julio 2018 – Conflictos Modernos

Reflections about Spain and Catalonia. 2nd Part.

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The social Situations of tensions and clash.

There is a deep social fracture in Catalonia, where both «conflicting groups» form both antagonistic halves of his society. By the force, it is not possible to impose any of the two ideological parts over other, because the positions are anchored and held. This way, a violent clash only would lead, by the friction and the wear generated, that the falls of both groups were almost similar. It is not possible here to obtain the Roman «caedes«, in which the «defeated» was passed to the «edge of the sword», whereas the «victor» only suffered light falls.

THE DRIVING FAMILY OF A SPURIOUS CATALAN NATIONALISM, DEFENDER OF A PLUTOCRAT HIGH CLASS AND FAR FROM THE REAL HISTORY OF SPAIN AND CATALONIA.

And it is not a question of distinguishing between «goods» and «bads» either. Because the interests and the ideas that sustain them, are divided simply in «favorable» and «unfavorable» for both social politics causes.

The interests, the attitudes and the divergent ideas, when not opposed, feed and support those positions. And a first embarrassing great mistake of the authorities is to have allowed that this situation generated and degenerated. Largely, yielding social essential functions of the State (as the public education) or giving large budgetary money, to obtain the votes of the separatists, who initially were autonomists and moderated, supporting the governments of Spain, of the PSOE and of the PP.

The civil clashes in Catalonia, arisen between groups of activists of both politician social signs, are varied and of different seriousness: placement and retreat of the yellow bows or announcers cartels of events; occupation by «pushing groups» of the CDR, ARRAN or others, of the places where there were going to be celebrated acts of other groups or conferences of not related persons; irritating frets between groups of demonstrators of opposite sign. In the actual situation of irritated clash it is only a question of time and of the repetition of these acts, for the violence installs in them. This social degeneracy is a consequence of the inefficiency of the State Central Power and the abandon of his governing functions. Leaving in hands of the judges, the defense at the wrong time of an autonomous and penal legality infringed by the opportunists secessionists.

When, in the middle of 1996, Umberto Bossi, leader and senator of the North League, a radical right party created around the mantra «Rome steals us«, announced for 15 of September the secession of the Padania of Italy, a social politics aberration opened in the valley of the Po, he received the following notice from the president Oscar Luiggi Scalfaro: «Mr. Bossi, if you continues this way, you will collide abreast with the Italian Army».

The North League stopped his delirious aspirations. And his vital path passed until not much, emerging or submerging in the Italian political panorama and with meanders. It was not necessary to take exceptional measures then, nor hard, against the North League or his driver controls.

Because, when the institutions and his protagonists are respected, this, «per se», takes care and defends the Lord’s vineyard. And, vice versa, when they are disrespectful to you, already you can threaten, dribble, feint, get furious or cry. That will serve you for nothing. Because, the attributes of your authority and the causes and reasons of the national sovereignty, which you say to defend, already you have lost them. And, the offenders already have despised, put away and replaced them with others. That turn out to be nearer and suitable for them.

The necessary National Reconstruction.

After the outlawing of the secession, inside the juridical frame existing in Spain, there are different tasks to realizing by the whole State apparatus.

To neutralize the street activists, anonymous or not, placed in the diffuse limit of the violence. In order that they do not harass, disturb the social and streets order and do not prevent the political activities of other formations. It is a labor of immediate public order.

To eradicate of the Catalan society the thoughts and the tendentious and distorted anti Spanish beliefs. Or that which promote and encourage the social division and the hatred and the elimination of the political rivals. It is a multidisciplinary and complex task, with educational, psychological and social components to realizing in the middle and Iong terms.

To change the political solvent conducts. Stopping and substituting the autonomous authorities that break the laws of a Constitutional state, internationally recognized. It is a task of institutional and legal regeneration of the autonomous and local institutions in the medium-term. And that demands the approval, decision and support of a majority of political parties and citizens

If this is not do, the recalcitrant separatists will hide and come again to other autonomics elections. And we can have a qualitatively equal Parlament and Govern like the annuled by the judges.

