunger strike has seen his sentence softened, getting out of jail and doing his time comfortably in his home.

While it is true that the government is allowed by law to exchange the jail sentence for home detention, this is meant for exceptional cases. There’s certainly nothing excepcional in this case; this prisoner’s own decision to stop eating is not an illness: it’s just blackmail.

So last week the government freed the killer, out of fear that he might have otherwise died of starvation, and that his death would have been seen as provoked by the Spanish government.

This hunger strike …