Enrique Vargas
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Here, in Spain, the constitutional rights have been effectively abolished. We are a huge GULAG with 41 million inmates. We only can go to a supermarket or to walk a dog. The cops are on the power trip, treating everybody with horrible rudeness. You open your mouth to protest, get a huge fine. And you ALREADY can't work, so they actually are taking your last pennies. They even harass the people who walk their dogs, ordering them to go home, in spite of the Government's explicit permission to walk the dogs on their habitual pattern. Public parks are closed and police taped. I'm going to the Oriental Palace gardens (I live in the center of Madrid), to let my Irish setter off the leash for a bit. It's a hunting breed, they need to run, otherwise they get depressed. It's enough that we suffer, making animals suffer has no justification. People are extremely unfriendly with each other (the only people I see though, are other dog walkers). We used to say hi to other dog walkers, even if we didn't know them. Not anymore, people look at each other with suspicion and disdain. Like in Stalinist USSR, people report each other for supposed violations. They are already in totalitarian mode, these things make human worst come out.
I actually think it's the end of liberties. They have been abolished now, and, with the pretext of economic depression they are going to continue with extraordinary powers, they will institute ration cards system. This country will be like the URSS where I was born. All this brings in me a severe PTSD, invoking my horrible URSS memories. I have the US citizenship, too, but it looks like the US is heading in the same direction, besides, there are no planes out anymore. Should I call the Russian embassy and request my Russian birthright citizenship? They are not under totalitarian control at all; I talk to my friends from there every day. I'm 60, so, I don't care too much about this life, having no children and stuff, but I don't want to die in a communist dystopia. Shitty times, no light at the end of the tunnel. And if you do see the light at the end of the damn tunnel, you can bet it's the freaking cops waiting for you to fine or detain you.
I actually think it's the end of liberties. They have been abolished now, and, with the pretext of economic depression they are going to continue with extraordinary powers, they will institute ration cards system. This country will be like the URSS where I was born. All this brings in me a severe PTSD, invoking my horrible URSS memories. I have the US citizenship, too, but it looks like the US is heading in the same direction, besides, there are no planes out anymore. Should I call the Russian embassy and request my Russian birthright citizenship? They are not under totalitarian control at all; I talk to my friends from there every day. I'm 60, so, I don't care too much about this life, having no children and stuff, but I don't want to die in a communist dystopia. Shitty times, no light at the end of the tunnel. And if you do see the light at the end of the damn tunnel, you can bet it's the freaking cops waiting for you to fine or detain you.
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