What is at stake is the break of one of the Europe’s oldest nations. That arose and is kept when his social territorial components verify and accept the bet of jointly living all, to overcome the weaknesses and limitations of their isolated territories. Spanish nation of which the Catalans form a part from his beginning and establishment. And the secessionists do not offer the Catalan people for this break, a clear and favorable offer of rights, freedoms and progress for him. A prooof of the small bourgeois adventurerism of the separatist views and theses is the withdrawal of his exclusive ideas of the practical totality of the institutions and European nations.

The secessionist controls handle the demagogic arguments, the half truths and the slanted historical interpretations as no one else, to attract and keep his potential electorate. Because, the truth is relative and is one more way for them, in altars of their “so called freedom” of the Catalan people. And they feed his separatist zeals with many-colored hatreds towards the Nation where the Hispanic peoples became great. It is the paradoxical and insane rancor, on the other hand very recurrent, against that one that has helped you very much and with which you have shared your life.

His political argument is based on the exploitation of the human passions, which are insatiable, by epistemologic definition. The greed of having more than the other, without considering the benefits intercommunication in the modern democratic societies. The egoism of the abandon of the national solidarity, without admitting that in all the nations are zones more backward and depressed that others. The lie of the manipulation and distortion of the lived common history; as instrument of justification of his imperious and solvent actions. The envy, as expression of the own mental lacks; represented and satisfied at the moment, in the Utopian independent Catalan nation, full of advantages and blessed by the goddess Fortune. Spilling to Catalonia her inexhaustible horn of pleasure, money and personal and social kindness. The conceit of the separatist controls, which satisfies when they think about the admiration that they assume are waking up in the others.

The social virtues, taught and learned largely by the observed and received example, are the only and real brakes against the temptations that arise from the loose passions in the soul of the men.

Reflexiones sobre España y Cataluña. 2ª Parte.

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Las situaciones de tensiones y de enfrentamiento sociales.

Hay una profunda fractura social en Cataluña, donde los dos “grupos enfrentados” forman las dos mitades antagónicas de su sociedad. Por la fuerza, no se puede imponer ninguna de las dos partes ideológicas a la otra, porque las posiciones están ancladas y sujetas. Así, un enfrentamiento violento sólo llevaría, por la fricción y el desgaste generados, a que las bajas de ambos bandos sean casi similares. No es posible aquí conseguir el “caedes” romano, en el que el “vencido” era pasado al “filo de la espada”, mientras que el “vencedor” sólo sufría ligeras bajas.

LA FAMILIA IMPULSORA DE UNA CATALANIDAD ESPURIA, DEFENSORA DE LA BURGUESÍA PLUTÓCRATA Y LEJOS DE LA HISTORIA DE ESPAÑA Y CATALUÑA.

Y no se trata tampoco de distinguir entre “buenos” y “malos”. Porque los intereses y las ideas que los sustentan, se dividen simplemente en “favorables” y “desfavorables” para las dos causas socio políticas.

Los intereses, las actitudes y las ideas divergentes, cuando no opuestas, alimentan y sostienen dichas posiciones. Y un primer gran error vergonzante de las autoridades es haber permitido que se generase y degenerase esta situación. En gran parte, cediendo funciones sociales esenciales del Estado o dineros presupuestarios cuantiosos, para obtener los votos de los separatistas, que eran autonomistas y moderados al principio, apoyando a los gobiernos de España, del PSOE y del PP.

Los enfrentamientos civiles en Cataluña, surgidos entre grupos de activistas de ambos signos político sociales, son variados y de diferente gravedad: colocación y retirada de los lacitos amarillos o de carteles anunciadores de eventos; ocupación por “grupos percutientes” de los CDR, ARRAN u otros partidistas, de los locales donde se iban a celebrar actos de otros grupos o conferencias de personas no afines; roces irritantes entre grupos de manifestantes de signo opuesto. En la situación de enfrentamiento irritado actual es sólo cuestión de tiempo y de la repetición de estos actos, que se instale la violencia en los mismos. Esta degeneración social es consecuencia de la ineficiencia del Poder Central y del abandono de sus funciones de gobernar. Dejando en manos de los jueces, la defensa a destiempo de una legalidad autonómica y penal conculcadas por los secesionistas arribistas.

Cuando, a mediados de 1996, Umberto Bossi, líder y senador entonces de la Liga Norte, un partido radical de derecha creado en torno al mantra “Roma nos roba”, anunció para el 15 de setiembre la secesión de la Padania, una aberración político social desplegada en el valle del río Po, de Italia, recibió el siguiente aviso del presidente Oscar Luiggi Scalfaro: “Sr. Bossi, si sigue por ese camino, se dará de frente con el Ejército Italiano”.

