šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡ø The Pain In Spain

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I spent a month of my life in Spain in 1994 over two fortnight long holidays. The girl I was staying with claimed sheā€™d never been abroad. I spotted a souvenir from Portugal, so queried that claim.

ā€œOh, Portugal is not abroadā€

This is fucking disgraceful. An unwanted demonstration of what happens when push comes to shove.

These people are not fighting the police. They are being brutalized.

Only the English are right wing and have fascists, this isnā€™t right, this will confuse the liberalsā€¦

It wasnā€™t too long ago that Spain was a dictatorship. Seems that it hasnā€™t been forgotten.

Mid you, weā€™ve got form for suppressing alterative views

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Suppressing alternative views?

Go on.

Ok, for starters, how about Ulster, the miners, anti-austerity marches, I could go on, but a quick interweb search will show you plenty more Baz

Could add the London riots, but that was mainly opportunist scrotesā€¦

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How were Ulster views ever suppressed? The comedy of a voiceover of Adams was priceless comedy, donā€™t just say the miners what example of the miners?

Political suppression? Quite possibly there has been some but ALL do that and weā€™re far far far better than nearly all, not perfect but better than most.

Jesus for political comment and protest weā€™re a very good place for having a pop at the state.
The liberals wonā€™t like that but name better?

You might like to check out ā€˜The battle of the bean fieldsā€™, and some of the footage of the UK police terrorizing women and children, smashing up their homes etc. Made the Spanish police look like choirboys. Also, as CS pointed out, the treatment meted out to the Miners in the 80s, squaddies masquerading as police, It doesnā€™t get much more fascist than that. This countryā€™s hands are far from clean when it comes to agents of the state acting in a fascistic manner towards dissenters.

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You are right Barry, I am confused. WTF are you talking about?

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Thank you @nottarf-krap

Canā€™t disagree with the miners, the tory bastards will never be forgiven for that or moreso Thatcher.

I still maintain weā€™re better than most, again not perfect but better than most.

And i would maintain that the behaviour of the police at the battle of the bean field shows beyond doubt that we are certainly not better than most. A heavily pregnant woman being beaten to the ground with a baton wielded by a policeman with his features obscured by a full face helmet when she tried to stop them smashing her home up. Surrounded by her screaming children. When push comes to shove we would give the squads in South and latin America a run for their money. Perhaps we are marginally better than them. But it would be a close call.

How many occasions has this happened compared to others?

That is the question.
You only think weā€™re marginally better than some Latin Americans countries in policing?

Give your head a wobble.

Itā€™s beeing reported that 9 Spanish Guarda have been injured. Maybe they strained something whilst beating women children and the elderly?

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At least we got out the EU dictatorship without police batons.