Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 7:16am
There
is a global conspiracy to achieve the destruction of my
Country. They started that on 1975, aiming at the Modern Greek Culture,
continued with the distortion of our Modern History and our
National Identity and now, they’re also trying to achieve our
physical elimination with unemployment, hunger and misery. If
the Greek people don’t show the will to stand up united and
stop them, there is a serious, real risk, for Greece’s
extinction. I believe, this will take place within the next ten
years. From all of us, the Greeks, all that will remain is the
memory of our Civilization and our Struggles in History for
Freedom.
Till 2009, there weren’t any serious economic
problems. The great “plagues” of our economy, were the Defense
overspending and political, economical and journalistic
corruption. But for these wounds, foreign nations had their
share of responsibility. For example Germans, French, English
and Americans, earned billions from our our national wealth for
Defense expenses every year. This constant “bleeding”, “kneeled” us and
didn’t allow us to move forward to economic growth, while
offering huge capitals to foreign nations. The same happened
with the corruption. For example, the German firm SIEMENS had a
“special branch” for the subornation of Greek goverment
officials, to place their products in Greek market. Therefore,
the Greeks became victims of these “predators duet” (Greeks and
Germans), who became very rich against Greek people.
It’s
obvious, that these two large “plagues” could have been avoided,
if the leaders of both ( pro “american” ) Greek political parties
weren’t eroded by corrupted politicians, who tried to cover the
wealth’s “drain” to foreign countries treasure vaults (a
wealth which was the product of Greek people’s hard labor), by
resorting to excessive borrowing, rocketing the Greek debt to
300 billion, or 130% of Greek GNP (Gross National Product).
With
this scam, the foreign nations earned double. First, from Greek
Defense Ministry expenses and by selling their products to the Greek
market. And secondly, from the huge interest of their loans to
Greek governments and not to Greek people. As we can fully
understand from that, the Greek people was the main victim in
both cases. Just one example, could convince you all. The
interest on the loan of $1,000,000,000 made by Andreas
Papandreou in 1986 from a major European country, reached
$54,000,000,000 and Greece paid them up in… 2010!!!
Mr.
Juncker said a year ago that he ascertained the excessive Greek
“bleeding” from forced (!) military expenses, especially to Germany and
France. Therefore, he concluded that these deals lead Greece
to assured disaster. But he confesses that he took no action,
because he didn’t want to harm the interests of friendly
countries!
In 2008, a great economic crisis erupted in Europe. It
was a logical consequense that the Greek economy will be
affected. However, the standard of living in Greece was high,
and remained essentially unchanged. Greece has been ranked
among the top 30 rich world countries. But there was a rising
of Public Debt.
This Public Debt, doesn’t necessarily lead
a country to an economic crisis. The debts of great countries
like U.S.A. and Germany, are estimated at Trillions! The
problem is whether there is economic growth and production.
Only in that case can a country borrow from large banks
networks with an interest rate of 5%, until the crisis passes.
We
were in that position at 2009, when the government changed. In
November George Papandreou was elected Greek Prime Minister. To fully
understand what the Greek people thinks today for his disastrous
policies, I am quoting two numbers: In 2009’s elections, PASOK
won 44% of the votes. Today, the polls give just 6% to PASOK!
Mr. Papandreou could confront the economic crisis (which would
reflect the European one), with loans from foreign banks – and
the usual interest rate is below 5%! If he would do that, not
only there wouldn’t be any problem for our country, but since
we had economic growth, we would also have risen of our
standard of living.
But Mr. Papandreou was conspiring against
Greek people since summer of 2009, when he met in secret with
Strauss-Kahn, to put Greece under the domination of IMF. The
information for this secret meeting was published, by the
former President of IMF himself!
But to get there, the Greek
economy had to be “distorted” that much, to intimidate the
foreign banks and have their lending rates risen to prohibitive
high figures. This unspeakable conspiracy began with
manipulating the Public Debt statistics, skyrocketing from 9.2% to 15%!
For this serious crime, the economic attorney Mr. Peponis
referred to Justice 20 days ago Mr Papandreou and Mr
Papaconstantinou (former Minister of Finance).
This
Public Debt skyrocketing, followed by the systematic “campaign”
of Mr. Papandreou and the Greek Minister of Finance all over the
Europe for 5 months, where they tried to persuade the Europeans
that Greece is a “Titanic” about to sink, that the Greeks are
corrupted lazy people and therefore unable to deal with
country’s needs! In every single statement of them, the
interest rates were rising up, till Greece couldn’t borrow
anymore. So, Greece submission to IMF and European Bank took a character
of “salvation”, but instead was the beginning of our death!
In
May 2010, the famous “Memorandum” signed by a single one Minister.
This Memorandum was Greece’s total subservience to our lenders. The
Greek Constitution requires for such an important agreement to
be valid, the votes of the 3/5 of the Greek Parliament. So
basically, the “Memorandum” and “Troika” are ruling Greece
illegaly, not only because of Greek Constitution, but according
to European Laws!
If there are 20 steps leading to our
death, with the Memorandum we’ve done more than half of the
way. Imagine that with the “Memorandum”, we’re totally giving
up our National Independence and our Public Property to
foreigns! That means ports, airports, public roads,
electricity, water, mineral and subsea natural wealth etc. Even our
historical monuments, like Acropolis, Delphi, Olympia, Epidaurus
etc., since we have resigned from any objections!
