DIARIO DE MALLORCA: Letter to the Editor: "The courtyard of my house is particularly" by Rosalía Cortés Sastre
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The courtyard of my house is particular
Leo "carpet" that Mrs. You will not put his hand in the fire for anyone, it appears that they do not trust. But I I want to ask a question: what moral authority will ask for the vote to citizens of Islands in the next election? Among you do not trust, and we have to trust us? That nose!. Mr. Nadal, however, is quite the opposite. He trusts everybody. Let me tell you, very master of others, who has spent at least three people. If it really is true what they say, forgive me, but I tremble. They are all so cute, so clean and so honest in his party .....!
The "PEchOE" is another thing. In the chita-silent, must see, how good it looks. I also want to ask a question. Since you rule, I find that I have not cut taxes, is more up to me every day. Can you tell me where (piii..) Is our money? EI PP, as it stole something done (parkings, bus fleet, roads ,...), but you, all you read is continuously endowed with pinch of thousands of dollars to the Work Culture, pay all their studies bunch of friends, again giving the Cultural Work, and today, for example, I read in a newspaper either that "the Govern designed" three times on the same page, I guess "run" in the next term and is Therefore, we also asked the vote in anything, because four years have not been enough to plunder.
From then, go on, that thorough, not "co (PIII)" we'll have left! But tell me where our money?
The other Rose, Ten, is the one cashing in all this, just yesterday I found out that there is discontent within his party because only two that cut the Mende cod. Rosita speaks only of Spain, but behind it, behind it is Marxism-Leninism (and the silly to the right, there it is, ligand and flirting with her).
Finally, my beloved and despised Balearic Majorca. Other acronyms good as any, but do not say because I do not publish the letter, look, and above all, losing each fear, because with all these what is clear is that we "Esclat" and put both hands on fire and we say no or to leave or to arrive anywhere or we will go out and get ... anywhere. ROSALIA
CORTÉS SASTRE
. Palma.
Published, for his greater glory, the Diario de Mallorca on October 29, 2008.
The letter, as can be seen, not wasted. Congratulations!.
OPINION on AUTO Garzón (Historical Memory) JOAN J . 29/10/2008 QUERALT - THE COUNTRY (29/10/2008). DESIRED
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29/10/2008 - THE COUNTRY (29/10/2008). Since two weeks ago Judge Garzón issued the order declaring the authority to investigate Franco's ruthless and barbaric repression has fallen on him the whole weight of demagoguery, bitterness and sectarianism, as if, in fact, he might be the offender.
Garzón's car makes relentless pursuit 'criminal crimes of the Franco
This government promoted a prudish and insufficient memory Act
grossest criticism has focused on that, in addition to requesting the death certificate of the fractious rebel and others of his conmilitones -which is necessary to accord the case file about them, "other possible perpetrators would be already dead. Maybe, but not necessarily. A careful reading of the car indicates that Garzón plans, as it can not be otherwise, an investigation by stages: first, until December 1951, done that "does not exclude other cases, provided it is shown that they do not are isolated incidents. "
Two questions we must do to understand this vital resolution. The first: do they deserve the recognition and redress to victims where necessary? and the second, why this order has been issued? The first question we can only reply that this recognition has come to them, but by the back door. Indeed, for the sake of a long amnesia, have been deprived of the recognition time for the indignities suffered. The second question focuses on the prudish Historical Memory Law, adopted at the last gasp of the last legislature. On this law, whose scope was denounced as sparing in their handling continues to weigh the slab of the past.
Indeed, on one hand, those affected have to urge the administrative authority declaration of illegitimacy of their situation under Franco, which means it must bear the burden of proof on the other, no have been issued, almost a year later, the regulations that are necessary for the development of these pyrrhic benefits. And what is worse, the State not to mention some regions, some local authorities and the Catholic Church seem to have ignored the issue. If the central government had put in charge of the event, opening all files without restrictions, making all means to identify the slain, as has been done, for example, in Catalonia, have sung a different story. Finally, if to proclaim the illegitimacy Companys takes three months, do not take to the sharecropper libertarian. In this context, it is not surprising that 19 associations complaint before the courts as a last resort, well known fact that, criminal investigations, could be the remains of the disappeared and the punishment of the oppressors and plunderers. The proposed task is not easy Garzón nijurídicamente factual without government support, because nothing else suggests the unusual belligerence of the current prosecutor, which leaves little was when their ancestors tried to prevent, unsuccessfully, to lay the foundations of universal justice.
