Quote:
"Joan Ferran, socialist member of the catalonian parlament, has asked the Catalonian Audiovisual Committee to study if it can act against COPE radio station "radiopreachers" and "falcons" (their journalists) due to a "missuse" of the liberty of expression stated in the Spanish Constitution" (Libertad Digital, 28th October, 2005)
COPE radio was prived of some of its stations in Catalonia by the catalonian government due to a "lack of frequencies" (they inmediately gave those frequencies to Grupo Prisa and other supportive media).

Quote:
"PP and some opinion leaders (in reference to COPE journalists) are burning Spain" (Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, socialist speaker in the Spanish Parlament, 26th October, 2005)
This is stated by the speaker of the same party (PSOE socialists) that has prepared the inconstitutional catalonian statute which is going to be reformed in the spanish parlament by that same party. This same member is the one who was part of the most corrupt government in our history (in which even the head of the Bank of Spain, two ministers, one state's secretary, the head of the police,... were trialed and condemned for corruption/state's terrorism). This same speaker is the one who appeared of TV the day before the elections of 14/3 (three days after Madrid bombings) to demand information to our former Government (no matter it is explicitly forbidden by our electoral law to make public statements the day before the elections) and is also the one who has vetoed the participation of 50 persons in the investigation of 3/11 bombings in the Parlament.

sdavidr: That demonstration has been organized by Foro de Ermua, the association formed by the mayor of Ermua (socialist) after Miguel Angel Blanco (PP councilman) assassination. I fully support it, but I'm not going to participate.

As for boycotts, I believe in the freedom of people to choose in what to spend their money. If I have to choose between a catalonian cava and a Extremadura's cava, I will choose the second. But I never drink cava anyway. What I'm going to do for sure is to close my current account in La Caixa. I have the right to decide who is going to manage my money, and La Caixa is financing independentists and supporting this statute, so I know what to do (no matter that they charge me for everything while other don't).

Fernando