Spain Will Remove Catalonia Leader, Escalating Secession Crisis
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Re: Spain Will Remove Catalonia Leader, Escalating Secession Crisis
#2Bound to happen, to say the least.
Re: Spain Will Remove Catalonia Leader, Escalating Secession Crisis
#3The sentiment on the street is to keep pushing forward and declare independence. The opposition to this rule is huge (there has been a new huge demostration today).
If this happens civil disobedience will grow.
There won't be a civil war (we are peaceful people and have no guns), but we won't obey what comes from Madrid.
Re: Spain Will Remove Catalonia Leader, Escalating Secession Crisis
#4Good, we can't allow the dissolution of nations.
Re: Spain Will Remove Catalonia Leader, Escalating Secession Crisis
#5Do you think any other State would allow one of its major sources of income go away like that?
I really hope Catalonia makes it.
Re: Spain Will Remove Catalonia Leader, Escalating Secession Crisis
#6Obligatory "the beatings will continue until morale improves".
Re: Spain Will Remove Catalonia Leader, Escalating Secession Crisis
#7The sentiment on the street is to keep pushing forward and declare independence. The opposition to this rule is huge (there has been a new huge demostration today). If this happens civil disobedience will grow. There won't be a civil war (we are peaceful people and have no guns), but we won't obey what comes from Madrid.
According to a poll from a Catalan newspaper [0] released yesterday, 68% of Catalans prefer regional elections versus an unilateral independence declaration.
[0] http://www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/20171020/encuesta-cat...
Re: Spain Will Remove Catalonia Leader, Escalating Secession Crisis
#8Since when applying the law is escalating?
All European Union leaders support the rule according a higher law.
Re: Spain Will Remove Catalonia Leader, Escalating Secession Crisis
#9Assuming there's a group of people who more or less agree to be separate from some larger group, it's hard to think of legitimate reasons why they shouldn't be allowed to secede. Their forefathers having signed an agreement is hardly a convincing reason to hold them in a union they no longer like. Neither are issues of the current political situation ("it would destabilize the region...").
There's still hard questions, though. How do we split the national debt? What about various government assets? Who has a choice about what nation to join? And so on.
All hard questions, but none of them seems to undermine the idea that people should be allowed to decide to be separate.
Re: Spain Will Remove Catalonia Leader, Escalating Secession Crisis
#10Do you think any other State would allow one of its major sources of income go away like that? I really hope Catalonia makes it.
I think the US would let California secede.