If there is one skill that Edi Rama absolutely must be known for, it is the use to the point of humiliation of all those under him or who serve his power. The most recent case, when this skill was displayed in all its splendor, was the kidnapping by Agron Shehaj of a secret agreement with the US in the offices of the Parliament. The scene where the MP ran with the papers in his hands was more than funny, but the coordinated attack on him crossed the boundaries of a comedy.
And while the Prime Minister himself tried to stay within the framework of the grotesque by using a banal comparison a la Shefqet Musaraj of the ballista who steals chickens from the coop, the kennel of his soldiers went beyond any imagination. The Socialist women of the Parliament made a serious statement accusing Gonen of having caused a lady to follow him from behind and consequently fall down the stairs. The male MPs and ministers solemnly demanded the arrest of Shehaj in flagrante delicto, the intervention of SPAK and in-depth investigations into his act. And as always, when any government degrades to the last point, Rama's media dice could not be missing, which in Agron Shehaj's running found traces of Iranian, Italian, and Syrian secret services, which aim to damage Albania's relations with the USA.
Such madness, when a government reaches its end, is well known. Hostile groups, coup plotters, elements recruited from hostile states, etc., our political history is full of them, but only Edi Rama has managed in the last 10 years to count them, almost to make all those who serve him look like a single face.
In the Socialist Party parliamentary group, it doesn't matter if there are 74, 84 or 104, all the deputies have taken the form of Taulant Balla. Everyone dealt with Gone and no one asked the question of whether or not the opposition had the right to recognize the agreement a week before it was voted on. Everyone in chorus, men and women, rushed to Agron Shehaj to cover up the humiliation and treatment of them simply as numbers. Meanwhile, in the media, Rama's ability to annihilate any individuality in his servants has made them look the same as those who serve his interests, as well as clowns from peripheral studios and old charlatans who find echoes with their idiocies.
When service to someone is done even at the cost of personality, the product will undoubtedly be what we see. Edi Rama does not need people who think or suggest, and the trap of his power does not allow any of his servants to dare to raise their heads. For everyone who has swallowed a spoonful of spoiled soup, he has something in his hand. Somewhere a file, somewhere else a concession, a salary or a job. A master of weaving the mafia web, he has transformed them into insects that cannot even flap their wings.
He needs the flock he leads with a stick to deal with the theft of Gone and not with his own theft. They should shout that SPAK should arrest someone who robs letters and not the one who robs Albania. Agron Shehaj's villa in Italy should be investigated and not Rama's palace in Surrel and the house in Bllok, the ANA money for the prime minister's family or the casino licenses for his brother's friends.
The two months of protests showed to what extent those who serve Edi Rama can be degraded. In calm periods, service can be ugly, but when the prime minister is in trouble, it turns into humiliation. Those who attack Shehaj today for Rama's trouble are the same, exactly the same, who attacked the organizers of the protests as agents of Iran, as activists of Albin, as the fifth column of Greeks, as Muslim extremists. In the flock of power, name, profession, career, integrity do not matter. Everyone takes on the appearance of a single face when the boss calls them to the cause.
They are not ashamed to talk about the chicken that Agron stole, while they themselves are cackling in Edi Rama's coop. Now at least they are in the middle of the square and everyone is watching. ©lapsi.al
