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Communist Political Prisoners: Tortured and Isolated!

category international | crime and justice | news report author Tuesday August 23, 2005 23:57author by Irish Communist Report this post to the editors

Urgent Solidarity Request:

Please read and pass on all text in support & in show of solidarity for communist political prisoners being brutalized in Spanish and French prisons.

A Letter from GRAPO Prisoner - Marcos Martín Ponce

Translated text from tortured political prisoner:

MARCOS MARTIN PONCE PRESO POLITICO DE LOS GRAPO PRISION DE FLEURY MEROGIS FRANCIA

Marcos Martín Ponce – Political Prisoner Of GRAPO,
From Fleury Merogis Prison, France

On the 8th Of August they (the Police) took me out to the Palais (something similar to the National Audience Chamber in France) for another extradition trail, I have now lost count of how many I’ve been through already, anyhow both to and from it the Gendarmes escort in charge of searches wanted me bend down naked.

As I refused to comply, four of them got in to the small and dirty cage (Police Cell) where they do the searches and while two of them jumped on top of me to immobilize me, the other two started to kick me on the legs and punch me in the stomach until I fell on the ground. The then proceeded to further kick me in the ribs.

It is this way as nobody knows (or nobody wants to know!) that behind this façade that the ‘Democratic France’ presents in front of public option that these dungeons exist. A place were they can do anything they want to us.

The impunity that these people have is such that when you are to go in front of the tribunal, and you object to what has happened to you they then mockingly accuse you of obstruction and lying while they look at each other, smiling sarcastically.

And even they have the audacity to leave you like a liar, arguing, “that in France they respect t the Rights of Man, as since a long time ago it existed as a democratic state and blah blah…” It is incredible the arrogance they have. You just feel like spitting in their face and telling them, although they want to ignore you, they are fascists which not only protects the torturers but they are encouraging them to feel they can act with impunity.

I can assure you that this I the law of the jungle. Yes, I know that in Spain, especially in prisons and in detention points the Civil Guard and the National Police take acts of torture much further (I learned recently of brutal tortures on the PCE(r) David Garaboa by the National Police several months ago), but not because these characters haven’t reached such a sinister level I’m not going to stop denouncing them. Moreover, I want the world to know that although they humiliate us, we are still here and standing firm, resisting. My revolutionary dignity is still intact, even stronger.

The people should never forget that the political prisoners that are now being tortured, dispersed, isolated etc, once that decided to give the step forward towards a consequent struggle in the benefit of all the people without asking any benefit in exchange.

Anybody who is conscious of what is happening and fails to act within their possibilities, it is in some ways, looking the other way and so facilitating the fascist oppressors. And those who are not looking the other way should remind them so.

Each one should look inside themselves and tell themselves, once being conscious of what is happening, can carry on only preoccupying themselves with themselves, and never taking part with the issues involved, because if it is this way, all their so-called titles of anti-fascist, of communist, of anarchist or of progressives should be thrown to the rubbish bin.

This is time to react and that these actions are not left without a response for each tortured prisoner, there should be the most consequent denunciations to let them see that the political prisoners are not alone. That we are not an exchange coin with which they can blackmail or intimidate the Resistance Movement, that we are revolutionaries, and therefore we are part of this struggle of the people, and that the fascists are not going to get away with it every time they want to!

TO RESIST IS TO WIN! WE ARE STILL WINNING!



Carta-denuncia sobre las palizas a presos políticos en las audiencias francesas
Marcos Martín Ponce - Preso político de los GRAPO, prisión de Fleury


El 8 de agosto me sacaron al Palais (variante de la Audiencia Nacional a la francesa) para otro juicio de extradición, ya he perdido la cuenta de cuantos van. El caso es que tanto al ir como al venir, la escolta de gendarmes que se encarga de registrarme han querido hacer que me agachase desnudo, y como me he negado han entrado cuatro de ellos en la pequeña y asquerosa jaula donde nos hacen los registros y mientras que dos se tiraban encima de mi para que no pudiera defenderme, los otros dos se han liado a darme patadas en las piernas y puñetazos en el estomago hasta que han conseguido que me cayese al suelo y una vez reducido,más patadas en las costillas. Es así como nadie sabe (o nadie quiere saber) que detrás de esa fachada que presenta una "France democratique" ante la opinión pública, existen estas mazmorras donde se hace con nosotros los que les da la gana. La impunidad que tienen esta gentuza es tál que cuando compareces delante del Tribunal y denuncias lo que ha sucedido, aún te acusan de mentir y se mofan de ti retirándote la palabra y mirándose entre ellos sonriendo sarcásticamente.

