I see Medialens have decided Craig's piece is "Ugly and Embarrassing"Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron on December 4, 2019, 7:23 pm, in reply to "Latest CM."
-Seems a highly selective reading to me. They quote him:
"...To date, the Catalan people and their leaders appear firmly wedded to the tactic of non-violence. That is their choice and their right, and I support them in that choice. But having suffered so much violence, and with no democratic route available for their right of self-determination, the Catalans have the moral right, should they so choose, to resist, by violence, the violence of the Spanish state. I should however clarify that does not extend to indiscriminate attack on entirely innocent people, which in my view is not a moral choice.
All of which of course has obvious implications should a Westminster government seek to block the Scottish people from expressing their inalienable right of self-determination following the election. Which fascinating subject I shall return to once again in January. Be assured meantime I am not presently close to advocating a tactic of violence in Scotland. But nor will I ever say the Scottish people do not ultimately have that right if denied democratic self-expression. To say otherwise would be to renounce the Declaration of Arbroath, a founding document of European political thought."
-Yet Craig's piece prior to this focuses on State violence because "The state rests its power on a monopoly of violence" and indeed the state violence that is much more likely to occur or has occurred concerning these matters.
To respond to violence done to you with an appropriate level of violence is otherwise known as self-defense.
-Medialens may eschew this on Gandhian principles but its not morally wrong.