15 June 2012

Which "obligations"?


During last weeks, we often hear from various official mouths the cliché "Greece must fulfill her obligations". That is to implement the agreements signed between Troika and Greek government, and ratified by the Greek parliament.

Such 'savoir-vivre' advice sounds reasonable to the ears of many. But how exactly those "obligations" were created? Who exactly undertook them on behalf of the country, and with what sort of procedures?

Here is an illustrated chronicle that we should bring to mind each time a Mr. Scheuble or a Mrs. Lagarde teach Greeks 'how they should behave'.

13.2.2012:
Greek MPs (who were elected under Papandreou's false slogan "There is plenty of money" in 2009)
vote on the second austerity Memorandum. 




Mr. Chrysochoidis (minister for Citizen Protection) said that he voted 'Yes'
without having read the treaty "because he had other things to attend to"

There were more like him who later admitted that
they had voted without reading what they were voting for.
On the same day the Greek people had their own voting
in front of the Parliament.

But the vote of the huge crowds was 'slightly' different than of their representatives.
  
There had been many more protests against Parliament decisions during the previous months.

Some dared shouting 'No' to the decision of the Parliament.
[the man with white hair is 90-year old Manolis Glezos,
who became famous when he tore down the German flag on Acropolis in 1941]
 


The objections were finally muffled and so Greece's "obligations" were born.
Who cares about the opinion of 'hoi polloi'?
Our distinguished friends celebrated with relief the decision of the Greek Parliament,
probably taking the tear-gas effects as tears of joy for the triumph of democracy.

[the story continues -please come again]