Y aún tienen el valor de dejarte como un mentiroso argumentando a la sala (aunque no haya nadie son tan necios que llevan su burocrático teatro hasta el ridículo) que "en la France se respetan los Derechos del Hombre ya que desde hace mucho tiempo existe un Estado Democrático y de bien estar y bla,bla...." ¡Es increible la cara que le echan!, lo único que resta entonces es escupirles en ella la verdad (que, por cierto, ellos escuchan sin inmutarse), decirles que son unos fascistas, que no sólo protegen a los torturadores sino que con esa política les están animando a sentirse impunes y a que hagan con nosotros los que les de la gana.

Os puedo asegurar que esto es la ley de la jungla, y estos son los reyes de la matraca. Sí, ya se que en España, sobre todo en las detenciones y también en las prisiones, la Guardia Civil y la P.N. llevan mucho más lejos estos actos de torturas (me enteraba recientemente de las brutales torturas al militante del PCE(r) David Garaboa por parte de la Policia Nacional hace un par de meses), pero no porque estos personajes no hayan todavía llegado a ese nivel tan macabro voy a dejar de denunciarlos. Sobre todo quiero que sepáis que aunque nos humillen, aquí seguimos de pie, resistiendo. Mi dignidad revolucionaria sigue intacta, incluso mucho más reforzada. El pueblo nunca debería de olvidar que los presos políticos que ahora están siendo torturados, dispersados, aislados, etc... una vez decidieron dar el paso hacia una lucha consecuente en beneficio de todo el pueblo y sin pedir ningún beneficio a cambio.

Todo el que sea consciente de lo que pasa y no actue en consecuencia, en la medida de sus posibilidades ,está, de alguna manera, mirando a otro lado y facilitando así la impunidad de los represores fascistas. Y los que no miran para otro lado deberían de recordarselo. Que cada cual se mire para dentro y que se diga si, una vez siendo consciente de lo que hay, puede seguir preocupándose sólo de su ombligo sin tomar cartas en el asunto, porque si es así más vale que se despojen de su "antifascismo" o "progresismo", "anarquismo", "comunismo", o como quieran autodenominarse y lo tiren a la basura. Es tiempo de reaccionar y de que estos actos no queden impunes. Por cada preso torturado habría que hacer la denuncia más consecuente, para hacerles ver que los presos políticos no estamos solos, que no somos una moneda de cambio con la que puedan chantajear o intimidar al Movimiento de Resistencia, que somos revolucionarios y que, por lo tanto, formamos parte de este pueblo luchador, y que los fascistas no se van a ir de rositas cada vez que les de la gana.

¡¡RESISTIR ES VENCER.... SEGUIMOS VENCIENDO!!


What follows is the translated text of a political prisoner now incarcerated in a Madrid Gulag. Here David Garaboa recounts for the world the brutal torture he received, a practiced common by the Spanish State in the year 2005. This text maybe freely and widely distributed in a gesture of international solidarity.

Tortured: But In A “Good Mood”!

I was arrested around 20:30 hours between the border of Port Bou (Girona) and France. After I was asked to produce my documentation, several national policemen took me to the police station were after refusing to identify myself with my real name I got hit several times in my face and kicked in my legs and one side. AS I started to bleed severely through my nose and mouth, they gave me toilet paper to clean myself and because I refused to do so, they started to rub it violently around my face. Later on, appeared another police man in civilian clothes, who will later be the one who would lead the interrogation in Barcelona, in order for me identify myself started to hit me in the stomach and in the head. During one of those hits, his watch broke which was used as an excuse to give me another beating.
After they changed the plastic tape which they used to hold my hands on my back for a pair of hand cuffs that they tightened brutally. They threw me on the ground facing upwards to step on my chest and stomach, a thing that provoked great pain on my wrists.