La Liga Norte frenó en seco sus pretenciones delirantes. Y su trayectoria vital discurrió hasta hace poco, emergiéndose o sumergiéndose por el panorama político italiano, y con meandros. No hizo falta tomar entonces medidas excepcionales, ni duras, contra la Liga Norte o sus mandos conductores.

Porque, cuando a las instituciones y a sus protagonistas se les respeta, esto, “per se”, cuida y defiende la viña del Señor. Y, viceversa, cuando se te han subido a las barbas, ya puedes amenazar, amagar, driblar, fintar, cabrearte, dar un puñetazo en la mesa o lloriquear. Que no te servirá de nada. Porque, los atributos de tu autoridad y las causas y razones de la soberanía nacional, que dices defender, ya los has perdido. Y, los supuestos infractores ya las han despreciado, arrinconado y sustituido por otras. Que les resultan más cercanas y convenientes para ellos.

La necesaria reconstrucción nacional.

Tras la ilegalización de la secesión, dentro del marco jurídico existente en España, hay distintas tareas a realizar por todo el aparato del Estado.

Neutralizar a los activistas callejeros, anónimos o no, situados en el límite difuso de la violencia. Para que no acosen, perturben el orden social y vial y no obstaculicen las actividades políticas de otras formaciones. Es una labor de orden público inmediato.

Erradicar de la sociedad catalana los pensamientos y las creencias tendenciosas y tergiversadas antiespañolas o que fomenten y alienten la división social y el odio y la eliminación de los rivales políticos. Es una tarea multidisciplinar y compleja, con componentes educativos, psicológicos y sociales a realizar en el medio y largo plazos.

Cambiar las conductas políticas disolventes. Cesando y sustituyendo a las autoridades autonómicas que incumplan las leyes de un Estado de Derecho, reconocido internacionalmente. Es una tarea de regeneración institucional y legal de las instituciones autonómicas y locales a medio plazo. Y que exige la anuencia, la decisión y el apoyo de una mayoría de partidos y ciudadanos

Si esto no se hace, los separatistas recalcitrantes se agazaparán y acudirán de nuevo a otras elecciones autonómicas. Y podemos llegar a tener un Parlament y un Govern cualitativamente iguales a los disueltos por los jueces.

Lo que está en juego es la ruptura de una de las naciones más viejas de Europa. Y que surgió y se mantiene cuando sus componentes sociales territoriales comprueban y aceptan la apuesta de vivir en común todos, para superar las debilidades y limitaciones de dichos territorios aislados. Nación española de la que forman parte los catalanes desde su inicio y establecimiento. Y los secesionistas no ofrecen al pueblo catalán por esa ruptura, una contraprestración clara de derechos, libertades y progreso para él. Una prueba del aventurerismo pequeño burgués de las tesis separatistas es el alejamiento de sus ideas excluyentes de la práctica totalidad de las instituciones y naciones europeas.

Los mandos secesionistas manejan los argumentos demagógicos, las medias verdades y las interpretaciones históricas sesgadas como nadie, para atraer y mantener a su electorado potencial. Porque, la verdad es relativa y es un medio más para ellos, en aras de la libertad del pueblo catalán. Y alimentan sus afanes separatistas con odios variopintos hacia la Nación donde se hicieron grandes los pueblos hispanos. Es el paradójico y vesánico rencor, por otra parte, muy recurrente, contra aquél que te ha ayudado mucho y con el que has compartido tu vida.

Su argumentario político se basa en la explotación de las pasiones humanas, que son insaciables, por definición epistemológica. La codicia de tener más que el otro, sin considerar la intercomunicación de los beneficios en las sociedades modernas democráticas. El egoismo del abandono de la solidaridad nacional, sin admitir que en todas las naciones hay zonas más atrasadas y deprimidas que otras. La mentira de la manipulación y tergiversación de la historia recorrida común; como instrumento de justificación de sus acciones imperiosas y disolventes. La envidia, como expresión de las propias carencias anímicas; representada y satisfecha de momento, en la utópica nación independiente catalana, llena de ventajas y bendecida por la diosa Fortuna. Derramando sobre ella su cuerno inagotable de placer, dinero y bondades personales y sociales. La vanidad de los mandos separatistas, que se satisface cuando piensan en la admiración que creen despertar en los demás.

