On 12 July, Miguel Angel Blanco Foundation, presented its annual award to ex-Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.
The event, presented by journalist Isabel San Sebastián, statements Carmelo Barrio, Jaime Mayor, Mikel Buesa, Maria Mar Blanco and Jose Maria Aznar.
was an emotional ceremony, which was screened on video that has toured various cities in Spain, which remembers what happened those fateful 48 hours, including the kidnapping and fatal outcome of Michelangelo.
Many familiar faces and many brave together. Actually it was an act of those, in which one comes with batteries charged.
I would highlight the involvement of Mikel Buesa, but not to me nothing out way to play full
INTERVENTION Mikel Buesa. MIGUEL ANGEL BLANCO FOUNDATION PRIZE (12/07/2007)
"Let me start this speech evoking the figure of Miguel Angel Blanco. Ten years ago almost none of us knew this young councilman Ermua played his political work on behalf People's Party in the small town of Bizkaia, in the same way that many other mayors constitutional, effectively and in defense of democratic values. However, Miguel Angel came into our lives suddenly when ETA kidnapped him and, after trying to blackmail the government then presided José María Aznar, killed him.
not evoke the anguish of those days when it seemed that the night could restore Michelangelo safely. Nor do I refer to the millions of English citizens, everywhere, we mobilize to demand their release, while we were supporting the steadfastness of our government to the terrorists. Nor shall refer to the "spirit of Ermua" that emerged from those hours, settling into the English society firmly convinced that the terrorists is to defeat the bill in one hand and the force on the other, a conviction that is still there unchanged as set in stone, and, although expressed now in a more leisurely time, has been a severe brake on the cares of government negotiators Rodríguez Zapatero with ETA and its intention to open a door to their political demand for independence for the Basque Country.
In those hours I keep a photograph every day, when I open it, is reflected in the screen of my computer. It appears the face of Michelangelo and guess the footsteps of many kisses, in a sign of solidarity, women left mouths painted with lipstick. There are also peace signs, written messages and signatures of dozens of people, thus, expressed support for Michelangelo and shared with him his suffering.
When I see that picture every morning, always evoke the passage written by Antonio Muñoz Molina in describing a photograph of a persecuted, Willi Münzenberg, as follows: "Look at her straight in the eye, perhaps with a point early loss and despair, sadness with the dead in the pictures, witnesses a terrible truth. "
Miguel Angel Blanco, like other victims of terrorism, was indeed the silent witness and suffering of a terrible truth. People like me, have felt very close to the experience of terrorist victimization, which, for this reason, men or women are injured without the lacerating tear us will ever close, albeit obliquely, we know what that truth.
of terrorism victims and witnesses of evil we know that evil has to be written with a capital letter because it means the willingness of men to decide, for political reasons, about life and death of others and therefore to break the essential link of solidarity that unites us human beings and we can expect in all circumstances, respect, support and under the other. That link, as said Luis Rojas Marcos, is derived "from the innate strength, vital, supportive and creative of human heredity multimillenary ... (which) drives us to relentlessly pursue that own and others ... (and) draws our ethical principles and predisposes us to goodness and altruism. "
The terrorists decide on the lives of their victims regardless of the absence of subjective culpability in them. The terrorist attacks on innocent people who are chosen, at random times and at other times for his membership of a group, regardless of what may have been or not their actions. Victims of terrorism are witnesses of evil and its awareness of guilt had not made some and not worthy of the terrible punishment to which they are subjected. Miguel Angel Blanco was no doubt that the paradigm innocence.
We, victims of terrorism, we have the intimate knowledge that human beings are also capable of evil, we know that we share with our attackers, with the murderers of our loved ones, the same human condition that sometimes embarrasses us and hurts us. We feel helpless because this experience is a challenge which defies all expectations, which makes us lose confidence in the other, which destroys the naive belief that, in adversity, others ensure us, and destroys the hope of finding them some comfort.
