Spanish prosecutor accuses sacked Catalan leader of rebellion

Democracy is about so much more than 'majority wins'. Its predicated on adherence to rule of law and the maintenance of democratic institutions. Those govern whether a region can have an independence referendum.  

You can participate in a poll online (or, apparently, in Catalonia), but that is not an expression of democracy - that is a statistical sampling. 90% of 43% of eligible voters voted in favor independence; that's 39% of Catalans. What percentage of all Spaniards voted to void their Constitution? 1-2%?  

The idea that somehow any decision reached anytime by majority rule is necessarily ‘democratic’ is a perversion of the term... Its Orwellian to use the language of democracy to justify the destruction of a democratic state (Spain). Democratic laws and institutions were brazenly ignored by Catalan separatists. That is not a democratic act.  

A jail term might do these populist seditionists good, although there is always the fear that they will paint themselves as 'political prisoners' or 'martyrs', much as they have hijacked the language of 'democracy' in the course of their rebellion...

Hmmmm...  how to claim political asylum within the EU?  with any luck all of these little pinpricks will eventually spell the end of the EU.