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Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Please downvote this fascist.
Comment · 9 years ago
The problem here is that all the inheritants of the Franco dictatorship and their mentailty are still in the power, thanks to the Spanish transition in which the Dictator passed the power to the King. Then promoted a bi-party politics where the minorities would never be able to change anything.

It is not fair and Catalonia is fighting (again) to change it.

Comment · 9 years ago
Then, let us Catalans be stupid and go to extintion ourselves. We will probably be fine. If you want us to be in Spain, please seduce us instead of forbid us everything.

I haven't heard of any new independent country asking to be part again of the former one.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
"Catalans don't have freedom of expressions or are oppressed" -> Catalans don't have the right to express themselves about independence? Is this taboo?
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
"decide over another group which is a subset of the former" A subset of the former in the name of the frontiers set by a centralist monarch who won a war and forbid language and institutions in Catalonia in 1714. Check the law that supports my comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueva_Planta_decrees

"Otherwise, any city of any country, or any group of individuals, could decide to vote and set their own rules for whatever they want." --> And do you think this is wrong? I think self-governance is the future. Not to go against anyone, but to decide more about everything. Not to put a paper in a ballot every 4 years.

Comment · 9 years ago
However, United Nations experts don't think the same as you.

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?Ne...

Censorship in internet. Opening private letters. Political detentions and raids to political parties offices, searching for posters and ballots. Bringing 10000 policeman by boat to avoid a vote.

Sound quite authoritarian to me.

Comment · 9 years ago
I agree that "not voting is also democracy". However I cannot agree about not allowing to vote, which is the case. It's a political issue, which should be solved like it was in Scotland.

In the name of what, a group can decide over another on what is it allowed to do? Because of the frontiers made after conquering when using force?

Comment · 9 years ago
Yes, and after last elections the majority of the Catalan parliament is pro-independence. Instead of proclaming independence, a referendum is proposed, which has the support of 80% of the population in Catalonia.
Comment · 9 years ago
Tyranny is a group not allowing another group to decide what to do.

Hear yourself: "the referendum is not legal". Such a nice view of what democracy is.

So willing to vote and say goodbye to this bla-bla-bla-this is not legal, that is not legal.

Good bye opressors. My deceased family in the war the dicator won will be really happy if we can finally separate. Too many open wounds you have never tried to heal.

Comment · 9 years ago
Democracy is listening the majority of a group, without forgetting and respecting the minorities.

You don't argument why Catalonia is not opressed. Banning all the laws emerging from its parliament is not respecting.

Sorry Spaniards, we will vote. It's not about you, it's about us. It's not about us feeling superior or supremacist. It's about deciding our way, as we think too different in too many things. We can be good neighbours.

Comment · 9 years ago
They don't contribute, they have an independent economic system which comes from ancient times. Basque Country and Navarra have this privilege.
Comment · 9 years ago

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