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Bring Your Own Guillotine: Anti-Monarchy Protests Break Out Across Spain
The news of Spain's King Carlos' abdication this morning warranted barely a headline in the US media. However, once again, the simmering social unrest of nations full of repressed citizens burst into action as widespread anti-monarchy protests erupted across Spain. On the heels of last week's European elections that saw extreme left and extreme right parties, it seems the Spanish monarchy's move has lit the blue touch paper in a nation still suffering from record high unemployment and record high suicide rates. Protesters carried guillotines and chanted "Neither king nor master" and "Long live the struggle of the working class" demanding a referendum.
A Pre-Franco Republic flag covers a guillotine at one anti-monarchy protest...
Via Publico (via Google Translate)
Cities all over Spain and outside the territory held demonstrations to demand a referendum for the citizens is to choose the form of government. The Puerta del Sol and the Plaza Catalunya, the main points

"Spain is republican", "at the Third", "referendum now." And dozens. Hundreds. Thousands of messages flooded social networks after the announcement of the abdication of the king. 's citizens mobilized and called from concentrations 20 hours in the streets of cities all over Spain and outside the territory to require that a people to decide the form of state and the probate process does not continue.
Political parties that have joined so far, this petition are Izquierda Unida, and we Equo. The tricolor was flown Monday in some municipalities and even the building of Les Corts Valenciennes. In most cases they have been representatives of leftist parties, mainly IU, which personam have placed the flags, although the City of Altafulla (Tarragona) affixing the Republican banner has been driven by the team of government.
Public live narrated what has happened in the streets, the Puerta del Sol in Madrid as the main reference point for mobilization:
22.42 The largest concentration took place in Madrid's iconic Puerta del Sol This is followed by the Plaza Catalunya in Barcelona. Concentrations were replicated throughout Catalunya, Tarragona, Girona and Lleida. As in the Basque Country, which highlights the Bilbao, with thousands of people at the Arriaga square. In Seville's Plaza Nueva in Granada, Valencia, Zaragoza, Salamanca, Burgos, Palma de Mallorca, in various cities of the Principality of Asturias, Extremadura. The cry has been resounding: image demonstration in Logroño.

22.38 In the following link you can see a photographic look at the various concentrations: The tricolor wanders throughout Spain.
22.35 At all points of Spain concentrations were performed. From Murcia to Asturias. Dozens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people have taken to the streets by the Republic and to claim that citizenship is to choose on the continuity of the monarchy.
22.33 A protester in the Puerta del Sol: "In 78 decided to put on the throne the puppet dictator Now let's put the son of the dictator puppet I say. defect." says Tristan, which is defined as a student and worker precarious, reports Irene White.
22.30 After the ceremony in the Plaza Catalunya, protesters have begun to move to the Sant Jaume square, home to the Government and the City of Barcelona, ??reports Europa Press.
22.26 Thousands of people have also taken to the streets in Galicia to demand a referendum in favor of a "Galician Republic." Image of Europa Press:

22.20 In Paris, hundreds of people have also focused to claim the right of Spaniards to decide in a referendum. The mobilization was organized through social networks by the collective support in Paris for the match and we Garnet Tide, a network of international meetings aimed at coordinating the Spanish immigrants. "Neither thieves nor Bourbons. People decide. Can" was among the slogans of concentration, which mainly Spanish residents gathered in the French capital, reports Europa Press.
22.18 Protesters prevents the mouth of the Madrid Metro New glass dome at the center of the Puerta del Sol closes, specifically block fence that opens and closes automatically from inside the mouth Metro and gives access to Renfe, reports Irene White.
22.14 In the summer resort of Casa del Rey also protest against the monarchy. Concentration in Palma de Mallorca. Royalty Efe:

22.12 According to sources in the government delegation, 200 people gathered in Toledo, 400 in Albacete, Cuenca and other 200 300 in Guadalajara, reports Europa Press.
