Lick and lick until the sore starts

When a dog gets a wound, the most compassionate thing to do is to put a plastic bell on it, to prevent the dog's zeal when licking the wound from causing greater harm. A section of the press has this syndrome of the wounded animal, when talking about ETA: it refuses to let the cut close and heal naturally. Let's look at the following headline:Abc The newspaper published on its front page this Monday: "The rapprochement of ETA members exposes the shortcomings of Basque prisons, which are becoming a powder keg." Once you read the news – and, above all, look at other media – you discover that it is a simple labour dispute. And, above all, that it has nothing to do with the armed group but with the fact that, three years ago, the prisons' powers were transferred to the Basque government. And that some of the supplements that its officials received for the danger associated with working with members of the armed group are no longer there, since ETA has abandoned the violent path years ago.Abc He talks about saturation in the penitentiary centres, which is contradictory: the right assumed that the change would lead to an avalanche of third-degree prisoners for ETA members, so a lower density of the prison population had to be foreseen. On the other hand, I have found little information in the media of the cavern about how a judge had to investigate a possible covert strike by civil servants, when 73 workers at the Zaballa prison took sick leave in a very short time.

Officials may have cause for complaint, as the prison population has increased by 24% and the places the government has budgeted to cope with it will apparently not be filled until 2027.Abc Take a mere labor dispute and involve ETA just because, because it is time to lick the endless wound.