I wish you luck, my friend. I'm learning a lot by reading up on the situation.
Spain / Catalonia Referendum : 90% of the 2.26 million Catalans who voted on Sunday voted in favour
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I wish you luck, my friend. I'm learning a lot by reading up on the situation.
This doesn't bode well..
https://theoldcontinent.eu/catalonia-2/
Well, there it is, the first high-ranking EU official who is publishing his response to the Spanish use of federal state-violence against a peaceful and democratic initiative.
Ramón Luis Valcárcel is a Vice President of the European Parliament and himself Spanish citizen, which might account for his visceral contempt for the Catalonian referendum:
“Today we have witnessed a nationalistic propaganda act, undemocratic; a coup attempt against Spanish democracy, and so a coup against Europe.”
https://theoldcontinent.eu/catalonia-2/
Well, there it is, the first high-ranking EU official who is publishing his response to the Spanish use of federal state-violence against a peaceful and democratic initiative.
Ramón Luis Valcárcel is a Vice President of the European Parliament and himself Spanish citizen, which might account for his visceral contempt for the Catalonian referendum:
“Today we have witnessed a nationalistic propaganda act, undemocratic; a coup attempt against Spanish democracy, and so a coup against Europe.”
EU parliament vice president goes full retard in a leaked e-mail, written in SJW newspeak, to the EU-parliament, blaming Putin and Assange......
"Dear Colleagues,
Please allow me to address you in a day that is neither easy nor pleasant for any of us, Spaniards. It is, indeed, the most difficult situation that we have faced since February 1981, when a coup d'Etat tried to (and failed to) bring down our democracy.
Today, Spanish democracy faces an even greater threat: the first coup d'Etat of the post-truth era, planned by irresponsible nationalist-supremacist politicians aided by very-well manufactured propaganda that quickly spreads through social media with the help of, above all, pro-Russian bots like Mr Assange, Sputnik and RT.
The "Propaganda War" that helped hijack Ukraine is now intending to hijack Spain's democratic and constitutional order.
That is why I kindly ask you to please look at 'the bigger picture' today. No, complex facts do not sell as well as the photos that Catalan secessionist leaders have worked so hard to obtain, throwing their own people against the police in an intend to cover their illegal, undemocratic acts. But facts, correctly contextualized, are the best antidote against post-truth and propaganda tricks.
A detailed account of the facts is given at the end of this e-mail and is also accesible via this link.
When the rule of law has been threatened in other countries, all of us, Europeans, have abided by the democratic order and disregarded toxic propaganda that only seeks to divide and bring about the worst from Europe's painful past, shaped by various forms of nationalism –all equally devastating–.
Now, again threatened by nationalism, Spain needs you all. A coup against Spanish democracy is a coup against Europe.
Thank your for your time.
All the best,
Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso"
"Dear Colleagues,
Please allow me to address you in a day that is neither easy nor pleasant for any of us, Spaniards. It is, indeed, the most difficult situation that we have faced since February 1981, when a coup d'Etat tried to (and failed to) bring down our democracy.
Today, Spanish democracy faces an even greater threat: the first coup d'Etat of the post-truth era, planned by irresponsible nationalist-supremacist politicians aided by very-well manufactured propaganda that quickly spreads through social media with the help of, above all, pro-Russian bots like Mr Assange, Sputnik and RT.
The "Propaganda War" that helped hijack Ukraine is now intending to hijack Spain's democratic and constitutional order.
That is why I kindly ask you to please look at 'the bigger picture' today. No, complex facts do not sell as well as the photos that Catalan secessionist leaders have worked so hard to obtain, throwing their own people against the police in an intend to cover their illegal, undemocratic acts. But facts, correctly contextualized, are the best antidote against post-truth and propaganda tricks.
A detailed account of the facts is given at the end of this e-mail and is also accesible via this link.
When the rule of law has been threatened in other countries, all of us, Europeans, have abided by the democratic order and disregarded toxic propaganda that only seeks to divide and bring about the worst from Europe's painful past, shaped by various forms of nationalism –all equally devastating–.
Now, again threatened by nationalism, Spain needs you all. A coup against Spanish democracy is a coup against Europe.
Thank your for your time.
All the best,
Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso"
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Democracy has to be protected at all costs, even if it means stopping voting.
If Spain wanted to turn undecided observers against its side, it couldn't have done much better than the scenes of riot police brutally assaulting people attempting to vote. Let them vote and ignore it. Have it ruled unconstitutional. But to send in shock troops? Seems a bit more middle eastern than euro.
The Guardia Civil always had a reputation for brutality, it dates back from the days of Franco.
It is. The EU is de facto a dictatorship. Being able to vote for different parties is just a smokescreen to portray the illusion of democracy.
Maybe Merkel will send the German banks in to "help" Catalonia get ready to join the EU the same way the banks "helped" Greece. It is a highly effective way of destroying a country without firing a shot.