June 30, 2006
THERE IS NO SPAIN (via Matthew Cohen):
Spain PM ready to open Eta talks (BBC, 6/30/06)
The Spanish prime minister has said his government will begin talks with the banned Basque separatist group Eta.The statement in parliament by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a Socialist, was broadcast live on Spanish TV.
"The government is going to start negotiations with Eta," he said. The group is demanding Basque independence.
Any people that considers itself a nation is one. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 30, 2006 9:54 AM
Good point,
This is what has some 'Yahoos' in the Southwest worried.
Who assimilates whom?
Posted by: Bruno at June 30, 2006 10:19 AMWho cares? Both the Basques and the rump state will be better off.
Posted by: oj at June 30, 2006 10:26 AMSo, how do you feel about the secessionists in the US? The Confederacy certainly considered themselves a nation.
Posted by: Bryan at June 30, 2006 10:39 AMI care. We are talking real estate here and before Aztlán takes away CA, AZ, NM, TX, can we perhaps think about stopping the illegal immigration.
Posted by: h-man at June 30, 2006 10:44 AMIn other news from Spain....
"Spain could soon become the first country in the world to give chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and other great apes some of the fundamental rights granted to human beings under a law being proposed by members of the ruling Socialist coalition."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/10/wapes10.xml
Bryan:
Yes, and everyone would have been better served by letting them walk.
Posted by: oj at June 30, 2006 11:31 AMOJ:
"Yes, and everyone would have been better served by letting them walk."
Wow...
Well, I'll just keep that in mind the next time you talk about how crazy the Libertarians are, since you're both in the same boat on this one.
No, Libertarians think it was illegitimate for Lincoln to go to war over it. I just think it was needless and unwise. But we like war.
Posted by: oj at June 30, 2006 12:20 PMAnd another thing: I recall asking you once about the Libertarians' much-vaunted "Right of Secession" and you told me that it was unworkable because if anyone can secede from the country at any time for any reason and form their own country, the very idea of government becomes an illusion. Are you now retracting that statement?
Posted by: Bryan at June 30, 2006 12:22 PMThere is no right of secession. A people who thinks of themselves as a nation will be one and secession becomes inevitable. All the Civbil War was about was whether Lincoln was right that the South was still just America or the Confederates were right that they were their own nation. Lincoln won.
Libertarians just want to secede because they don't like to pay taxes.
Posted by: oj at June 30, 2006 12:38 PMBryan: Think of the blog as performance art. It helps. A lot.
Posted by: David Cohen at June 30, 2006 1:40 PM