La Vanguardia, Pissing on Havel's Grave

In the past two days we've dedicated space to racism, hypocrisy and censorship. To all what spells the opposite of freedom. Today we have to come back to some of the agents of oppression that were mentioned there.

Again there goes Pilar Rahola in La Vanguardia. It's almost tiring to see how day after day they themselves rip apart the fine coat of liberty they are trying to cloak themselves in.

Pilar Rahola's op-ed today is a comparison of Václav Havel and Kim Jong-il, who died just one day apart. It's the usual stuff, the good guy vs the bad guy, "the two sides of the coin, the liberator and the oppressor·" What? Of the same coin? Never mind, my Spanish sucked too when I posted a comment as my alter ego Liz Quinn.

In English (and respecting the bad level of the original Spanish): "For someone who knows people of the kind of Havel from very close, and who has read what Rahola writes -what she wrote yesterday, for example- wants to throw up. You are the least adequate person to speak like this, Rahola." (Link added.)

Oh yes, I do know -or I did, for some are gone- people very much like Václav Havel, who got thrown into prison when there was no freedom of speech, some were forced into exile, some stayed, all never stopped working for freedom and when the opportunity arose they took the lead and made a change for the better.

I can't stand that someone who yesterday made a sly racist remark today bathes in the light of her own eulogy of one great man; in an article published in a newspaper that knows nothing of freedom of speech.

And as if laughing into one's face were a national sport, my comment stayed for a half hour until La Vanguardia's Oompa-Loompas deleted it.

Now, thank you very much! If ever I needed confirmation....