is opposed, first, the competition, but, ultimately, is irrelevant. If it was not competent Court, what would each of the courts in whose jurisdiction the exercise of stock, which, perhaps, not be detrimental to the cause they serve.
essential aspects that are raised also by the prosecution against the order of Garzón are essentially non-retroactivity, the 1977 amnesty and prescription. Talking, as in the use of public ministry because general should not be considered more than a rhetorical outpouring of questionable soundness. The non-retroactivity can not be denounced, because the car expressly excludes, according to the doctrine of the Supreme Court in the case
Scilingo,
understands that it can not be convicted of crimes against humanity, in force between us only since 2004. However, nothing prevents the naming context under the traditional crimes of murder, illegal detention, torture and related fields. Context switching has not stopped applying, for example, the doctrine Parrot firm convictions, altering the terms of implementation, at the express request of the Prosecutor. As for the occlusive effect of the amnesty of 1977 we face a thorny political issue, but soluble legally. Its purpose was political intent crimes. Garzon believes that filled out can not be classified as such and the Office, calculated ambiguity, does not averse to treating them as ordinary crimes. If so, there would be a source of conflict. But the truth is that the crimes of the Franco regime can not be considered political crimes, they are crimes against humanity, well qualified initially by customary international law and now the convention and the law. If, having regard to Article 7 of the 1931 Constitution, international law was accepted by it, the rebels to break up blood republican legitimacy can not benefit from the regime of fact and law from which no autodotaron, so that the institutions of international law must be understood fully in force. Consequently, the 1977 amnesty, regardless of whatever the idea of \u200b\u200btheir authors, not enough for these crimes.
Opposes also the apparent obstacle of the prescription. The continuing offenses, and illegal detention is, do not begin to prescribe until the hostage is released, there is reason enough for him or found dead, otherwise, disappearances would eventually go unpunished. Admittedly, however, that for other cases, we know where are the remains of victims. The offense and he would be barred and all related. This is saving schemes stating that fact and no interruptive law for criminal acts of disruptive. This has been declared as the European Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court, the latter, interestingly, on issues of recovery of the property plundered by the Franco regime. And be agreed that the life, physical and moral integrity and freedom are infinitely superior to real property and that therefore the prosecution of crimes that annihilated those basic rights deserves no better treatment than looting.
Finally, it seems the objection of lack of competition that also claims the prosecutor. However, argue that a judge is not competent to accept another it is-but do not say that-which ultimately means accepting that the facts themselves are apparently investigating crime.
Finally, whether before the High Court or before multiple courts, is to ventilate the criminal prosecution of offenders of the Franco regime, the avalanche and can not be stopped. Will also be used to deliver another message to boaters: Crime always pays. Already there are several leaders genocidal politicians who can not visit certain states. That we have between us, no escape.
Joan J. Queralt
is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona. Curious, as always well explained, even for the layman.
There are many deaths that I desire, not just those of Fidel and Raul Castro for kidnapping the freedom of Cubans over half a century and humiliate and enslave them. A Fidel would like to see him die sitting on the toilet, straining in vain because intestines have mutinied. Raúl I would like to see him die drunk, throwing up in a park, confessing that it was all a fraud to seize power and drinking good vodka and Mercedes ride. Evo I would not like to see him die, because there is something in me that I inspired him tenderly. But I would to withdraw from politics and dedicated to playing football, which is what you lost and done for some dubious talent, especially to four thousand feet and chewing coca.
A Correa also like to see me die, or not yet, it is young and frustrated actor, I'd like is to stay silent or, better still, deaf and dumb, so let's say, that unbearably plaintive is the own, many trifles and nonsense. A Piedad Córdoba
I wish they had kidnapped and tied to a tree at least six years and forced to eat rice and beans on the same plate where once had a bowel movement so you know what he suffered when he was Ingrid Betancourt hostage to the angels that she argues with almost vaginal burning. Uribe
I wish it were immortal, however noble, gallant and brave. Ms. Bachelet may not immortal, but they live a hundred years and spend a weekend with multiorgasmic hot and Arjona, which is what he deserves for being a good woman, simple and humble.
