Bomb goes off in Spain. It is by a group of ETA/Basque loyalists... CNN says:
“ ETA stands for Euskadi ta Askatasuna, which in the Basque language of Euskara means Basque Homeland and Freedom.
Designated a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union, the group has been blamed for more than 800 deaths since 1968. Around 400 ETA members are in prison.
About 2.5 million Basques live in the Pyrenees mountain region along the border between Spain and France -- where their ancestors have lived for 5,000 years.
Another half million live in France. Separatists want to establish a homeland encompassing the three provinces Spain officially recognizes as Basque plus another Spanish province, Navarra, and part of southern France. “
So the question of course is ‘hey, why not just give them their land and their own country as they wish? Chances are if we look into it, now that we are used to the scenario and how these things usually played out, I bet the Basques were probably the native peoples of these territories before the Spaniards were... and now they just want their land back. we know the drill. Hold no. I'll go online and check it out real quick. Standby...

Clock ticking...

O.k. I'm back. took me a while. had to read the entire history of Spain up to the Visigoth invasion, and then do a re-search... finally found the history of the Basques themselves. Just as I suspected. Native/indigenous peoples who want their own land, country, independence, and government ever since it was taken away from them by Spanish tyrant Franco in the thirties. And Spain still refuses to give it back to them. So there it is. now they fight the only way they know how. Terrorist tactics to win their freedom and independence...  no different than what we did when we wanted our independence from England.

I'll tell ya, I'm beginning more and more to understand what seems to be very clear probably to world leaders who try to keep it all hush-hush. a simple pattern.... when you hear the word “terrorists” it is probably being used by rich and powerful imperialist governments to describe smaller weaker native or indigenous peoples who are trying to win their country and land back from those same larger richer more powerful governments. The word terrorist, one gathers, is a euphemism for “those pesky natives who want us to give back what we stole from them...”
What to do what to do.... here we are... all pretending to know it all and that everything is peachy keen... and here we have all these big governments and countries all over the planet who just won't give back what they stole in the first place from all these smaller weaker people... and life goes on... and we are supposed to just sit and watch it on the news... I'm beginning to think that everything we've learned and everything we see is just one big lie.... shit who am I kidding... I've known this for years... I'm just now starting to become strong enough inside to acknowledge it...

So in this instance, of the Basques for instance...who's side are we supposed to be on here? I have tons of friends in Spain. And I'll swear I don't know one Basque... so hell, I don't want any of my Spanish friends to be murdered by some Basque people trying to get their land and freedom back... but at the same time... shouldn’t we all be doing something to get these bigger countries (yeah I know, we’re one of them) to play fair and just give the shit back already? I mean, how long will countries like china and Russia and Spain and England and America play these deceptive pretend games and continue to submit their people to violent terrorist attacks because they don't want to give back what doesn’t belong to them?

I guess the answer lies in however long the people who live in those countries are willing to be attacked because their government refuses to play fair... man this world is a sad world sometimes... the news is just so completely misleading... why don't the news orgs just tell it like it is... I know CNN actually did a pretty good job up above in at least mentioning why Spain is getting bombed by these people... but wouldn’t it be great if a news organization just came right out with it... “Good evening and welcome to the news. Today Spain was bombed by the ETA, a group of freedom fighters for the Basque people. Spain as everyone knows stole the land from the Basque Republic when Franco was in power and for the last sixty years the Basque people are doing whatever it takes to try to get it back. Next up, sports. After this commercial break. Stay tuned.”

But chances are that's not going to happen... why? well the answer is simple I guess. Spain has money and power and connections and the Basques are only 5 million people and don't have money or power or connections. So what's going to happen to them? well who knows. and in the big picture, who cares. Its just a small group of indigenous people who no one knows about or cares about and chances are nothing will happen to them because they aren't important to anyone. Just like the native Americans here in the United States or the Chechens or the Tibetans or the Chinese people for that matter or the various indigenous tribes of Africa.... lets face it... money and power is what's its all about. and sure we can make some really good movies about atrocities committed against native peoples by larger more powerful nations but that's not going to change anything...

For me... as I lay sleeping, what will haunt my dreams each night as a human here now on the earth is this: can I live in this world as it is and just go on in my day to day knowing what I know? can we all just go on pretending to each other all the time? since there is nothing we can do anyway to save these people... since there is nothing we can do to get the worlds governments including our own to get more real or honest.... since there is nothing we can do get the big guys to play fair... is there even any use in thinking about any of it? I guess that's the real question...

Maybe that's why they teach us “survival of the fittest” and all that in high school in the first place. so we get used to the idea of these other races of people slowly getting taken over and killed off by the bigger groups... maybe that's the idea... we are supposed to just get used to it. get with the program as they say... and just feel damn lucky that it isn't happening to us in our lifetime...

Hey man, I can hear the Ferret loud and clear as he has told me over and over again through the years... “bro, we’re in America. We can still pick up the phone and order a pizza from dominoes. So who fucking cares about the Basques or whatever their fucking called... lets party.”

Or Mephisto the raging lunatic who the older I get the more wise he seems to me... “Fishy stop thinking about this shit and just worry about yourself kid. People are fucking animals and they will eat you alive. They will rob you fucking blind, kill you and your family, and laugh the whole time thinking that you deserve it because you were too weak to defend yourself. That's life kid. grow up and see it as it fucking is because one day I'm not going to be around to save your ass. stop thinking about the Indians and the blacks Fishy. that's old news. just save your own ass kid...”