22.10 Overview of the Puerta del Sol The best summary of the number of people who have gone to the bullring. Royalty Efe:

22.05 Some of the slogans chanted in the Puerta del Sol, "Neither king nor master"; "No two without three, republic again"; "Long live the struggle of the working class"; "The Bourbons sharks."

21.48 "The abdication of such a controversial figure is an opportunity to question the institution of monarchy and to open a debate about whether there should be no. believe that people should be able to decide if they want the head of state is a monarch "says Aymara de la Torre, International Relations student from Madrid, reports Irene White. Attendees talk about social rights, to advance, the need for change in Spain. Younger asked to participate in a new process. They think they live in a country where they could not be participants and believe that this is the time to do so, reports Mario Ruiz, also from the Puerta del Sol
21.44 Overview of the concentration in Barcelona. Reuters photo:

Just good news that Spanish bond yields are all time record lows... or there would be real problems in the country!!
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Is it just me or does that "blade" seem like painted plywood?
pods
More interesting is whether the US Admin will be hypocrite enough to come to the defense of the Monarchy in the name of 'preserving democracy'.
Why, forsooth, are the peasants revolting against the mere symbol of authority as opposed to the actual masters of the NWO Versailles, the EU and their own home grown statist benefactors?
Got Caviar?
manybe OB will trade the king for a couple thousand gitmointernees, what?
They always get it wrong, Knuk. The REAL masters always make sure attention is diverted to the puppet leaders, just in case things get rough.
Freaking people will be welcoming their next oppressor with open arms and joyous cheers.
As Hulk indicated below, at that height it would probably cut one's head about half way off just enough to stay alive to watch the replay in slow motion.
Whatever it takes to get the job done.
Way to go Spain!!!
The way to fix Spain is to kill everyone in government.
After that, all the voters should commit suicide.
Well, that’s an encouraging sign.
Now if we could only get a few dozen of those to Broadway and Wall and maybe a half dozen to 20th and Constitution we could make some progress here.
It just amazes me how effective propaganda is. The masses are asses.
No one in those crowd has a clue who gutted their country and livelihood. Stupid clueless idiots blaming some figurehead.
How them green jobs working?
The monarchy is the least of their problems.
Why aren't they marching against the banksters?
Yes, It's a beginning. I like it!
Viva la revolution ! Let's get this party started!
sort of like the final lament in (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais.
Be the first to do a guillotine selfie.
I nominate gwyneth paltrow.
mmmm don't think so. the spanish are at this moment quite aware and informed. they still remembered Franco, and were appalled in the loss of democracy since 2008.
of course the government cut the live tv feed and swept the Playa del Sol clear, but they'll be back tomorrow.
some very interesting concepts coming out of Spain at the moment.
I hope the "authorities" will not make the mistake of using brute violence because that will result in another civil war.
they're fed up with dictators and their corrupt elite.
Very astute.
Is history repeating itself with another Spanish Civil War?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War
Watch closely for any advanced armaments arriving from Germany.
And Russia. And US. And UK (if they can get them out of the pawn shop)
As long as the Spanish kill one banker for one politician it all good.
So is Victoria Nuland heading to the Plaza del Sol with crate-fulls of cookies? Oh wait, no 'sieg heils' or baseball bats to be seen anywhere. Oops, wrong revolution. Damn!!
"Why, forsooth, are the peasants revolting against the mere symbol of authority..."
Baby steps.
Sire,
The peasants are revolting.
King: I know. They stink beyond belief.
A journey of 1,000 miles begins with the first step.
Critical mass has to start somewhere.
They're too busy buying ammo and militarizing their own police forces to protect themselves
"We undermine democracies in order to save them."
7 out of the 10 most democratic countries (Democracy Index) are Monarchies....
This reminds me of a joke I made once, about DIY guillotine kits made in China, shipped to Amazon warehouses, and droned to your rebellious doorstep.
Lol. If I have to choose between hanging out with Jacobins or Monarchy I find the Jacobins much more entertaining.
Long live the guillotine!
At that height it wouldn't matter, just would be an agonizing death, which is a good thing...