Cristina Kirchner and her husband does not like to see me dead, I would like is to suffer a little reasonable. Cristina, as Chavez when he needs money, and as capitalistic as you need bags and shoes, I would hate to dress in all of Colorado, as a good revolutionary sold to Chavez, with guayabera and pants without any makeup, not hairdressers or stylists, without those vampire eyes repainted faded, all in red and raw, right out of the shower. And your husband I'd like to see more cross-eyed, squint-eyed and lost much, looking to one side with an eye to the opposite side to the other, so that no one knows, neither he nor his wife, who is watching. Alan García
I would not want him dead, but that, by law, submit to diet, to stop swallowing the obscenely in a starving country, jogging six miles every morning followed by cameras and then bathe at sea bathing suit brief display before the cameras that womb huge and growing, evening parties and revelry fact that taxpayers pay the poor Peruvians.
A Chávez would love to see him die, but not by a sniper shot or poisoned by a conspirator or a fight for power, but so accurate: it is speaking on TV in your program and suddenly infinite pause between each bluster and rant and swallow a good chunk of cachapa and try to keep talking but can not, and then choking, fits the whole cachapa with corn and cheese in the crop imperial and stay silent for a glutton and start cough, seizures and arcades, and that before dying a vomit-colored throw oil on the cameras and their sycophants and apandillados and his face buried on Bolivar finished black and sticky puddle of his vomit, stiff and silent finally, finally met with Bolívar, whose soul has withered disgusted by the foul-mouthed baboon.
But obviously I will not be given the privilege to attend these deaths as desired and unlikely because at the moment I am determined to lead my own, taking pills, which is like the knights die, sedated and in bed . Jaime Bayly
"Excellent Person- , humanity in abundance to their alumni, with its point-acid-making class ... pure pose, deep wisdom, his constant willingness to help, selfless aid course and exceptional fine dining (by God! how you liked a good rice [Parlament / Rte Reus etc).
certainly will notice his absence leaves us orphans of their love and support. And too soon, no doubt. RIP.
a reality, despite their grief. Are 3, but three go!
maiorica (With which I disagree on many issues), is good news that a newly formed party has managed to break into a stagnant political landscape for bipartisanship and party politics, besides being tremendously influenced by the impact (or near intervention) of mass media.
UPyD also fills an ideological vacuum orphan for years. While the left-right axis maintains its prominence, the territorial axis between autonomous and English nationalism has not had the same equity. Shared so far by the two major parties, training focuses on the idea of \u200b\u200bSpain over ideologies. It is difficult to convince Spain that another possible (because I suppose it is that), in accordance with modern and advanced society that we are seeing something hard to believe we have the political caste. A Spain over prejudice, romantic patriotism atavistic, primitive attitudes and interests of several, to brutalize any reasoned debate on the issue.
However, UPyD had to accept the rules of the game perverse media in order to survive: an action strategy has been conditioned by the media to give coverage. It is well known that a is no one political force if it does not in the media, the bad is when they end up conditioning the course of the training itself (as it has been with the PP for years) to make it a toy most of the fourth estate.
I was surprised that during the election campaign, all the criticism and UPyD pujas were addressed to the government while the opposition received only a slap for his lack of alternatives and constant tension (something so obvious that I was desperate .) When the editorial line of these means changed, UPyD also balanced criticism of both parties. Maybe this will finally drawing enough votes, to simplify apparently his message to a personal grudge towards Zapatero Rosa Díez and reduce its role to a service opportunistic populism pamphleteers and preachers more.
His program has also been affected, despite defending proposals as respectable as a referendum for self-determination of the Sahara, propose a reform of the electoral law or rationalize the political and administrative functioning of the State multi-level training has given priority to the defense of Castilian monotema level, a slipstream of media that give support. For example, the famous Manifesto UPyD support has been in the spotlight in both the newspaper said, until they got tired and looked for another campaign to sell newspapers. It seemed that they did not have anything to talk about.
