A King, A Sword and a Communist Guillotine
Beyond the anger over the national symbols, did King Felipe act on behalf of the Spanish government in Colombia or on his own initiative?
The King of Spain travelled to a Far-off Land for a Splendid Ceremony and the ceremony was to celebrate a New President and the New President ordered the soldiers to bring out The National Sword and the soldiers obeyed their New President and the Sacred Blade was carried forth but the Spanish King did not stand in Its Presence. A day later, after Radical Left Politicians in Spain expressed outrage at His Majesty and Radical Right Politicians expressed unwavering support for such a noble defence of Spanish Honour in the face of A Brazen Foreign Affront, one of the Radical Left Tribe called the Spanish King a fascist and wrote that he would very much like to have a guillotine be part of Spanish History. No Horses were involved, despite the medieval motif, and, disappointingly in narrative terms, nobody tried to grab the Sword and do anything interesting with it.
The Radical Left MP goes by the name of Pedro Antonio Honrubia Hurtado and he is the Podemos member for Granada. He wrote on Twitter: "And if Felipe the facsist is bothered by that, fuck him [...] What we have been missing is a good guillotine in the history of the Spanish state, fuck". Cervantes is protesting from his grave. The literary level of supposedly learned men has waned greatly since Times Long Ago with Swords and Horses. Honrubia's former tribal leader, Pablo Iglesias, who once actually gave the King of Spain a DVD set of Game of Thrones, and who of late has been pretending to be a journalist, exploded in Republican Rage against His Majesty's seated passivity: "Who the devil does the king think he is to give political messages like that in the name of Spain?", he asked: "As democrats, we should take note of the brazenness of Felipe VI in Bogotá".
To be fair to the King, he was going to get a bad press either way here. If he had stood in the presence of the Venerated Sword, the outrage would just have reversed its polarity, with the Radical Left cheering on the Royal Submission to the Foreign Symbol and the Radical Right lambasting the socialist government for forcing His Majesty into such National Humilliation. There are many in Spain who hold that the King does absolutely nothing interesting in public without the approval and prior knowledge of the government of the day, so there is a fair question there, yet to be answered, about whether or not Sánchez told him to sit or stand when faced with the presence of the National Sword, or if this was a diplomtic surprise sprung on His Majesty in situ and Spaniards must now contemplate an act of the Royal Personality with domestic political and foreign relations implications.
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