{"id":36897,"date":"2017-10-06T22:49:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=68483"},"modified":"2022-07-03T19:37:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T17:37:59","slug":"serve-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=36897","title":{"rendered":"Serve citizens."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[Mr Rajoy\u2019s] 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 every time. Constitutions exist to serve citizens, not the other way around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"external external_icon\" title=\"The Economist: It is not too late to stop the break-up of Spain.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/leaders\/21730006-avoid-calamity-ask-catalans-what-they-really-want-it-not-too-late-stop-break-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>The Economist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;\">See also:<\/span><\/strong> <a title=\"Europ\u00e4ische Repression als Vorbild. F\u00fcr China.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=51745\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00\"><code>01<\/code><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Mr Rajoy\u2019s] 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","entity-pp","issue-quotation","issue-1o2017","location-catalunya","location-china","location-spania","language-english","medium-the-economist","person-mariano-rajoy","topic-democrazia","topic-grundrechte","topic-medien","topic-politik","topic-polizei","topic-repression","topic-selbstbestimmung"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68487,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36897\/revisions\/68487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}