Crush them evil Greeks again !!!

Back in the year 2012, our Beloved Brussels Masters, they who run the EU show, were horrified to learn that the Greek government, a decade before at the time of the introduction of the Divine €uro, had cooked the books and lied through their teeth on their application forms, so as to be allowed to join the single European currency. Oh shocked shocked shocked our Masters were! How could such a thing ever have happened? How could any governing official be so very unscrupulous as to tell a profitable untruth? No, they had had no idea, our witless Beurocrats; and no little red warning light had lit up in any of the well-educated, well-groomed technocratic skulls when it turned out that the wealthy, well-run, highly responsible and accountable country of Sweden, who had likewise applied, did not meet the criteria for joining, while good old Mediterranean Greece, never famous for its probity and fiscal morals, passed the test with honors…

With Great Helmsmen like these, who needs cliffs and tempests??

No, they had not seen it coming. It took them completely by surprise. And they were very very VERY angry… So annoyed were they, that they swore to get even. Oh yes! An evil affront like this, sprung on a blameless, innocent Empire-in-the-making, they wouldn’t let that pass unpunished!

Recently, Tim Geithner, the then US Treasury Secretary, described in his memoirs the mood of the EU bigwigs whom he met at the time during a G7 conclave in Canada. In a tone of sheer disbelief, he writes: ‘The Europeans came into that meeting saying: “We’re going to teach the Greeks a lesson. They are really terrible. They lied to us. They suck and they were profligate and took advantage of the whole thing and we’re going to crush them.” [That] was their basic attitude, [of] all of them.’

One can only gape and flabbergast, dear reader, at such incredible infantility lurking in the minds of supposedly adult and responsible public servants who pretend to be the best and the brightest that our poor old continent has to offer. Their behaviour resembles that of a schoolboy romantically spurned by a classmate, who swears vengeance by twittering embarrassing nude snapshots of his obscure-objet-de-repugnance.

But that toddler mind-set is not even the most awful thing about this episode. The true horror lies elsewhere: in – and this may surprise you – the use of pronouns. Yes! For, when these hollow men in silk suits said that ‘they had lied to us, and we are going to crush them’, they meant two completely different third person plurals, and two very different sets of Greeks. The first ‘they’ referred to the corrupt, nepotistic, self-serving old elite, consisting of the right wing Nea Democratia party and the socialist PASOK. Those were the ones who had lied. But the others, the ‘them’ whom they were going to crush mercilessly, were the Greek people. The children, the elderly, the infirm, the unemployed, the disadvantaged and the weak. (I wrote on that little theme before, as in this here article…)

And who do you think would do the ‘crushing’ of that second ‘them’ at the bidding of our Brussels Masters? Yes, you guessed it: the old corrupt, self-serving, nepotistic, elite of PASOK and ND, who were more than willing to obey the Brussels dictates and apply the salubrious austerity medicine of the Abominable Troika, as long as they would be allowed to remain in power. Astonishingly, these two old oligarchic parties, who for over half a century had made a marvellous show of how they bitterly hated and despised one another like rabid dogs and vicious cats (while they snugly alternated in power and took turns at robbing the till), now welded themselves into a Grand Patriotic Coalition, under the pretence of saving the Motherland! (1) And Brussels saw it, and Brussels saw that it was good; for Brussels needed obedient elected lackeys in Athens power, so as to administer a healthy, satisfying dose of Crushing of Greeks.

And now there are elections in Greece, and the chicken are coming home to roost. For you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people most of the time, but let it simmer long enough, and people will recognize what is really going on. They will see, and suffer, the harm done by the old political mafia in tandem and cahoots with the plastic foreign technocrats who possess neither conscience nor human feeling. And then they will be fooled no longer, and vote in an outsider who is NOT willing to do the bidding of Brussels Apparatchiks building a Byzantine Empire. Enter Syriza…

Of course, this does not go down well in the corridors of Brussels power. And so out they come, the Commissars, the Bankers, the Chancellors and the Foreign Ministers, to warn the Greeks of the consequences if they vote for ‘the wrong party’ (Mr Juncker came up with that phrase…). Your banks will fail. Your economy will collapse. Your international credit will evaporate. There will be no more money for medicine, or petrol, or milks for the dear little Greek children. You may have to leave the warm and comfortable Euro zone, and the EU paradise… We may not help you…

The message is clear… If, in spite of our friendly, warm-hearted, paternal warnings, the Greek electorate has the shameless audacity to vote for the wrong party, one that is no EU lapdog and will play no Troika hangman, Brussels will not only allow the country to leave the Eurozone and even the Union… No, it will, once again crush them. It will do what it can to make the Grexit punitive, disastrous, calamitous and an economic massacre. An example will be set, pour decourager les autres. For Brussels does not accept disobedience. And worse: it will not allow anyone to escape unscathed from its heavenly project of Bringing Democracy and Prosperity to Europe…

So brace yourselves, ye descendants of Solon, Pericles and Demostenes! The days of Democracy are over, and you vote, not with a show of hands, nor even with your feet, but with your blood!

So be wise, and think twice, before you sign pacts that you will rue in the future…

(1)       This supposed enmity was always pretty fake. I just learned that the leader of Nea Democratia, Antonis Samaras, used to share a room, back in his students day, with the long-time leader of PASOK, George Papandreu…!! Will you believe it? One does wonder how GREEK their relationship really was??