Athough I’m claustrophobic, I can’t say I’m sorry that I’ve been reduced to suffocating status this month. I’m referring to my writing space, which has been curtailed further than Greek authorities have ever hoped to curb tax evasion and corruption in a country that for a second year in a row has been portrayed as the world’s economic black sheep.

In fact, it has received so much attention and emergency “assistance” by so many “specialists” that one can seriously wonder how it has managed to stay alive! If are we to judge by precedent, 99% of the cases where the International Monetary Fund has prescribed “medicinal” help or “therapeutic” intervention of any kind, the “patient” country has been brutally …euthanized! For its own good, of course, and for the good of humanity, because its sacrifice will be an example to others that are reluctant or unwilling …to behave! Teaching by example – actually its wrong interpretation - has always been a core value of our “civilization”!

However, who are those imposing rules and regulations and playing the modern grand inquisitors? Are they so full of integrity and self-restraint themselves? Weren’t the big and medium size pimps of Wall Street, and other fraudulent financial schemes that brought this country and the world to its knees and then we, the taxpayers, came to the rescue footing the bill for their debauchery during the Bush’s “communist” and later Obama’s “socialist” rescue packages in order for them not to collapse on the ruins they themselves brought upon us?

I don’t have more space to expand on this theme, but hopefully in 2012 we’ll be able to talk about it in detail, because it’s time for all of us to wake up and take a closer look at who and where the real black sheep are, not the scapegoats. Lets go after the subhuman entities that are threatening to downgrade entire peoples to animal status in the name of greed. They are the ones that need to be taught lessons and what they prescribe to others, must apply to them first. That what teaching by example is!

Happy New Year!

DEMETRIOS RHOMPOTIS