The use of public administration employees as paramilitary troops to crack down on students and the distribution of public money for uniforms that brutally rape protesting teenagers are two clear signs that Edi Rama, like any other scoundrel of his kind, is determined to lead the country into civil strife for fear of losing power. The autocrat's panic about what will happen to him the next day when he will not be in the office where he thinks he is strong is increasingly risking bloodshed among Albanians.
Our recent history has shown us that precisely when civilians are transformed into paramilitary gangs, when taxpayers' money is poured into the repressive machinery of state violence, in the name of a single man, when propaganda and media mercenaries deny the popular rebellion and speak of the secret hands of Serbia, Russia, Turkey, Iran... then the conflict between citizens and a blind power is inevitable. Neither the salaries of the police nor the media of the militias can avoid it.
A photo, which captures the faces of employees of a state agency, with and without masks, holding baseball bats and iron bars in their hands, which are paid for by the taxes of those who are protesting, demolishes the entire fable of the “foreign enemy” that has a grudge against us and aims to hinder us on our glorious path to the EU. When the state uses its employees as gangsters against its own citizens, does any foreign service need to do more?
Look at how Rama's media have handled this tragic episode to understand that they are heading blindly towards a conflict that has no end. In a normal society, its elite sees the stability of the country as linked to the rules and the system that controls the individual and not vice versa. Individuals, even when they escalate, come and go. It is the system that guarantees stability, it is political solutions, rotations, pacts, compromises. If the elite of this country also sees its fate in the same way as the mercenaries of power, linked to the individual, that is, to Edi Rama being prime minister, then any stability is false and the only solution remains a clash.
The second element, to understand where Edi Rama is taking the country, is the money distributed today to the police officers who are defending his chair. If the Albanian police deserve higher salaries, rewards and dignified treatment, this should be done institutionally and not when Edi Rama needs it. The money that the police officers receive also belongs to those whose bones are broken, who are suffocated by gas and rubber bullets, and Edi Rama distributes it without asking, just to motivate the protection of his subordinates. Such an act is no different from the scenes when Escobar opened his bag and threw bundles of dollars to his soldiers after escaping a DEA operation. The only difference is that Escobar made the money by risking his own life, while he ruined the lives of others.
Is there a need in this case for a foreign agency to incite hatred among Albanians? What can a father think who works 12 hours a day to raise his children and they end up beaten, bloodied and treated like animals by those whom the prime minister just rewarded with 2500 euros per head? Is there a more efficient way than this to provoke civil conflict?
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Why stones and Molotov cocktails became inevitable
October 19, 11:37
Instead of talking about a few burnt kiosks and broken windows, the damage of which does not exceed the two villas of Balluk in the south, those who seriously want stability and social peace should shout about the real cause that is leading the country towards a bloody crisis. Every action of Edi Rama, from the outbreak of the revolt until today, has been a bottle of gasoline thrown at the popular anger. And holding on to power at all costs is known where it leads. Therefore, instead of agencies, black and white hands, the finger should be pointed at the one who, even if they have fallen on his neck without right, must leave to save something greater than his chair.
Insisting on violence, on arming civilians, on paying police officers as if they were mercenaries, alone does not produce peace. Edi Rama's fear of where he will end up when he is no longer prime minister does not have to become Albania's nightmare. But one thing is certain: young people cannot be scared by an aging autocrat, no matter how many policemen and soldiers he has behind him. One day, they will tell their children, in some museum in Surrel, how the copy of a dictator ended up in the face of the power of the cause they embraced and fought for. ©lapsi.al
