During his powerful speech in Congress, President Mas said he didn't understand the "cowardice" of Mariano Rajoy or Soraya Sáenz de Santamaria and, in general, of all those political leaders who, having instigated, financed, or allowed Operation Catalunya, or who had cooperated, are now claiming that Operation Catalunya never happened. "I don't understand their cowardice; they're running away like rabbits," said Artur Mas, eager to say it.
Yes and no. Certainly, if they were consistent with the patriotism they proclaim, they should publicly admit their participation in the events, because, given the unity of Spain as the source of law, the Catalan independence process was one of those historical moments in which it was justified to do so.all for the homelandBut when you've fabricated false evidence with public money, spied without a warrant, your political opponents have ended up in prison for crimes they didn't commit, and the Supreme Court refuses to implement the amnesty approved by Congress, what incentive do you have to risk absurdly complicating your life by admitting you're going?
For people like the former vice president, denying the existence of Operation Catalunya is doing their part of the job. It's giving political cover and an appearance of honesty to countless crimes that will never be punished because they will never be investigated. And they won't be because Operation Catalunya is a state operation that confirms that the Spanish state works, that the suffocating mechanisms of the reality of Catalonia work. In fact, Operation Catalunya is a structural condition of Spain. Spain is in a permanent state of Operation Catalonia. Sometimes it's in the pipeline, and sometimes it's with a smile. The landing of Franco and his government in 1960 was already called Operation CataloniaFrom Rajoy on down, they are nothing more than successors.
