Re:Catalan referendum: 'Hundreds injured' in Catalan clashes
by Aaargh20318 on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:15AM
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> The people of the democratic government democratically voted for the part of the Spanish Constitution that bars this kind of unilateral declaration of independence.
Are you sure the same people who voted for that constitution are the ones doing the protesting ? I'm not sure about Spain, but I know for a fact that I didn't vote for the constitution of my country, in fact it was written about 160 years before I was even born.
Re:Catalan referendum: 'Hundreds injured' in Catalan clashes
by ringaroundthetx on Sunday October 01, 2017 @12:43PM
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From what I recall, the thing making this referendum illegal something from the 1970s....
Not sure if that changes your opinion
and it also doesn't answer the question of why the national government is bothering anyway
Re:Catalan referendum: 'Hundreds injured' in Catalan clashes
by mcguire on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:28AM
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Are you arguing that you are not bound by any laws enacted before you could vote?
Re:Catalan referendum: 'Hundreds injured' in Catalan clashes
by Aaargh20318 on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:51AM
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No, I'm arguing that I should have a choice wether to be a member of a society and as a result get all the benefits thereof and be subject to that society's laws, or not.
It's a package deal. I either join the club, benefit from being a member, and have to play by the clubs rules or I don't.
States in spain are incapable of declaring independence from the national government. This was a democratic process. A democratic process inside one state, just to get that state to say it is separate, doesn't change that.
So the parent's question still standards. If the referendum is illegal, why does the national government bother at all? It can ignore the referendum.