Wednesday, February 07, 2007

"Let us explain ourselves in English: Spanish Oppression against Catalonia"

The change of dynasty: before the Succession war Carlos II died without children, he had designated heir Felipe de Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV of France. Carlos/Karl, Archduke of Austria, demanded the crown, with the support of Catalunya, Aragon, Valencia and Majorca and also of England, Holland, Portugal, Savoy and Prussia.
The problem was solved by the arms in a war between Felipe V of Castile, with the military support of France, and on the other hand archduke Carlos, with the kingdoms of the Catalan Confederation, with the military support of England, Holland, Austria and so.
The Catalans, in face of the impossibility to use the port of Seville invaded with English the rock of Gibraltar, to use it as their marine base. The war ended with the victory of Felipe and the treaty of Utrecht (1713) supposed for Spain a new dynasty: the House of Bourbon. In this treaty is in agreement that the allied troops (England, Holland and Germany) will retire their support to Catalunya (Catalonia), and that the French troops also will retire their support to Castile and Felipe V. The French troops did not retire. Also in that treaty, Castile gave Gibraltar and Menorca to England, like indemnification to its expenses in defending the Catalans. And also Felipe V accepted the loss one of all the domains in Europe. For that reason the English do not want to give back Gibraltar, because as said its ambassador before the UN “Gibraltar is the price of a treason”. To give back it would mean the previous cancellation of the Treaty of Utrecht and all its consequences.
In Catalunya the implantation of the new system of absolutist centralization of the Bourbons happens after the 11 of September of 1714 with the decree of New Plant. From 1714, after “War of succession”, where beyond decide who must be the new common king, which causes the war is the government model, the Bourbon centralist and unitary model, or the confederal Austrian like until then.
It is when current Spain is formed like a single kingdom, and it does with the name of Kingdom of Castile, using the numeration of the names of the kings of Castile and the shield of Castile like own of all Spain until 1868, with the rising of the I Republic, in which the arms of Catalunya-Aragón and Navarre are incorporated to the shield of the state, as it can be verified simply with the currencies of legal course from 1714 to 1868.
“The Secret Protocols…” they are (they were) antiJewish, it was one of the bases to expand the anti-semitism in Central Europe, Poland, Rumania… There were countries like Holland, Switzerland or United Kingdom where the authorities were opposite to the anti-semitism openly and even repressed it legally, but in all central and Eastern Europe no, on the contrary. A people without own State is at the mercy of the hostile states that administer it, it is defenseless. For that reason the Jewish people needs the Israel State and the Catalan people needs a Catalan State, etc. If each nation had its own State not only would be avoided multitude of wars and genocides, but also an enormous amount of hatreds, energies squandered in defending themselves or attacking, etc. It would be the peace and the mutual respect, the acceptance and the friendship and not like now that is the imposition, the distrust, the rejection, the “forced marriage” and badly reconciled, etc. To all us we like to be in our own home at our rhythm and to have the money that we we gained with our effort. Each one in its home and God in the one of all. What is Spain? How was based Spain? With Catholic Kings there is dynastic but non legal union: the different kingdoms continue being independent, only that with common king (in the case of Corona d’Aragó (Aragon Crown) they even reserved the right to change of king in certain circumstances). With the wedding of Juana the Crazy with the heir of Austria, Burgundy and Flandes, plus the discovery of America, is created an immense Empire, but composed of independent or distant kingdoms to each other, based often on the military imposition and the inquisitorial repression (as it is seen in America, Flanders, etc.). This immense Empire was being disintegrated with time and remaining in which now it is known like “Spain”, that continues being a set of different towns or conquered nations (Euskadi in the s. XII, Navarre invaded in 1516, Catalano-Aragonese Crown conquered and annexed manu militari during the War of Succession, 1707-15, etc.). “Spain” is what it remains of the kingdoms inherited by the Habsburg. It is not a nation but a real patrimony with the support of the great ones of Spain, the great one Bank, the Army and the allied faithful Spanish Catholic Hierarchy. “Seated to a table with sticky table cloth and angry by a as little food as indigestible he exploded: ”What a difference between these inactive towns from the high plateau [referred to Castile] and the laughing and alive towns from the East [referred to Catalan Countries]!“ To what the supposed Castilian fellow diner with which it shared oilskin answered: ”Because they are two different and antagonistic nationalities!“. And it added: “The differences between the Spaniards of the Center and those of the coasts one can see at first sight. (...) The Catalanist problem, at heart, is not more than the fight of a strong and spirited people with another weak and poor people, to which it is united by perhaps transitory bonds” (Miquel Alberola, in El País, 05-11-2005, summarizes the article of Azorín in the Agriculture, written in Torrijos and published in 1903 in El Globo). “In Spain there has been never no nation and the unit took place by the fire and the iron. The same Catalonia did not lose its freedom but by the interests of the Habsburgs and the Bourbons, that is to say, by the States” (Julian Besteiro, leader of the PSOE, Meeting to Teatre Bosc of Barcelona, the 22-12-1919). “And corresponding to me the absolute domain of the kingdoms of Aragon and Valencia it is added now the fair right of conquest that from them have done lately my military operations” (Felipe V in the Decree of New Plant of the Council of Castile, 29-6-1707).
