Edit: Thanks for your support everyone
Shit shit shit Nerea. I'm SO glad you're okay. I can't believe the Socialists are even thinking of engaging in dialogue with ETA/Batasuna. I can't even imagine how angry you must've been. Who lives on that road?
Love you nerea, so happy you're safe but angry about this whole thing!
I know... socialists and their bloody dialogue. Just don't get me started on that (you are the one person who knows how angry that can get me lol)
I saw the images on the news today and so many people's houses were windowless... my brother told me about some of his friends being home when it happened and having the windows exploding in front of them - scary. It's a really popular area, full of people from my class at school and my class in uni, all sorts of acquantances, etc - you even know some of those people too, though you might not remember
Ugh, that's shocking! I thought it was rather quiet around the eta? I kinda hoped they'd found some other 'hobby', you know, like the Ira who have seemed to switch to drug-dealing instead of killing people. It's all about gaining power I guess and not so much about their ideals, they're just an excuse. If they can't gain any political power then they try to gain power some other way.
So let's hope the eta finds a hobby of his own soon. I'd propose sticking to Basque traditions and have them fight bulls..., without a decent training that is.
rogier
It was really quiet actually. Nothing too big had happened in the Basque country for ages. It just pisses me off that it's the same people who get bombed here every time, because they belong to a certain social class and have certain political beliefs (which in general differ from the rest of Basque society... and I am part of those who differ)
This is just a wake up call, you know. Just to remind everyone that, while they try and talk about the end of ETA, they're still there and could cause some serious damage if they wanted to. I was talking to Rosie yesterday and we both agreed that the more attention they get, the more seriously they take themselves... honstly, I think ETA's principles (and in general nationalist principles) are hilarious, they're incredibly ridiculous, worth laughing about if they didn't cause this kind of trouble.
I just don't see a way out of this ever. A nationalist party controls education in the Basque region, therefore there will always be nationalists, among which it'll always be easy to brainwash a few and turn them into mindless radicals.
