Spain to Catalonia: voting is illegal

Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com
Tue Oct 22 14:32:15 PDT 2019


To paraphrase Dickens, "Are there no anonymous prediction markets?"

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 11:53 AM Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:

> Catalonia update - although rubber bullets are illegal in Spain,
> police are using them, and 4 protestors have now each lost an eye;
> turmoil escalating:
>
>   Spain's Catalonia Crisis Just Got A Lot Worse
>
> https://www.zerohedge.com/political/spains-catalonia-crisis-just-got-lot-worse
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 01:23:06PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > OK, ok, slight exaggeration - voting in a secession referendum is
> > illegal, says Spain to Catalonia.
> >
> > Since only States are sovereign, and not people (say the States),
> > secessionist referenda are illegal.
> >
> > And besides, it's for your safety.
> >
> > Crimea is a case in point - with a few million bullets fired, blood
> > on the streets and carnage the world has rarely seen, Crimeans paid a
> > high price for the reuniting with Russia.
> >
> > Oh, it didn't quite go like that? Oh well, you know, voting is
> > illegal and all... and the State of Ukraine murdering it's own people
> > in a genocidal attempt to cause them to "reunite" with the other
> > land, we have a prime example of why the State must, at all times, be
> > granted ultimate sovereignty, and the people must be dominated with
> > bullets. And missiles. And land mines, shelling, RPGs and everything
> > else the state can muster, to establish order in the world.
> >
> >
> > "Democracy" loving Westerners both decry the Crimean's zero bullet
> > referendum (what a concept), whilst demanding the USA's "God" given
> > right to impose "democracy" by missile upon any unsuspecting nation
> > State that has some excess oil. Or lots of non-excess oil that the
> > USA wants. Or other resources...
> >
> >
> > And on and on the Western "moral high ground" hypocrisy goes...
> > Cue another ridiculous jnn rant in 3 ... 2 ...
> >
> >
> > What a world we live in.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Catalonia sets date for landmark vote on independence from Spain
> > https://www.rt.com/news/391627-catalonia-independence-vote-date/
> > The autonomous region of Catalonia will have the decisive referendum
> > on secession from Spain on October 1, the regional government
> > announced on Friday. The move comes after a months-long standoff with
> > Madrid, which decries the vote as illegal.
>
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