That's enough! For freedom, democracy and the rule of law in Catalonia and solidarity with the Catalan nation!
Two years after the referendum in which the Catalan people exercised their universal, unalienable, unrestrictable and irrevocable Human Right to self-determination, the de facto colonial power Spain is still not prepared to fulfil its obligations under international law, which is mandatory for Spain, the Spanish legal system and, in particular, the Spanish Constitution, and to grant the Catalans their right to self-determination, which is guaranteed by the Spanish Constitution and international law. I would like to make the following excerpts from the ‘register of sins’ of the Spanish State:
1. Since at least September/October 2017, the Spanish State has been constantly breaking its own law and violating mandatory provisions of the United Nations Great Covenants on Human Rights (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)).
2. The Spanish state abuses its criminal law, which it interprets arbitrarily and applies contrary to the principle «nulla poena sine lege», as a means of political persecution and oppression.
3. The Spanish state has unlawfully — in breach of Spanish organic law — removed a democratically elected government, dissolved a democratically elected parliament and then prosecuted the deposed members of government together with the President of Parliament, although they never committed the crimes they were accused of.
https://www.elnacional.cat/en/politics/council-europe-catalan-prisoners-rights_375943_102.html
https://www.ccma.cat/324/un-informe-del-consell-deuropa-questiona-el-processament-de-politics-a-espanya-i-turquia/noticia/2952086/ (In the middle of this Catalan news text you can read the thirteen pages of a Council of Europe document of 1 October 2019!)
4. The Spanish state has effectively abandoned the separation of powers in recent years. Legislature, executive and judiciary work together in collusion against the Catalan people and violate their Human Rights millions and millions of times.
5. The Spanish state terrorises innocent citizens, who it keeps under flimsy pretexts in continual pre-trial detention, although the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations has clearly voted against the arbitrary detention of the Catalan political prisoners and establisthed that Spain must immediately release and compensate them. In the view of the competent body of the United Nations, criminal investigations should be carried out to determine who is responsible for the unlawful detention of the Catalan leaders. And as on 1 October 2017, the Spanish state uses unnecessary violence against its own peaceful citizens.
6. The Spanish state has for years continuously curtailed the rights of the Catalan parliament by regularly declaring the essential laws of the Catalan parliament unconstitutional by the so-called Spanish Constitutional Court, which also has legislative and executive powers and is occupied according to party-political criteria — after all, only two of the twelve judges must also be qualified to hold the office of judge.
7. The Spanish state does not recognise the languages of the peoples of Spain as equal, but tries by all means to ensure the dominance of Castilian over all other Spanish languages, in particular Catalan.
8. The Spanish state has been exploiting the Catalan countries — Catalonia, València and the Balearic Islands — financially in an unprecedented way for decades. The seven and a half million Catalans are expected to pay more each year than all the richer German federal states together pay into the German state financial equalisation system. However, infrastructure measures by the Spanish state in Catalonia often prove to be future-uncertain promises in return, the realisation of which will probably be awaited until the Greek kalends are reached.
9. The Spanish state tries to subjugate Catalonia with terror and repression and to put it into fear and terror. It also invents alleged crimes by Catalans in order to be able to pretend to the Spanish and international public an alleged propensity for violence of the in truth peaceful Catalan sovereignty movement.
10. The Spanish state is not and will not be ready for dialogue. It spreads untruths and tries to deceive the international public. His goal is still the smashing of the Catalan nation and the complete assimilation of the Catalan people to Spain.
With this Spain, there is no solution to the conflict that could be negotiated in dialogue and then contractually fixed. This Spain has not become a state of law, but a state of injustice in which the highest courts bend the law and become shaking of politics. This post-democratic Spain cannot and must not have a future in the European Union as long as it tramples on Human Rights and violates fundamental legal principles.
I draw the following conclusions for a successful non-violent resistance to the Spanish colonial structures in Catalonia:
1. Spain cannot be reformed from within. There is no willingness on the part of Spain to engage in dialogue with Catalonia. The answer to the Spanish repression can therefore only be to inflict maximum damage on the Spanish state and the Spanish economy in a non-violent manner. Only when Spain, such as South Africa a few decades ago, has become a paria state of the international community and the economic damage from boycotts and intelligent consumer behaviour at home and abroad far exceeds the economic benefit that Spain can derive from its Catalan colony will Spain be prepared to let the Catalan people exercise their Human Right to Self-Determination. This will presumably only be the case if there is an annual loss of at least 160 billion euros to the Spanish state and economy.
