{"id":52719,"date":"2023-08-15T07:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T05:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52719"},"modified":"2025-08-15T00:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:34:18","slug":"the-censorship-that-the-extreme-left-of-podemos-wants-to-impose-on-the-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/15\/the-censorship-that-the-extreme-left-of-podemos-wants-to-impose-on-the-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"The censorship that the extreme left of Podemos wants to impose on the Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The totalitarian nature of the extreme left parties is something that is not only on display with their support for some communist dictatorships.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/27\/the-left-leads-spain-to-the-third-world-we-need-something-more-than-a-change-of-acronyms\/\">The left leads Spain to the third world: we need something more than a change of acronyms<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/05\/they-knew-what-they-were-doing-the-far-left-justifies-the-reduction-of-sentences-for-rapists\/\">They knew what they were doing: the far-left justifies the reduction of sentences for rapists<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>A party founded by communists<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>Podemos<\/strong>, the far-left party created in 2014 by veterans of the communist ranks such as Pablo Iglesias Turri\u00f3n, \u00cd\u00f1igo Errej\u00f3n and Juan Carlos Monedero, <strong>will only have five deputies in Congress<\/strong> in the new legislature that emerged from the general elections on July 23, but <strong>wants to take advantage of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's weakness to impose Dacronian measures<\/strong>, clearly undemocratic and openly incompatible with Article 20 of the <a href=\" https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/documents\/spanish-constitution\/\">Spanish Constitution<\/a>, which protects the right to <strong>freedom of expression and information<\/strong>, and with the Article 14, which prohibits all <strong>discrimination based on opinion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lilith Verstrynge<\/strong>, organization secretary of the far-left party and Podemos deputy for the province of Barcelona, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilithVerstryng\/status\/1691034592721952768\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exposed yesterday some of the demands of her organization<\/a> for the election of the new presidency of Congress. One of the points states the following: <em>\"<strong>Stop hate speech against feminists, migrants or the LGTBI collective<\/strong>, as well as denial of gender violence or climate change.\"<\/em> It is assumed that this requirement should be imposed by the new presidency on all deputies.<\/p>\n<p><big>Podemos considers 'hate' anything that opposes its ideological dogmas<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The fact is that, like the rest of the left-wing, <strong>Podemos has been classifying as \"hate\" any discourse that is not to its liking:<\/strong> criticism of abortion and gender ideology, rejection of alarmism climate change or the defense of regulated and limited immigration, for example. So, basically, <strong>what the far-left party wants is for the presidency to censor rival legislators<\/strong> so that they don't say anything that is contrary to the ideological approaches of that communist party. If this requirement were applied, <strong>Congress would no longer be a democratic Parliament<\/strong>, since opposition representatives would not be able to exercise their freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p><big>The far-left party also wants to censor journalists<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The far-left party's demands for censorship are not limited to deputies: Podemos also wants to censor journalists. Another of the points made by Verstrynge states: <em>\"<strong>Do not grant press accreditation to alleged media outlets that spread lies and hate speech<\/strong>.\"<\/em> It seems that Podemos wants to establish a ministry of truth, in the style of George Orwell's novel \"1984\", to determine which media are lying and which are not.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding \"hate speech\", let's remember that in the last legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/04\/07\/podemos-justifica-sin-rodeos-las-agresiones-contra-vox-en-vallecas-han-ido-a-provocar\/\">Podemos ministers justified attacks against representatives of Vox, a rival party<\/a>, <strong>a justification of the violence from the government<\/strong> and against the political opposition that had never occurred in the decades that we have been democracy in Spain. <strong>It is the height of cynicism that this party is the one that now wants to label as \"hate\" the speeches that it does not like.<\/strong> If anyone has made notable efforts to foment hatred in Spain, it has been precisely Podemos.<\/p>\n<p><big>Two years ago it asked to veto the media that it considers to be 'extreme right'<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The intentions of the far-left party with this demand to censor certain media outlets were exposed two years ago, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/espana\/2021\/12\/01\/61a77300e4d4d851278b45b7.html\" related=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podemos and other far-left parties asked to veto media outlets they consider to be \"extreme right\"<\/a>, or to put it another way: <strong>they demanded that a constitutional right be violated to punishing certain media outlets for their editorial line<\/strong>, something typical of totalitarianism.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, it was foreseeable to find these anti-democratic attitudes in <strong>parties that support dictatorships such as Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua<\/strong>, and that do not hide their desire to degrade Spanish democracy to turn it into a replica of those regimes that violate the human rights. What is worth asking is: <strong>will the human rights NGOs and journalists' associations denounce this attempt to impose a new censorship?<\/strong> Or will they look the other way because the possible censors are right-wing media, and that is not do certain left-wing activists who presume to be Democrats care so much?<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Europa Press. The deputies of Podemos Lilith Verstrynge and Ione Belarra.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The totalitarian nature of the extreme left parties is something that is not only on display with their support for some communist dictatorships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[11282,10497,19921,7841,11462],"class_list":["post-52719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-congress-of-deputies-of-spain","tag-far-left","tag-lilith-verstrynge","tag-podemos","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}