CATALONIANS ONLY ASK THE RIGHT TO VOTE

WE WANT TO VOTE! Is the howl that invades every town and corner of Catalonia, at the North Eastern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. In the mean time Spanish officials are dedicated to spreading infamies on a supposed social confrontation taking place in our land, due to our request for a voting opportunity. Only totalitarian minds could fabricate such a stupid political contraception, that the exercise of democracy could be the cause for social confrontation. 

Representative images of the Spanish regime are the King’s youngest daughter (impeached on charges of profiting from and laundering of fraudulent money), and the Minister of Interior Affaires, Jorge Fernández-Díaz, a frustrated junior dictator, fabricator of decrees to punish and imprison anyone who expresses in public non acceptance of the Government’s politics. He is the same official who justifies murder by drowning of 15 Africans who, after crossing the Sahara desert in quest for freedom were received, while swimming towards the Spanish coast (Ceuta) with rubber bullets and gases by border guards. We are looking at the same Spanish Government that tramples over civilian rights and liberties in Catalonia, to which we respond with a simple, democratic, peaceful and civilized sentence: 

WE JUST WANT TO VOTE! 

The same picture seems to offer the Gallardón Law which pretends to subject women to the Catholic totalitarian castration of sexual liberties, loss in ownership of their bodies and freedom of maternity rights.  To these monstrosities Catalonian women and men respond: 
WE JUST WANT TO VOTE! 

Madrid has increased social differences between common citizens and lords by anti historic changes in judicial practices which impose difficulties in procedures, multiply court rates and increase geographic distances between people and court rooms. Against such measures we react by demanding: 

WE JUST WANT TO VOTE! 

Our official language, Catalan, our Mediterranean culture, folklore, great artistic inheritance, even our surprisingly Olympic and sports triumphs, are in permanent danger due to Spain’s insistence to destroy.  To such perverse actions we respond: 

WE JUST WANT TO VOTE! 

It is well know that official corruption in Spanish Government is grotesquely crushing, out of dimension, repetitive and unpunished, so much  that is has become motive for international scandal. Politicians, bankers and public contractors, can do at will. Theft ad fraud is common practice in a country where judges and prosecutors have to overlook and save their jobs. Judges who have sent corrupted politicians or bankers to jail have immediately been prosecuted and lost their jobs while thieves are freed overnight. To such abusive use of power Catalonians demand: 

WE JUST WANT TO VOTE! 

The historical exploitation of Catalonia by Spain is world known. In all circumstances we have continued supporting the Spanish Royal Court and attaché human machinery, inevitably composed by officials of corrupted inheritance. We have decided that it is time that we enjoy our own creativity and efforts, thus we claim: 

WE JUST WANT TO VOTE! 

Our determination to exercise democracy has been refuted on various totalitarian arguments, some more absurd than others. The worst of them all is a supposed social conflict created in Catalonia by the demanded rights to vote. The incredible Minister Fernández-Diaz reached the zenith of stupidity by claiming that Catalonians had not been able to celebrate Christmas because families were divided on the independence bill. At the same time this infamous superhero has not been capable of answering why over 1,6 million people show up every year in towns, cities and roads of Catalonia without any trouble and how come Spanish festivities like Colombo’s Day,  can be celebrated by hundreds of people in downtown Barcelona without any disturbances. Of course, this Minister looks the other way when dozens of fanatical Nazis out of Madrid go looking for trouble to Barcelona. In the face of facts we only say: 

WE JUST WANT TO VOTE! 

One and a half million Spanish immigrants came to Catalonia during the past Century and got integrated into society without problems. The same process is taking place since twenty years back with over a hundred thousand Arabians, Latinos and East Europeans who have found here a new home. Almost all of these new Catalans repeat alongside with us: 

WE JUST WANT TO VOTE! 

The ancestors of Minister Fernández-Diaz also came to Catalonia looking for a job and a place to live. Unfortunately they were one of a small group of never satisfied people who assumed the task to change the Catalan culture and history to their own satisfaction. Like a dog that bites the hand that feeds it, their son, now Minister, prefers Spanish absolutism to democracy and repression instead of governing. Never the less we still offer him hospitality when he visits us and whisper on a friendly tone: 

WE JUST WANT TO VOTE! 

Well into the XXI Century, the World observes with astonishment at Spain’s denying of democracy and reducing citizens to the level of serfs. Authorities pretend to enslave women to the ruling of the Church’s head Cardinal, justice is no better that a bad joke, culture is considered an enemy of the State, and the Country itself constitutes the private enterprise of a large group of bandits. As they inherited the power from their ancestors, they will deposit it to their youngsters. In short, Spain’s upper class constitutes, together with Italy’s Mafia, the most putrid human club of the Western World. In front of such medieval monster, small Catalonia steps out every year on September 11^th, our National Day, flooding towns and cities, valleys and mountains, always smiling and raising our flags, hollering:

WE JUST WANT TO VOTE!