If we say we have political prisoners, in Madrid they say it’s not true. They say that we have politicians in prison, but the politicians in Madrid do not see, or do not want to see, that the people who are in prison are democratically elected politicians, that all our politicians have done is show their faces by the people who elected them, by a political idea. If Madrid sees that this is a crime, then it should ban all political movement, if it does not, they are legitimizing all parties, PP, Cs or PSOE or any other political party that has presented itself in the elections. They are all the same, the only thing that differentiates them is ideology. If this is not prohibited, then all politicians are legitimate and cannot be put in prison, precisely, for their ideology, because they have been elected by the people, to be able to develop their political ideology to be able to bring it to terms, which is also the purpose of democracy to elect the party you want. One of my arguments is that these people who are in prison have not committed a crime, although in the eyes of the constitution, since the Republic was declared and automatically suspended seconds later. Then there was no conflict or break with the Sacred Unity of the Fatherland , you can perhaps talk about provocation, but not a crime, because things continued the same and having been able to change the jurisdiction, because it is the highest institution, and that is Parliament, and voted in favor of proclaiming a Catalan Republic. However, he didn’t do it, and everything continued the same… It makes no sense to present to Parliament a political idea like La Republicana Catalana, which has also been chosen by the voters, accepted, so that it can be in Parliament whenever it wants execute this political idea cannot be done. It’s nonsense, isn’t it? This thing about the yellow ribbons, it’s the same as what I just wrote right now. There are some people who do not see it clearly and remove the ribbons from the places where the yellow ribbons that we, the pro-independence people, have put, in a public place that they would have understood and respected, and that is a demonstration of a political expression, but they consider it an anti-democratic proposal. Constitutionalists must understand that the majority is the one that decided it. We would agree if it were the other way around. I think that when there is a group that is pulling ties, it is a provocation, and we should look for a dialogue “like what I am doing here with this reflection or analysis” and try to find a point of understanding. I don’t think dialogue is too difficult, they say that by talking you understand people. I hope so. In addition, the difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is precisely being able to publicly express everyone’s ideology , it is a right to use all public spaces, not private ones, and if we cannot use public spaces, then we will not have Freedom, neither of expression, nor of anything, and this is called dictatorship.
The other day, I was walking down the street, a man stopped me and asked me why I was wearing a yellow bow. I told him that it was because some people who had the same political ideas as me and who represented me in Parliament, were in prison, and that I found it very unfair that they were in prison and I wasn’t, when we had the same political ideas That is why I and many other people support them in this way and show our disagreement with this injustice. I also told him that he should support him because, if one day his deputies elected by the people went to prison, we would come to support him, and if we had to wear a yellow ribbon, we would wear it. This is called democracy. Also, when a person commits a crime, as they have done and more than 2 million people too, to vote for people who represent us, they have to go to jail, right? Well some are already there and the others more than 2 million, right? What do Spanish judges do? Don’t they do their job? Can’t they do it? They can’t put more than 2 million in jail, a judge has to judge what is good from bad, what is a crime from what is not a crime, and they don’t, what are these judges doing? They only put a few in prison to scare the Catalans, shame on the judges, these judges can’t put more than 2 million Catalans in prison, of course not!!! A judge cannot put an entire nation, a culture, a people in prison. This man, surprised by my explanation, left without saying anything to me. I don’t know if he understood what I told him or not!! Or he took me for a fool.
Enric Giné I Orengo