English/
Articles totally or partially in English
Leider werden in diesem Archiv derzeit aus technischen Gründen nicht alle relevanten Gastbeiträge angezeigt. · Per ragioni tecniche attualmente in questo archivio non sono visibili tutti i contributi provenienti da autori esterni.
-
The guilty silence.
Quotation · Alex Salmond tells it like it is–
You see, the guilty silence in this issue is not because people are for and against independence for Catalonia, not because of for and against Catalonian self-determination. These are arguable cases. What is not an arguable case is to stand idly by and say nothing when violence is perpetrated against a civilian population. That is
-
Hola República!
–
Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya, Occitan: Catalonha, Spanish: Cataluña)[b][c] is a region in the northeastern extremity of the Iberian Peninsula. Its constitutional status is the subject of a dispute between the Kingdom of Spain, which views it as an autonomous community within Spain, and the Generalitat de Catalunya, which views it as an independent republic following a
-
Serve citizens.
Quotation–
[Mr Rajoy’s] deployment of policeman to suppress the Catalan vote was not only a propaganda gift to them but, more important, crossed a line. Aggression against crowds of peaceful citizens may work in Tibet but cannot be sustained in a Western democracy. In the contest between formal justice and natural justice, natural justice wins eventually
-
Scaring the population.
Quotation–
There were thousands of riot cops on hand, on ships in the harbour. If Madrid had wanted to, it could have confiscated every ballot box within minutes and, for good measure, jammed the smartphone app the Catalan authorities were using to tally the results against the electoral roll. But prime minister Mariano Rajoy wanted to