This message has been trivialized UPyD as hope for the regeneration of political life. But: As has been treated UPyD especially alert for some, has been grossly neglected by others. Like many other current or past training, unfortunately.
Balearic level, its implementation was successful in getting over 3100 votes and become the fifth force in the islands. At first glance, its growth has been based more on the PP voters PSOE, judging by the results, and not counting new voters. But it's not a good sign. Much of the Balearic conservatism has no ideology of its own and vote for maintaining the status quo of power: a voter hardly comprehensible by a minority and training program as UPyD.
Instead, the Conservative minority more ideological grounds (low votes, but dominant in the media) it has tuned UPyD ... but is based on proclamations and very democratic behavior, characterized by demagoguery
the
insult and infamy
. Attract this type of voter may be, ultimately, very counterproductive growth.
Although I must say that its territorial coordinator
in the islands has shown a very accurate and informative task arguments. May agree or disagree with their thesis, but always from the will to dialogue, reason and the exchange of ideas. I can not say the same for some of its state leaders, whose political résumé is rather a slab gripping and bitter speech. Neither of many politicians Balearic I must say, accustomed to the monologue and impunity.
We need common sense really (not Rajoy) and new people in politics of those who andamos faltos in the last years. If UPyD not the engine, so once a sea Ariete Romper for the oxidized dikes of the current policy. Welcome to sea in Spain, and especially in our islands.
T'anyoro. I heard thy voice anyoro, look thy look, olorarte besarte hair and cheeks ... Anyoro summers stretched under the ceiling of the night filled with stars, núbols telling the old stories and discovering the sky pirates. Anyoro the jokes, the bursts of laughter, songs and innocent smiles. T'anyoro. And anyoro the brunt of the sea hitting our faces .... the sea, our. The faces tanned by the salt and aroma to Mediterranean. The guest crabs and diving in search of snails, which have learned to love myself, this will always love inside, beyond time, that by far out more than you do, never forget.
T'anyoro. And anyoro chocolate spread lips, oregano and ubiquitous in the corner of the kitchen. Anyoro memories of nights with Cinderella, of the 'daddy I'm afraid', the long mornings and Malaita nightmares. The love of father, son, who loves you most? The long marches urban ships held back by a thousand battles, and even because in Bobby.
T'anyoro and I can not do more than anyorar now. When there are, when you are away, when you feel alone in the distance, when I ask what you will, who, if you're happy if you tell or talk when you come in with the fear that I picked up the silences. Posted by Cristina Tena and Rosell Press spokesman FECADISE (CATALAN FEDERATION OF AFFECTED BY DIVORCES AND SEPARATIONS) - Vice President ADICC (ASSO. EQUALITY AND WOMEN FOR SHARED CUSTODY)
Malditas the Laws that Gravano Made by the man of serlo. Every once more near the denostado Criminal Copyright Law. Painful!. Well Sean halladas the latest judgments of the TSJC SENSE in that apuntáis vuestra web. Encourage Cris!
Ref. El País: http://www.elpais.com/articulo / internacional/carcel/nada/elpepuint/20081004elpepuint_10/Tes One sister reported. A detective forced a false confession. He was convicted and a judge sent him to prison. After 20 years of nightmare in the U.S., Marty Tankleff is freed and innocent
Rico, handsome and strong. It was the youthful image of the American dream. He had just turned 17 years and this morning was to begin the new school year. But Marty Tankleff never arrived at school. His parents had been attacked with a hammer and slashed overnight. And when it came down to breakfast found in the living room of their home bloodied his mother dead and her father, who died a few weeks later, unconscious, dying.
"If you're innocent, Marty, hire me "he told a private investigator. "If not, do not waste my time"
was just the beginning of a nightmare that would last 20 years. The Kafkaesque in the dark fate that sank Tankleff, and the newly emerged, showing that foreign prisoners at Guantanamo are not the only ones who suffer the injustices of U.S. punitive
apparatus. Themselves citizens of the country-even the seemingly privileged as Marty, live subject to their whims.
"The terrible lesson of my case," Tankleff said in an interview with El Pais in New York, "is that this can happen to anyone, that there is adequate protection for persons who are perfectly innocent when the system insists that they are guilty. " Tankleff's father, Seymour, was an astute businessman. The mother, Arlene, a passionate orchid. Marty was not his biological child. They had adopted newborn. They lived in a luxurious mansion overlooking the sea on Long Island in the State of New York, which had cost a million dollars and that today would be worth much more.
