Genghis Khan a Boy Scout

As we read on, we find that this whole fear of a coup stems from alleged plots by the Military Democratic Union. We hear the prosecutor's version of the evidence from the court martial, but nothing from the defendants. We also are informed that Spain's generals are Right Wing and conservative (not quotated) while some captains are 'progressive' (quotated as its such a suspicious word).

If you have a look at the policies of these two groups, you'd find that, as in Portugal, the 'Right Wing' makes Genghis Khan look like a Boy Scout and the 'progressives' have wilk dreams of one day setting up a national health service. However, the Post tells you nothing of that, leaving an unpleasant shadow around the heads of the 'progressives'.

We then hear of talks aimed at speeding up Sapin's democratic changes. Few of these have yet been revealed so its hard to tell whether they are democratic or not (the fact that most of Carlos's buddies helped Franco indicates they won't be).

Also surely 'democratic' changes mean that the people have some say in what's decided? The mere suggestion that the Government has a timetable indicates they're surely in command, knowing what's going on. The pictures fare more murky than the Post thinks.

Now the interesting bit. A spokesman for this dreaded group of subversives who are threatening a 'coup says they are prepared to give Juan Carlos time to carry out 'fundamental democratic reforms'. Doesn't sound too radical to me. Could it be the whole threatened coup was thought up to convict people' at a court martial? If so, who doesn't the Post look a little deeper into its source material? If not, why is the evidence so flimsy?

So we have another report giving one side of the story. A few rifts show another spectacle underneath, but nowhere do we here of the sufferings of the Spanish people, or of their wishes on these important subjects. The reason for that could be the strong Spanish censorship, but even that could have been reported.