medieval institutions in Spain

MEDIEVAL INSTITUTIONS

As to His Majesty he must find it funny, alien and deliciously plebeian the controversy a few years ago, when it was revealed his heroic killing of a bear drunk Transylvania, continues as we have known these days devoted to spend big bucks outside the royal activity the slaughter of beasts, so dear to the crowned heads, for pure homage to its roots, seem to feel a vampiric and sickly predisposition towards guns and blood.

One activity that the royal family should suspect especially unfriendly as has been silent about the royal hunts. Or particularly hypocritical, because it is not acceptable that who appears as Honorary President in charge of one of the most recognized international conservation agencies, the World Wildlife Fund (Adena in Spain) have a hobby folded species in danger of extinction, if African elephants. Whatever he says the law of Botswana, whatever it says the speech into force of the powerful knight Don Money.

But with the bad luck that pursues Don Juan Carlos in his already advanced age, a paw treading the virulé and makes you roll, roll and roll (things rancheras, but you know it is still king), are accidents, cracked promptly removed hips and photos on the websites where apparently hung in a while but that the rapid pace of the network has managed to save to show, causing the discrete actual booking has become real scandal voices.

I consider myself a Republican, by pure rationality and pure consistency with the model of society that I like and I defend. I can understand that you have wanted to keep a premodern institution in the Spanish Constitution for fear take other steps, I can understand unless the covenant of silence that the Spanish media seem to have signed and followed for years to maintain the image of the royal house clean and immaculate to citizens. But there comes a time when we should ask ourselves if we really want a monarchy, and in which the spots that we always have hidden van breaking cracks of reality and accessing common knowledge to show us that the Bourbons have always lived in the world of Barney outside world, fulfilling the constitutionally mandated functions but while bypassing the rules thanks to their privileges and condescension with which politicians and journalists continue saving them. The king's dalliances were sneaking through the cracks; also learned that just by Dangerous Liaisons had jumped every time a murky network of evasions or favors; then came the queen to break the neutrality due to speak confidently of policy decisions and civil rights that Mrs. seem not like; were the scandals of the new generation, and with them the feeling that definitely not all Spaniards are equal before the law. And now it makes us painfully present a king dedicated to hide behind a gun, good company and saved, to kill wild animals in Africa, a murder can have no other meaning than that of accumulating macabre trophy to put horny to its owner, in a physical demonstration of power, money, impunity and tacky taste of cruelty and hypocrisy.

I do not know, I do not know if I believe, if it is true that the monarchy ensured stability in the difficult years of the transition. I do not know if it's true, you know what I think anymore, so often highlighted the role of Don Juan Carlos on the night of 23-F. But I do know that a king in a very difficult time for his subjects is dedicated to leave safari, a king who ignores the profound disgust that his hobby involves so many Spaniards, a king who acts illegally, King incapable of measuring the morality of its shares, a king who has no qualms about chairing conferences to save biodiversity morning and mow bears, buffaloes and elephants in the afternoon, he is a king who should start thinking seriously about moving to the reservation. In the Sherengueti, for example. And take with him to the family and the institution.