The
production stopped, the unemployment rose to 18%, over 80,000
shops and hundreds of thousands of industries closed down. A total of
432,000 businesses, bankrupted. Thousands of young scientists are
leaving this “sinking” country and every day we’re sinking in
Dark Ages. Thousands of formerly wealthy citizens are diging
the trash cans for food and have to sleep on the streets
because they became homeless.
In the mean time, we are
supposingly to staying alive thanks to the generosity of our
lenders, the European banks and the IMF! But the truth is that
every single package of dozens billions we borrow returns back
where it came from, and the Greek people have to pay bigger and bigger
interest rates. And because there is a need to maintain the
State, the Hospitals and Schools, “Troika” loads the middle and
lower economic class of Greek society with unreasonable taxes,
which lead us directly to starvation! Greeks faced another
general state of starvation at the beginning of German
Occupation in 1941 during WWII, with 300,000 dead people in six
months! The phantom of hunger returns to our slandered and
wretched country.
If you think that the German Occupation
in WWII cost us 1,000,000 dead and the complete destruction of
our country, how do you expect we’ll accept the threats of Mrs
Merkel and the German intention to impose on us a new
“Gauleiter” (district manager of Nazis)… This time, with a
tie!…
And to prove to you all, that Greece is a rich
country and how the Greeks are conscious and hardworking people
(consciousness of Debt to Freedom and Love for our homeland),
I’ll tell you about the German Occupation from 1941 until
October 1944. When “Waffen-SS” and starvation killed 1,000,000
Greeks and “Wehrmacht” systematically destroyed our country,
stealing the agricultural production and our gold from our
banks, the Greeks saved themselves from starvation by creating the
“National Solidarity Movement” and they created a partisan army of
100,000, that riveted 20 German army divisions in our country!
At
the same time, Greek art flourished (despite the hard conditions
of the German Occupation), especially literature and music.
Greece
chose the path of Sacrifice for Freedom and simultaneously,
the path of Survival.Again they hit us without a cause and we
responded with Solidarity and Resistance… and we survived. The same we
do now, and we know that the final victor, will be the Greek
people. This is message I’m sending to Mrs Merkel and Mr
Schaeuble, saying that I remaining friend of the German People
and admirer of their great contribution to science, philosophy,
art and particular in music! And perhaps, the best proof of
this is that I trusted all my musical projects in two German
publishers, Schott and Breitkopf, among the greatest
publishers in the world and my cooperation with them is
exceptionally friendly.
They are threatening us with eviction from
Europe. If Europe doesn’t want us one time, we don’t want this
“Merkel – Sarkozy Europe” ten times!
Today,
Sunday, February 12, I’m preparing myself to take part to this
new fight together with Manolis Glezos – the hero who took down the
Swastika flag from the Acropolis and gave the signal for the
beginning of resistance to Hitler. Not only of Greek but also
European resistance. Our streets and squares will be flooded
with hundreds of thousands of people, who will demonstrate
their anger against our government and “Troika”.
I
heard yesterday our banker-Prime Minister, addressing to the Greek
people and saying that “we have almost come to point zero.” But,
who are these men that led us to the point ZERO? The same men
who should be in jail and are extorting their MPs to sign a new
Memorandum worse than the first one, a Memorandum to be
applied by the same people and with the same methods that led
us to this point zero! Why? Because that demands IMF and Euro
Group, blackmailing us that unless we obey, Greece will
bankrupt… This is totally absurd! These economic circles hate us (Greeks
and foreigners) and have the sole responsibility for our
dramatic situation. Yet they threaten and blackmail us, to
continue their destructive work, to lead us below the point
zero, to our final extinction!
We survived from
many great difficult conditions through centuries and it is
certain that if they lead us by force at the final step before
our death, the Greeks will not only survive but will regrow! Currently,
I am devoting all my strength in an effort to unite Greek
people. I’m trying to convince them, that “Troika” and the IMF
isn’t an one-way! That there is another solution! And this is,
to change radically our nation’s course and turn to Russia for
economic cooperation and create economic partnerships that will
help us grow the natural wealth of our country, with terms
that ensure our national interest. Concerning Europe, I suggest
we stop buying military equipment from Germany and France. And
we’ll do anything necessary, to force Germany to pay the war
reparations to Greece, which may amount now (with interest) to 500
billion!
The only force that can make these
revolutionary changes, is the Greek people, united in a huge
“Resistance and Solidarity Front”, to drive off “Troika” (IMF
and European banks) from our country. While all these illegal
actions (loans, debts, interest, taxes, acquisitions of Greece
public wealth), are to be considered null and void! Of course,
their Greeks “partners”, who are already convicted in the minds of Greek
people as traitors, must be punished!
To this purpose
(uniting the People in one Front) I am totally and completely
committing myself and I believe that ultimately, I’ll be
vindicated. I fought bearing arms against Hitler’s Occupation. I’ve
spent time in the dungeons of “Gestapo”. I was condemned by Germans
to death and miraculously I lived. In 1967 I founded the NAF
(National Anti-Dictatorship Front), the first resistance
organization against the Greek military Junta. I fought
underground. I was caught and imprisoned in the
“slaughter-house” of Junta’s Security Committee. Finaly I
survived again.
Today, I am 87 years old and is very
likely I’m not going to live the salvation of my beloved
country. But I will die with my consciousness clear, because
I’m still doing my Duty to the ideals of Liberty and the Law,
till the end!
Athens, 12/2/2012,
Mikis Theodorakis
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