Obviously, within the frame of basic freedoms that should
consecrate any democratic constitution, every citizen, personally, or through
the participation mechanisms established, has the right to publicly express
their views, opinions and aspirations, with the unique and inexcusable
condition of respect and abide the laws in force. The strength of peoples
depends precisely on the union of all its members, of mutual respect, in that
there is not any cracks between public institutions, and is, in turn,
prerequisite to achieve the necessary degree of confidence, internal and
external, to overcome the difficulties and take advantage by the opportunities
that exist in the globalized world in which we live now. When these assumptions
are not met, the immediate result is the generation of internal conflicts and
tensions, leading, inexorably, to the loss in the image projected abroad, and,
if not corrected immediately and effectively, the consequences lead directly to
the abyss of failure.
Movements Catalans separatist |
In the Spanish case, the continuing and persistent gaffes of
Catalan and Basque nationalists and, more modestly, the Galicians, which based
on historical arguments pilgrims, beginning each one the story in the moment where more suit them, with more
interest to the ruling class and those who are always glued to power that for
the common and current people, are putting a discordant note that could end up
hurting, in serious form, to the whole State. Not is that the nationalist idea
of these communities be new, but the inappropriateness of exacerbating this
concept and talk openly of independence in a tender moment that Spain is
passing as a nation, is a torpedo in the water line that can sink the boat in
which we traveled all Spanish. The illusion that, without much success by the
way, they want to transfer to the citizens of those communities, based on the
idea that if they can get the independence will live better than within the
Spanish nation, is false from beginning to end. The attempt to sell the idea
that if they become independent states could be incorporated to the European
Union as the such, when the reality is that this would require the acceptance
of all current members, besides that the country in which secession occurs has
veto power, the which, for obvious reasons, without hint of doubt, your project
would become unviable. Without the synergy that provides Spain, and isolated in
Europe, with weak structures to survive as sovereign states, the future looks
not very promising; clear that, in all these situations, there's always someone
that takes very good advantage, but, as usual, at the expense of many losers:
those who always have to endure stoically all the hardship and scarcely
involved in the benefit.
Inpossible dreams |
Times past |
Luckily that to this extensive chain of nonsense, deployed in
the most inopportune time, don't are aggregated other communities that could
also argue other historical reasons for feeding this deranged controversy. What to say if, for example,
Asturias will reclaim the lands gained in times of the death of Alfonso III (year 910),
when the Astur kingdom included lands of Galicia, extending its borders to the
north of Portugal to Coimbra, and Castile until the kingdom of Pamplona, at a
time when the rest of the Iberian Peninsula was dominated by the Emirate of Córdoba,
under the name of Al-Andalus? I sincerely believe that Spain, at this moment,
is not for this kind of jokes, and which, united under the 1978 Constitution,
is should strengthen unity among all peoples, without exception, raising the
national consciousness over any other interest, direct or group, and try to
push all in the same direction; without doubt that will be the only way to
overcome the crisis and keep the way of progress. Remain out of time and place,
staying anchored in reveries of the past, not lead anywhere, is as amazing as
if someone pretend go to hunt dinosaurs, ignoring that these became extinct 65
million years ago and that, besides,
anymore will return.
C. Díaz Fdez.
Oviedo, October 2012