When the tea party was months young, I went to a rally with a pitchfork. I learned some things:
1. I needed to be very, very, careful. In close quarters, that thing is a menace. I did not hurt anyone but it was not easy, I had to pay attention.
2. I walked to the rally. As a female, I get harassed quite a bit normally. Talk about open carry. All kinds of men crossed to the other side of the street when they saw me.
3. While there, I had a gathering of young men, late teens, early 20s following me. They said things like, "Now that's what I'm talking about" and "Wish I'd thought of that" and "Cool."
4. I heckled a speaker who was reading off a prepared speech telling us how to contact our representatives and what to say. At the time they had already ignored us and passed TARP. I yelled at the speaker, "Our representatives don't care. They voted in TARP against our will. Now what? What does your script have to say about that?" Everyone was dead silent trying to ignore me, except for the small collection of young men (a couple in Guy Fawkes masks) I had with me. Those folks were there for a day out at the park to bitch and moan. They were scared of me. They had fun passing out tea bags and wearing them as earrings. All of them and their lawn chairs needed to get fucked.
5. I needed corks on my pitch fork tines, but then my message would have been blunted. Just like a wooden blade on a guillotine. Would not want to run the risk of really hurting someone, would you? Right now, all protest is blunted because no one wants to run the risk of hurting anyone or making them afraid.
My experience with the Occupy movement was very similar. People just want to get along, which means that it becomes extremely easy for the COINTELPRO pukes to coral everyone: just make things uncomfortable whenever someone brings up a good idea, and the majority will turn away from it...
Obviously, the idea is not to go around antagonizing people on purpose, but those who aren't ready to be in conflict are NEVER going to change anything (since vested interests are sure to 'freak out' and try to make real change as difficult as can be).
My experience with the Tea Party is the Republicans’ saw votes, money, volunteers, and power. When Republicans won the house in 2010 you would expect a little loyalty on issues like the debt ceiling (shut the fucking federal government down for 12 months if you have to) and domestic spying. Nothing changed. A complete waste of time and effort.
The only good was meeting some libertarians, Gary Johnson and Ron Paul.
Probably wouldn't have ended well in US, but at Occupy Toronto I spent quite a bit of time asking awkward questions of the cops around the area.
What I found was that everyone there knew something's wrong.
Unfortunately, few had any clue of how the financial system and government work.
Spent quite a bit of time in the park. Glad I was there.
What I regret is that I wasn't yet familiar with this : http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
=> that document describes the COINTELPRO pukes so well that it makes it almost too easy to pick up on them. What took me 2 weeks to figure out (in depth / with certainty) would probably have been nearly immediate, otherwise...
Other than witnessing first-hand how these types of operations and operatives work, taking part in Occupy was a near-total waste of time, IMO.
Thanks for the link. I hung out a little bit at occupy too. I did not camp, but I did provide some food and toiletries for folks. After the tea party stuff, had to check it out. It too had been co-opted. Some corporate template got overlaid both, the steam was bled off, hope evaporated.
Sucks for now.
I didn't camp either (so unnecessary), although I tried to get involved in canvassing, thinking that even if the movement sucked, the reasons for seeking changes are so huge (and easy to spread, in fact) that I could help out by focusing on that part of the situation, but in fact we were not allowed to speak outside their 'approved' party line, in spite of all the PR about it being a spontaneous, free movement by real people.
It was pretty amazing to see how well they had things buttoned up, with all their operatives and clearly abusable rules, but I think that it was maybe so much so that few people could have stayed interested long - and the problem for TPTB with that is that all the people who were wasting their time with that have moved on, even if they are still just as anti-system and thus (often) still thinking of new ways to adapt and be smart.
It takes time to think up and perfect the smartest solutions (time + real effort at thinking), but they are forced to give us that time, since moving against us too strongly would wake up the rest. Not wasting time with fake movements = most likely, far more potential positive results!
Yeah, unsharpened wood painted silver. Seems a shame to go to all the trouble to build it out and not be functional.
forgot to add.....BYOFG !
......with a real blade or it didn't happen.
Misguided hate, their anger should be focused on the Banking scum
And government in general.
