The Prince, The Lagarde List, The Testosterone King & Evangelos The Great

How pitiful, the self-proclaimed Prince does not know whether or not he has the time to grace the Parliamentary Committee, investigating the so-called Lagarde list of possible tax evaders with accounts at the Swiss HSBC, with his royal presence. Yes, we are talking about none other than George Papandreou who has been summoned to testify before the committee next Tuesday for being implicated in the case. Reports in Athens say that Papandreou is not going to waste his time to fly to Athens, and instead will send some sort of note. (The chap is probably too afraid of being questioned, seeing that his advisers continue to write out all the answers for him, and in a committee such as this he will not be allowed to bring along his Ipod to view the answers, which makes it kind of tuff.) Apparently this pitiful former premier telephoned the chairman of the committee, Christos Markoyiannakis, and informed him that he is in the US and from what it looks like he will not be flying into Greece.

(Now if George Soros summoned him to fly to the Antartic and run around bare-ass naked around the glaciers, Papandreou would gladly do it. But to appear before government officials and give your testimony after being implicated in the case is just too boring and blaze for this boy.)

Unfortunately for us Mr. Papandreou forgets of course that he is still an MP of the Greek Parliament and has no choice but to show up every once and a while and at least put up a performance to his voters who unfortunately elected him.

The whole probe is turning into a Banania three-ring circus anyway and only proving to us, the voters, that our political and -ESPECIALLY Mr. Papandreou and Mr. Venizelos- never wanted this probe to be taken seriously in the first place.

And that just makes us even more suspicious of them!

One example of the Banania chaos, is the rhetoric rumble that erupted on Thursday. PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos had it out with anyone who dared to question him, or rather anyone who dared to disagree with him. As such his confrontation with Golden Dawn MP Elias Kasidiaris as well as with SYRIZA MP Zoe Konstantopoulou were hysterical and at the same time totally pitiful.

In fact Evangelos the Great lashed out at his predecessor Giorgos Papakonstantinou and other senior government officials, who he accused of going behind his back. Referring to the e-mails submitted to the committee last week by the former head of the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) Yiannis Diotis, Venizelos claimed their content proved that Diotis, Papakonstantinou and Constantinos Bikas, the former head of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), had all “acted secretly" behind his back, and ignored him. (sniff sniff, what a performer!)

Venizelos then insisted that he received the memory stick containing the Lagarde list in August 2011, rebuffing Diotis’s earlier claims that he had given Venizelos the list on July 8 of that year. He also said that Diotis had not informed him on whether or not there was another copy of the memory stick. At the same time he also repeated his conviction that the list was not legally usable but said it could have been the starting point of an investigation.

The leader of PASOK then began raising his finger to some of the members in the probing committee, and this led to a clash with leftist SYRIZA deputy Zoe Konstantopoulou, whom he accused of employing methods of questioning akin to torture.

But the biggest dispute by far, was Evangelos the Great’s exchange of words with Golden Dawn spokesman Elias Kasidiaris, which led to the session being interrupted briefly.

In questions directed at Venizelos, Kassidiaris referred to the involvement of secret service agents in the delivery of the Lagarde list to Greece, prompting the angry (and suspicious) reaction of conservative New Democracy MP Adonis Georgiadis and a subsequent dispute between the ND deputy and Kasidiaris.

During a break from the testimony, Venizelos jokingly attributed that outburst from Kassidiaris to “high testosterone levels” in comments to reporters. On hearing about the PASOK leader’s comments, Kasidiaris accused Venizelos of speaking disparagingly about the members of the committee and asked the panel’s president, Christos Markoyiannakis, to intervene.

Then Venizelos raised his finger, as we know he always does in an arrogant manner, and began calling Kassidiaris a "fascist". Insulted, the Golden Dawn spokesman snapped back at him by simply stating:

   “You are ridiculous and fat.”(Lol)

After several hours of testimony, the PASOK leader left pretending to once again be the victim, and using the Greek media to ridicule both Kostantopoulou and Kassidiaris.  Little does Mr. Venizelos know, that the majority of the population sees right through him, and his arrogant and obviously insulting fakeness is not going to cut it with us any more. He is totally pitiful.

Also, we feel disgusted with George Papandreou's stance, who comes across as being just too busy to involve himself with the poor people of Greece. (Seriously, he could at least fake that he is part of the Greek parliament, right?). His escape to the US, which is really what this all is, is not going to allow him to sleep easily at nights, because there are more investigations pending, and sooner or later he is going to have to have to answer to the people.

Let us just hope that this day comes soon!