Franco lives! The indictment against Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who went after Pinochet, was bound to happen, because anyone who insists on digging up the past will face the stern opposition of those who want it buried. There are still people who, given the chance, would return gladly to the "good old days" of Franco's regime. If you or your father or grandfather were involved in that regime, you don't want someone going over that period because, chances are, your name will come up, and all that respectability will go down the drain. This is why in Spain, as in other countries in which major violations of human rights have taken place, as soon as the regime ends, laws are passed calling for "amnesty" and "reconciliation", a nice way of saying "let's bury the past." But, the dead and their loved ones are left without recourse, and that is what Garzón, technicalities and legal niceties aside, has tried to provide for the vic...
That awakening is scary if, as it has always been the case, it eventually leads to world domination. I don't know the likelihood that totalitarism at home will eventually mean total world domination and the repression that goes with hegemony. If the Chinese elite is your run-of-the-mill male humans and if they fall to the temptation of thinking that their likely future preeminence means racial or ideological superiority or both, watch out.
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