No surprise, then, that we are victims of terrorism that stunned the events live which reflects the political violence. Bad experience leaves us wondering what to say, the words escape and, when spoken, seem insufficient to fully express that knowledge to be accessed only through suffering, and one is compelled to find a rational explanation impossible never found. Then he reveals the radical loneliness that faces the human existence, a loneliness that is experienced as abandonment, without relief, no relief, in a heartbreaking helplessness.
Therefore, the task to which impels us to have witnessed the radical nature of Evil, our task is to reclaim memory and mourning. We intend to memory because we know that the victims blasted by political violence, they were without any guilt. His sacrifice was the result of a totalitarian claim was not intended other than to submit to all the opinion of a fanatical nationalist minority by the exaltation of their identity. Hence, our memory is to be the lever that pushes the English society to rediscover the true freedom is not what makes us homogeneous, which confuses us all and we brace dharma in one identity, but we can share with others, with those other human beings are others because, overall, are not like us, do not think or believe like us, nor love, nor desire the same thing to us.
Memory demand for recognition is about the damage inflicted. We demand the government recognizes that, going beyond rhetorical proclamations, assign guilt fees that apply to individuals and institutions that have planned, implemented, justified or covert terrorism.
therefore not acceptable for a mere temporary suspension of violence, is regarded as sufficient justification to tolerate parties that are involved in terrorism. Nor is it acceptable to the mantle of oblivion that is spread over multiple institutional complicity with ETA nationalism, that nationalism has contributed to the extent and justification of violence, which has sought financial resources to terrorist organizations in the area, and at all times, has tried to extract political benefits from the fear that has spread over the Basque society.
and is even less tolerable than victims reconciliation requires us to exclude the real lame pacification of social relations, the peace that the emergence of guilt admitted breaking slowly and gradually the cycle of political violence , and requires, surely, the effort of a whole generation to the story that we live can not be repeated. Grief is
justice and reparation. The demand for justice is for us full of radicalism. If there were no criminal penalties for those responsible for many crimes, if there was no punishment, then those inalienable crimes remain unpunished, and impunity is intolerable for all. What could be built without justice, a society that can not be accommodated to the temptation of evil? Mal does not deserve the award or may be rewarded with the exercise of power. Similarly, the suffering that has resulted can not be an excuse to build on it with a vengeance whose sole function would be to perpetuate. Therefore, in a truly democratic society there can be no forgiveness for those who have exercised the crime with a political purpose. Society democracy can not forgive the terrorists without undermining its own foundations. Therefore, there is no forgiveness in a legal sense, although they may have a moral significance. The victims, an act induced freest ethical or religious convictions, they can forgive the injury suffered, but also can refuse to do so without any possibility of criticism of his decision.
Justice requires that the penalties, when deprived of liberty to the accused and when to conceal their political rights are respected in their entirety. For if, as so often happened in Spain, those penalties are pierced by excessive prison privileges, then justice is not done that cancels revenge and builds a democratic society. Justice requires also the moral and material reparations to victims; a repair is recognition of the debt owed to those who experienced an unwarranted insult.
Mourning is thus a corollary to the memory of the true history we have lived and brought us here. If our demand for justice from falling into oblivion, if muted, buried under the slab of a condescending peace with those who try to extract some political return of terrorism, then you would be writing a false story, attentive only to the cynical interest that by the same reason, they would be flaunting power illegitimately.
Democratic societies are sometimes faced with enemies who can destroy. When this happens, citizens have to face the risks with clarity and without looking the other way, without giving shelter to cowardice, we require the government to safeguard the very values \u200b\u200bthat give meaning to our political system because, as in Nuremberg Judge Dan Haywood declared, "... is that a country that defends itself, ... the record, therefore, to the world, of our decision that this is what we stand for: justice, truth and value of each human being. "
In Spain there was a Prime Minister who understood all this. Who sought justice, truth and value of each citizen faced the thorny task of leaving the topics of a policy to no avail and even harder to define another leading to the defeat of ETA, which has built up the recognition of society towards the victims of terrorism, claiming his memory and satisfying their claim for justice. This man, who deserves our thanks and applause, is here with us. His name is Jose Maria Aznar and now receives the prize that evokes the memory of Miguel Angel Blanco.