Later they told me that they were going to take me to the Province Information Brigade police station in Barcelona and that if I was going to keep silent they were going to stop in the woodland of Girona and shoot me. While in the car they kept assaulting me and when we reached a poorly illuminated section of the leisure area of the motorway they made me step out of the car to “take a walk around the woods
were nobody would know what would happen”. As I kept quite they pushed me violently back in the car and told me that once we get to Barcelona, their superiors will be asking them for “quick results”.
Once in Barcelona, they put me in a cell and the ones who later will participate in the interrogations paraded before me. Amongst them, of course, “the good police man” offered to help me if I was going to talk. However the first three days on in communication were characterised for the physical torture: they hit and twisted my
penis and testicles, they pulled my pubic hair and beard with latex cloves and so on.
This time though, different from Port Bou, they were very careful of not leaving any marks on me. The threatening was also constant and assorted. They insisted that I would end up talking and added up that: “if we need to use the bag, the vaulting horse or the electric trods then we will, and if we have to hang you by your balls from the ceiling we will also do it. You must be certain that you are not going to come out alive from here without telling us what you know, we have impunity. For the judges in the National Audience Chamber you are nothing but a fucking terrorist, and if a trip-up and end-up killing yourself in these premises nobody’s going to claim nothing for it.” And all this combined with the lack of sleep and rest, the
obligation to keep standing up, the humiliations, the insults etc.

In the same way they used the emotional blackmailing and the use of drugs. And although I refused to accept their food and their drink, except for the tap water, they opted to spray the floor underneath the door with a liquid that provoked me hallucinations: I could see my skin tearing apart, snakes and lizards around the floor, and the walls seemed to adopt different shapes and relieves, a thing that provoked me a certain paranoia when I tried to lean on them. I guess that in order to increase the paranoia they put in the cell a kind of blanket that they inflated from the outside and that for me had the shape of a cage in which there were several rats and snakes. I know they were not real because I stamped a chair on them.
Another of the effects that the drugs provoked was disorientation, dazed condition, slow reflexes and a great dryness in my mouth. Moreover, they were controlling all my movements and reactions through a camera placed inside the cell.

Regarding the emotional blackmailing, they pretended to have arrested my former partner in A Coruna for which they disguised a police woman with a look-alike hairstyle and clothing. They also tried to make me believe they had arrested my actual partner, and they threatened me to jail different friends who didn’t know about my communist militancy under ‘collaboration with an armed band’ if I didn’t answer each of their questions. Another trick they used to persuade me was to
interrogate me in a room full of ‘trophies’ of my dead comrades assassinated and fallen in struggle.

In the last 48 hours of the five day they had me held, they soften things down: They stopped hitting me and they aloud me to change my blooded clothes into
clean ones. Maybe it had something to do with it that they provoked me a sever bleeding in my nose and had to call the emergency services to take me to hospital on two occasions. What I am convinced of is that they had orders to take me to the
National Audience Chamber without visible torture marks on me. Although it seemed that the judge Maria Teresa Palacios didn’t care that they brought me in front of her with obvious signs of torture and violence on my face as she didn’t enquire about them. And in the same way that I did in the police station, I refused to give a declaration.

And it is because in spite of the promises of change and democratic regeneration of the G.A.L (State sponsored Terrorist Group) I have verified in my own flesh that torture isn’t disagreeable with ‘the law’. The catch word seems to be: Torture yes,
but not much noticeable. Even though when I was put in prison I still had the effects of the beatings I received: serious injuries in my nose, mouth, and left eye swollen, a twisted and broken tooth, several wounds on my scalp and on my right leg, circulation problems in my thumb and right hand, and scares on both wrists. Besides
that, I feel well in a good mood and ready to carry on fighting, now in this front, which are the extermination centres of the fascist Spanish state.

David Garaboa Bonillo
Militant of the Communist Party Of Spain (reconstituted)
Prisión de Soto del Real. Julio
2005.

