Alsina señala el contraste entre los jueces Peinado y Calama: "La conjura es una turra" | Monólogo

The host of the radio program "Más de uno" criticized the disproportionate precautionary measures imposed by Judge Peinado on the Prime Minister's wife, Begoña Gómez, which prompted an emergency meeting of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). Let me tell you a story—it's very short, you'll see. In France, the revolution was already brewing, in April 1789, when Lieutenant Bligh, thirty-five years old, mostly bald and bearing no resemblance whatsoever to Trevor Howard or Anthony Hopkins, was expelled from his ship and abandoned in a lifeboat adrift in the middle of the Pacific. The ship was the British Royal Navy's HMS Bounty, and the reason the crew got rid of their captain was his authoritarian and cruel nature, or at least that's the conclusion conveyed to the public by the three films made about the historical event. If you cast a thirty-something Clark Gable, or a Marlon Brando in his prime, or a twenty-eight-year-old Mel Gibson as the leader of the mutinous sailors, you're already telling the viewer that the truth lay with Captain Fletcher Christian's second-in-command—that is, with the mutineers. A federal committee meeting to keep things the same. On Saturday, the party that governs Spain, the PSOE, is holding something called a federal committee meeting. In news reports, it's always accompanied by the catchphrase "the highest body between congresses." This means it's the party's highest representative body, for debating and making decisions, second only to a congress, which is the ultimate gathering. In the absence of any truly critical faction within the PSOE, and with only a handful of voices managing to express not just criticism, but even the slightest disagreement or concern about the four electoral defeats already suffered in the regional elections and the grim scenario painted by the polls for next year's municipal elections, the predictable outcome of the federal committee is the same old story: a celebrated leader who, eight years after assuming executive power in Spain, still enjoys portraying himself as persecuted by the elites and the victim of a universal conspiracy of businesspeople, judges, the media, pseudo-media, and Donald Trump. The leader who chose José Luis Ábalos to lead the party, the leader who chose Santos Cerdán to lead the party, the leader who rescued Zapatero to mobilize the party electorally, will sing for the umpteenth time the anthem of resistance, of his capacity to resist no matter what, even when what is happening is that cases of undesirable behavior are sprouting up like a plague around him. A providential figure, as he himself will be sure to suggest so that the committee will join in the chorus: providential and necessary for Spain to move forward and not fall into the hands of the right wing. Providential in rescuing Spaniards from themselves—María Jesús Montero already said that she was going to rescue the Andalusians and suffered her party's worst result in forty years. A judge named Juan Carlos Peinado has achieved the feat of simultaneously infuriating everyone with his ludicrous decision to confiscate Begoña Gómez's passport—at this point—to prevent her from fleeing with the help of her bodyguards. One doesn't need to be a fortune teller to predict that the Provincial Court will overturn such an ill-advised precautionary measure and that the General Council of the Judiciary will do everything in its power today to quell the outrage generated among police unions by a judge, without any basis and in a frivolous manner, attributing to the bodyguards the intent to collaborate in an escape. Judge Peinado irritated the defense, the government, the police, and those who, having already forgiven him for so many blunders—or abuses of power—in his rulings—he even went so far as to attribute to two witnesses statements contrary to what they had actually said—want to believe that, deep down, he has managed to gather evidence of criminal activity that justifies prosecuting Begoña Gómez. Even those—or some of them—who have given the judge a platform, however erratic and poor at drafting rulings he may have been, were also irritated on Saturday upon learning of his precautionary measures. Because disproportionate measures fuel victimhood and are prime ammunition for continuing to preach—as Sánchez will undoubtedly do—the persecution to which his family is supposedly subjected. We already highlighted here, the day Judge Calama declined to impose precautionary measures on Zapatero because it was so unimaginable that he could flee given how well-known he was, the contrast that would arise if Peinado were to revoke the passport of Begoña Gómez, also a well-known figure. The contrast did indeed materialize, and it proves that there is neither collusion among malevolent judges nor a conspiracy. Each magistrate is an individual. And the conspiracy theory is just nonsense.