Spain Overreacts to a Little Catalan Rebellion - Bloomberg
CATALONIA
'A strong democracy can tolerate peaceful demonstrations, including
declarations of independence that have no chance of being backed up by
force. To a strong democracy, these challenges are properly understood
as symbolic.
When a democracy treats nonviolent symbolic
demonstrations as though they were an attempted coup, it signals that
its authorities aren’t very confident in their real-world power. Spanish
authorities may think they are sending a message to Catalans, and they are: It’s a message of insecurity.
Spain isn’t Turkey, and it shouldn’t behave as though it were. The
Catalan leaders challenged the Spanish constitution and lost. But they
did it peacefully, in the name of self-determination and democracy. That
shouldn’t be treated as a crime — not by a democracy confident in the
strength and power of the rule of law.'
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