We Spaniards must demand lawsuits against those public officials, elected or not, who state in the media that there are political prisoners in Spain. That this statement is made by pro-independence politicians is not surprising due to the obvious criminal solidarity they sell with the grotesque and bastard defense of political prisoners, although this does not exempt them from the repeated commission of undoubted crimes against the honor of Spain.
But that, apart from the pro-independence politicians, those who also affirm it are the anti-system Chavista politicians, what it produces is an initial tendency to unrestrained hilarity. That is to say, to burst out laughing if it were not because it is really terribly sad. I say this because those anti-system Chavistas are the ones who admire and are financed by regimes in which, there yes and contrasted by the UN, HRW, AI, etc., there are hundreds of political prisoners surviving in subhuman conditions.
According to article 18 of the Spanish Constitution, the right to honor is not only limited to natural persons, but also extends to legal persons. This right is related to reputation and fame, so those who maintain that there are political prisoners in Spain, as there are in third world countries and banana republics, assimilate the violation of fundamental human rights in those countries with the absolutely non-existent corresponding one in Spain. In other words, they accuse recklessly, despising all the truth.
The consequence of assimilating the Spanish Justice with that of the countries in which there are political prisoners and prisoners of conscience is to violate the right to honor of Spain, with the prejudice to the image, reputation and fame of our democratic country.
Therefore, the Spanish Rule of Law must proceed against those who, from media positions derived from Public Office, attack Spain in its right to honor. The criminal figure in which both pro-independence and anti-system Chavista politicians frequently incur is slander, which is punishable by up to two years in prison.
Finally, those who must act without further delay against those who send missiles to the waterline of Spain's image, violating their right to honor by committing the crime of slander and harming the interests of all Spaniards, are the Judicial Power and the Executive Power. The first, both with its arm of the Prosecutor's Office and with that of the Magistracy. The second, the Executive Power, with its arm of the State Attorney General. It would not be out of place for the third Power of the State, the Legislative Power, motu proprio or at the request of the Executive Power, to undertake the opportune reform of the Penal Code to provide greater penalties for this type of crime. Two years in prison is very little.
It is intolerable that Tardá, Rufián, Echenique, Iglesias, Colau and others, slander Spain one day and another also, affirming that there are political prisoners here. That said, intolerable.
Sigfrid Soria del Castillo Olivares
