Spanish Military Association Wants to Declare State of War in Catalonia #news #politics #eu #usa

"Spain is a totally indissoluble nation. In case of threat of fracture
or separatism, according to article number 8 of the Spanish
Constitution, we have to guarantee the integrity of the territory.
Therefore, it is our opinion that we have to declare a state of war,
exception, or siege." This is the opinion of the president of the
Spanish Military Association (AME), Royal Logistics Colonel Leopoldo
Muñoz Sánchez, regarding the independence process in Catalonia.

That's how Colonel Muñoz expresses his opinion on behalf of one of the
three largest military associations of Spain, in a documentary about
the political process of Catalonia shown in the Dutch television
channel "Niewsur". The leader of the AME, then, would choose to
suspend, not only the Catalan institutions (as European Parliament
vice-president Alejo Vidal Quadras has suggested), but the exercise of
constitutional rights by the citizens of Catalonia, controlling them
through a military authoritarian regime.

This is the nth hostile assessment by the Spanish military against a
potential independence of Catalonia, which they want to oppose manu
militari. In fact, one of the other main associations of Spanish
active military, AMARTE, insisted, through their October news
bulletin, the army's duty of "maintaining Spain's sacred unity."

http://www.helpcatalonia.cat/2012/10/spanish-military-association-wants-to.html