Not at all, these people are in Bilderberg group.
You mean like the Queen Of England?
>>misguided hate
I tend to agree with you on this. That said, monarchy still needs to go, because it is part of a system of institutional and cultural mind control. In other words, these so called monarchs are really just banker kin... playing a role of creating a false cultural identity. not enough just to remove the figurehead.
I think they should revolt against ALL aspects of the system, including not only banksters but also all their myriad self-enriched political puppets and sycophants (like 'kings') - but most people in Spain probably know that by now...
Part of the TV's narrative is that people live in democracies, that we do what the majority decides (LOL), and that it is a GOOD thing to have a monarch as a "check and balance", when in fact the vast majority (especially in wrecked economies like Spain) are disgusted with most of how things are done.
From a PR-perspective, the supposedly 'positive' news of the morning has turned out to be anything but...
In general, I think protesting is useless, but in this case, I think it's more a question of making a strong point as a rebuttal to the TV's BS this morning, which is pretty cool!
The banking scum are enabled by the political scum.
Let's keep all the scum in one category.
People who are arrogant enough to think they have the right to tell others what to do, who in the meantime are doing all the stuff they condemn in others (in spades).
The last person who should be given power over others is the person that wants it.
Let Them Eat Rand.
She probably does not taste so good any more.
Release the hounds.
Fuck, release the cats too!
The big ones!data:image/jpeg;base64,
Oh no.. It's those nasty little buggers in numbers that can really rip it up!
Hmmmm. But you got me wondering if catnip is an effective defense against Bengal tigers too..
Dagnabit, we tried but failed to upload an image of a liger.
Dang! Guess me has gots to git me one now to find out..
Good thang I gots my trusty 1952 STEEL FUCKING RECEIVER RUSSIAN SKS with me just in case I finds me a feisty one wanting to wrastle me
That plus Vlad's phone number to take the critter home once I'm done with it to find out if Bengal tigers really can be taken down with cat nip.
I gots to know!
Wow. This is good. I hope this thing is sustained and grows -- and overflows to even more significant issues than the monarchy.
Long Guillotine futures contracts!
Long Guillotine software!
Oh wait.. Never mind that
Long GRAVITY!
Yeah.. That's the ticket!
I am a country gal. I favour chain saws and wood chippers. Recycle them into compost. Somewhere society's garbage is an organic gardener's gold.
I guess it's not so good to be King anymore.
it doesn't matter if he's king or not. The Bourbon's are amongst the richest on Earth, and related to the Windsors.
Release the S&P Kraken...
can you imagine americans marching in the streets with guillotines meant for their leaders?
The american elite have working class americans so domesticated and beaten down that if you even go online and hint that our leaders should really be punished, old skool style, the readers and commentors will vote you down and your comment will be deleted.
Yes, and then we will all wake ...
Huh? What time is it?
Not realy.. Cause Merikans can't say Geeeyooteen..
No, because a hundred million people are not doing too badly in their estimation. Another hundred 30 million don't have to work for a living, or are no longer in the work force and STILL get a government check. That only leaves a hundred million who are so scattered, chaotic and diverse, that organizing them for anything more than a backyard B B Q is about as coalescent as it gets.
DC US pols, crats and banksters, take note.
mother fucking elitist and their MoneyChanger masters better ready the escape hatches...
we r coming u cocksuckers.......
How does having a monarchy make you different from anyone else?
The king might have kept the monarchy as a positive force by, for example, making a speech to the effect that "the Spanish monarchy, unlike everything else you see or hear, is not just another front for the Kleptocratic Elite."
Failing that, take the monarchy out with the rest of the trash.
A weekend in Paris…
how dare you.
How do you do it!!??
old age. 52 model. lotta water under the bridge. plus beer and smoke.
6 blades for SF, 3 each for every other U.S. city. ought to last a few days.
Look at your future people
Calling Obi Wan Ghordius,
Emergency in aisle Spain.
Your presence is required to calm the commoners.
Por favor, ven rapidamente!
Signed, His Majesty.