Las virtudes sociales, enseñadas y aprendidas en gran parte por el ejemplo observado y recibido, son los únicos y verdaderos frenos contra las tentaciones que surgen de las pasiones desbocadas del alma de los hombres.

Reflections about Spain and Catalonia.

Introduction.

The nation is one and unique by essence. And it arises from the commitment of the citizens to live in community. And it is kept and preserves in the defense of this union, which is loved, against his enemies of inside and outside. A nation is provided with one social politics selfconsciousness. And collaborate to create and support it the history, the tradition and the customs, and the own language and moral sense. And contribute secondly to it the own ethnia and the territory, that not always exist, specially the first one. This way, the territory of a country is not a nation. Nor it is not the inarticulate population of a territory under an only one government.

«The Nation is stronger with the unity of his sons and the members of the families than by the military power».

Though the territory that occupies is necessary to give a nation the possibility of supporting a social administrative structure, that guarantees the exercise of his sovereignty. In spite of the «civilized» current times, all we know the problems and the discomforts that suffers the Kurdish people, deprived of a national own territory and «distributed» between Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. One of the essential problems of the Kurds is that they form a part of despotic countries and, even, ethnically exclusive. This way, in these countries, they are considered to be citizens of secondclass, different, and, even, potentially dangerous, on having been always national minorities. But, endowed with a strong social cultural identity, which prevents his absorption by the rest of the national populations to whom they belong.

In a nation fit several not antagonists ethnias. Because his base is the life together conviviality, the respect and the rights and duties for all. And so long as they love this «harmonic set» of persons and his well-being, peace and jointly progress destinies.

When the nation is loved by his components and there exists in them the desire to serve and defend her in community, the concept of the motherland appears. Both ideas are interrelated essentially. And, the absence of the patriotism or the shame to practise it by members of a «social political community», leads to the defenselessness and the dismemberment of his nation, in major or minor degree. Being formed then «groups of associate individuals» with dissolvent ideas and interests of the naional group.

GUARANTOR OF THE UNITY AND SYMBOL OF THE PATRIOTISM.

It is not of surprising that the Defense Forces of a nation are, as institutions and in his members, which hoist, teach and practise the patriotism, as one of his essential virtues. Because it is possible only to die for what is loved. The Defense Forces of a nation are the specialized set of the «nationals or patriots» for the belligerent and complete Defense of his «national country«.

The common historical flow of live in unity, progress and peace.

In the XIVth and XVth century, the Castilian turns into the language of the State, entering in struggle with the educated Latin, to which it displaces. The «toledan dialect» will contribute the linguistic procedure to the Castilian. The Castilian prose spreads and puts the finished touches in the extensive literature of the High Middle Age. The advance of the Reconquest in the whole Andalusian territory, with his 4 small kingdoms of culture and Islamic religion, drived by the «unevenness in the centrifugal impulse» of the Christians, incorporated numerous words of Arabic root into the Castilian. Following a process of enrichment and idiomatic definition, progressive and extensive, similar to the already seen in previous stages. There appears Antonio Nebrija’s Grammar, which defines the new Spanish language.

During the 16th century, the Castilian, which happens to be the Spanish, turns into universal language. The Spanish is taking the role of literary language of the whole Spanish nation. Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Catalonia and Navarre (incorporated in Castile in 1512), will keep an administrative autonomies tied to the Crown of Spain. The Spanish presence in Europe, for his character of great world power, and his expansion in the Americas, take to the incorporation in the Spanish of numerous European and indigenous words.In this final epoch, the Spanish acquires the essential of his current structure.

A reconstruction of the first known Spanish national flag carried by Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the Great Captain, in Naples.

In this multiethnic and polycultural Nation that emerges with an immense vital force, all the Hispanic peoples made themselves big. In the 16th century all the inhabitants wanted to belong and to follow the paths of the Spains. Nation that arose in the desire of the royal subjects to coexist in her. And that was kept with his commitment to defend her in his concept and integrity.

There were not easy for Catalonia and Spain the times of Philip IV and the Count Duke of Olivares, Gaspar of Guzman, the favorite minister of the king from 1621. This had proposed to reform and stimulate the idea of Spain in the whole Kingdom and to recreate the Empire of Philip II. Spain had an enormous and long task ahead. But the capacities and the means were not at the needed height.

