Catalonia has committed the greatest crime of All

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The association Òmnium Cultural has published a video in English with the title “Help Catalonia” in which it denounces that the Spanish State is attacking the “fundamental rights” of the Catalans. The video takes inspiration from a Ukrainian tape broadcast in February 2014 to ask for help from the European Union in the face of the serious crisis that crossed the country – months later civil war broke out in the east. The video situates Catalonia in a siege like scene, where the Catalans are submitted to a state repression. This is undoubtedly true. When Catalans stand up for their rights the Spanish State responds with oppression. In the video, a woman speaking on behalf of all Catalans to a European audience to ask that the EU does not abandon Catalonia. These are the facts she proclaims she proclaims: “In Catalonia, the values ​​of freedom, democracy, human rights and social rights are being attacked” Spain is an advanced democracy that should guarantee the freedoms of all its citizens and respect the individual and collective rights, including the right to vote an self-determination. However, the Spanish government, the courts and the media, each in their own way impose force as supposed uphold the rule of law and the division of powers. Spain has signed all the conventions on human rights and freedoms of the United Nations, is a member of the European Union and the Council of Europe and is a signatory of all the conventions on Human Rights and freedoms of the latter two bodies; only to violate those very same treaties and accords by denying Catalans their natural right to self-determine their present and future. “What crime did citizens commit on October 1?,” the woman in the video asks.  Catalonia has committed the highest crime of All. The region and its people have grown tired of Spain’s economic and political abuses and have decided they no longer appreciate being part of that country. They have spoken truth to power and defined the disgusting status quo. But more than anything else, they have decided to take their lives into their own hands. The decision to leave Spain is something that no authoritarian regime, such as the current one led by Mariano Rajoy and his deeply corrupt Popular Party (PP) would never allow. Why? Two main reasons. Firstly, Catalonia is Spain’s cash cow. It produces 30% of the country’s GDP. Secondly, because, in the words of European leaders, if Catalonia achieves independence, more regions in Spain and more nations in Europe will want to do the same. The independence of Catalonia would provoke a domino effect that would encourage many people in Europe to secede from the failed Union just as the referendum in Scotland would have done it if the Scottish people had voted YES to independence. The video refers to the independence referendum held on 1 October, previously suspended by the Constitutional Court, and documents the intervention of the National Police and Civil Guard Corps as they attempted to illegally prevent the citizens’ right to vote. The police enforced the illegal judicial resolution to prevent the referendum, whose celebration was legal, no matter what Rajoy or the Spanish media say, because their arguments are contrary to the treaties Spain signed. “The Spanish Government declared the vote illegal” In Spain, the Executive does not have the power to outlaw a referendum. As it happened, it was the Constitutional Court that under a lot of pressure from pretty much everyone else, attempted to suspend the celebration of the consultation. “Thousands of police assaulted the offices of pro-independence media and closed hundreds of web pages” The police did attacked media and indeed closed websites. Agents of the Civil Guard entered the Catalan Center for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CTTI) to forcefully implement the order of the Court of Justice of Catalonia to block the pages websites with which the Generalitat wanted to facilitate the telematic vote and count on October 1. Earlier, the weekly newspaper El Vallenc, of private ownership, had also been intervened because it was printing ballots for the referendum. “The police arrested 14 officials of the Government of Catalonia without judicial orders” A completely false statement. The Civil Guard arrested on September 20 to 14 people for its alleged participation in the organization of the independence referendum on October 1. Legal procedures were thrown out the window, with one single magistrate in Barcelona ordering the operation. “Spain used a level of force never before seen in a Member State of the European Union” The Government appealed to the National Police Corps and the Civil Guard to prevent the referendum on 1 October. Human Rights Watch stated that “sometimes” agents used excessive force in the three cases analyzed on the day of the consultation: the city of Girona and two municipalities, one in Girona and another in Barcelona. There were certainly more than three cases, as media worldwide has documented. Men, women and elderly people were dragged by their hair from buildings and building entrances by police. Apparently, using force and violence is quite all right for Spanish government officials, who after watching the videos of the abuses responded that police had acted professionally. Also the European Commission denounced the violence exercised by the police in some polling stations. Indeed, the images of the day show that there were injuries in the police charges. The figure put forward by the […]

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