You know when you try and
remember one of those words that you used (teacher or pupil) to describe a ‘literary
effect’ (or is it affect? I’m a teacher
and I can never really remember which one is correct and I am always too lazy
to look it up.) The word I am trying to remember is one that is used in Romeo and Juliet when the phrase ‘hot
ice’ is used. The teacher (or me in a
previous incarnation) would reveal that the correct word to use was
oxymoron. Well, living in Spain I now
have a different phrase to exemplify this concept: Spanish justice.
Today was the last day when
my heart-feeling that the unity of Spain was worth fighting for finally
died.
The politicised justice
that parades as disinterested in the courts in Spain has shown itself to be as
grotesquely politically inept as that shown by their PP masters in parliament. Any remaining belief that the separation of
powers exists to any real extent in Spain is now, officially, dead.
Some of the political
leaders of the Republic of Catalonia have been to court to testify in Madrid
and they have all (with one significant and reprehensible exception) been
jailed without bail.
The minority right-wing
repressive government of Spain, whose PP representation in Catalonia is a measly
8%, has assumed the government of Catalonia, imposed a motely scum of PP
politicians as the leaders of our political society and has now jailed our
leaders.
Political ineptitude seems
to be the go-to default position of PP.
It would appear that their judicial spaniels slavishly follow their
political masters and have behaved in a way guaranteed to bolster support for
independence.
What of the elections
called by the ever more contemptible president of Spain? This government has jailed the leaders of our
government: are they supposed to electioneer from behind bars? With every step that the bunch of deadbeats
in Madrid take, they further the break-up of Spain. And please, do not pretend for one solitary
moment that justice is separate from the political party that put most of them
in place: PP.
PP is the most systemically
corrupt political party in western Europe.
While it is super sensitive to any group or individual that speaks
against its power base, it is strangely indifferent to the proven corruption of
its own members as hundreds (yes, literally, hundreds) are going through the ‘justice’
system a damn sight more slowly than the leaders of our government!
For me, these jailings constitute
a sort of turning point. I have always
been a vocal opponent of nationalism, and I am more concerned with unity in
Europe than the petty national divisions that have fermented so many deaths
over the last centuries. But how can you
go on thinking that linking to a corrupt and corrupting central government is
anything other than, well, corrupting!
The Spanish government,
under its bad-joke president Rajoy has shown its contempt for liberty,
democracy, decency and unity. Rajoy,
personally and vindictively has engineered the present situation and has
constantly shown himself to be opposed to any reasonable solution based on
significant dialogue.
Over the last decade and
more Rajoy and his PP party has worked towards this impasse.
La Republica Catalunya
He now deserves to suffer
the breakup of the country that he has so signally failed to represent in its totality.
¡Visca la
República Catalunya!
