Spain / Catalonia Referendum : 90% of the 2.26 million Catalans who voted on Sunday voted in favour

[AAAintheBeltway]

EU-general Timmerfrans called the violence "proportionate" today. So the EU is showing it's true colors.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/FwFpKw7yCio

He's right in that they used an appropriate level of violence to shut down an election. I mean, they could have just machine gunned everyone, which would have been a bit disproportionate. That will come later.

The real question is why were they shutting it down in the first place? On what authority?

 

[maximumpossiblesuffering]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...pendence-referendum-spain-catalonia-vote-live

"90% of the 2.26 million Catalans who voted on Sunday voted in favour of independence, according to preliminary results released by the region’s government.

• According to the Catalan department of health, 761 people were injured in the unrest. Two were seriously injured and remain in hospitals in Barcelona. At least 10 police officers are said to have been injured.
• Videos from earlier in the day show police hitting people in the crowd with batons while voters hold up their hands, police dragging voters from polling stations by their hair and Spanish police attacking Catalan firefighters."

Catalonia is highest earning region (I think) . Getting out of hand there today with government goons beating on voters.

The regime wants to suppress the most productive people in the region? If the regime is sucessful, do they expect the Catalans to maintain their current hard work?

I can understand Spain wanting to keep things together, but they should look inward and implement major reforms. Perhaps in offering to do so and following through, the Catalans may be willing to reach an agreement with Spain. The EU would probably love that outcome.

 

[ThunderThor]

There are lots of videos like that. Pacific citizens waiting to vote. The video is long but you will see how the spanish police act.

8.00 am , cloudy day in Barcelona, in front of a polling station. It was the first actuation of the spanish police in Barcelona that day. This is why people didn't know what to expect.
Hear the sound. The repression begins at min. 20

https://twitter.com/x/status/914939689580318721

All the world saw what happened. But Spanish goverment say that is an invention of the independentists.

https://twitter.com/x/status/915132177087696896

Spain is almost broken. Prepare your puts.

What will happen next, in my opinion.
The catalan parliament will declare the independence in the next days.
Then the spanish goverment will suspend the Catalonia goverment and will assume all their competencies.
The population of Catalonia will not accept that. And the catalan Police will stay with the catalan goverment.
Spain will send more spanish police and maybe the army.
Population are going to take the streets to defend the catalan goverment and will be repressed by the spanish forces.

Then Europe, U.E. , Germany, U.S.A , will have to pronounce and probably mediate.

If there's no a solution milions of catalans will stop to pay taxes to the Spanish goverment and will begin to pay taxes to the catalan treasury.

We have not been violent since the begining of the situation and we don't want to be.
Is a peaceful and democratic movement.

This is happening right now in the middle of Europe.

Spanish Government Issues Veiled Death Threat To Catalan Leader

In a quite shocking escalation of the rhetoric in Spain, a spokesman for the ruling People's Party just issued a (barely) veiled death threat to the Presdident of Catalonia.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...ent-issues-veiled-death-threat-catalan-leader