Philip IV was an apathetic and pusillanumous person. The program hit with a conformist and slow bureaucracy, called to realize it, and with the national oligarchies, called to follow it. Spain had wars and armed conflicts in all the Western Europe: in Germany, France, the Netherlands or Flanders, Italy and in the east and west parts of Spain. The soldiers, not always with good controls, were not fighting well. The Thirty Years War was continuing and in France, the cardinal Richelieu was arising as intelligent, tough and shrewd enemy of Spain.

The revolts of 1640 in Catalonia and Portugal (in December, the uprising of his oligarchies led to his final separation of Spain) were disastrous for the plans of Olivares. The revolt and Catalan secession or «war of the peasants» extended until 1652. It developed with the reforms of the Count Duke, to distribute and confirm the efforts of the peninsular regions in favor of the common interest. Till then, Castile had paid in a disproportionate way the expenses of the external commitments of the Habsburgs. The immediate reason of the rejection to these plans was that the Catalan oligarchy saw them as a threat to his historical freedoms. That actually were an administrative privileges of the medioevo, centred on that they forbid the Catalan troops to serve out of the Principality.

The beginning of the «Peasants Revolt» on the Corpus Day.

The frictions between the population and the exiguous forces quartered in Barcelona took to the raising of June, 7 (day of the Corpus Christi), that was generalized and extended by the whole Catalonia. This derived in a revolution of the poor and peasants against the nobles and the rich ones or Catalan oligarchy. Soon, this one recovered part of the control and asked for help and protection to France. Richelieu did not lose the opportunity to debilitate Spain and supported the seditious.

But, the Frenchmen, with his protectorate, made themselves immediately more onerous and greedy for the Catalans that Spain. For example, flooding the region of French highly rival products. This way, the Catalan oligarchy, which without a few clear and pondered aims, proposed to damage the Spanish Empire, harmed, with his senseless action and without the minor consideration, the Catalan people and his Principality. The cooling of the shock with France and the end of the Thirty Years War, allowed to send a Hispanic army who occupied easily Barcelona, in 1651.

In the Succession War of Spain of 1714, Catalonia fighting close to Spain, supported the Habsburg candidate, who was the dynastic line of succession. If was reigning the Borbon, of the royal French dynasty, a new dynasty was accepted and imposed in the royal Spanish throne. This would join us to France for temporal «family agreements», which not always would be favorable or neutral for the Spanish nation. We have the case of Carlos III, with very useful prime ministers for the Kingdom and with a personal behavior that, for discreet, was good. Which, before, when he was king of Naples, was humiliated by the Royal Navy. And that immediately of ascending to the throne, established a family agreement with France, which took us in 1763 to an unnecessary and bad war with England.

Gained the civil war by Philip V, whose troops had access by our ground borders, Catalonia was occupied by his troops. But, again, Catalonia received the treatment that his importance was deserving in the Spanish nation. And, prompt, the Decrees of New Plant and other administrative dispositions were favoring it in the flow of life of the Hispanic peoples.

Catalonia fights in 1714 for the dynastic continuity in Spain.

The Fathers of the Motherland are not his owners.

To believe themselves is a common perception of the despots and «modern national liberators«. It has his origin in the conduct of the satraps and absolute ancient monarches. And it is reinforced furthermore when, as in the Islam, the religion consolidates and sustains also the political power that they exercise.

The dynastic corruption of the Pujol family, implicitly accepted by his followers and extras, for being the visible promoter of the modern «Catalan sovereignty», is one of the parasitic ivies that took possesion of the Catalan public moneys.

The commissions of even more than the famous 3% indicated by Pascual Maragall in the Parlament, gathered methodically by Convergence and Union, the party of the Catalan bourgeoises, has managed to cover with mud the Palace of the Lyceum. Party that was dissolved in 2016, with his impeded headquarters, and it re-turned in the PdeCat.

And a provincial institution of State condition, as is the Deputation of Barcelona, destined to help in his management the small municipalities with minor structures, turned aside around 12 million Euros, assigned by the National budget, to the members of the PdeCat party. Of which, the last 2 millions were destined to the aims of the international cooperation and development (operation Estela of the Spanish National Police, on May 25).

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