2. Any attempt to constructively shape Spanish politics in the Spanish Parliament and Senate will not lead to the desired objective of giving the Catalan people self-determination. What is needed is to disrupt and paralyse as efficiently as possible a corrupt political system that has disavowed itself over recent years as a pseudo-democracy that does not respect the rule of law.
3. Disunity and party bickering among the Catalan parties and politicians harm the cause of the Catalan people. In the face of a seemingly overpowering colonial power, only a united front of all parties can lead to the goal.
4. For the world community, what counts is who effectively governs Catalonia. At the moment, this is not the Generalitat de Catalunya, but clearly the Spanish central government. Through disobedience to the Spanish state, refusal to obey orders and non-recognition of colonial structures, millions of Catalans can show the world that Spain can no longer effectively control their country.
5. Strategically well thought-out consumption and investment strategies and strike action can be directed against Spanish and international companies that support the Spanish state in denying the Catalan people their Human Right to self-determination. This includes the withdrawal of private liquid funds and transferable assets abroad (e.g. to Switzerland) and, as far as possible, the avoidance of tax payments in Spain as long as repression continues in Catalonia.
6. It is important not to be intimidated, to be without fear of the repressive measures of the Spanish state, and to stand up both in prison and in exile for the Right of Self-Determination of the Catalan people and the construction of the Catalan Republic. The political prisoners in Spain, above all the indomitable Jordi Cuixart, and the Catalan foreign government under the leadership of the legitimate Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, are unstoppably advancing this project.
7. The whole of humanity must be made aware of the repression in Catalonia and the massive violations of Human Rights committed by Spain, and must be won for a boycott of Spanish goods and services, for a worldwide boycott of Spanish athletes and for the objective of a diplomatic isolation of Spain, which is massively violating Human Rights. It should also be pointed out to the other continents that the European Union has for years now not only tolerated the millions of serious violations of Human Rights committed by its Member State Spain, but has even approved them. A European Union which not only does not take action against the serious violations of Human Rights in Spain, but even supports Spain, should, like Spain, be pilloried by the world public as long as it does not think of anything better.
8. We must make it clear to world public opinion that the rebellious criminals who, in the Spanish civil war led by the brutal mass murderer Francisco Franco, destroyed the then Spanish Republic, which was defended by the Catalans, and militarily conquered the Catalan countries with cruel force, would hardly have achieved their goal without the material, financial, logistical and personnel support of the Third Reich and Italy which was decisive for the Spanish Civil War. Germany and Italy have never faced up to their heavy joint responsibility for the mass murders in Spain under Franco and the decades of oppression of the Catalan, Basque and Galician nation, which violated Human Rights, but still stand firmly on the side of the post-fascist structures of the current Spanish state.
9. As long as Spain continues to brutally oppress Catalonia in violation of Human Rights, the development of the Catalan Republic's state structures must be prepared abroad. This includes its own administrative and legal apparatus, the establishment of television and radio stations, the establishment of its own police force and its own Catalan armed forces for future national defence, and financial structures that are effectively beyond the reach of the Spanish state. Catalonia, like Portugal, will have to maintain a well-equipped standing army to ensure the security of its people and its borders because of the dominance aspirations of its Spanish neighbour.
10. There is a need to set up a central registration office outside Spain for the presumed criminal behaviour of Spanish judges, prosecutors, police officers and politicians, which can reliably document all the substantial evidence and make it available to an international court in the event of subsequent criminal proceedings, since it is unlikely that the Spanish judiciary, which is responsible in itself, will be able to process it properly within Spain.
Finally, the citizens of Europe and the world must recognise that the Catalan crisis is also about all their freedoms and Human Rights. Spain's frontal attack on the universality of Human Rights concerns all upright people who are committed to Human Rights. A country like Spain, which tramples underfoot on the Human Rights of a smaller nation living in it, should be internationally outlawed among all states and isolated as long as it does not return to the circle of civilised peoples, which it left (at latest) in October 2017!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/world/europe/spain-catalan-leaders-trial.html