I have the opposite impression from reading news here in States. Spain made to look like overly brutal respressive regime. They had to apologize. Catalonian leader highlighted as setting "a global stage" for Catalonia - and Catalonian voters are seen as victims blocked from the right to vote...that said, aside from the focus upon police repression, it is difficult to gain perspective on what the Caralonians are trying to do, benefit of independent state, history, etc.
Molly On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 3:24 AM Patrice Riemens <[email protected]> wrote: > Reading stuff in newspapers and others the last few days I am getting > increasingly shocked - > and worried, about what appears to be mainstream (media & politics) > opinion wrt the 'events' > in Catalonia. > > It boils down to something like 'Catalonians are nationalistic fools, what > they do is ramp illegal, > Spain's unity should be upheld and respected, Rajoy and state forces act > fully inside the > constitution and legality' etc. > > EU stands aside, while European leaders fall over each other to support > the Rajoy regime - > with sole exception Belgium's Michel, who's probably got 'his ears cleaned > out' (Dutch loc) > by now ... > > The insane brutality of the Spanish police is papered over, just as is the > political > steering of the 'independent' justice, but far worse, 3 centuries of > oppression, culminating > in 40 years of ultra-Castillian Franquist oppression, which almost wipped > out above ground > Catalan language and culture, and finds its thinly veiled admirators in > Rajoy's Partido > Popular, are all completely forgotten. > > And never mind millions of Catalans braving extreme odds to exercise what > is the most > fundamental democratic right: to vote and be counted. But does the > mainstream care for > democracy any longer? > > With a mainstream like that, who needs extremists and terrorists for the > descent into the > unknown? And if Madrid indeed pulls out the 'nuclear option', Article 155 > of the Spanish > Constitution: total take over over Catalonia - and Madrid is on the verge > of doing so, I´d > say: pack up for the beach - or Barcelona. > > Cheers all the same from Christiania, bit of a weird place in this context. > p+2D! > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: >
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