[Leica] Barcelona Demonstration for Freedom Political Prisoners

[Douglas Barry]

Thanks Lluis for your excellent photos which give a flavour of the 
pro-Catalan independence fervour in Spain, and also for helping me to 
learn a bit of Catalan - very much a mix of Spanish and French, so I can 
almost understand it - probably a bit better than Mr. Rajoy and the EU 
:-) I like the slogan "I am from a country where fear is called sanity" 
and being Irish, we all love a good slogan.

Sadly, slogans are not very effective, but action is. The only trouble 
with action is it can lead to trouble and lost lives, and those lost 
lives can be young people we care for deeply who get caught up in 
actions led by power seeking uncaring hotheads who make a shield for 
their own balls from easily manipulated youth.

A war-less, border-less Europe living through seventy years of peace 
probably doesn't need problems in Spain. In fact, they certainly don't. 
Sure, haven't we enough problems with delusional Britannia trying to 
waive the rules, living on fading memories, and trying restart the 
British Empire? It's bad timing and poor politicking by both the Catalan 
and Spanish to pick a time to split and to muscularly respond, and it 
seems almost disregarded by its politicians the obvious fact that if 
Catalunya leaves Spain, it leaves the EU. It seems to be poor judgement 
by Puigdemont. If you're going to start a fight, always make sure you've 
got the higher ground.

Anyway, Lluis, keep sending the pictures.

Douglas


On 12/11/2017 21:33, Lluis Ripoll wrote:
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