Aprofitem aquesta obsessió espanyola contra la Conselleria d' Exteriors catalana per penjar al bloc la versió anglesa de l' article d'en Partal sobre la "sedició" i l' Assemblea Nacional de Catalunya (ANC) que va publicar Vilaweb:
I DECLARE MYSELF SEDITIOUS ...
In 1792
Thomas Paine published a pamphlet to answer the accusation of sedition that the
British monarch had attributed to him on the publication of his famous books,
one of which, ‘Common Sense’, was the essential text of the early years of the United States ’
struggle for independence.
Paine’s
answer to the King of England has gone into the history books of mankind and is
one of the most beautiful texts in defence of political freedom. The North American patriarch and
revolutionary said, ‘If exposing the fraud and the imposition of the monarchy,
promoting peace, civilisation and trade and breaking the chains of political
superstition is being seditious, you can write that I am on my grave. If
raising the people whose rights have been degraded to the place they belong is
seditious, I am guilty.’
More than
three hundred years later, the Catalan National Assembly has the honour of
being accused of being seditious by a court that does not want us to show our
people and the world the frauds and imposition of the monarchy, that intends to
stop us breaking the chains of political superstition, that is fearful of the
possibility that we might be capable of raising this degraded people to the
place where it belongs in the concert of nations.
The Spanish
Audience is an indignant court of exception, one of the most repugnant signs of
how the Francoist beast took to the trenches of the state institutions by
simply changing the name, and in this case not even changing the building, as
it changed from being the Francoist TOP to the National Audience without moving
a single chair or table.
Against the
exemplary Catalan independentist movement, the state has not been able to do
anything up to now, because it did not know where to catch us. But the desperation on seeing the clock
turning unceasingly, most certainly fired by the lack of government to do it,
obliged them yesterday to cross a line which in democratic countries is always
observed with caution: they formally accuse us of thinking and wanting
something. More still, they accuse us of promoting democracy as a method for
resolving the conflict. And it is
effectively so.
The Catalan
National Assembly today is the most powerful organisation in the country in the
number of people, in its capacity to move them, in its organisation and social
impact. There is nothing that can be
compared to it. We are hundreds of
thousands of people who pay our fees, who take part in its activities, who join
the events it organises, who send on communiques and tweets. It is a transparent
organisation, born from the base and free, and it goes without saying that it
is a peaceful, civic movement that has always shown its commitment to
democracy.
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