Catalonia has gotten out of hand

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In Madrid there is talk now explicitly of determining "the state of exception" in Catalonia, in Barcelona it is believed that the feeling of indignation and frustration following judicial and police violence is generating the opportunity for a final pronouncement of separation from the kingdom of Spain .

The paradox has it that today we could determine the definitive reconciliation of the two Irelands, and in Spain and modern Catalonia we now explicitly refer to Ulster, because the division is not between Catalans and Spanish but above all in Catalonia itself.

The judicial process to the political "proces" of disconnection from the Kingdom of Spain has dealt implacable blows to the political action of the dome of the independence, despite among the lines of the sentence it could be observed that there was a crack for a condition favorable to the semi- almost immediate freedom for politicians and leaders of the independent civil society movement, the card played by the Catalan Government was that of civil disobedience, occupation of roads, highways, universities and Barcelona airport in full Hong Kong style. A wise internettian director evidently heterodirect outside the borders, an "anonymus" big brother who directed the "Tsunami Democratico" set hours and minutes and appointments of the popular protest. Everything appeared very predictable until the appearance of the radical fringes that we know because they infest all of Europe with their violence, and the "black blocks" largely Catalans but also infiltrated by thugs from all over Europe have set Laietana in focus and flames. long road that leads from the center to the port, in the middle of which there is the headquarters of the Spanish police.

The Independence loses its non-violent characteristic, the inevitable final outcome of the official appeal to "Civil disobedience" with the adoption of a line devoted to radicalism and confrontation, The Spanish State in the action of containing its forces The order resounds, as it was the 1st October of two years ago, the reason and implements an action in turn radical also against defenseless citizens. But it is the perverse logic of every street battle.

Sanchez tried to play the election card, sure of its increase after the European elections, today he finds himself with a territorial crisis at the height of his parable, and an electoral campaign in Spain that will have this "Catalexit" as a central theme while paradoxically in Britain is finding a political solution; exactly the scenario that Sanchez had in his head but turned upside down.

There is a political vacuum in Spain determined by the current Electoral Campaign, there is a Crisis within the Generalitat and in particular within the Presidency where Quin Torra, the exiled President's ventriloquist Puigdemont has politically placed himself at the head of the civil insurrection not controlling it, there is an obvious Public Order Crisis that can quickly and easily shift towards a low intensity conflict.

The Right blows on the fire and asks for exceptional measures, the dissolution of autonomy and the "State of exception". A great nation like the French Republic after months of siege of the Yellow Vests has come to the head of the problem without using extraordinary means, but with patience, certainly also by force but above all through a convincing political action.

It is to be hoped that this can happen in Catalonia and Spain and that Barcelona "the rebel" does not disguise itself in a Belfast of our twenties.

There are at present sufficient civil and democratic energies, so that the situation "out of hand" may fall within a different political perspective than a landlocked conflict; As long as politics resumes its role and puts on one side the handcuffs and the weapons that are only harbingers of misfortunes.