[stale2002]

Correct. And because there are no tanks yet, the vote is moving ahead.

There has certainly been some disruption, but the people are mostly still forging ahead on all fronts.

The police have open fired on some of the pro independence people, sending a couple hundred to the hospital, but that is very minor in the vast scheme of things.

A couple hundred pro independence people in the hospital isn't that big of a barrier.

This is only the beginning. Every video of the Spanish military beating up an 80 year old lady with a ballot in hand is a propaganda Victor for the independence movement. They stop 1 person from voting, via their rubber bullets, and they create a hundred more pro independence people who were previously neutral.

[pvaldes]

Well played. You can exprime a lot of pro-independentist juice if you put a 80 years old lady in the position of being beaten and videotape all instead to try to defend her. Another point for the good guys.

Another possibility could be separatists thinking last week or yesterday "this is stupid, some people could be hurt!, for nothing!, why we don't stop this farce before... dunno... a 80yo lady is beaten or so?

I bet that the lady, or the child crying, would have appreciated that line of reasoning, but it seems that for separatists the more people hurt, the better. Curious if we think about it.

[stale2002]

If the spanish military are worried about people getting hurt, then they should stop hurting people.

The people voting know what they are doing. Many people throughout history have died for their right to do that.

[elecbit]

Please downvote this fascist.