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@Aaron92utd: agreed. Today’s Monarchy by nature are the descendants of whoever was most bad ass and ruthless back in the day before police forces etc.
They basically got a monopoly on violence by killing their competitors & taking their land, so that they could extract taxes from business and peasants. On their death they pass on the rights to the taxes to their descendants… todays monarchies.
@Aaron92utd: If not “to rule” anymore, its still the divine right to spend half your life in a casino or a high class brothel and own loads of land you are not entitled to as well as get a massive state subsidy for yourself and your shady friends as well as buy yourself influence for the entitled rich with the plebian politicians who will promote your agents and interests to avoid taxes for yourself and friends.
@mmz: Wait until you read what the wealthy and puppet government’s are suggesting as a future solution in Davos. That people below the entitled classes should not own property/property rights and should rent from a landlord (i.e. from the entitled classes).
@DJ François: It can be found on YouTube and various other websites where anyone can post anything at all based on whatever they heard or watched on those same websites.
@Gerry Ryan: the monarchy is an imposition of the dictator so impossible to leave behind. However the offence is the less strick law than UK if someone insult in public the queen and the royal family …. maybe you should update yourself
@Da Dell: Last time I checked Spain is not the EU. This case actually has absolutely nothing at all to do with the EU, other than occurring in one of the member states.
@Mark Wallace: Dont see the EU commentating about the freedom to protest in one of its own member states or in Catalonia . but see plenty on outside the EU, but you knew what was meant. Nice try,
@Da Dell:
When you say that you don’t see the eu commenting on it, do you mean that you you’ve read newspapers from different eu countries and there’s no mention of it, or that there has been no correspondence between Brussels and Madrid? Are you saying that you’re monitoring all these different channels so that you can make that claim?
@Laura Walsh: So it’s a fascist state with is under the rule of a left wing coalition who have said they’re changing the law? I think you may need to look up the meaning of fascist.
@Mark Wallace: have they changed the law yet? No. Are the police acting to arrest those who speak out against the monarchy? Yes. So currently, like for a lot of their past, Spain are acting like a fascist state who actively target catalan and basque separatists. And also, don’t be so condescending as to tell me what I need to look up, I’m more than educated enough thanks.
@Laura Walsh: police have to police a demonstration/riot and enforce the law whether they like it or not oh learned one.. But I guess you knew this.. Night night.. Hope that hat keeps you warm..
@Togs: my comment was referring to the arrest of a catalan rapper. And the use of excessive force in doing so as well. And I’d like to hope that Irish people would protest if a musician was arrested for singing about disliking FG. So really not sure what your reply is supposed to mean. My hat is really warm though yeah, so thanks for that.
UK has more strick law about insulting the queen and the royal family … so less drama and more culture. The Monarchy in Spain is supported by the Catholic church in Rome, there are the first Catholic Monarchy, most European monarchies hold this title too … it is a kind of Quality Certification and Union that brought peace to European.
The other offence is about encouraging terrorism in a democratic society with the worse terrorism attracts in the modern history of Europe
I remember walk by USA embassy in Madrid and the tanks of the Spanish Army parked out, walk by police headquarters in Madrid and the police with assault guns on their hand ready to use, day night, well in democracy ….
I remember a child losing her leg because her mum’s car didn’t start that cold morning and took her dad’s car to take her to school, blow away
I remember that mum was told her husband was shut on the neck and son, a toddler, got a missing bullet and when she asked for the twin, a little two years old boy, no body knew it. He was found wondering the streets. This baby was holding the hand of his dad, when a terrorist decided to kill his dad from the back, a dad holding the hands of his twin toddlers … event in democracy
@Maria Quinn: I remember all the people kidnapped by terrorists well into democracy for not other reason than money, football player, business person and their families, people representative Councillors TDs and k.illing them despite of meeting the demands
Some spend over a year living in a grave-like place (zulos) without window, fresh air, sunlight
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