(((((Narración de torturas al militante clandestino del PCE(r) David Garaboa)))))

“TORTURADO, PERO CON “CON BUEN TALANTE”
Fui detenido sobre las 20:30 h. en el paso fronterizo de Port Bou (Girona)
Tras pedirme la documentación, varios policías nacionales me condujeron a la
comisaría de la estación, donde ante mi negativa a identificarme con mi
verdadero nombre, me dieron varios puñetazos en la cara y patadas en las
piernas y en un costado. Como comencé a sangrar abundantemente
por la nariz y
la boca, me dieron papel higiénico para que me limpiara, y al negarme a
hacerlo, me lo refregaron violentamente por el rostro. Luego apareció otro
policía de paisano, que sería uno de los que posteriormente dirigiría los
interrogatorios en Barcelona, que para que me identificara empezó a golpearme
en el estomago y en la cabeza. En uno de esos golpes se rompió el reloj, lo
que sirvió de excusa para darme otra paliza.
Después me cambiaron la cinta plástica con la que me habían atado las manos a
la espalda por unas esposas que apretaron con brutal fuerza. Me tiraron otra
vez al suelo, boca arriba, para pisarme el pecho y el vientre, con lo que
me ocasionaban un fuerte dolor en las muñecas. Luego me dijeron que me iban a
llevar a la comisaría de la Brigada Provincial de Información de Barcelona, y
que si seguía sin hablar pararían en los montes de Girona para pegarme un
tiro. En el coche continuaron agrediéndome y al llegar a una zona poco
iluminada del área de descanso de la autopista, me bajaron "para dar un paseo
por el monte, donde nadie se va a enterar de lo que pase". Como seguí sin
hablar me volvieron a meter en el coche a golpes advirtiéndome de que al
llegar a Barcelona sus superiores les iban a pedir "resultados rápidos".
Ya en Barna me metieron en un calabozo por el que comenzaron a desfilar los
que participarían después en los interrogatorios. Entre ellos, cómo no, el
“poli bueno” que se ofreció a “ayudarme” a cambio de que hablara. Sin
embargo, si por algo se caracterizaron los tres primeros días de
incomunicación fue por las torturas físicas: me golpearon y retorcieron el
pene y los testículos, me tiraron de los pelos del pubis y la perilla con
unos guantes de látex y así un largo etcétera.
Eso sí, a diferencia de lo sucedido en Port Bou, se cuidaron mucho de no
dejarme marcas. También las amenazas fueron constantes y de todo tipo.
Insistían en que acabaría “cantado” y añadían: "Si para ello tenemos que
usar la bolsa, el potro o los electrodos, lo haremos, y si tenemos que
colgarte del techo por los huevos también lo haremos; Que te quede claro de
que no vas a salir vivo de aquí sin decirnos lo que sabes, tenemos
impunidad, para los jueces de la Audiencia Nacional solo eres un puto
terrorista, y si en un despiste te suicidas en estas dependencias nadie nos
va a reclamar nada por ello". Y todo esto combinado con la privación de
sueño y descanso, la
obligación de permanecer de pie, las humillaciones,
insultos, etc.
Del mismo modo, se emplearon a fondo con los chantajes emocionales y la
utilización de drogas. Y aunque me negué a aceptar su comida y su bebida,
excepto el agua del grifo, recurrieron a rociar el calabozo por debajo de
la puerta con un líquido que me provocó alucinaciones: me parecía ver como
se me agrietaba la piel, veía serpientes y lagartijas por el suelo, y la
pared parecía adquirir extrañas formas y relieves, que me provocaban cierta
paranoia al intentar apoyarme en ella. Me imagino que para aumentar esa sensación de paranoia, metieron en el calabozo una especie de manta que hinchaban desde fuera, que para mí adoptaba la forma de una jaula en cuyo interior había varias ratas y una serpiente. Se que no eran de verdad porque les estampé una silla encima. Otro de los efectos que me provocaron las drogas fueron una cierta desorientación, aturdimiento, lentitud de reflejos y una gran sequedad de boca. Además, pude comprobar que seguían y
controlaban todos mis movimi entos y reacciones mediante una cámara situada en el interior del calabozo. En cuanto a los
chantajes emocionales, fingieron haber retenido a mi anterior pareja en A Coruña,
para lo que disfrazaron a una policía con su mismo peinado y forma de vestir.
También intentaron hacerme creer que habían detenido a mi actual compañera; y me amenazaron y chantajearon con encarcelar por "Colaboración con banda armada" a varios amigos que desonocían mi militancia comunista, si no contestaba "A todas y
cada una" de sus preguntas. Otra argucia que emplearon para persuadirme fue
interrogarme en una sala en la que tenían como “trofeo” las fotos de mis camaradas
asesinados y caídos en la lucha.
En las últimas 48 horas de los cinco días que me tuvieron incomunicado
suavizaron bastante el trato: dejaron de golpearme y permitieron que me
cambiara la ropa ensangrentada por otra limpia. Quizá influyera en ello que
me provocaron una enorme hemorragia en la nariz lo que les obligó a llamar
a la Cruz Roja y a llevarme hasta en dos ocasiones al Hospital para
cortarla. De lo que estoy convencido es de que tenían órdenes expresas de
que llegara a la Audiencia Nazional sin marcas de torturas. Aunque a decir
verdad, a la juez Maria Teresa Palacios no pareció importarle que me
presentaran ante ella con evidentes signos de violencia y torturas en mi
rostro, pues nada preguntó sobre ello. Y al igual que había hecho antes en
comisaría, me negué a declarar.
Y es que a pesar de las promesas de cambio y regeneración democrática de
los GALosos, he comprobado en mis propias carnes que las torturas no están
reñidas con el “buen talante”. La consigna parece ser: tortura sí, pero
sin que se note mucho. Aún así, cuando ingresé en prisión todavía tenía
secuelas de los golpes recibidos: lesiones graves en la nariz, la boca, y
el ojo izquierdo hinchados, un diente torcido y astillado, numerosas
heridas en el cuero cabelludo y en la pierna derecha, problemas de
circulación en el dedo pulgar de la mano derecha, y cicatrices en ambas
muñecas. Por lo demás, me encuentro bien de ánimo y dispuesto a seguir
luchando ahora en este frente que son los centros de exterminio del estado fascista.

