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Man of the Month: Professor Giertych AS THE MONTH of July draws to a close, we’d like to announce the Polish scientist and politician Prof. Maciej Giertych has been anointed our ‘Man of the Month’. Professor Giertych, who holds two degrees from Oxford and his PhD in tree physiology from the University of Toronto, is a Member of the European Parliament and recently took part in that inauspicious body’s debate commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the commencement of the Spanish Civil War, a debate which even the BBC’s Europe editor slated as “one of those debates that seem rather pious and pointless”. While the usual gang of characters spouted their unthinking praise for the tyrannical and genocidal Communist and Anarchist forces, Prof. Giertych had the decency to stand up and set the record straight. “Thanks to the Spanish Army and Franco the Communist attack on Catholic Spain was thwarted,” Prof. Giertych told the European Parliament. “The presence of such people in European politics as Franco guaranteed the maintenance of traditional values in Europe and we lack such statesmen today. Christian Europe is losing against atheistic socialists today and this has to change.” “I thought it was necessary to remind listeners in the EU Parliament,” the Professor said later, “that this was not an anti-democratic movement, but a movement that was in defense of certain values that are inherent in the Catholic way of seeing things pertinent to government to run civil society. The uprising was a defense of Catholic Spain, so the civil war in Spain was a conflict between Catholic Spain and communist Spain.” The Professor also used his speech to praise António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal’s Catholic dictator who, like Franco, managed to keep his country free from the devastation of the Second World War. (Salazar was also a very close friend of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, who claimed in his memoirs that if Salazar had lasted a few more years, Rhodesia would still exist today). Prof. Giertych is a Member of the European Parliament for the League of Polish Families, one of the political parties in Poland’s tripartite coalition government. His son, Roman Giertych, is both Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education of Poland. 
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11:17 am
Warren Carroll was the professor who taught me to see through all of the anti-Franco propaganda to see the real “culture wars” that the Spanish Civil War embodied. Now that the bishops of Spain themselves admit that the country is sick, all that is left is to pray to Nuestra Senora del Pilar and Santiago Matamoros that the Christians may once again conquer contemporary Spain, an enemy much worse than the infidels ever were. Gracias por la Francoia!
2:17 pm
The Second Republic was thwarted by delusional little men using their ‘faith’ to satisfy a bloodlust. For all their outward show of piety the officers of the Franco regime, and the Church which lent its support, were hypocrites and power gluttons. I can’t stand the Communists, but I’d much rather spend an eternity with one of them than two minutes with a Franquista.
3:20 pm
And yet you’ve left a number of comments on this fervent Franquista’s website.
4:18 pm
Yes, Liz S., I have. Comments on his blog are distinct from suffering pro-Franco tirades in person. Go back to counting your rosary beads.
5:36 pm
We don’t have rosary beads in the Reformed Church!
2:34 pm
Anyone who enjoys Mr Cusack’s blog and at the same time disapproves of the noble figure of the Generalissimo has entirely missed the point of both Mr Cusack’s commentary and satire. I would advise him to start spoofing them, in the same way that Peter Simple poured effective scorn upon the boobies who failed to glimpse the profounds truths which underpinned his phantasmagoric world
1:44 pm
I once knew a jesuit that said to me that Franco should be canonised – after years I figured out that he was right.
9:17 am
Excuse me, but do you realize what tradition represents Mr Giertych?
Have you ever heard about his ideas concerning the theory of evolution?
I would suggest to take closer look of him, before you call him a “Man of a Month”.
Shame on you that you haven’t even tried to check him.
Best regards,