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Do not put your dirty hands on
Zola
The pro-independence movement
must apologize for the appropriation of Catalonia, fracturing society and
excommunicating the anti-independence segments
Barcelona,
February 19, 2019 (04:55 CET)
Manuel Vicent,
in the now defunct magazine Triunfo,
published a celebrated article entitled: Do
not put your dirty hands on Mozart (1981).
The protagonist of the article, fed up with the noisy, riotous and rude friends of his daughter, who destroyed the peace of his home with their screams and music, reacted when they tried to take Mozart's 40th Symphony to the 'burrow' of the girl.
It was then
that he snapped at his daughter: "Mozart, no! Do not put your dirty hands
on Mozart!!"
The Catalan pro-independence
movement wants to come up with Zola's 'J'accuse'
Today, almost
forty years later, I remember the article by Manuel Vicent, but with other
protagonists and title: Do not put your
dirty hands on Zola.
Today, the
Catalan pro-independence movement, faced with the trial against some of its
companions for alleged and serious crimes, pretends to come up with the “J'accuse” that Émile Zola published -in
relation to the Dreyfus case- in the first page of the Parisian newspaper L'Aurore of the 13th of January 1898.
The pro-independence
movement accuses the State of falsifying evidence to justify an unfair
political trial.
The Catalan pro-independence
movement, in the manner of Émile Zola, denounces the State for - they say -
constructing or falsifying evidence to justify an unjust political trial and a
condemnatory sentence drafted in advance. And, like the French writer, it propagates
its particular ‘I accuse’.
To the Catalan pro-independence
movement, in the manner of that Manuel Vicent that shreds facts, ideas and
beliefs, I say: Zola, no! Do not put your dirty hands on Zola!!
The evidence against the pro-independence
movement
And I say
something else to them:
1. You should admit
that you have perverted and trivialized ideas such as 'democracy',
'referendum', 'put the ballot box', 'vote', 'democratic mandate', 'division of
powers', 'right of self-determination', 'political prisoner' or 'exile'.
2. You should admit
that you have installed yourself outside reality and have turned politics into
an emotion and stomach issue that leads to the abyss.
3. You should admit
that in 2017 you subverted the autonomic and constitutional legality on
September 6 and 7, provoked the tumult on September 20 and 21, convened and
held the illegal referendum on October 1, announced independence on October 27.
And the game went wrong.
4. You should admit
that you mocked the democratic legality, the rule of law, international law,
parliament, almost all citizens of Spain and more than half of the citizens of
Catalonia.
5. You should admit that you were disloyal to the rule of law and you committed - the Supreme Court will say the last word - flagrant illegalities.
6. You should admit that the Catalan pro-independence movement is not love, but the peculiar
5. You should admit that you were disloyal to the rule of law and you committed - the Supreme Court will say the last word - flagrant illegalities.
6. You should admit that the Catalan pro-independence movement is not love, but the peculiar
manifestation of an egoism and a narcissism of the small differences that
believes to be entitled to everything for being what it is.
The pro-independence
movement must accept that they want a regime with an authoritarian vocation
7. You should admit
that - in the Francoist way? - you are setting up a regime and a national
movement that co-opts its members via a single party. Family, municipality,
union and media. Read Crida, ANC, Òmnium, AMI, Intersindical and copartners and
related media.
8. You should admit that it is a regime with an authoritarian vocation
based on the opposition 'we' versus 'them', favoritism, and the manipulation of
the conscience of a credulous and devout citizenry prone to exclusionary
identity fundamentalism.
9. You should
admit that the proposal of ‘referendum or referendum' demonstrates the will to
blackmail, the inability to negotiate and the propensity to breach the law.
The
independence movement must assume that the trial is not an attack on democracy,
but an act of self-defense
10. You should
admit that you are not the victim of an anti-democratic repressive state, but
the subject as agent attacking the democratic legality of the rule of law.
11. You should
admit that the trial against the pro-independence leaders is not an attack on
democracy, but an act of legitimate and democratic defense of democracy against
those who challenge coexistence and the law.
12. You should
admit that the trial against the pro-independence leaders does not show the
contrast between the dignity of the person who puts up ballot boxes and the
shame of the State that fears democracy, but between the dignity of the rule of
law and the shame of those fearing democracy and transgressing its rules.
13. You should
admit that the trial against the pro-independence leaders is not political, but
legal. Something you have earned for yourself.
14. You should
admit that the trial against the pro-independence leaders is a shame for sure.
The shame of those who, in a malevolent way, in the manner of the pro-independence
movement, systematically violate the democratic legality.
15. You should
admit that the Smile Revolution -
inappropriate expression for anyone who is always angry with himself and others
- has broken more than one plate. And burned containers, punctured wheels,
deposited excrements or thrown stones, fences and paint cans.
16. You should
admit that you do not have a carte blanche, nor can you appropriate the dignity
of a people.
The future of the pro-independence
movement
And I tell to
the Catalan pro-independence movement even more:
1. You should forget
about imposture, obsession, imposition, deceit, lies, farce, fantasy, fable,
soliloquy, obscene propaganda and libel. Also, proselytism and histrionism.
2. Do not use
Zola's name in vain to confuse the roles of victim and executioner; nor to build
a story, fallacies, images, feelings, emotions, grievances and enemy; nor to
unite the pro-independence world; nor to overheat the environment and mobilize
the mass.
3. Do not use
Zola's name in vain to sell the morality and legitimacy you need, and you do
not have, in order to continue the challenge that must lead –this is what you
think- to the momentum or final
impulse leading to the breakup with the State.
Forgiveness
You should rectify
and humbly ask for forgiveness.
You should rectify:
renounce demophobia, the authoritarian nationalist populism and the superior
state of political underdevelopment. You should embrace democratic legality and
the rule of law. You should go back to the real world, do politics and do not
add new evils to those already caused.
You should humbly
ask for forgiveness: for your appropriation of Catalonia, fracturing society,
colonizing or excommunicating anti-independence segments, infantilizing
politics, encouraging the flight of capital and investments, creating a parallel
reality, instigating conflict, generating fanaticism and chauvinism.
This is how
Manuel Vicent concluded his article in Triunfo:
liberated from his complexes, the protagonist of the story "threw [a
rhetorical license] out of his home by kicking that bunch of rogues" and
today it is "a man [not a rhetorical license] already free".
From the press: on the roof of the Plenary Hall of the Supreme Court, there is a fresco by Marceliano Santamaría (1924), which "the defendants will have over their heads", known as "The Law winning over evil or The defeat of crimes and vices in the presence of Justice".
Zola would not
have drawn it better.
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