"Whatever the legality of separatism, once the desire for independence reaches a critical point, governments must deal with it in three ways:
crush it, bow to it, or negotiate in good faith, knowing that separation may still be the outcome.
Mr Rajoy has failed to grasp the nature of this choice.
First he blocked the nationalists in the courts, and, last weekend, he resorted to force.
His deployement of policemen to supress the Catalan vote was not only a propaganda gift to them but, more important, crossed a line.
Agression against crowds of peaceful citizens may work in Tibet but cannot be sustained in a Western democracy. In the contest between formal justice and natural justice, natural justice wins eventually every time.
Constitutions serve to serve the citizens, nor the other way around. Rather than uphold the rule of law as he intended, Mr Rajoy ended up tarnishing the ligitimacy of the Spanish rule".
"Any settlement, though, must include the option of a referèndum on independence", says The Economist. The magazine says too that to declare now the independence would be "reckless and irresponsable".
crush it, bow to it, or negotiate in good faith, knowing that separation may still be the outcome.
Mr Rajoy has failed to grasp the nature of this choice.
First he blocked the nationalists in the courts, and, last weekend, he resorted to force.
His deployement of policemen to supress the Catalan vote was not only a propaganda gift to them but, more important, crossed a line.
Agression against crowds of peaceful citizens may work in Tibet but cannot be sustained in a Western democracy. In the contest between formal justice and natural justice, natural justice wins eventually every time.
Constitutions serve to serve the citizens, nor the other way around. Rather than uphold the rule of law as he intended, Mr Rajoy ended up tarnishing the ligitimacy of the Spanish rule".
"Any settlement, though, must include the option of a referèndum on independence", says The Economist. The magazine says too that to declare now the independence would be "reckless and irresponsable".
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