Discouraged Words

By Javier Marías

Speaking of torture methods of police at the October 1st referendum in Barcelona is insulting to all the people in the world who suffer and continue to experience real torture.

In turbulent times, when events change in a few hours, it is annoying to write, knowing that what you write will reach readers two weeks later. But in the Catalan case, there is something that will not change, neither now nor ever, in the most horrible way that meaning is emptied. Catalan pro-independence politicians, and not only those (also the leaders of the Omnium and ANC organisations that are pro-independence, who no one has chosen and who still hold themselves top-competitive) have consistently offended. But I don't want to discuss the countless insults they have done to other Spaniards, with a more special commitment to insulting people from Extremadura, Andalusia and poor Madrillia. Let's just leave this mess alone, and let's give it a look at what's missing.

The greatest visions were made toward people worldwide, past, and present. Such reproach is the result of serious triviance, words that cannot be used without a loathing. A country with a higher self-government rate than any other equivalent entity in Europe or in the two Americas (greater than the Lads in Germany or states in the United States); where people have made free choices in different elections for almost four decades; where language is protected and there is no stopping of any kind placed on it; a place that is, or was, one of the most prosperving places in the continent; where, and there have been absolute freedom of expression and freedom of any kind; where people live, in peace; and in a place praised the rest of the planet with the right towns and the amazing villages; and there are absolute freedom of expression of expression, and freedom of self-rule-rulers; and for the last and for the last years of leadership; and for all, whatever, there are, there are five and then then, there are five times, there are five times, and five times, there are five and five; and five; and five; and five; and five; and five; and five; and five; and five; and five; and five; and five; and four; and four; and the others, there are, there are, there are, there are, there They claim to be oppressed, occupied, humiliated, and constantly appeal to democracy when they shamelessly violated the same democratic principles that they want to eliminate even in the republic, where the judges would be placed and controlled by politicians, where freedom and free press would be eliminated both, where those who were considered enemies or non-conventionals for the regime would be reported. They claimed freedom to call it the Catalan politicians and their supporters who do not want independence asfasists, while writer Juan Marse described it as traitor. No one should feel bitter or depressed by all of this - it's like Mussolini's friends calling others fascists. Imagine the value of such reproach from the mouths of those who are in reality.

The greatest offense is against those individuals who really are, or were, oppressed and deprived of freedom; against those who have never tasted democracy in their lives, and who never had the chance to vote. To begin with all of us who suffered Under Franzo's savage regime, where there was no political party and no freedom of speech, where a student could spend two years in prison just because he carried a flyer, not to mention what could happen if a unionist was caught doing it. It was not just the Catalans who suffered Franzo, nor did they suffer the most, and many Catalans even embraced Francoism and gave no support to his regime. It's insulting. People in Syria and Iraq Which was either under Daesh's boot, which is oppression and humiliation. It is a humiliation against women in Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries who lack basic rights and are merely reduced to slavery. It is an insult to Cubans, who had no right to vote for six decades; against the kilo and the silversmiths who experienced severe military dictatorships, where people were disappearing and tortured. Talk about the torture regimes of the police on October 1st, as did a Catalan television display, confessing terrible lies, and posing insults to all these people who have experienced real torture, and who continue to experience, in different areas of our planet. As for the fierce impression of that day, I don't know what word to use for police sentences during the Franco dictatorship, which many of us have personally experienced. This is true today in a country like Venezuela. It's called brutal and cruel what the police did in Catalonia mean knowing nothing of the meaning of those words. And that's a good thing. Let's hope today's generations don't know about these things.

The way words are misused indicates the greatest offense and the greatest lack of respect. Furthermore, the way numbers are misused, as was the case in Catalonia, where 47% was interpreted as a major or as a clear ʹmanda. It was a clear sign that we are, with all the consequences and purposes, in the presence of the imitators of Mussolini who oddly describe themselves as being oppressed, humiliated and free of freedom, and who call them "fascers" who may soon end up as their victims. / periscope / elpais