talk about 'double standards'... 11/10/2017 0 Comments   by E.L. Christianson Jr. We and our European puppet partners say lots of things because it sounds good to hear ourselves saying certain things.  What we, and they say, however, has nothing to do with our policy decisions.   Libraries can be filled with our utterances about 'democracy', but in truth, democracy means absolutely nothing as related to our actions in 'real life'.  That a population was 'free' to vote and overwhelmingly made a statement at the voting booth has absolutely no relationship to the reaction of the United States government toward the results of that election. If there is any constancy, it is that we consistently reject any election results we do not like.  Venezuela is a perfect example of our current hostility toward the democratically chosen outcome.  Actually many places in South America (among other places in the world) can be shown to be similar examples of United States rejection of the democratic process. And all the while, we run around shouting at the top of our lungs about freedom and democracy and the such (and killing people). We make all sorts of claims about the ill-legitimacy of such and such election, or the illegality of such and such election, claiming 'fixed election results' and 'intimidation of voters', and on and on. We pretend these things are unrelated to Hillary's fixing the Democratic primary, or these intimidations are unrelated to removing minorities from the electorate, or these things are all unrelated to 'money' owning the entire American political process.  That only 2 parties have a prayer for success in the United States makes every election illegitimate. Spain, a member of our puppet squad in the European Union, is rejecting democracy - rejecting election results. Nobody is even questioning the legitimacy of the election results.  Regardless of what the people have overwhelmingly said they favor while holding their elections in the face of a vicious police crackdown, Spain is moving troops into position to establish control and to maintain dominance. 'There will be no independence here' and 'to hell with democracy'. It is sometimes difficult to keep track of the various circumstances around the world.  In recent memory, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. The European Union enthusiastically supported Kosovo’s breakaway from the Serbian republic.   That was ok because the United States was destroying what was formerly Yugoslavia. So, in trying to keep track of the score, Kosovo was an acceptable secession but Catalonia is not. Europe's leaders seem to universally support Spain, declaring that the Catalonia situation to be wholly an internal issue for Spain and that it must be solved within the bounds of the Spanish constitution.  That attitude makes the independence movement seem to be illegal and ignores whatever issues led to the succession movement in the first place. If one is paying attention, one would easily notice that the circumstances in Kiev were not determined to be an internal matter for Russia.  And in spite of 'democratically elected' leaders in Kiev, the United States and the puppet European Union felt 'obliged' to intervene in favor of Ukrainian independence.  But then, that was in Russia. An article by Ishaan Tharoor points to the truth about the situation in Spain.  “If this were Crimea, say, or friendless, penniless Greece, Angela Merkel would be in full mediation mode by now,” wrote Guardian columnist Simon Tisdall.  “But when it comes to Catalonia, Germany’s chancellor, whose [own party] is allied with Spain’s ruling party, is otherwise engaged.”   So, too, is French President Emmanuel Macron, who, in a major speech last week, energetically championed a more “integrated Europe” - a call echoed by Catalonia’s secessionists, who are fiercely pro-Brussels - yet said he supported Spain’s “constitutional unity” this week. To be fair, no Western European leader is going to speak up for separatists in another Western European country.  But the standoff between Barcelona and Madrid betrays the complex tensions boiling within Europe - a mess of cosmopolitan ideals, nationalist agendas and regional aspirations for more direct governance. In the United States, we know something about secessionists movements.  Right here at home, the federal government put down such a movement in the mid 19th century resulting in the deaths of nearly 650,000 people, and that's the truth !!!