Someone said "in a matter which has two possible solutions, the most probably right is the most simple to explain".

Here the most simple is not to think that Batasuna is fighting against an opressive state, but that they are simply a bunch of pro-terrorists without brain.

We can argue if the ilegalization will make things worse... worse than killing a girl of 6 years-old? ETA will continue to kill, but at least Batasuna will not be there as a legal political party to laugh at the face (literally) of the victim's families. A democratic country must use whatever legal means to defend itself from those who want to destroy it.

Cali, for me it would be an error to think of this issue as a Spain vs Basque Country. Let me remember you that 11 (7 PP, 4 PSOE) of the 19 (add 7 for PNV and 1 for EA) basque parlamentaries have voted for the ilegalization of Batasuna.

You have said that the solution is education and I fully agree with it, but you have also said that dialogue was necessary. It is always helpful to solve matters talking, but with ETA or Batasuna is impossible.

After ETA killed Miguel Angel Blanco the 18th of July of 1997 the social pressure against ETA and Batasuna was very hard, and the 4 most active comandos of ETA were imprisoned and deactivated. ETA declared a truce (which lasted two years). Then your beloved Aznar (of whom you said he didn't offered dialogue wink ) started secret talikings with ETA highest rankings. After that was unveiled, it was known that during the truce, and when ETA was making the show that they were wanting to dialogue, at that same time they were training and activating new comandos, garning information of potential new objectives, making extorsion to get money, and buying new weapons. When they had again active terrorist cells, they broke the truce (without reason) and started again to kill.

That is the kind of dialogue ETA wants. Batasuna has never make any effort, any gesture to find a solution to the terrorism but continue to say that "ETA was an expression of the basque conflict".

France ilegalized Iparretarrak (french equivalent to Batasuna) in 1987.

ETA has responded today to the ilegalization of Batasuna: it has put a bomb in Tolosa (no injured).

And to end, today a representative of the american government has supported the ilegalization of Batasuna as it has links with the terrorist bands. Remember that Batasuna is considered a terrorist group by the american authorities.

Fernando