David Garaboa Bonillo
Militante del Partido Comunista de España (reconstituido)
Prisión de Soto del Real. Julio 2005.



Urgent Solidarity Request:

You can write a letter or send a post card of solidarity to the political prisoners mentioned here:

Marcos Martín Ponce No. 325695-S
MAÎSON D'ARRET DE FLEURY-MÉROGIS
7, Avenue des Peupliers
91705 Sainte Geneviève des Bois
Francia

David Garaboa Bonillo
PRISIÓN DE MADRID V
28071 Soto del Real (Madrid)


Stop The Brutality - End The Tortures!
Amnesty for All Political Prisoners!

Solidarity Protests:
Write letters of protest to let them know that you or your party/organisation will not tolerate this legalized brutality; organize protest actions or pickets to highlight these mounting inhuman horrors. Show your solidarity with communist political prisoners currently being tortured and isolated by French and Spanish authorities.

French embassies and consulates

Britain: Embassy: 58 Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7JT tel 020/7201 1004, www.ambafrance-uk.org.

Consulates: 21 Cromwell Road, London SW7 2EN tel 020/7073 1200, consulat.londres-fslt@diplomatie.fr; 21 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, EH3 7TT tel 0131/225 7954, www.consulfrance-edimbourg.org.

Ireland 36 Ailesbury Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 tel 01/260 1666, www.ambafrance.ie.

Spanish embassies and consulates

Britian:
Bienvenido al Consulado General de España en Londres
20 Draycott Place, London SW3 2RZ
Tel: 020 7589 8989
Fax: 020 7581 7888
http://www.conspalon.org/

CONSULADO GENERAL EN EDIMBURGO
63 North Castle Street
Edimburgo EH2 3LJ

Tel. 0131 220 1843
Fax: 0131 226 4568
cgspedimburgo@mail.mae.es

CONSULADO GENERAL EN MANCHESTER
1A Brook House
70 Spring Gardens
Manchester M2 2BQ

Tel. 0161 236 1233
Fax: 0161 228 7467
cog.manchester@mae.es


IRELAND: Embassy - DUBLIN - 17A Merlyn Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Tel: 269 16 40 - Fax: 269 18 54 - Telex: 93826
Commercial Office - 35 Molesworth St. Dublin 2. Tel: 661 63 13 - Fax: 661 01 11 - Telex: 91854
Institute - 58 Northumberland Road, Dublin 4. Tel: 668 20 24 - Fax: 668 84 16

INTERNET LINKS:

PCE(r): Communist Party of Spain (reconstituted)
Also has picture of imprisoned and tortured communist David Garaboa http://www.antorcha.org/

Irish Republican Socialist Party International Dept: Statement in solidarity of communist political prisoner David Garaboa
http://rsmforum.proboards23.com/index.cgi?board=docs&action=display&thread=1122348889

Related Link: http://www.antorcha.org/
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Grapo are Spain's answer to Shining Path in Peru, willing to attack other left groups. Now they want solidarity.

