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Pamela Anderson backs Catalunya 'IndyRef': “Spain's government has been totally idiotic”
08/11/2017
BAYWATCH actress Pamela Anderson has spoken out in support of Catalunya's separatist movement and said she thinks the Spanish government 'have been idiots'.
“The catalanes have felt they've been suppressed for a long time and had to do something,” Ms Anderson said on the website for her eponymous foundation.
“The PP is a type of a party that work[s] on the basis of provocation and have been for like [sic] a decade showing the catalanes – and previously to the Basques – a finger.
“So obviously, the catalanes rightly felt there was no justice, they have been contributing the most to the national treasury (I think the fifth) but were not getting not [sic] much back.”
Although confusingly worded – in terms of syntax, grammar and punctuation – the post on Pamelaandersonfoundation.org is extremely forthright.
The actress and former Playboy model says she thinks it is 'not surprising' that the independence movement arose, but hopes 'the situation will calm down'.
Pamela also refers to Spain's multi-faceted 'countries-within-a-country' structure, saying Catalunya, the Basque Country and Galicia – although with no reference to Valencia, Asturias and the Balearic Islands – 'have their own culture and language'.
“The idea that Spain is a uniform country is a myth,” she asserts.
“[Catalunya] has always been the most open to the world, things have usually started there (eg the trends and design, Gaudí and so on) and they are closest to Europe, also augmented with Barcelona being a port.
“So they were actually not asking for that much or were [sic] excessive in their demands.”
Ms Anderson recognises that the percentage or number of residents in Catalunya who in fact support is secession from Spain is 'not very clear', but her view on allowing a referendum mirrors that of left-wing political giant Podemos' leader Pablo Iglesias: “If Spain did the same as the UK and Scotland, and declared few years [sic] that there would be a legal referendum, it is unlikely that there would really be an independence result.”
“But at least the catalanes would be given such option, and fair treatment and justice and opportunity to properly decide about their governance,” Pamela considers.
“The Spanish government have been totally idiotic and have actually fuelled this situation, see above-mentioned finger to the catalanes.
“So we can hope that the result will be that there [sic] will be given a chance of [a] proper referendum.”
She adds that the Spanish monarchy is 'totally useless' and that 'recent events show some arguments for it to fall'.
The actress discusses whether it would in fact be 'such a disaster' if Catalunya became a separate country, saying would not be 'a bad idea if...handled properly' and 'not the end of the world'.
“I think the future of Europe being the continent of nation States is outdated,” Anderson continues.
“Nation States are the past. I can very much imagine [a] Europe of regions and city-States, which was...sort of the way...Europe worked for much longer than the nation States.
“I know the problem with multi-ethnic empires, but I think the EU would be okay as [a] collection of different regions, or [as a ] Swiss or former city-State model – sort of the past showing the way to the future.
“But then, the problem of borders and containment is, actually, a problem.”
Pamela recalls how she read about Mediaeval Denmark where 'some provinces or duchies officially belonged to the German empire' but where 'people were subjects of the King of Denmark' and 'nobody gave two hoots about it until the Treaty of Westphalia' and 'when it was decided that each nation had to have a border'.
“Then they started wars over borders and frontiers,” Pamela says.
This 'revolt of cities' is 'already happening in the UK with Brexit and the USA with Trump', she claims.
Pamela advocates decentralising authority, but within 'some sort of bigger cooperation like the EU', which would 'give people more power on a local level' rather than 'the élites and the capital, who do not listen or care for what the population wants' holding the reins.
“I stand with the catalán people and their right to determine their own future and how to govern their affairs,” Pamela concludes.
“I wish them good luck.”
One of the greatest female pin-ups of the 1990s, blonde bombshell Pamela Anderson has slipped out of the limelight in the last 20 or so years, but has become an activist in humanitarian themes and, even more passionately so, for the protection of animals' rights.
