by Soeren Kern, GATESTONE INSTITUTE • March 30, 2020
A demonstration during International Women’s Day on March 8, 2020 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
- A class action lawsuit filed on March 19 accuses the Spanish government — highly ideological by any standard, as the Communist coalition partner, Podemos, was founded with seed money from the Venezuelan government — of knowingly endangering public safety by encouraging the public to participate in more than 75 feminist marches, held across Spain on March 8, to mark International Women’s Day.
- The Spanish government’s main point man for the coronavirus, Fernando Simón, claimed in a nationwide press conference that there was no risk of attending the rallies on March 8. “If my son asks me if he can go, I will tell him to do whatever he wants,” he said.
- “Honestly, it seems to me a joke that the government has waited until today, clearly for political reasons, to make this announcement. The Socialist-Communist government has once again put its political interests above the common good. This gross negligence should lead to resignations. — Elentir, Contando Estrelas, March 9, 2020.
A class action lawsuit files in Spain accuses the government of knowingly endangering public safety by encouraging the public to participate in more than 75 feminist marches on March 8, to mark International Women’s Day, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Spanish government, comprised of a coalition of Socialists and Communists, is facing legal action for alleged negligence in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The government is accused of putting its narrow ideological interests ahead of the safety and wellbeing of the public, and, in so doing, unnecessarily worsening the humanitarian crisis now gripping Spain, currently the second-worst afflicted country in Europe after Italy.
On the other hand, we should remember that Spain has been heavily in debt to the EU central bank as well as some private banks that it cannot pay back. EU countries are not allowed to print their own money, the way our “Fed” can. Only the central bank (in Brussels, I believe) can print money. I wonder if the Spanish government has asked the EU bank to write off its debts in view of its allegedly high death rate from the virus. If so, the government has a clear motive for exaggerating the number of i”coronavirus” deaths among its people, by attributing the death of Spaniards from influenza and pneumonia to “coronavirus.”