Police, journalists and government agents

Alfred Lela

The involvement of a journalist and some employees of the Police Supervision Agency-AMP in a suspected blackmail scheme should not be treated, as there are attempts, as a problem for journalists and the media.

Such a reading and basing the debate on it would be a deliberate avoidance of what is at the heart of the problem. The Association of Professional Journalists (APJ) seems to have caught this and, in a statement, demanded an investigation of the incident and caution against directing attacks on the journalist.

(For those who are not familiar with the news click here).

To support this caution, a little context is needed. It relates to the disclosure of the transcripted conversations of the leaders and soldiers of organized crime in the country, brought forth by the French authorities and layer on packaged in a SPAK file.

The "footprint" of the State Police and its departments in the "intimate" relations with organized crime is so blatant that, I repeat, it makes the criminals look bearable.

Part of this greed, this use, and the sell-off of the Albanian police uniform and image is the last episode of AMP employees. It is essentially an illegal enterprise that derives from the general context stemming directly from power.

Which centers on a culture of corruption that comes from the top down. So, the AMP employees, in this case, secret agents of the state investigating the police, choose an approach that is as original as it is illegal. More or less, if these scoundrels (our superiors) corrupt, steal, and get rich, why should we maintain the ethical and legal code?

It's a sort of reverse Robin Hoodism: I take on villains even though that makes me a villain.

On a sociological level, AMP agents are dipping their toes into the curdled sea of ​​amoral chaos. Translation coming from a favorite liberal motto, 'Everything goes.'

But we must remember the main thing: these are symptoms that come from the sick body of the body politic allowed with the license and worldview of the Rama government.

In this sense, targeting the journalist involved in the AMP episode misses the point. More than that, debating about the illness of journalism when the media is only the external symptom of the whole mess that has engulfed the government is malicious and helps maintain the status quo.

This would serve those in power by licensing another witch hunt with the justification of purifying the media. It would cover up the problem and disease of the system. Still, worse than that, it would also overlook the most serious symptom of the government plague: the capture and instrumentalization of the so-called 'mainstream' media.

So, replacing debate with pseudo-debate.

A government that has shut up every primary or secondary TV channel by favors or force has no place taking the moral high ground on the new, small media, be it portals, blogs, or pages on social networks.

This would constitute another attempt to rule over the last spaces of free public communication.

Those who support this approach are nothing more than 'mainstream agents' of the government.

They don't care about freedom because slavery pays better.