On Nov 26, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
>> wrote:
>
>>
>> A parallel would be if Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg decided to
>> secede from
>> Germany on the grounds that they no longer wished to finance, for
>> example,
>> Berlin.
>
>
> exactly.
Not. All speak similar German and write identical German. Catalans and Basques are historical peoples with languages very different from (Catalan) or entirely (Basque) alien to Spanish. They are nations in the proper sense, unlike Spain or Baden- Württemberg (and Bavaria seceded from Germany by setting up its own Soviet Republic in 1919--were the Bavarians to try to undo the proto- Nazi counterrevolution of that year who should object)? Anyway. wouldn't Germany be much better off without the CSU?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64