Posted on 11/11/2017 5:22:51 PM PST by Nextrush
Three quarters of a million people have rallied in Barcelona to protest against Spain's detention of Catalan independence leaders, police estimate.
They shone phone torches in unison at sunset as calls were made to free eight regional ministers and two grassroots campaign leaders being held on remand.
Some of the detainees will be included on the list of a Catalan separatist party at next month's snap election.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is to visit the city on Sunday......
Prisoners and elections
James Reynolds, BBC News, Barcelona
The pro-independence movement has proven its ability to mobilize large numbers of demonstrators.....
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
First rule of declaring independence; have a military.
They are going the non-violent resistance route and letting the Spanish government use the force arresting and jailing people.
Lots of debt, a status worse than Puerto Rico, and the lack of an effective military. U-Haul prices would also skyrocket for outbound (from CA) trips.
Catalans think they’re so d@mned special. Overrun with muzzies and willingly so just like the Germans. Fueran!
Democrats would never allow it.
India pulled that off, right?
But that was a colony, this is a little bit different. I don’t know if it will work for the Catalans.
An aside, the article calls Barcelona’s female far-left Mayor a “Mayoress”, lol. She’s interestingly against independence and wants a “third way”.
Third way ? In her navel with an asparagus shoot ?
Mayors tend to like image and even big business with a lot of left leaning talk. Bloomberg or De Blasio.....
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