Today we received the sad news of the death of journalist and writer Alfonso Uss\u00eda y Mu\u00f1oz-Seca, born in Madrid in 1948.<\/p>\n
Alfonso was a great man, and it showed in his writing<\/strong>, where he clearly defended what others didn't dare to say out of cowardice or timidity. In recent years, he published excellent columns in the newspaper El Debate. From here, I send my condolences to his family and friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n Give Lord eternal rest. Let perpetual light shine upon him.<\/strong> Rest in peace.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n Uss\u00eda's works speak for themselves today. From them, I want to highlight some quotes that summarize his way of thinking and the noble principles he defended.<\/strong><\/p>\n \"Crime, the murder of the most defenseless being in the world, is not progressive. It is the calculated extermination of a segment of childhood. It is nothing to celebrate. It deserves reflection on the inhumane course that so-called progressivism has taken.<\/strong> And I am not speaking from the perspective of an imperfect Christian, as I consider myself to be. I am writing as a human being who respects the lives of the most vulnerable.<\/strong> All very old-fashioned and very fascist, but infinitely more recommendable.\"<\/em> (\"El crimen progresista\"<\/a>, El Debate, February 24, 2022).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \"There are exemplary institutions<\/strong>, and I am accused of being right-wing when I state that at the head of them are the Armed Forces, the Civil Guard, and the National Police. Defense and Order. Men and women who, day after day, give us lessons in patriotism, sacrifice, decency, and efficiency<\/strong> with budgets riddled with corruption invested in other matters. Our military, my military, and our agents, my agents, who are also yours and you haven't realized it yet.\"<\/em> (\"Y como siempre, acert\u00f3\"<\/a>, El Debate, February 25, 2025).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \"Everything is possible when a religion of peace, Christianity, and within Christianity, Catholicism<\/strong>, has meticulously fulfilled, whether through indolence or submission, the mandate to offer the second cheek to be slapped when the first has already been struck. The religion of the children of David is also a religion of peace, and they defend themselves. Christendom has fought for twenty-one centuries against those who fiercely tried to eliminate it.<\/strong> And from the struggle and the victory were born Christian humanism, tolerance, love for the disadvantaged, and the unwavering concept of God's forgiveness. It so happens that we have confused love for the disadvantaged with inaction and submission to the invasion of those who cannot conceive of any future for Christians other than their extinction.<\/strong>\"<\/em> (\"La mejilla\"<\/a>, El Debate, July 30, 2024).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \"It's perfectly studied. And approved. It never fails. The perversely used word, the manipulated voice, ends up becoming established in the normality of language. Many journalists and commentators in the 1970s through 1990s shamelessly referred to the 'armed struggle' to avoid the word 'terrorism.'<\/strong> 'Seven children have died in an ETA armed struggle operation.' And they remained perfectly calm and moved on to the sports and weather reports. Politicians too, or rather, primarily politicians. 'We are against violence,'<\/strong> a leading figure of nationalism proclaimed from the rostrum of the Congress of Deputies. The 'violence' had just murdered twenty Civil Guards. The repeated use of linguistic perversion achieves devastating results.<\/strong>\"<\/em> (\"Voces pervertidas\"<\/a>, La Raz\u00f3n, December 28, 2013).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \"Being a communist is rewarded with the social respect of those with inferiority complexes.<\/strong> Being a communist is interpreted as an intellectual privilege only accessible to culture and intelligence. When in reality, being a communist is accepting, whether knowingly or completely ignorantly, that you are part of the most murderous system in history.<\/strong> And it's still considered acceptable.\"<\/em> (\"De Lenin a Podemos\"<\/a>, La Raz\u00f3n, February 14, 2018).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \"The disproportion of military force between Russia and Ukraine is scandalous.<\/strong> One day Russia invaded Ukraine, and its army faced a heroic resistance. But Putin is untouchable for the Spanish left. The massacred, bombed, mutilated, wounded, and missing Ukrainian children don't move the hysterical Podemos supporters.<\/strong> And when I say Podemos supporter, I include everyone: those from Podemos, those from Sumar, the Comuns, and the survivors of United Left. Those cries, those accusations, those demands to sever our historical ties with a nation that turned the desert into a paradise, are nowhere to be seen when Putin's missiles kill civilians in Ukraine.\"<\/em> (\"Los ni\u00f1os que no se lloran\"<\/a>, El Debate, May 19, 2024).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \"I am and always will be with a democratic nation that votes to elect its leaders. That works. That guarantees religious freedom.<\/strong> That has an independent Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branch. That protects sexual freedom. And that has the necessary and essential military force to defend itself\u2014and us\u2014from the hatred of the Middle Ages, armed to the teeth by its oil-rich patrons. I am European, and I thank Israel every day for being our vanguard, the attacked and bleeding border of the 21st century, the border of freedom<\/strong>, which protects us from terrorism rooted in the Middle Ages.\"<\/em> (\"El frente de la libertad\"<\/a>, El Debate, October 10, 2023).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n ---<\/p>\n