Mikel Buesa Blanco, Bilbao, July 12, 2007.
"Let me start this speech evoking the figure of Miguel Angel Blanco. Ten years ago almost none of us knew this young councilman Ermua played his political work on behalf People's Party in the small town of Bizkaia, in the same way that many other mayors constitutional, effectively and in defense of democratic values. However, Miguel Angel came into our lives suddenly when ETA kidnapped him and, after trying to blackmail the government then presided José María Aznar, killed him.
not evoke the anguish of those days when it seemed that the night could restore Michelangelo safely. Nor do I refer to the millions of English citizens, everywhere, we mobilize to demand their release, while we were supporting the steadfastness of our government to the terrorists. Nor shall refer to the "spirit of Ermua" that emerged from those hours, settling into the English society firmly convinced that the terrorists is to defeat the bill in one hand and the force on the other, a conviction that is still there unchanged as set in stone, and, although expressed now in a more leisurely time, has been a severe brake on the cares of government negotiators Rodríguez Zapatero with ETA and its intention to open a door to their political demand for independence for the Basque Country.
In those hours I keep a photograph every day, when I open it, is reflected in the screen of my computer. It appears the face of Michelangelo and guess the footsteps of many kisses, in a sign of solidarity, women left mouths painted with lipstick. There are also peace signs, written messages and signatures of dozens of people, thus, expressed support for Michelangelo and shared with him his suffering.
When I see that picture every morning, always evoke the passage written by Antonio Muñoz Molina in describing a photograph of a persecuted, Willi Münzenberg, as follows: "Look at her straight in the eye, perhaps with a point early loss and despair, sadness with the dead in the pictures, witnesses a terrible truth. "
Miguel Angel Blanco, like other victims of terrorism, was indeed the silent witness and suffering of a terrible truth. People like me, have felt very close to the experience of terrorist victimization, which, for this reason, men or women are injured without the lacerating tear us will ever close, albeit obliquely, we know what that truth.
of terrorism victims and witnesses of evil we know that evil has to be written with a capital letter because it means the willingness of men to decide, for political reasons, about life and death of others and therefore to break the essential link of solidarity that unites us human beings and we can expect in all circumstances, respect, support and under the other. That link, as said Luis Rojas Marcos, is derived "from the innate strength, vital, supportive and creative of human heredity multimillenary ... (which) drives us to relentlessly pursue that own and others ... (and) draws our ethical principles and predisposes us to goodness and altruism. "
The terrorists decide on the lives of their victims regardless of the absence of subjective culpability in them. The terrorist attacks on innocent people who are chosen, at random times and at other times for his membership of a group, regardless of what may have been or not their actions. Victims of terrorism are witnesses of evil and its awareness of guilt had not made some and not worthy of the terrible punishment to which they are subjected. Miguel Angel Blanco was no doubt that the paradigm innocence.
We, victims of terrorism, we have the intimate knowledge that human beings are also capable of evil, we know that we share with our attackers, with the murderers of our loved ones, the same human condition that sometimes embarrasses us and hurts us. We feel helpless because this experience is a challenge which defies all expectations, which makes us lose confidence in the other, which destroys the naive belief that, in adversity, others ensure us, and destroys the hope of finding them some comfort.
No surprise, then, that we are victims of terrorism that stunned the events live which reflects the political violence. Bad experience leaves us wondering what to say, the words escape and, when spoken, seem insufficient to fully express that knowledge to be accessed only through suffering, and one is compelled to find a rational explanation impossible never found. Then he reveals the radical loneliness that faces the human existence, a loneliness that is experienced as abandonment, without relief, no relief, in a heartbreaking helplessness.
