Is the law equal for all?

On the 9th of March, Spain is having general elections to choose the president and the parliament. It would be the equivalent to the elections where Britons chose Tony Blair. Since I'm outside of Catalonia, I had to go to the Spanish consulate to say that I wanted to vote, and after waiting for a couple of weeks, yesterday I received an envelope. In the envelope there were all the ballot papers from all the political parties running for election. Even though only around ten parties achieve to get representation in the parliament, there are dozens of candidates from very tiny parties. I am interested in politics, so I know most of the parties and their political ideas, but I had never heard from some of the candidates, so I googled them to find out what their proposals are.

I was shocked when I entered the web page of alianza nacional, a fascist party that is running for election. I find it offensive that a party that defends racism and Nazism, that enhances the figures of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini is allowed to run for election. The police should put all of them into jail, they are like a terrorist party and they should be treated like that. And the European Union allows the nonsense of the Spanish government? Nobody has realised that Nazis are a legal and a political organization in Spain? In case someone has doubts about the ideology of this bunch of scum you can see their promotional videos here, with their fascist aesthetics, their fascist flags and their swastikas.

What worries me the the most is that this shows that in Spain the law is not equal for everybody, because political parties like Batasuna or ANV, which support the independence of the Basque Country have been made ilegal because they didn't condemn the terrorism of ETA. I am sure that alianza nacional does not condemn fascism or the holocaust, so why are they legal? Isn't the law supposed to be equal for everybody? I suggest a campaign to make this political party illegal together with other ones like falange, falange autentica or democracia nacional. E-mails should be sent to the Inner Affairs Ministry of Spain and to the European Union to lobby so that bunch of racists and Nazis are wiped away from the legal system.

All politicians are crooks

The Pinker Tones were right, all politicians are crooks. What I don't know is if we are karma hunters. Last week I posted a video about how the government is making money at our expense by changing speed limits and putting ultra-sensitive speed cameras everywhere. Any person may think: "oh, that's not bad, it's all for the sake of safety". I'm sorry, but they are not doing that for the safety of their citizens, they do it to get money from us.

If they really wanted safer roads they should be the first ones to respect all speed limits and become an example of conduct. But they are not. Look at the two videos provided below, one is from the mayor of Madrid and it shows him in his official car speeding through the whole route. The other one is even worse, it shows the traffic security chief of Spain speeding in his official car!!! Unbelievable. And of course no one is going to resign.

The mayor of Madrid:


The chief of traffic security of Spain:

Glasgow Neds

Next Sunday I'm going to Glasgow. I already went there with my brother right after we arrived to Scotland, but we only visited the cathedral, the graveyard and we drove around the city to get a quick view of it. That day it did not look like a dangerous city, it just wasn't the prettiest city of the world.

Now that I've been around Scotland for some months I've heard very spooky stuff about Glasgow. Everybody says it is a very dangerous city and that their inhabitants are like an army of vandals. I didn't think it is that bad, but then somebody explained me the 'ned' concept. I've been told it stands for Non-Educated Delinquent and that Glasgow is like their sanctuary, they all go there to breed and receive their giro's. This weekend I'm planning to actually walk and visit the city centre, so I probably I'll see some of the pure Glasgow neds. What I'm most afraid of is that I don't understand a single word of the gibberish neds speak, so if one of them wants to speak with me I'll be doomed.

It is true that Edinburgh has its own neds, but I've been explained that they are wannabe neds, they just copy what they see from the Glasgow neds. For those who are from outside Scotland a ned is the English equivalent to a chav (word derived from the gipsy language and similar to the Spanish chaval) , to the Spanish quinqui or to the Catalan killo, with the difference that killo's are Spanish immigrants and neds, chavs and quinquis are natives.

For those who have never been to Scotland I recommend the web page http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/, a hilarious and very scientific approach to nedology. I've learnt a lot of thing about neds from this web page, for example now I instantly recognise a ned when I'm walking down the street, so I can change of side.

Here you have a video of two fighting neds on the street after a football game where Scotland... won!


And for those who don't know what a killo is I present you a parody from a tv show where an actor makes fun of them by imitating one:

Security or money?

A mouse in my kitchen

Tonight something scary has happened which has been worth a posting in my blog: a mouse appeared in my kitchen.

I was walking to the kitchen to something when I saw a dark shadow rushing to a broken piece of wood we have under the sink. By the sound, size and speed of the object I think it must have been a mouse, what else could it be? You might think this is because my house stinks, but is not true, the buildings stairwell it's what stinks, it has layers of crap which date from the years when the Queen of England (and Scotland) was a teenager.

Anyway, tomorrow I'll go try buying some mousetraps to see if I can catch the little fellow. It's sad but sometimes a man has to fight for its land and food. Meanwhile I've locked all the food inside the closets and tried to insulate the rubbish.