In Europe we will all be strangers

Romanians can’t wait. Finally, finally we’ll be in Europe. But will we be really?

Starting the 1st of January 2007 the skies will open and manna, silver and gold will fall upon us. Is this how it is? No way, there will be nothing of the kind. Do we need Europe? In reality, it’s Europe that needs us most: the underground resources of Romania, the slave-like salaries, the country as protection area against the Russian lion and the wonderful, unspoiled Romanian nature.

Do Brussels really know what Romania looks like? Every day top level delegations come to our country, including in Sibiu. They move between the most exclusive hotels, get from one reception to another and do not leave the asphalted streets. They eat and drink only from the finest hands and kiss the smoothest and most nicely manicured hands. And the Romanian spectators say: Oh, this is Europe!

Do people in Brussels, Paris, Berlin and London really know what things look like in Romania? Do they really want to know? Have they ever been to a village at the end of the world, where there are no asphalted streets, but only a dusty road? Have they ever kissed, or even shaken, the dirty, shoddy, crooked hand of a Romany or have they ever ‘scratched’ on their cooker hob the so-called ”dough” (flour with water baked directly on the hob), have the great ladies and the great gentlemen stayed at least for one night in an average-level Romanian hospital? Do they know that most villages do not have drinking water or water treatment plants? That many Romany people can’t go to school, for lack of clothes? That the village priest denies them blessing, for instance christening, as they can’t pay the due ”fee”? That priests in Romania are paid by the State? Of course. Have the European bureaucrats and capitalist aristocrats spent at least one hour in a Romany hut ("pigsty"), with clay-made floor or with four persons in a dirty bed, near a stinky hob and with windows having not enough glass? Do they know how fast people grow old round here, with no healthcare and no hygiene? Do they have any idea of why men and women of 30 here look like those in Germany of 60?

They will come here with their factories and exploit even more the Romanian ”slaves”. Prices will go up even more and salaries will be pinned down where they are today. Oh, and what fierce consequences there will be if the Romanians dare to claim decent salaries. Factories will be closed down, as they were brutally closed down in Germany and in other places in Western Europe and they will move on, to another people of slaves ready to be exploited. And they will brutally violate the indigenous nature and cover all in concrete for the tourist industry, and no far from Sibiu, thousands of US soldiers will turn the village of Cincu into one big whorehouse. Good night, Romania.

The former German federal president, Roman Herzog, called the enlargement of the European Union "a scandal and idle talk”. This vocal president was admonished and considered as a person slandering his homeland. This will also happen to me actually. But no one will ban my blunt ”Sunday sermon”, not even when, under false and ridiculous accusations, I had to appear before the Prosecution in Sibiu, as was the case this week. Could it be so foolishly that they want to get rid of criticism?

Germany took decades to free itself mentally from dictatorship and practice democracy. Romania needs to learn and put everything into practice in just a couple of years. Do they really not know what happened here to the children in the foster homes that, following the European promise, have been discharged under the so-called reintegration law? In reality, they ended up again on the streets.
Europe required that corruption should be put a stop here. These false apostles … The Eastern, Balkan corruption has long crossed into Western Europe and instead of it being eliminated here, this virus is playing havoc there. Yes, the Italians are world champions in football now. But in their own country (sic) in Europe, the results of football games have been manipulated. Oh, holy hypocrisy… It was learned from the Romanians and Bulgarians and the corruption drug is highly welcomed. When will the favoritism and family economy stop here? Never. And the many false experts’ opinions that are bought…. And the avalanche of sickly laws... And the incredible bureaucracy nipping any initiative in the bud... And the good grades of students they bought from their teachers and so on … and so on … And the incapable and below-average people landing themselves high level jobs, considered as persons with normal education. How will all this be welcome in the European countries?

Oh, but I forgot, nothing matters. Romania will become Europe. So that the world dictatorship of the capital and the sickly globalization can have here as well their slaves. So that the few rich can become richer and the many poor, including the Romany, even poorer.
All of us, you and I, will be in Europe strangers in our own country.

Think about my words, remain faithful to me. And raise your voice, so maybe you could make it right. No, not everything will be right. Unfortunately. I wish I could have sung a different song. God help us.

Your Father, Don Demidoff ICCC
International Council of Community Churches USA
Basilica Iacobeni Romania
www.depeschedondemidoff.com
dondemidoff@web.de

Humanitar work in Romania

Pater Don Demidoff ICCC
507045 Cincu Rumänien
dondemidoff@web.de
www.depeschedondemidoff.com

This release was published on openPR.