Thursday, March 20, 2014

Political police in Catalonia



Recently the various police forces in Scotland were united into a single force under the control of the Scottish government and known as Police Scotland. Now the Yes campaign has announced that it recognises a branch of its organisation called Police Scotland for Independence.

The first sentence of that is true. The second is not.

Recently Catalonia took control of its own police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, with the Spanish Policía Nacional and Guardia Civil losing all powers of regular policing.* Now the Assamblea Nacional Catalana, which is the Leninist revolutionary vanguard of Catalan independence, has announced that it recognises a branch of its organisation called Mossos per la Independència.

Both sentences of that are true.

*The Policía Nacional still do border checks and the Guardia Civil do airport security, as in all of Spain.

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