Karma is...a village in Puka

Alfred Lela

Today is January 21. A TV program editor invited me to her show on the topic... January 21, 12 years ago. My answer: "I think it should not be discussed at all. There have been 12 years of talk about the government of 10 years before only to cover up the scandals of the government of these 10 years. There is no better way to extend the life of the government."

Here I am continuing an (imaginary) dialogue with the editor of the show in question, and with her colleagues, who are sometimes pushed by the shallowness of the newsworthy issues, and other times by the political-economic impulses of the bosses.

Of course, you can have an argument about January 21st 12 years later, just as you can argue about the Tanzimati Reforms or the Americans who were killed in Mamurras at the time of King Zog 90 years ago, and so on. You can also make a show about Karma, I'm talking about the Puka village, but also about "karma is a bitch" of our Lutheran Prime Minister, who, disgusted by the Christian indulgences of Europe, nailed his 95 theses on the doors of the Union. The first among them reads "Karma is a bitch".

Through this expression, commonly used among Instagram chicks, the prime minister wanted to say, in a debate organized by POLITICO magazine in Davos, that we, the government of Albania, are not the only ones who are corrupt, the criterion on which you keep us aside, you of Europe "the ancient whore" By "you" he means the scandal in the European Parliament, with several officials, among them a Greek MEP, exposed in what was baptized "Qatargate". In short, accepting donations, in cash, for lobbying in favor of the powerful Arab oil state of Qatar.

Since it is January 21, and since the corruption of European parliamentarians is compared to that of Rama's administration, they are as similar as the village of Karmë in Puka to the village of Schengen on the triangular border between Luxembourg, France, and Germany, I dare to compare two things, I believe more comparable. The motive or pretext behind the January 21 of 2011 protest, and the lethargy or lack of protest for numerous scandals, without a second January 21st... I am speaking here in terms of rebellion, not victims.

Thus, if memory serves us correctly, January 21, 2011, was organized by Edi Rama and the Socialist Party in the opposition, as a reaction to a video, where minister Dritan Prifti and his boss Ilir Meta appeared. In short, at the center of the conversation, the term 700 thousand euros became the motive that raised the "revolution" of January 21, in which four people fell to the guillotine, later baptized martyrs by Rama.

Fast forward 12 years and the amount that blown up to raise the balloon of the 'revolution' in the socialist sky of Albania, 700 thousand euros, today looks like a stupid joke, like pocket money, as much as even the unemployed lazy son of a cleaner of second and third rank directors, in Rama's administration can have laying around.

Even when you compare the amount of Qatargate, 600 thousand euros in 16 Brussels houses, as much as the cleaner of Rama's "cleaners" had taken from a single one, karma cannot become a bitch. Without forgetting a fine distinction here: the EP is a supranational superstructure, not a national state, much less a poor one like Albania. Even theft is categorized (discount the Puritan cases of Martin Luther and Rama): quite different to steal from a foreign state to lobby for its interests in a supranational superstructure, and to take bread, roads, and public works from your countrymen. The Karma that Rama seeks to throw in the European lap is nevertheless a whore...for the fact that she does not stay where they put her.

To be cynical, and politically incorrect to the end, at least the EP is being stolen by Eva Kaili, a beautiful woman. Personally, I would feel more at ease with her hand in my pocket. Especially when you compare it with these cows of Rama's administration, which no amount of silicon can save from the lines of greed in their portraits. In their case, karma is… a superbitch!

Therefore, the comparison, relativization, and banalization that Edi Rama makes of the phenomena in the country he guides, which he probably found between Sila and Carybda, but is taking in direction of Sodom and Gomorrah, can comfort the crowd that makes heroes in the likes of Elisa's Scanderbeg and Luiz of Sara, but those who remain are awed by the stupidity of the thesis and the shamelessness of the author.

Meanwhile, television programs continue to talk about the government of Sali Berisha, who bid farewell 10 years ago. Just like Enver Hoxha's  History texts that wrote about prosperity in socialism and misery in the time of King Zog.

We don't blame them, but we can point them out. Journalism as a public service? Tobestrakfurullah! (No way!)