Manuel García-Castellón is, in addition to being a distinguished member of one of the three branches of government, a citizen perfectly free to criticize whatever he pleases. García-Castellón, a veteran judge of the National Court, can give a public conference, go supported by the communication businessman and Vox activist Julio Ariza, and, appealing to his status as a citizen, censor what another power of the State does, like the amnesty proposal being prepared by the legislature.
In his very free condition, the illustrious judge can use irony and affirm, as he did in Ourense last October: “Amnesty is not prohibited in the Constitution, but the Constitution does not say that slavery is prohibited either.” And emphasize: “These gentlemen [los independentistas] “They have said that they would do the same thing for which they were convicted, which makes me wonder: will this be the first amnesty of many?”
García-Castellón, judge and citizen, is perfectly free from membership in a group, the Professional Association of the Judiciary (APM), which brings together a good part of the finest members of the country’s judicial power and which in turn enjoys all the freedom to warn of the outrages of a legislative power dedicated to the abject task of plotting “the beginning of the end of democracy” in Spain. That APM defends the separation of powers so firmly that it has organized protests in front of the courts against the infamous legislative branch project. And how are these people with no other merits than having been voted in an election going to impose their criteria on eminent jurists haloed by the ring of wisdom of a tough opposition exam?
García-Castellón has total sovereignty in his court to manage the timing of the instructions and give free rein to his creativity when drafting an order. He can, for example, rescue an issue that has been dormant for four years and, now that there is so much turmoil with the amnesty, revive it with an original twist in the script. The judge, full of independence, may discover that it would be a great idea to turn Carles Puigdemont into a terrorist. Because—imagine—the fugitive supported a demonstration in Barcelona in 2019 that blocked the airport. And it turns out that that same day, at that same airport, a French tourist died of a heart attack. And although the prosecutors, the judges of Barcelona and the Mossos say that one thing has nothing to do with the other, in the García-Castellón court no one is in charge but him, and that is why the separation of powers exists. And if he says that Puigdemont is accused of terrorism, every democrat and every good Spaniard can only agree. And whoever dares to criticize him is an enemy of freedom and an agent at the service of those who want to destroy the separation of powers, the one for which heroic judges like García-Castellón and his colleagues from the APM fight for money every day.
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