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the Group-

The GRAPO is the acronym of the military wing of one of the Spanish communist parties, the PCE (r), different from the Partido Comunista de España. It was formed in 1975 with the goals of driving American forces out of Spain and of overthrowing the Spanish government and replacing it with a Marxist-Leninist regime. Its full name, 'Grupo de Resistencia Antifascista Primero de Octubre', translates as "First of October Antifascist Resistance Group". It has a very low level of popular support, well under the thousands of supporters of the Basque group ETA. Police sources have likened the inner structure of the group to that of a religious sect.

GRAPO's activities include bank robbery, assassinations and bombings of targets such as businesses and governmental buildings. Most of these are designed to bring publicity to the organization; however, the organization is known to be lethal. Its actions have resulted in the killing of 90 people over its history. Actions taken by law enforcement in both Spain and France have limited this group's actions and resulted in the arrest of many of its leadership and rank-and-file members.

Publio Cordón, a rich businessman, was kidnapped on the 27th of June 1995 by GRAPO, which demanded a ransom for his release. His family paid the ransom, but the fate of Cordón is still uncertain. The arrested kidnappers said that he was set free, but the family has not heard from him since.

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the individual David Garaboa Bonillo is 33 years of age and was arrested at the train station of Port Bou, Girona on the 30th May 2005
and identified as a member of the Santiago GRAPO the leadership of which had been dismantled in 2002 when the individual went into hiding but was processed by the french court in 2003.

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the case has become a core part of the north american concerns of the IRSP, the political wing of the terrorist grouping the INLA. the IRSP describes itself as a republican socialist party and claims to be both Marxist and republican. Like many political parties in Ireland, it claims the legacy of James Connolly, who founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party in 1896 and was executed after the Easter Rising of 1916.

The IRSP was founded on 8 December 1974 by former members of the Official Republican Movement, independent socialists, and trade unionists. A paramilitary wing, the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), was founded the same day, although its existence was kept hidden for a time. Seamus Costello was elected as the party's first chairperson and the army's first chief of staff. Together, the IRSP and the INLA refer to themselves as the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM). Costello left the Official IRA along with other activists dissatisfied with the group's tactics and policies. In 1977 he was murdered by the Official IRA in an attempt to destroy the IRSP and the INLA. In the following years the IRSP and INLA saw many activists killed in attacks from state forces, loyalist paramilitaries, and counter-revolutionaries. 3 members of the INLA died in the 1981 Hunger Strikes in HM Prison Maze (aka Long Kesh). They were Patsy O'Hara, Kevin Lynch, and Michael Devine.

The IRSP opposes both the Good Friday Agreement and the Irish Peace Process, viewing both as simply cementing British rule in Ireland. The INLA are on a ceasefire since August 22 1998.

the INLA was responsible for 113 deaths during the Troubles. Among its victims were 46 members of the British security forces, 42 civilians, 2 members of the Garda Síochána, 7 loyalist paramilitaries and 16 republican paramilitaries (including 10 of its own members).

Party members often refer to themselves as the 'Irps' (pronounced 'Erps').

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Previous declarations of solidarity with the individual from IRSP/INLA and other calls to end torture.
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http://www.nodo50.org/tortuga/article.php3?id_article=2155
http://www.morrigan.net/irsm/plough97.htm - 37k - En
http://www.nodo50.org/glayiu/?accion=ver&tipo=noticia&id=351
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http://www.grups.pangea.org/pipermail/infomoc/Week-of-Mon-20050711/006597.html
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author by donegal 11%publication date Wed Aug 24, 2005 17:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

90 dead thanks to the GRAPO

well, at least they're writing for their united ireland and spain free of yanks now.

Jesus, crap writers and crap revolutionaries.

author by Frankiepublication date Wed Aug 24, 2005 20:50author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Im am glad to hear that both prisoners are staying strong.

author by EDpublication date Wed Aug 24, 2005 21:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Gendarmerie National Recruitment Officer:

"Get in a line!

"All those with an education, go to the right!

"All those without an education, go to the left!"

Those left in the centre are then invited to become gendarmerie.

(what a hoot!) :-)

 
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