No Spaniard is above the law, nor is the catalan separatist political elite

With the Rule of Law, With the Spanish Security Forces and Against the Coupists

Today the Spanish National Police has registered the headquarters of the far-leftist CUP and the Civil Guard has arrested 14 people in an operation against the separatist coup in Catalonia.

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Puigdemont has tried to suspend the rule of law in Catalonia

The president of the Catalan regional government, Carles Puigdemont, had the shamelessness of accusing the Spanish Government of carrying out a "suspension of the rule of law" and creating "an unacceptable situation in democracy." The cynicism of Puigdemont seems to have no limits. Puigdemont has tried to suspend the rule of law in Catalonia, skipping the Constitution, judicial sentences and disobeyed the Constitutional Court - which suspended on 6 September the illegal separatist referendum convened by the Catalan Parliament in a session full of irregularities -, thereby incurring possible crimes of disobedience, embezzlement of public funds, prevarication and - taking into account the drift of events - also sedition. These are very serious crimes, which could lead to long prison sentences, according to those laws that oblige to all.

The action of Justice and the Security Forces is a source of relief

Precisely the action of the Justice and the Spanish Security Forces against these crimes is something that should fill us all with relief and satisfaction, because it reminds us that no one is above the law, and if someone commits a crime must to answer for it, even it can not be tolerated that some are believed to be able to skip laws when they feel like it and with total impunity. It can not be tolerated that some believe that citizens owe them obedience, while they disobey laws and sentences at will. Every time Puigdemont speaks of "democracy," he demonstrates that he has the same concept as communists, who call "democratic republics" to monstrous dictatorships in which power is exercised in a tyrannical way.

This coup is the culmination of the regime of corruption created by separatism

It should also be remembered that the crimes I have mentioned represent the culmination of a system of institutionalized corruption in which autonomy in Catalonia has been converted by the hand of sepatism, a regime based on extortion of businessmen to demand payment of commissions; a regime that the Civil Guard has helped dismantle. It is precisely this and not the other reason why the leadership of Catalan separatism decided to start this process of rupture. They sought to evade the action of justice by slashing Spain and creating a new state in which they would control judges, and in which citizens would be merely hostages of a totally undemocratic political elite. Democracy is also to respect the law and fundamental rights, including the freedom to express and study in the mother language. Corruption is also the abuse of power and violation of individual freedoms, a violation that the Generalitat has been committing with such antidemocratic actions as linguistic fines, the imposition of Catalan as the only language of schooling and nationalist indoctrination in schools, a situation of democratic abnormality that separatism has consolidated by instilling fear among those who reject these impositions, often exercising coercion and violence against them.

The grotesque concept of 'democracy' of Podemos

On the other hand, and in its well-known role of shinobi of the separatism, the far-leftist party Podemos described the prisoners as "political prisoners". Significantly, in 2016, Podemos have already used that label to defend ETA member Arnaldo Otegi, imprisoned for being part of a terrorist gang. It must be remembered that the far-left party has repeatedly rejected motions of support for Venezuelan political prisoners, prisoners who, unlike those detained today in Catalonia, are sent to military prisons and suffer torture during their confinement, a situation that has denounced the UN and the European Union. A deputy from Unidos Podemos, Alberto Garzón, even called "coupist" to Leopoldo López, a leader of the Venezuelan opposition who was imprisoned in a military prison for the simple fact of having convoked a demonstration against the government of that country. Garzón has branded "dictatorship" to Spain but has refused to qualify Venezuela in this way, despite repeated human rights violations perpetrated by the Chavist regime. Precisely what Podemos and their partners understand for democracy we already know it: it is Venezuela. For them, the only desirable political regime is that in which they and their friends can hold power and do whatever they please, even brutally repressing those who protest.

Yesterday Podemos defended an antidemocratic 'Gag Law'

It is an absolute lack of shame that the friends of the regimes of Venezuela, Cuba and Iran dare to give lessons of democracy to Spain. Unlike what happens in those countries, in Spain deputies like Pablo Iglesias, Garzón and Rufián enjoy all kind of freedoms, being able to demonstrate against the government and even make an antics from his seat without anyone coming to stop them for it. They have had and still have all the freedom in the world to expose their ideas, and even to defend criminals like Bódalo and ETA members like Otegi, without anyone so far been asked to account for it from the courts. Precisely they tried to end this freedom of expression with a "Gag Law" yesterday , designed to pursue for their ideas those who do not think like Podemos. The problem, precisely, is that the members of Podemos have become so accustomed to do what they feel like they now believe that among their rights is also skipping the constitutional legality that they had the duty to comply to assume their seats. Like Puigdemont, they think laws have been created to prevent others from bothering or even contradicting them, but they do not feel bound by any law. No, gentlemen. Here the laws are valid for all, also for the separatists and for the members of Podemos. Stop thinking that you are privileged people with permission to skip them.

With the Spanish Government, with the Spanish Security Forces and the officials who fulfill their duty

To conclude, and although from these pages I have been very critical of the Rajoy government, given the crisis provoked by the separatist coup in Catalonia, I have very clear my priorities: at the moment I am on the side of the Government of Spain and I support the legal actions which it is promoting to enforce legality in Catalonia, actions that many of us have been waiting for a long time. When my homeland suffers an aggression at the hands of coup makers, it is not the time to engage in partisan discussions. I also express my full support for the State Security Forces and for elected officials and officials who are doing their duty, many of them assuming enormous sacrifices and even suffering purely mafia-style harassment by the separatists (a harassment that is even being directed against their children).

I am on the side of the rule of law and against the coupists. Because democracy is not "voting" in an illegal referendum, convoked in a clear violation of our Constitution and appropriating powers that do not correspond to the Catalan government. They want to usurp our national sovereignty, which resides in the Spanish people, and not in its parts, as the Spaniards decided by an overwhelming majority - Catalan included - in the referendum of 1978. With the Constitution the Spaniards established clear ways for its modification, ways that combined the possibility of future reforms with the need for political stability without which there is neither freedom nor security, which are the necessary conditions for a society to prosper. Skipping these ways, kidnapping the inhabitants of an autonomous community, is a coup in every sense. No democracy can consent to this. o civilized society can contemplate such an attack on their living together by remaining with their arms folded. It is a relief to see that when the time comes, in Spain the legal mechanisms to prevent this blow work.

¡Viva España!

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