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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch – 20. November | 93 comments (93 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: National defense should be shared by all (4.00 / 3)

Those were called "unsubmissive" (insumisos). There was a whole social movement around them, with high-profile court cases and imprisonments. It had (naturally) ties to the squatter movement, the anarchist movement, and the independentists from the Basque Country and Catalonia. The Conscientious objection rates in the Basque Country and Navarra were appalling, by the way.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Nov 20th, 2006 at 09:48:57 AM EST
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Re: National defense should be shared by all (4.00 / 2)

Read about the insumisión movement in the Spanish wikipedia.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Nov 20th, 2006 at 10:01:27 AM EST
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Re: National defense should be shared by all (none / 0)

Apalling in what sense?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Nov 20th, 2006 at 10:08:21 AM EST
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Re: National defense should be shared by all (none / 0)

Much, much higher than the national average. There conscientious objection had clearly a political meaning of not wanting to serve in a Spanish army. The rate in Catalonia was high, but not so high.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Nov 20th, 2006 at 10:12:04 AM EST
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