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Matthew Bennett 2y ago 💬 4

A summary of Sánchez's proposed amnesty law for Catalan separatists in English for you:

🔴Vox: to file criminal complaint against Sánchez

🔴Vox: to seek urgent Supreme Court injunction

🔴PP: Sánchez "has filed the paperwork to become a totalitarian"

1. Applies to all crimes related to Catalan separatist, independence or secession process

2. Between 2012 and 2023

3. Judges get two months to put it into practice, "urgently"

4. With a special mention for the 2014 referendum (Artur Mas) and the 2017 referendum (Puigdemont)

5. All crimes related to promoting, procuring, organising or executing any kind of independence of Catalonia, or collaborating or assissting to do so in any way

6. All crimes related to money, the misuse of public funds, or abusing the authority of public office

7. Contempt of court, public order offences, attacking police officers, resisting arrest, blocking police ofciers, abuse of authority, public criticism of authorities

8. NOT INCLUDED: murder, serious assault, torture, inhumane traetment, terrorism, treason, crimes against the financial interest of the EU, racism, antisemitism, anti-gypsyism

9. Amnesty means: crimes do not exist, release from jail or detention, elimination of criminal record, arrest warrants and search orders expire immediately, bail conditions expire immediately, no administrative fine processes

10. Amnesty also means any public workers involved also get their jobs back with full rights and a clean record

11. There is a paragraph on page 16 that makes sure to point out that there will be no restrictive bail measures of any kind, or jailing of anyone on remand, even if someone appeals the process, or tries to argue it is unconstitutional

12. Amnesty bill modifies Criminal Code, adding "amnesty" to list of reasons criminal responsbility is extinguished.

13. Amnesty bill modifies Accounting Tribunal Act, adds "amnesty" to list of reasons financial responsibility is extinguished.

14. In very long preamble, government argues the law is constitutional because it is "singular" and applies very spefically to a well-defined set of circumstances.

15. Government argues that the bill is needed to deal with an "exceptional situation" in "the general interest" in order to foster greater political and social coexistence in Spain.

16. Government argues that if the amnesty were not to go ahead, social and political tensions with Cataln separatists could continue into the future.

17. Spanish government argues that other European countries and European law back the principle of amnesty. Cites Italy, France, Portugal, Germany, UK, Austria, Belgium, Ireland and Sweden.

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mambru 2y ago

This was refreshing, to see a post about a topic other than nostr itself, bitcoin or alt-right 🫂

Matthew Bennett 2y ago

Hopefully it will pick up if I keep posting stuff here.

CitizenPedro 2y ago

Great analysis!

This post came out way to big but since I started it....

While I understand the frustration and I'm sure I share a lot of perspective with the people that are annoyed by this, in my view and talking specifically about this amnesty issue, this is one of those issues that is not truly important to the common man. I think the whole situation is more of a last drop / last straw like situation plus Vox's obsession on Spain's unity. And my main gripe is who really cares about the unity of Spain when the every single political move is making everyone poorer in Spain? Taxes, overegulation, de-industrialization, lack of sovereignty, lack of vision, lack of principles. Lack of people-affirming values in general. Same as everywhere in the world as we all probably have noticed. Lack of real love of life, love of individuality, of people, of beauty, of virtue, hard work, meritocracy. Just a big dosage of do what you're told because we know better. Top-down-whatever-the-elites-decide-today. But yes, overall very agreeing with the frustration.

In my view the real reason for this being taken to the extreme is mostly because of Vox's the obsession with Spain's unity. For some reason Vox is obsessed with the unity of Spain. I think it's one of those top-down party elite things that nobody really argues against because of god knows what. Again who really cares about Spain's unity when everyone is getting poorer? I think it's one of those ideas that come from the Fascist school in Spain i.e unity above all else. But I don't know. On the other hand, of course I think people should hit the streets!

I do understand that the Spanish people (or a large section of the population) are in a last drop like situation and their using this to push other frustrations, that I think are more important and I for sure agree much more. So overall I agree but honestly for me it's just sad that society is being so colectivized by parties. i.e parties have too much power in the current world system. Like, it seems like things only get organized if parties truly mobilize things. And that's what sad in my view.

I think Vox suffers (and this will be more and more noticed the more power is given to the party) from what all the political parties problems apart from a few projects/people in the world suffer. The lack of real individual rights principles/values and real democracy. Things won't truly change as long there's no real democracy. These parties are also a thing of the past.

The NAP (non-agression principle) and referendums like in Switzerland is what the people need. All over the world. In my view. Liberty and democracy. That's what's coming next at the political level.

Again, great post. Following. Let's bring it on! Nostr is going to change the world :)

mambru 2y ago

Wow Spirit, that's some deep thoughts there... I think I understand you and it's a refreshing view. I tend to be more nihilist than that, so I love this 😉