Today might be Saint George Day but it is also a dark day for our nation's younger history. It was Friday afternoon, April 23, 2010. The Stock Exchange had closed and the Sunday newspapers were sent off to the printers to be published when all of a sudden every channel in Greece tuned into the state ERT channel to watch (and listen to) former PASOK leader and ex-premier George Papandreou announce his government's decision to seek aid from the support mechanism of the IMF, EU and ECB Memorandum. From a pier on Kastelorizo island, and a backdrop showing the deep blue waters of the Aegean ... Papandreou made the historic announcement and allowed the Troika to come into our lives. Little did we know how much our lives would change.
Two years later, PASOK still continues to argue that it saved Greece and the economy by doing so, as do the other two political parties that endorsed this decision (specifically Dora Mbakogiannis' Democratic Alliance Party and George Karatzaferis' LAOS party) while we say... never before in the history of this nation has Greece ever faced such a terrible crisis.
Was this planned?
Was it part of a wider scheme?
After two years and tonnes of information later we believe that it was.
There is no two ways about it.
PASOK handed over our sovereignty ...
PASOK spit on the Greek Constitution by doing so...
PASOK stepped on our dignity as a people because it never asked us if we wanted this memorandum...
PASOK commercialized and mortgaged Greek national wealth and now we are being threatened with losing Greece's only life vest to recovery...
PASOK institutionalized a regime of foreign occupation and allowed Germany and the IMF to dictate to us.
And by doing so... PASOK irreparably undermined Greece's national interests.
The only word that can describe these acts is one... TREASON.
Why did Greece accept the Memorandum?
Why didn't the government of PASOK negotiate better terms for the Greek people?
Why did George Papandreou go to Kastelorizo Island to announce our entrance to the IMF, and what was going on several miles away?
Who is responsible for the decisions and obligations that are dictated in the Memorandum?
Why didn't the government of Papandreou ask our European allies to perform a hair-cut in the first few months the crisis broke out and why didn't they propose it themselves?
The new leader of the socialists Evangelos Venizelos might believe that Greeks will forget what he said during this period, or how he supported George Papandreou's decision, but this is one thing that society will never forget so he is doing nothing more than ridiculing himself by thinking so.
Nonetheless, PASOK is PASOK... and to understand this party is to understand George Papandreou and we all know... that this is utterly impossible.
This can never be forgotten....
Editors Note - These and many other questions were the center of a recent investigative report conducted by Alexis Papachelas on SKAI television. This specific video is a must watch! And will enable you to find the answers you need to all of these questions. You can watch the rest of the series at SKAI online).
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