Photograph: Pamela Anderson at this year's Cannes Film Festival (Georges Biard/Wikimedia Commons)
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BAYWATCH actress Pamela Anderson has spoken out in support of Catalunya's separatist movement and said she thinks the Spanish government 'have been idiots'.
“The catalanes have felt they've been suppressed for a long time and had to do something,” Ms Anderson said on the website for her eponymous foundation.
“The PP is a type of a party that work[s] on the basis of provocation and have been for like [sic] a decade showing the catalanes – and previously to the Basques – a finger.
“So obviously, the catalanes rightly felt there was no justice, they have been contributing the most to the national treasury (I think the fifth) but were not getting not [sic] much back.”
Although confusingly worded – in terms of syntax, grammar and punctuation – the post on Pamelaandersonfoundation.org is extremely forthright.
The actress and former Playboy model says she thinks it is 'not surprising' that the independence movement arose, but hopes 'the situation will calm down'.
Pamela also refers to Spain's multi-faceted 'countries-within-a-country' structure, saying Catalunya, the Basque Country and Galicia – although with no reference to Valencia, Asturias and the Balearic Islands – 'have their own culture and language'.
“The idea that Spain is a uniform country is a myth,” she asserts.
“[Catalunya] has always been the most open to the world, things have usually started there (eg the trends and design, Gaudí and so on) and they are closest to Europe, also augmented with Barcelona being a port.
“So they were actually not asking for that much or were [sic] excessive in their demands.”
Ms Anderson recognises that the percentage or number of residents in Catalunya who in fact support is secession from Spain is 'not very clear', but her view on allowing a referendum mirrors that of left-wing political giant Podemos' leader Pablo Iglesias: “If Spain did the same as the UK and Scotland, and declared few years [sic] that there would be a legal referendum, it is unlikely that there would really be an independence result.”
“But at least the catalanes would be given such option, and fair treatment and justice and opportunity to properly decide about their governance,” Pamela considers.
“The Spanish government have been totally idiotic and have actually fuelled this situation, see above-mentioned finger to the catalanes.
“So we can hope that the result will be that there [sic] will be given a chance of [a] proper referendum.”
She adds that the Spanish monarchy is 'totally useless' and that 'recent events show some arguments for it to fall'.
The actress discusses whether it would in fact be 'such a disaster' if Catalunya became a separate country, saying would not be 'a bad idea if...handled properly' and 'not the end of the world'.
“I think the future of Europe being the continent of nation States is outdated,” Anderson continues.
“Nation States are the past. I can very much imagine [a] Europe of regions and city-States, which was...sort of the way...Europe worked for much longer than the nation States.
“I know the problem with multi-ethnic empires, but I think the EU would be okay as [a] collection of different regions, or [as a ] Swiss or former city-State model – sort of the past showing the way to the future.
“But then, the problem of borders and containment is, actually, a problem.”
Pamela recalls how she read about Mediaeval Denmark where 'some provinces or duchies officially belonged to the German empire' but where 'people were subjects of the King of Denmark' and 'nobody gave two hoots about it until the Treaty of Westphalia' and 'when it was decided that each nation had to have a border'.
“Then they started wars over borders and frontiers,” Pamela says.
This 'revolt of cities' is 'already happening in the UK with Brexit and the USA with Trump', she claims.
Pamela advocates decentralising authority, but within 'some sort of bigger cooperation like the EU', which would 'give people more power on a local level' rather than 'the élites and the capital, who do not listen or care for what the population wants' holding the reins.
“I stand with the catalán people and their right to determine their own future and how to govern their affairs,” Pamela concludes.
“I wish them good luck.”
One of the greatest female pin-ups of the 1990s, blonde bombshell Pamela Anderson has slipped out of the limelight in the last 20 or so years, but has become an activist in humanitarian themes and, even more passionately so, for the protection of animals' rights.
Photograph: Pamela Anderson at this year's Cannes Film Festival (Georges Biard/Wikimedia Commons)
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