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Spanish cops nab 11 Segi thugs

2002-03-08

Spanish police arrested 11 people as part of a police crackdown on radical youth groups linked to the Basque separatist movement ETA. The detentions follow the arrest of seven people suspected of links to the armed group and of taking part in street violence. Police say such violence is usually led by young ETA supporters, who are later recruited into the main ETA organization. The latest raids were against the organization known as Segi, which was labeled a terrorist group by the European Union in December. Police seized computer material and further arrests could be made. Some 200 police took part in the operation and searched four Segi offices and four bars run by the pro-ETA political party Batasuna. The Segi members are accused of organizing protests, street violence and distributing threatening posters. ETA's youth followers typically throw petrol bombs and burn bank cash machines.
The pattern here is the same as the pattern in Pakland, where there are more thugs per capita than in Spain, and other places infested by thugs. There's a legal organization to piously wash its hands (Sinn Fein in Ireland, JI and JUI in Pakistan), the affiliated snuffy groups that do the killing and maiming (IRA, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba, etc.), and the "youth groups" that feed both sets of organizations and provide on-the-job training in "smashing the state." I think all this was perfected under the Nazis in Germany (Hitler Youth leading into SA or SS) and in the various Commie dictatorships of the proletariat (Young Pioneers leading to Komsomoltsi leading into full party membership and positions in the state security apparatus or the armed forces as political officers.)

Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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