Enric Milo, Spain's equivalent of our brave Secretary of State for Scotland "Fluffy" Mundell, described "Fairy traps" to the Supreme Court, yesterday. Just like Fluffy Mundell, Sr. Millo appears to live in a parallel universe.
Sr. Millo was giving evidence to the Court, evidence designed to support his fairy-tale fantasy of "violent revolution" in Catalonia, around the 1st October 2017 independence referendum. This is the charge that could lead to 25 year prison sentence for Catalan politicians held on remand.
In Sr. Millo's version of the story, these politicians headed a hierarchy of criminal groups who organised violent confrontations with Spanish police. (Compare this with the many descriptions of those who were actually there, at the polling places on 1st Oct 2017, defending voters against baton charges by militarised police armed with baton rounds).
Under oath, Sr. Millo cited "more than 100, 150" cases of violence, including "Fairy traps" – liquid detergent spread around the entrance of a polling place. Highly trained, armed militarised police officers slipped in the Fairy liquid, causing injuries to themselves, claims Millo.
According to Sr. Millo, spreading detergent is an act of “violent revolution”!
No-one here in Catalonia is in any doubt about the outcome of the trial. The 12 political prisoners are going to be convicted; the cards are already stacked that way. They will then have to take their case to the European Court of Justice.
The court will take decisions on topics that affect how far we can go without independence;
Carme Forcadell, Presiding officer of the Catalan Parliament, the Generalitat, faces up to 17 years of jail for allowing that debate.
Many states have something in their constitution about violent revolution. It's understandable (from the point of view of the state) that you make it illegal to attempt to overthrow the state with violence, specifically, a military coup. But is a Fairy liquid protest "violent revolution"? Is a line of protesters, unarmed, and with their hands in the air "violent revolution"?
I hope that Scotland will never have to test the limits of the English state in matters of “violent revolution” I fear that England's repression of the Scots will make Spain's reaction look like a fairy-tale.
But beware. You may be certain that there are politicians in Westminster who are enjoying the Catalan-bashing in Madrid, and beginning to wonder whether they could do the same to Scotland.
Sr. Millo was giving evidence to the Court, evidence designed to support his fairy-tale fantasy of "violent revolution" in Catalonia, around the 1st October 2017 independence referendum. This is the charge that could lead to 25 year prison sentence for Catalan politicians held on remand.
In Sr. Millo's version of the story, these politicians headed a hierarchy of criminal groups who organised violent confrontations with Spanish police. (Compare this with the many descriptions of those who were actually there, at the polling places on 1st Oct 2017, defending voters against baton charges by militarised police armed with baton rounds).
Under oath, Sr. Millo cited "more than 100, 150" cases of violence, including "Fairy traps" – liquid detergent spread around the entrance of a polling place. Highly trained, armed militarised police officers slipped in the Fairy liquid, causing injuries to themselves, claims Millo.
According to Sr. Millo, spreading detergent is an act of “violent revolution”!
No-one here in Catalonia is in any doubt about the outcome of the trial. The 12 political prisoners are going to be convicted; the cards are already stacked that way. They will then have to take their case to the European Court of Justice.
The fairy-tale in the Madrid Court is important to Scotland.
The court will take decisions on topics that affect how far we can go without independence;
1. Can the parliament of a devolved region (Catalonia, or Scotland) debate independence?
Carme Forcadell, Presiding officer of the Catalan Parliament, the Generalitat, faces up to 17 years of jail for allowing that debate.
2. When does civic protest or disobedience become "violent revolution"?
Many states have something in their constitution about violent revolution. It's understandable (from the point of view of the state) that you make it illegal to attempt to overthrow the state with violence, specifically, a military coup. But is a Fairy liquid protest "violent revolution"? Is a line of protesters, unarmed, and with their hands in the air "violent revolution"?
I hope that Scotland will never have to test the limits of the English state in matters of “violent revolution” I fear that England's repression of the Scots will make Spain's reaction look like a fairy-tale.
But beware. You may be certain that there are politicians in Westminster who are enjoying the Catalan-bashing in Madrid, and beginning to wonder whether they could do the same to Scotland.
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