Yesterday Spain’s Supreme Court found the former
leaders of Catalonia’s government guilty of sedition and issued a European
arrest warrant on that charge against Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan
premier who proclaimed the unilateral independence of Catalonia in 2017.
Yesterday also, the Guardian published an article
written by this man who is on the run from a very serious charge of offending
against public order to achieve an illegal political end.
Catalan nationalism intends to subvert the constitutional
order in the EU. Its contacts with hard right parties and movements in the UK, Belgium,
Holland, Austria, Germany and Italy are well known. Puigdemont himself has been
described by the Czech think tank European Values as useful idiot for Russia.
Puigdemont likes the Catalan Identitarian Movement,
whose name leaves little doubt as to its nature.
The Guardian’s pet Corbynite Owen Jones, who couldn’t
tell a xai from a xarnego if he tripped over either of
them, nevertheless recognises his British entitlement to tell the Dagoes how to
manage their affairs.
It goes without saying that the Guardian knows perfectly
well what the true situation is; it pays its correspondents in Spain, Sam Jones
and Stephen Burgen, to know exactly this sort of thing, and it even did a mea
culpa in October 2017 for having been conned into publishing fake news about
Catalonia. But even so, it gives a platform to a man whom it describes in the
language of sedition as being “in self-imposed exile”. Really? How many Irish Republicans
who ran to the Republic of Ireland or the USA, or common criminals on the
so-called Costa del Crime, were “in self-imposed exile”? But they weren’t sowing
sedition in an attempt to destroy democracy and the EU, were they?
Today’s Guardian has a leader that pronounces
arrogantly, pompously and mendaciously:
The
draconian jailings shame Spain. Both Madrid and Brussels, which has refused to
intervene, should do everything to resolve the situation as soon as possible.
Mendacious, because the Guardian knows perfectly well
that the EU cannot intervene in the internal afairs of a member state. But the
anti-EU line of Catalan sedition goes down so well with its readers.
Fortunately, Huffpost is on the case
with a touch of sane reality.
In
short, the purpose of the support of the European extreme or
radical right for Catalan secessionism is to support a movement that, if it is
successful, will serve as an example for its own local separatist claims, to
defend its conception of a Europe of ethnic microstates. Also to strike a
deadly spear thrust into the European Union which would be unviable to govern
if it were made up of hundreds of countries and, should it disappear, we would
return to the period that led to the two world wars. That is why the main
pro-European voices have spoken out against Catalan secessionism: from Juncker
to Valls, along with Merkel, Tajani and others. Even the not very pro-European
Theresa May, in her case more for the danger in Northern Ireland and Scotland
that she has at home.
Sources
(English)
Guardian
Wikipedia
(Spanish)
Economía
Digital
Puigdemont da un “me gusta” al acoso de ultranacionalistas catalanes
(Puigdemont gives a “Like” to harassment
by Catalan ultranationalists)
Huffpost
(Why the European extreme right
supports Catalan separatism)
Crónica
Global
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