“Rough Plateau,
you are like the bad mother.
So that you want more children
if then you don’t love them? “ (Elisa Serna, Castilian singer of the 70s).
“The world is divided in two: Spaniards and unfaithful” (Being Spanish... like a job)” (Deduced by F. Dubé, actor).
“The plague that raise from Andalusia and the hunger that goes down from Castile” (the “Pícaro” Guzman de Alfarache describes the country so).
“Catalan man is brave, active, laborious, enemy of Spain: he loves always the freedom” (Dugommier “South Mémoire the Catalogne” ca.1800).
“An acquitance of mine's assures that is a law of the history of Spain the necessity to bomb Barcelona every fifty years. The system of Felipe V was unjust and hard, but solid and comfortable. It has been worth for two centuries” (Memories, of Manuel Azaña, President of the 2nd Spanish Republic).
“I have never been what they call Spanish Nationalist [fanatic of Spain] nor jingoistic. But in fornt these things I get infuriated myself. And if those people are going to quarter Spain, I prefer Franco” (Manuel Azaña, Memorias, President of the Spanish Republic).
But the Spanish Kingdom is a Frankenstein taken from diverse nations. Catalonia was shared out between “Spain” (that is, the Spanish Habsburgs) and France (that is, the Bourbons) in the in the Treaty of the Pyrenees: that does quarter. The “Spanish unit” is simply a Frankestein formed of many contradictory nationalities with the purpose of creating an Empire for the oligarchy, in which the peolpe is cannon-fodder.
“I took it fix in my mind day 26 when with the troops of Juan Bautista I put myself in the Tibidabo, in Pedralbes. I did not want to build up hopes. They are defeated and they will support, because they are wide-awake people, their defeat and our triumph; but… convinced? … ah! That already is more difficult. Perhaps impossible. Barcelona will continue being the black chick-pea of the national pot. At least during a pair of generations. When judging therefore the Catalan problem of the present and the future, I were not certainly of most pessimistic. I have heard to more than a person of clear judgment and serene tempers to advocate the convenience of a Biblical punishment (Sodoma, Gomorra) to purify the red city, the seat of the anarchism and separatism, and like only remedy to extirpate those two cancers, to indicate termocauterio implacable destructor” (the Tebib Arrumi, pseudonym of the grandfathers of José María Aznar, ex-president of the Spanish Government, in the Heraldo de Aragón, 4 of February of 1939.
Spain is the State that has imposed more time the Inquisition -almost 3 centuries-, last western state in abolishing the slavery and the one that greater genocides has committed -more than 100 million only in America-. The Popular Party wants to reinforce that totalitarian nationalism and to return to the old ways with their subliminal manipulations and their jingoistics emotions.
“The Spanish dinosaurs ate Spanish grass if they were herbivorous Spaniards, that is, vegetarians born in Spain, but if they were carnivorous of Spanish nationality, then they ate other animals that in the Triasic inhabited Spain” (Example of the style book that, with time and tenacity, the “flamenco” Spanishness and its alikes and paid people, will introduce for their televisions and where it can although it is by anal route, for the idolatrous indoctrination on eternal Spain and the Unit of Destiny in what is Universal).
“If we gave to hearing four days, they would be Spaniards all whatever entered to complain” (M. Cervantes, “the baths of Algiers”, vv. 2532-4).
“We cannot take the comunion in the altars from a dominant culture that mistake worth for price and convert the countries and the peoples in merchandise" (Eduardo Galeano).
If the governments of Madrid would be so open as the ones of London in identitary questions, moreover from existing national sportive teams of Catalonia, Euskadi, Galice or Canarias (as the ones of Scotland, Wales or North Ireland), the Spaniard police would be called, for instance, “The Catalan Yard” (Scotland Yard), at the parade of Spanish army would touch txistu or would wear a barretina (so and as to the Briton march dressed up of Scot and touching Celtic pipes) and, finally, would sing in the taverns of the quarter some hymn like “Eusko Gudariak”, so and as the English military usually sing “Kevin Barry”, an Irish independentist song. To put only three comprehensible examples between a multitude. It’s clear that it is traditions of a country civilized by the reading of the Bible and is unthinkable in which suffered 3 centuries and means from Inquisition whose syndrome still reamins in the minds of the majority, customary to obey by fear and not to think. The only thing which fundamentally it worries to the Spanish oligarchy is not to lose territory not to lose taxes. All the interminable hysteria and the obsessive propaganda by the unremovable constitucionalism and the “sacred unit” like religion of State are not more than this: the fear of the oligarchy of always losing rich colonies of sweet honey. “Spain” is only one ideology of the Power.