A Spanish politician for the Popular Party was shot today

[loreta]

The story goes like this:

She was shot by one girl and two women, mother and daughter are arrested. Supposedly this act was an act of vengeance because one of the women was fired from her job.

A top female politician in the northern Spanish city of Leon has been shot dead in public.

Isabel Carrasco, 59, head of the provincial government in Leon, was shot several times by a woman as she crossed a footbridge.

Spanish media report that a mother and daughter have been arrested, and that the daughter had recently been fired from the council.

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has cancelled engagements.

Mr Rajoy is head of the Popular Party (PP) to which Ms Carrasco belonged.

She was the head of the PP in Leon as well as head of the local government.

The opposition Socialist Party and other parties also offered condolences and cancelled campaign events.

'Act of vengeance'
Ms Carrasco was attacked on her way to a party meeting near her home at about 17:20 local time (15:20 GMT).

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27373291

 

[loreta]

So now the politicians are talking about controling more seriously Internet (Facebook and Twitter) due to the reaction of many people insulting the woman that was assassinated yesterday. They wanted to criminalize the insults and they say that some places, like Facebook, are not very good places at all.

So you can see: they are very happy when something like this happens.

The story that it was a vengeance seems to me not credible. I think this story is too much fantastic, in the sense of a novel. Too much dramatic, the woman that kills the lover of her husband. Too easy and too fast this story. As always.

Another thing I see that is a little disturbing are the comments of people in Facebook: insults against the politician woman. Very strong insults. I can see in them rage, impotence, anger. In fact it is very easy to insult a dead person, and through her insult the government. But people seems to me very angry and that is something that the PTB like, also.

This link is about how Interior try to see if insulting someone is a crime and an advertisement that they wanted to criminalize it. They are investigating, they say, the comments in Facebook and Twitter. For them insulting can be an apology of violence.

http://www.publico.es/actualidad/520499/interior-abre-una-investigacion-sobre-los-comentarios-en-las-redes-tras-la-muerte-de-carrasco

 

[l apprenti de forgeron]

Another thing I see that is a little disturbing are the comments of people in Facebook: insults against the politician woman. Very strong insults. I can see in them rage, impotence, anger. In fact it is very easy to insult a dead person, and through her insult the government. But people seems to me very angry and that is something that the PTB like, also.

This link is about how Interior try to see if insulting someone is a crime and an advertisement that they wanted to criminalize it. They are investigating, they say, the comments in Facebook and Twitter. For them insulting can be an apology of violence.

Both things are very noticeable: the hatred of the people against the political class (especially against the two major parties) and the desire of cutting freedom of expression by the Spanish elite (the right to protest, the right to assembly, the right of talk about what is happening). On the murdered woman, many say it was a typical corrupt, who came to hold 13 simultaneous charges in the administration. And the crime seems a matter of revenge for the dismissal. That is, an internal episode of the corrupt party. One of the two women arrested had been candidate of PP for Astorga (León).
Another issue to think about is that as finance fall quickly, the elite is clear from many "disposable". And in a country with more than 6 million of unemployed, that's almost a death sentence. So that, wich also implies a political career aborted, could have been part in the psychological motivation of the crime.

 

[loreta]

What it is interesting to see also is the attitude of this corrupt government. Because they are not just corrupt but also very moralistic, fascist. The moral of the fascists in this country is plain of the residues of the Inquisition. They are trying now to make feel guilty a part of the population of this crime. This is due because many angry reactions against the woman were expressed in the Internet. And surely on the streets, also. Because of that they wanted to put new law concerning the oral or writing expression of anger or anything like that against someone (against a politician, I mean). So in their eyes we are also responsible of the death of this woman that was assassinated. They try it, they menace, they insult our intelligence. They are really the daughters and sons of Franco that brought Spain in the Middle Ages.

It is so sad. This touch me very much. I understand why my father left this country in 1956. Now I live here and when I see all this I wanted to vomit.