Warning from Inside the Southern European Concentration Camp

April 27, 2013 • 10:11AM

Portuguese Socialist Party figure Manuel Alegre, a 76-year-old poet, former Deputy, and twice candidate for President (2006-2011), who in the past has called for following the Argentine model on the debt, wrote a short March 26 article, published in Jornal i under the title "Cyprus and Us," which speaks for itself. We translate:

"We are like those prisoners in the concentration camps who lived under the illusion that their time had perhaps not yet come, when others were being lined up for the gas chambers. No swastika is seen; there are no soldiers barking orders; the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' has not yet appeared over the entrance to our country.

"But [German Finance] Minister Schäuble, [European Commission President] Durão Barroso, and the owners of Germanized-Europe strike fear. They do not need to invade nor bomb. They make a decision and exterminate a country. Yesterday it was Cyprus. The fifth column which governs the European countries and the regimented commentators believe that they will not be affected; Cyprus is a small country. They already said the same thing about Greece. As long as they do not put a mark on our lapel, they believe that we are going to escape. But I am already beginning to feel condemned. I cannot stop feeling like a Cypriot. I was convinced that we belonged to the European Union, a project for shared prosperity between equal and sovereign countries. But Cyprus, after Greece, and, in a certain way, after ourselves, make me see that this Europe is a fraud. It is no longer a project of peace and liberty; it begins to be a totalitarian threat, with the objective of impoverishing and enslaving us countries of the south. That is why it behooves us to feel like Cypriots. Before it reaches us."