CATALONIA | After A Day Of Bloody Violence 90% Vote Yes For Independence
After a long, violent, and bloody day that resulted in hundreds of people being unjustly and violently assaulted and hospitalized by the Spanish Civil Guard for simply wanting to vote the people of Catalonia have overwhelmingly voted yes to independence. Within a few hours of the polling stations closing the votes were counted and the results broadcast live on TV3 a local Catalan television station.
Out of the 7,500,000 people live in Catalonia about 5,000,000 of them were eligible to vote. According to some Catalan officials some 700,000 ballots were seized during raids on polling station carried out by the Spanish Civil Guards. So if you include these in with the valid ballots the total votes cast was around 3,000,000 which should make the result valid.
Remarkably after all the efforts Spain made to stop the election from even going ahead only 207 polling stations out of 2,315 were actually shut down. This is a monumental achievement by the Catalan people to have this many polling stations open considering Spain sent over 15,000 military police to the region during the build up of the election to raid print factories and seize voting material and ballot boxes.
Unfortunately a large number of people were hospitalized mostly whilst protecting the polling stations from being raided and shutdown.
"The moment a state opens fire on its citizens, that state ceases to exist" - Anon
Due to the voting database being blocked and the Catalan officials having to put together a makeshift one there was quite a bit of scope for voting irregularities. But either way after the brutal display of violence carried out by Spain's civil Guard in Catalonia today I think even if this vote for independence isn't recognized by the Spanish government there is still no way back from this now and Catalonia will do what ever it takes to be recognized as an independent country free from Spain's oppressive rule.
(I can't find the ansere somewhere else so i'll ask it here)
As a Dutch EU taxslave, can I sue the Spanish government for their use of violence against the brave people of Catalan?
Ohh my God! Help the people of Catalonia.
And people thought the riot police were bad in the US. Some of the videos were just brutal. I'm not much in the loop on this situation but I have my eye on it now.
Think about the toys USSA police FORCE has. The good people of Catalonia only had a couple of slaps compared to what's about to go down in the land of the free. No offence but the cold hard truth is that the people of Catalonia didn't even had it rough. It's sad. But it is true.
Spain is broke. EU is broke. France and Germany has gone to hell ( by that I mean socialists and rapefuges.) We can only expect more of this. In fact this could be the future of USSA. I'd be glad to witness the death of USSA and all their likes. But what I can't stand is good people suffering.
I know my voice won't be heard much. But my proposal is to stop feeding the gov beast. The good people of Catalonia should simply stop paying their taxes. Gov can cage few. But if every single one who voted for Independence stopped paying taxes, that's a blow. Spread this message people. Create a Tax strike.
The pictures are shocking and the brutality of the police is absolutely out of the question!
yes. some of the videos posted to twitter earlier today were even worse.
Long life to Cataluña!
And we all thought that Franco was long gone.
For those who understand spanish, even more shoking is the video the Catalan TV station showed with images of the police hiting the voters while vicepresident was informing they were just being professionals.
https://twitter.com/dwaitt/status/914543061467877376
Do anything for freedom and peace,,,
Politicians have spoiled the situation of every country, we have to find new way for this......
I totally agree. There has to be a better way. From the bottom up government instead of top down
we are the way
Why am I not surprised to see a larger political organization brutalizing people wishing to secede? It's like I've always said: create positions of authority, and you're going to end up with sociopaths in them.
On an unrelated note, could I talk to you about possibly designing a gif for a project I'm working on?
So true. Sociopaths are attracted to positions of power.
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