Hello, this is the mockingbird I am watching the police intervention in the Catalan region this morning. I'm watching them as they clap, mockingly, as the authorities take votes, voting boxes and ballots away from people. People with locked arms, asking 'let us vote'. I ask the Spanish government, how are you a democracy? How should you use the name and appellation tomorrow? How will you justify the violence that will inevitably break out? We have creates peace for decades by substituting guns with votes. Now that you have taken the votes away, the weapons of the democratic nations' citizens, what are you going to call yourself tomorrow? Not democracy, surely. You lost that name. Perhaps dictatorship. Frankly, the shoe fits.