SPAIN'S CATALONIA REGION HAS JUST DECLARED INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGNTY FROM SPAIN | |
Saddletramp User ID: 812002 Puerto Rico 01/23/2013 10:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Obama says Texas couldn't do this...how come Catalonia can?!?!? "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 32909348 Portugal 01/23/2013 10:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Catalonia is an old nation with it's own language, history and traditions. It just happens to have been conquered by castille. The iberian peninsula is made up of different nations, almost all were assimilated by castille, which is now known as the kingdom of spain. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 32908432 United States 01/23/2013 10:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Secession is in the air. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 32874825 White House Rejects Texas Secession Petition Wednesday, 16 Jan 2013 07:48 PM Despite a White House rejection, supporters of a petition signed by more than 100,000 people continue to forge ahead with a petition allowing Texas to secede from the U.S. Supporters of the petition, the Texas Nationalist Movement, met with Republican leaders last week, The New York Times reports. The group wants Texas to sever its federal ties and become an independent nation, the newspaper reports. The officials included Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. The Texas Nationalist Movement also rallied on the steps of the state Capitol on the first day of the legislative session and visited lawmakers seeking support for a referendum on the secession issue. The group’s president, Daniel Miller, met with Dewhurst for about an hour. “We had a lengthy discussion about the U.S. Constitution, the Texas Constitution and the future of Texas,” Miller told the Times. “He was cordial and engaging on the issues with which we are concerned.” A spokesman for the lieutenant governor, Matt Hirsch, said that Miller was among several constituents who met with Dewhurst on the first day of the session — but that as a proud veteran, Dewhurst believed in preserving and protecting the Union. The Obama administration rejected secession petitions from residents of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and five other states, the Times reports. The Texas petition, with 125,746 signatures, said that withdrawal was “practically feasible” since the state had a balanced budget, according to the paper. The director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Jon Carson, wrote the Texas group, saying that free and open debate was good for democracy — and cited some of the legal arguments against secession, including an 1869 Supreme Court ruling that found that individual states did not have a right to secede. “Our founding fathers established the Constitution of the United States ‘in order to form a more perfect union’ through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government,” Carson wrote, according to the paper. “They enshrined in that document the right to change our national government through the power of the ballot — a right that generations of Americans have fought to secure for all. But they did not provide a right to walk away from it.” [link to www.newsmax.com] we are not spain. and there is still lots of good states that are fighting a good fight. it is useless dc and a few of it's neighbors. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 9247375 United States 01/23/2013 10:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Catalonia is an old nation with it's own language, history and traditions. It just happens to have been conquered by castille. The iberian peninsula is made up of different nations, almost all were assimilated by castille, which is now known as the kingdom of spain. Language???LOL!!! It's about money and people suffering. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 32909348 Portugal 01/23/2013 11:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Catalonia is an old nation with it's own language, history and traditions. It just happens to have been conquered by castille. The iberian peninsula is made up of different nations, almost all were assimilated by castille, which is now known as the kingdom of spain. Language???LOL!!! It's about money and people suffering. Yes they speak Catalan there! Yes they're richer than Spain! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 9247375 United States 01/23/2013 11:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Catalonia is an old nation with it's own language, history and traditions. It just happens to have been conquered by castille. The iberian peninsula is made up of different nations, almost all were assimilated by castille, which is now known as the kingdom of spain. Language???LOL!!! It's about money and people suffering. Yes they speak Catalan there! Yes they're richer than Spain! How much do they owe? Come on. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 32920610 Argentina 01/24/2013 04:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | C'mon Catalunya is one of the richest countries in europe! They have to pay for poor regions in the south like Andalucia that only have tourism! This guy gets it, listen to him. A friend of mine from Barcelona has explained to me at length the ideological differences between Catalunya and other regions of Spain. |
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insertfunnyusername User ID: 32224343 Greece 01/24/2013 11:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | True, send them to Mars or something. Last Edited by insertfunnyusername on 01/24/2013 11:16 AM |
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