no time for love

We are saying no time for love.... in the Basque Country. We are repeating absolutely what we saw in our childhood with the Court of Burgos. Exactly the same. Only then it was a Martial Court and now is Garzon's Court. But for the Basques it finishes being the same.

Basque school: Ikastola.

The ikastola or Basque school was one of the more criticized items of usual use by the Spanish tertulias, a sort of pseudo intelectuals teams for debating about actuallity. But this week has been a time to celebrate, the ESU award has gone to the Federation of Basque School of Gipuzkoa.

Spanish dirty secret.

That's how the Spanish authorities respond to the torture allegations made not only by Basques but also by the United Nations, Amnesty International and many other organizations.

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Olentzero "kidnapped" by Spanish police in Navarre town

Mikel Bareibar explained that "a patrol of the Civil Guard arrived in Areso suddenly at Christmas Eve at about 02:30 driving with the car lights off, took the dummy inside the car and left".


27/12/2005

A dummy featuring the Olentzero- a Basque traditional character that brings presents to Basque people at Christmas Eve- was kidnapped by a patrol of the Civil Guard, a Spanish paramilitary police unit.

This dummy is taken every year in a parade through the streets of the Navarre town of Areso. Once in the town square, the Olentzero is left there so that it stays there at Christmas time, the Mayor of Areso, Mikel Bareibar, told Radio Euskadi.

The Olentzero had disappeared in the previous years without a trace. Mikel Bareibar explained that "a patrol of the Civil Guard arrived in Areso suddenly at Christmas Eve at about 02:30 driving with the car lights off, took the dummy inside the car and left". Several people witnessed the "kidnapping".

Eusko Ikaskuntza. Sumario del WEB

Eusko Ikaskuntza. Sumario del WEB

The "outlawed" Basque Santa: Olentzero

> You know, Olentzero is a little controversial at our Basque Center, believe it or not. There are a handful of people who say that because they didn't know about him during their childhood on the French side, he is not Basque, he is just something made up recently. And, they say he is confusing for our kids, who only know Santa.
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This is not new. Here happened the same with the Catholic Magician Kings. At least during our chilhood in the Franco regime the Olentzero was moreless "outlawed". In fact I remember the 24th at night a group of people in Basque clothes going from home to home sighning, they were the Olentzero for us. Obviously our parents didn't dare to explain it to us (in fact I believe they were singing to collect money for prisoners) because no parent could risk his/her son to be caught in a indiscretion. Well, besides, we went every 24th in the morning from home to home in little groups of two or three children (moreless as in your Haloween). We sang a Christmas song in every door and the people gave us some money. That was the happier part of the Christmas, even more than the toy gifts of the Magician Kings Day (that was the January 6th.)

Then, in my chilhood we had yet to days, the Olentzero, although "outlawed" in the part of the pertsonage, was celebrated massively and that day was the happier day, with all the children going from home to home singing. The towns were full of colour. I remember that my mother started a month before to collect coins for the 24th, Olentzero's day.

Oh, the past book fair in Durango I bought an Olentzero tale, the best I've found. With pictures that the grandfather said they were as pictures (refering to those big pictures to put in the wall) our children. This is moreless the same you have in the NABO page this year. If I found how to scan it, I'll send you. My children like it a lot.


Oh, about the "outlawing" of our Olentzero, Basque Santa, Enrique Villar, who was the Governmental Delegate in the Basque Country with Aznar until past Christmas, was also the Alava Governor in the last Franco and post-Franco times. He was the one who send the Riot Police against the Olentzero in vitoria in the 70's. (So when they recovered the Vitoria-Gasteiz mayor for PP in 1999 the first Alonso made was to change the Christmas caravan from the 24th -Olentzero- to January 5th -Magician Kings- but it ended badly as one of the horses ended mad in the middle throwing his King out, etc.)

Zorionak eta Urte Berri on.

mendi

Georgetown magistral lesson by Aznar.

Basques y al Quaeda:
By Joxemari Asnar for history class in Georgetown universidad.
The problem de Spain con the basque terrorism not begining con the gouvernement of Francisco Franco, por cierto caudillo de España por la gracia de God.
Nonononó, my friends, nada más lejos de la reality. In fact, the problem con basque terrorism begining de begining very antes, cuando in alliance con los rojos separatistas, obligaron a Spain, una grande y libre, a denfending la patria in the gloryus levantamiento del 18 july of 1936.

The basque people are very, very, very bad people, amigos, pero very, very, very bad. And, de relation entre basque terrorist y Al Quaida, did not begin with the 11-M Crisis, cuando the basques y the moors, osea los moros, destroid Atocha station in Madrid, sino que begining hace un porrón de years, cuando los moors infieles invaded Spain, to the early 8th century, año arriba o abajo.

And, en efecto, when los moors estos invaded Spain, Don Pelayo, begining de begining the Reconquista, por la gloria de Dios. And in franco-spanish antiterrorist alliance, Charles Magnus, más conocido como, Carlomagno, antecessor of Charles Pasqua, becoming kill the moors. Carlomagno kill a saco de moors, with Roldán, no el sociata ladrón ése que caba de to exit of prison, not confunding please. I speak del Roldán de la espada Durandall.

Pues eso, que when Carlomagno and Roldán coming to kill de moors, the basque terrorist hicieron atentading-trampa en Roncesvalles. And no acabó ahí la cosing, sino que the Banu Qasi family, que eran moors y ciertamente antecessors of Bin Laden, to have relations with the premier rey from basques, Iñigo Aritza, antecessor of Juan José Ibarretxe, sin duda.

Y desde entonces, basque terrorist and islamic terrorist es todo uno, como queda demostriting en atentading de Madrid, y en missiling que ETA shopping a Al Quaida en Afganistán. It is demostreiting olso, that basque people baja al moro to fumar hashish, y que les interesa to much the conflict in Palestina, in Sahara, in Kabilia, y olso les gusta to much to go a la Alhambra de Granada, donde the moor Boabdil lloró like a woman lo que did not defender like a man de pelo en pecho.

Y this is de history, amigos, que not cunfunding you with basque or islamic propaganda, because they are very bad people, amigos, como my friend Del Burgo va a demostraiting in the parlamentary commission in the Congress.
Vivaspaña. Toma magistral lesson para la clase de november. -