{"id":26331,"date":"2017-10-01T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26331"},"modified":"2017-10-01T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T15:19:32","slug":"catalonia-and-other-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26331","title":{"rendered":"Catalonia and other Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019ve seen a lot of videos and photos of the Catalonia attempt to hold a referendum today (Tyler has a \u201cnice\u201d series<\/a> of them), and what struck me most of all, apart from the senseless violence police forces were seen to engage in, is the lack of violence on the side of protesters.<\/p>\n

So when I see the Interior Ministry claim that 11 policemen were injured, That is hard to take serious. Not that the Catalans had no reason to resist or even fight back. That hundreds of protesters, including scores of grandma\u2019s, are injured is obvious from watching the videos. Since rubber bullets were used in large numbers, fatal injuries are quite possible.<\/p>\n

Policemen hitting peaceful older ladies till they bleed is shocking, and we are all shocked. Many of us will be surprised too, but we shouldn\u2019t be. Spain is still the land of Franco, and his followers continue to exert great influence in politics, police and military. And it\u2019s not just them: one video from Madrid showed people singing a fascist theme from the France era.<\/p>\n

<\/center>That\u2019s the shape the EU knowingly<\/b> accepted Spain as a member in, and that shape has hardly changed since. The total silence from Brussels, and from all its capitals, speaks volumes. Belgian PM Michel said earlier today that he doesn\u2019t want to talk about other countries\u2019 politics, and that\u2019s more than I\u2019ve seen anyone else say. It\u2019s of course a piece of gross cowardly nonsense, both Michel\u2019s statement and the silence from all others.<\/p>\n

Because this very much concerns the EU. As Julian Assange tweeted \u201cDear @JunckerEU. Is this \u201crespect for human dignity, freedom and democracy\u201d? Activate article 7 and suspend Spain from the European Union for its clear violation of Article 2.\u201d (Article 7 of the European Union Treaty: \u201cSuspension of any Member State that uses military force on its own population.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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Catalonia and other Disasters I\u2019ve seen a lot of videos and photos of the Catalonia attempt to hold a referendum today (Tyler has a \u201cnice\u201d series of them), and what struck me most of all, apart from the senseless violence police forces were seen to engage in, is the lack of violence on the side […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[117,204,279,1491,307,16241,3824,993,13924,5177,10522],"class_list":["post-26331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-catalonia","tag-democracy","tag-eu","tag-fascism","tag-fema","tag-franco","tag-puerto-rico","tag-rajoy","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26332,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331\/revisions\/26332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}