The date of the double murder was the September 7, 1988. Almost immediately, the Suffolk County police decided that Marty was the prime suspect. For two reasons: he had reacted to the death of his parents with a strange, stunned quiet, and his half-sister who no longer lived with the family, convinced the detective handling the case, James McCready, that Marty was murderer.
Tankleff was convicted, the jury found him guilty and the judge sentenced him to 50 years in prison. The sister, Shari Rother, was all the heritage and some of the money, her husband opened a bar with Detective McCready. After 17 years in prison in late 2007, Tankleff was released. The Supreme Court of the State of New York said July 22 that had never been legal grounds to sue him for the death of their parents.
The original investigation of the case was based solely on a "confession" that Detective McCready of the traumatized teenager managed to extract the day of the murder. "After hours of interrogation, McCready came up with the brilliant idea of \u200b\u200bpretending that there talked on the phone with my father and he told him that I was the one who attacked them, "says Tankleff, now 37 years old and looks, despite the horror of the story told, a surprisingly good mood." Era lie, because my father never regained consciousness, but I did not know at that time. And the problem was that at the time of my life trust the police, just as I trusted my father. "
McCready When he told the young man with an air of triumph the alleged details of the fake call, it sank. "Will I be possessed?" he said, puzzled, as if remembering a movie of terror. "Will I suffered a mental blackout?". And then he confessed. A verbal confession, that was not recorded, which is retracted and refused to sign. However, the detective's testimony was enough to convince the jury.
"I had erased from the memory the memory of the moment in which the court found me guilty, but now I've seen on video," said Tankleff. "I began to mourn and the room erupted in screams. My family, my uncles, siblings of my parents and my cousins \u200b\u200bwere hysterical. Felt anger and pain. No one could believe that such injustice was possible in our country."
Tankleff was fortunate that a social worker took pity on him and helped him installed in a relatively quiet section of the prison, not where you would have received, along with hardened criminals. Perhaps this explains in part why today anyone who deals with him for the first time that has passed imagine what happened. Burly and muscular, looking younger than his 37 years corresponds to, exudes the vibrancy and optimism of the young trouble-free average American. He smiles easily, much gesticulating with his hands, his eyes shining. Do not betray any resentment, even to his sister or Detective McCready friend, and it seems to have forgotten that has spent half of life in prison, he lost his youth. He feels he has much to do and that their future will be happy.
When he talks about his case, almost as if talking about someone else, like a lawyer talking about his client. In a way, that's what I became, and who devoted his life behind bars, with the tireless help of family and friends, to promote a new research study, as documented on your country's legal system. Its purpose now, in addition to sue the State of New York, is studying law and fight professionally for the countless cases that are similar to yours. "I estimate that 5% of prisoners are innocent," he says, drawing on data from a U.S. organization called the Innocence Project, which maintains that a quarter of convicted prisoners who are later acquitted, after taking DNA tests had been tricked by police into confessing.
For Tankleff was not necessary to resort to DNA. The visible facts of the case bluntly pointed to his innocence, or at least their not guilty. It is extraordinary, as pointed out daily from the likes of The New York Times
, which has been so long in jail without anyone at the institutional level did nothing to get it.
There are more solid evidence of criminality against Detective McCready that against Tankleff. As repeatedly said the attorney, "McCready is the reason why this case is rotten. Any investigation must include, by definition, a detective investigation." The reality is that yes McCready was investigated. A state commission concluded in 1989 that the detective had committed perjury during a trial in 1985, it had given "false testimony, knowing that was "against another man accused of murder. The same commission investigators found that among Suffolk County police had become habitual perversely false confessions and lying in court. However, a year later, in 1990, the findings of the commission does not have any bearing on Tankleff's trial. Nor did any weight on the fate of an extraordinary young-and more plausible-alternative version of the facts that McCready chose to ignore.
the night of his death , Tankleff's parents had been playing poker with friends until three in the morning. This was a weekly routine at home. One of those present was Jerry Steuerman, a former business partner of Seymour Tankleff who owed it over $ 500,000. That same week I had to have paid 50,000. According to others involved in the game that night, Steuerman was the last to leave.
