All the media shows, the press and spokespersons for the EC and the UN have gone on record as opposed to Violence as a Political Weapon. Of course we all agree and I do not pretend to excuse it in the streets of Barcelona on Oct.1. Here in Spain, the Spanish government was as surprised by it as were so many others. In reality, most of us living in Spain were expecting it to show its ugly face. First, it was public knowledge that professional rabble rousers were on the scene to provoke it. Secondly, the politicized Mossos d´Escuadra did little more than smile at the violation of Supreme Court orders to block the illegal referendum. So, when the Spanish police (not riot police, at all) were called in to enforce the Court´s ruling that the referendum as anticonstitional, the masses of people rooming the streets has an enemy to insult and outrage. The policemen are trained but they are also human. after hours of terrible tension due to constant provocation bad things flared up. 20 policemen were hospitalized and some 6 civilians were too. Now word has it that 800 people were hospitalized. That is a lie. Only 2 civlians required special medical attention.
The Catalonian government provoked confrontation during weeks of propaganda urging people to ignore the Catalonian Supreme Court´s ruling that the referendum called for was illegal and unconstitutional. The Mossos stood back but invited the Spanish national police to face the ire of the populace masses of independence defenders (30% of the Catalonian population). The nationalists who run the Mossos ordered them to be nice.
Again, things got out of hand. Some police and a few civilians suffered minor harm while only two suffered serious hurt. We all agree that force has no role in politics but let´s go on record to deny respectability to political cynics like Maduro en Venezuela and Puigdemont in Barcelona when they invite the hordes to take the streets to achieve their criminal objectives: power, power and all power. Without law, there can be no freedom, neither in Caracas, nor Turkey nor Barcelona. That is what Journalists Without Borders were saying regarding the obstacles the Generalitat was throwing into their path here, just prior to the facade of staged, chaotic elections known as the Referendum. Mr. Puigdemont knew that his propaganda of hate for Spain would sow in his more blind and emotionally hysterical fans: blind rage.
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