Therefore, the task to which impels us to have witnessed the radical nature of Evil, our task is to reclaim memory and mourning. We intend to memory because we know that the victims blasted by political violence, they were without any guilt. His sacrifice was the result of a totalitarian claim was not intended other than to submit to all the opinion of a fanatical nationalist minority by the exaltation of their identity. Hence, our memory is to be the lever that pushes the English society to rediscover the true freedom is not what makes us homogeneous, which confuses us all and we brace dharma in one identity, but we can share with others, with those other human beings are others because, overall, are not like us, do not think or believe like us, nor love, nor desire the same thing to us.
Memory demand for recognition is about the damage inflicted. We demand the government recognizes that, going beyond rhetorical proclamations, assign guilt fees that apply to individuals and institutions that have planned, implemented, justified or covert terrorism.
therefore not acceptable for a mere temporary suspension of violence, is regarded as sufficient justification to tolerate parties that are involved in terrorism. Nor is it acceptable to the mantle of oblivion that is spread over multiple institutional complicity with ETA nationalism, that nationalism has contributed to the extent and justification of violence, which has sought financial resources to terrorist organizations in the area, and at all times, has tried to extract political benefits from the fear that has spread over the Basque society.
and is even less tolerable than victims reconciliation requires us to exclude the real lame pacification of social relations, the peace that the emergence of guilt admitted breaking slowly and gradually the cycle of political violence , and requires, surely, the effort of a whole generation to the story that we live can not be repeated. Grief is
justice and reparation. The demand for justice is for us full of radicalism. If there were no criminal penalties for those responsible for many crimes, if there was no punishment, then those inalienable crimes remain unpunished, and impunity is intolerable for all. What could be built without justice, a society that can not be accommodated to the temptation of evil? Mal does not deserve the award or may be rewarded with the exercise of power. Similarly, the suffering that has resulted can not be an excuse to build on it with a vengeance whose sole function would be to perpetuate. Therefore, in a truly democratic society there can be no forgiveness for those who have exercised the crime with a political purpose. Society democracy can not forgive the terrorists without undermining its own foundations. Therefore, there is no forgiveness in a legal sense, although they may have a moral significance. The victims, an act induced freest ethical or religious convictions, they can forgive the injury suffered, but also can refuse to do so without any possibility of criticism of his decision.
Justice requires that the penalties, when deprived of liberty to the accused and when to conceal their political rights are respected in their entirety. For if, as so often happened in Spain, those penalties are pierced by excessive prison privileges, then justice is not done that cancels revenge and builds a democratic society. Justice requires also the moral and material reparations to victims; a repair is recognition of the debt owed to those who experienced an unwarranted insult.
Mourning is thus a corollary to the memory of the true history we have lived and brought us here. If our demand for justice from falling into oblivion, if muted, buried under the slab of a condescending peace with those who try to extract some political return of terrorism, then you would be writing a false story, attentive only to the cynical interest that by the same reason, they would be flaunting power illegitimately.
Democratic societies are sometimes faced with enemies who can destroy. When this happens, citizens have to face the risks with clarity and without looking the other way, without giving shelter to cowardice, we require the government to safeguard the very values \u200b\u200bthat give meaning to our political system because, as in Nuremberg Judge Dan Haywood declared, "... is that a country that defends itself, ... the record, therefore, to the world, of our decision that this is what we stand for: justice, truth and value of each human being. "
In Spain there was a Prime Minister who understood all this. Who sought justice, truth and value of each citizen faced the thorny task of leaving the topics of a policy to no avail and even harder to define another leading to the defeat of ETA, which has built up the recognition of society towards the victims of terrorism, claiming his memory and satisfying their claim for justice. This man, who deserves our thanks and applause, is here with us. His name is Jose Maria Aznar and now receives the prize that evokes the memory of Miguel Angel Blanco.
Mikel Buesa Blanco, Bilbao, July 12, 2007.
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