Sad to see Europe coming unglued. What's worse is knowing that there's no chance things can ever get any better. Holding Europe together will require ever-escalaing levels of increasing force. Eventually, there will be real political tension.
Are you fucking nuts!?
"Holding Europe together" is an oxymoron to begin with.
Just ask the Romans.,
Europe has always been divided. It's in their genes.
So nothing new here really.
Any Nostradamus guru comments welcome.
BTW: Do you know "Europa" was a COW!!??
And WTF do I get this shit?? Moar Tullamore DEW please..
Looking at my oil painting, hanging on the wall, of Guernica(pre bombing) right now,
Deja vu all over again.
Whoa! You saying what??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_%28painting%29
I wish.
Mine is classical style, by a German artist no less.
He probably bombed the town right after finishing the oil.
The stated purpose of creating the European Union years ago - and the justification for the giant Barroso bureaucracy - was to glue Europe together. Clearly it has failed, as expected.
Spain is drifting towards a new round of fascism.
More senseless class warfare.
Piketty's fault.
"Roll the guillotines!" Can't tell you how many times I've heard this at ZH. While we joke around, Spaniards actually do it.
"Hang the bankers!" We joke. Iranians and Chinese, of all people, actually do it. They don't joke about it. They don't even smile. They just do it.
That's how it'll end up. The rest of the world will be having revolution after revolution. All we'll be doing is posting jokes on the internet.
Let them eat cake
nice to have a king to blame.
When your day includes doing nothing and sitting around flat broke, hey, why not go join a protest.
Nothing else to do.
first you freaks put pressure on my papa pope rats singone so he had 2 flea.
all because he loved children 2 much.
now this
poor ex king one carcass
you brutes
thank god the new pope is safe
thank god nazi phillip queeny and prince charlie are all safe.
such a shame they have to ask permission to travel into the heart of the city of london.
they say when you stand on the london bridge side the satanic heart yonder is another cuntry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMA8M4llXd0
How did monarchies come about?
I've got a bigger stick than anyone else...
I guess that makes me king.
Government is a BAD THING.
No, it was the amalgamated meat workers union. I have butchered more than anyone; ergo, I am king.
I can't see how the type of government is going to change the economics of a country. So you get a republican democracy, now how do you vote Jobs, good jobs, careers, new businesses, and growth?
You can't do it.
What are Spaniards, or any other nations' citizens going to do about it? Here in the U.S. and Canada, there is no growth and these are two of the freeest people on earth. Their votes cannot command the economy.
before you know it the uinted states will be backing the next franco in spain in an attempt to send the country into another major civil war. spain has no more gold to send to moscow and i don't know if there are any ernest hemingway type americans left to make light of the struggle....by pretending to drive ambulances.
what happens this time around when the est needs to back fascism----but GLOBALIST FACISM?
TH EIDEA OF NEO SKINDHEAD BOOTHUGS SHOOTING AND BEATING PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF GREATER EUROPE SEEMS A HARD CRY.
but let's be realisteic. if you pay them money, bootjacks will sing and dance any song you like most of the time.
who fights for honor? what does honor even mean any more? seems like pirmodial loyalty to family and friends is a good baseline......but what more?
How much GOLD does Spain have in reserve ?
Answer: 281.6 Tons as of 2014 per Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.
Yes, expect US intervention into Spanish affairs quickly as a false flag civil war breaks out, followed by GOLDman SACKS as the lead plunderer and scavenger. The squid had been busy, just got finished shanking Equador you know ...
You see, they know how to Par-Tay, they know how to get rid of somebody they don't like or have any respect for.
Obviously the people of America like their Government, they like them that much they keep voting for the same people and expecting a different result.
I am NOT IMPRESSED by demonstrations or parades. If such events accomplished anything real, they would be outlawed! They are simply a means of letting people "blow off steam" while their masters prepare to screw them once again.
When I see the people actually using the guillotines on their political and economic elites, then I will be convinced that change is coming.
Well, I would like to think this means something. However, they suffer the European disease. Why do anything when we can discuss it.