A week after the murder, Steuerman faked his own suicide, shaved his beard, took a bus to Atlantic City and from there, went by taxi to the airport in Newark, where he bought a ticket plane under a false name, flew to California and into a remote
spa.
Marty Tankleff insisted from the outset that Steuerman was the prime suspect, not him. Why McCready apparently chose not to follow this fruitful avenue of research? Tankleff's lawyer has suggested an explanation: that the detective and Steuerman had, as stated much later, from a personal relationship before the murder.
"That could have killed the case," Tankleff notes, "but the other great lesson from this is the value of perseverance. Never quit." Their perseverance and their relatives, especially siblings of his parents, who always believed in him and he never gives up in trying to get to the bottom of the case. But there was also a bit of luck.
A woman named Karlene Kovacs, who had no connection to the Tankleff family or the court case, heard a story during a dinner on a Sunday in 1991 that shock. One guest, Joseph Creedon, was suddenly on the table that had participated in the murder of Arlene and Seymour Tankleff, who's son, Marty, had nothing to do, he had an accomplice in the crime called Jerry Steuerman.
Fearing, Mrs. Kovacs took three years to tell a retired police officer friend. ("It kills me to think that I let so much time," he says now.) This was the turning point, what you put into motion a sequence of events that eventually, many years later, Tankleff's release. Joined the case several lawyers, some of whom work pro bono
,
and a whole cohort of volunteers. And finally, in 2001, after a contact established by Tankleff's aunt, joined, as befits any good thriller (Tankleff going to write a book about his experiences, and does not rule out making a film), a seasoned private investigator.
Jay Salpeter, aware of the details case was filed Tankleff in jail and said: "If you're innocent, Marty, hire me. If not, do not waste my time." The prisoner said he was innocent and, to convince, was given a lie detector test, which has passed. Salpeter, a retired police officer from New York City, studied the case, interrogated Tankleff family and decided to start pulling the thread which had provided Ms. Kovacs. He learned that Joseph Creedon, the dinner guest, had been in jail several times and began to search for offenders who were his accomplices. The first with found was a certain Glen Harris, who admitted being the driver who had been the scene Creedon to the Tankleff's murder. He refused to repeat under oath, but following more tracks, Salpeter tracked down a priest who told him that Harris had confessed their involvement in the murder. Another of the many witnesses who were located Salpeter said that Steuerman, the former partner who owed money to Seymour Tankleff, had told her once-in-bully plan that had killed two people.
Salpeter's work, along with the growing support team Tankleff (all gathered in
web page
martytankleff.org) failed to reopen the case and to proceed to prosecute Steuerman and his alleged accomplices. However, it was enough to begin to appear Articles in New York newspapers and radio and television programs in which they demanded justice for Tankleff. Until, finally, the enormous and sometimes inhuman machine judiciary had no choice but to handle your request and acknowledge that he had made a calamitous error.
Towards the end of two hours of interviews with Tankleff in a dispatch from New York City, it opens a briefcase and pulls out a laptop. It turns on and enters a file that has photos of the day the party that celebrated his release, having gone before the cemetery to visit the graves of their parents. Must have seen hundreds of times the photos, which are automatically one after the other, but look again, gawking like a child with a permanent smile on his lips. Sometimes laughs, sometimes he says, startled, people for whom he feels a special affection. "Look, look, my Aunt Marianne!". "My friend Paul!". "Jay!". It's as if she had just believe it is free, as if he needed those undeniable eye tests to make sure it's true. the photos are finished and, with some resignation (Because if I had been alone, I surely would have wanted to re-review), closes the file. But soon smile again. The jail has failed to steal, despite the efforts of Detective McCready and
judicial apparatus, a certain youthful naivete. Rather, it is as if those 17 years had frozen his adolescence at the time, as if with the death of his parents had stopped the clock. Tankleff says today, looking forward: "There is no time to lose, you have to catch up." Hurry to start and finish his law studies. "Too many people in the same situation where I have been myself, and my task now is to do everything in my power to help, just as so many people, to my great fortune, helped me. "