Cypriots Cede The Right to Rebel

Habitually, people will go to extremes to protect their national identity and country from repression, whether threatened from forces within or from the outside. If not dealt with effectively, social oppression will quickly grow and create an underclass where a powerful influential elite will constantly enjoy access to privileged opportunities and remain on top; just like the Brazil-Nut effect.
This phenomenon of containing a mixture of various sized objects, when shaken, the largest granular materials always end up on the surface; the smaller particles end up being pushed and crushed to the very bottom of the pile. The same phenomenon equally applies in societies. The majority of ordinary citizens are manipulated and kept to the bottom of the pile with limited scope of ever climbing up to the top – that area is exclusively reserved for the influential, the strong and the powerful.
Society in Cyprus is no exception. In the last few years however, it has reached a dangerous level of social apathy where a large majority of people allow themselves to be controlled by a Machiavellian system.
In fact, after the Troika coerced the biggest crime against the people of Cyprus, citizens have become despondent without much hope for a better tomorrow. Their lives have been shattered overnight. They are confused and perplexed as to what the future holds for them and their families.
Like the taming of a wild filly, they have been broken economically and finally succumbed to submissiveness. Those feelings have now regressed into fury where a silent majority refuse to take a stand. Resentment has touched most peoples’ lives and they are now trapped without a chance to escape from the ongoing mess inflicted upon them by a failed banking system and bad government policies.
A rising number of young people and professionals are fleeing the country in search of job opportunities, financial security, fairer taxation and social equality – something that has been badly missing in Cyprus for many years. The brain drain will ultimately cause irreparable damage to growth and those who stay behind will be faced with crippling new taxation imposed upon them.
Taxation by all accounts breeds resentment but illegal taxation breeds rebellion. Not so in Cyprus. The question arises as to why the dead silence and why such political subservience? It seems as if Cypriots have completely abandoned the right to protest. Instead, they remained docile over the entire Troika affair.
In Europe on the other hand, thousands of people took to the streets and protested EU austerity measures and yet in Cyprus, not a sound of rebellion. Such an attitude is very strange indeed and certainly not healthy for democracies where citizens remain unmoved to speak out against injustice.
In fact, the right to rebel is the right or duty of people to overthrow a government who acts against their common interests or abuses constitutional powers as authorized by the electorate. This right extends back to ancient China, and it has been used throughout history, including the American, French and Russian Revolution. That right has now been enshrined as an effective measure to protect the nation from bad government. Not so in Cyprus.
Equally, the right to a referendum is another precious democratic right and yet in Cyprus people are never consulted on matters of great importance or constitutional changes that affect their lives. The Cyprus political system has been badly operating without transparency or any accountability under the pretext that “the government knows best”, and citizens no longer have a say or to express an opinion once they cast their vote. That assumption is the basis of a flawed democracy under an elected dictatorship
A prime example of that is the unjustified theft of people’s hard-earned cash by the Cyprus government without their consent; they simply took as much as 60 percent of people’s money. Under a well-planned government spin of doomsday scenarios and threats of an ominous bankruptcy, citizens surrendered to defeatism and sanctioned “legalized-suppression” to be applied against their own persons. In reality, citizens were forced to finance their own slavery and so they did. Similar to the silence of bleating lambs, citizens headed straight for the slaughter without a fight or a protest.
The foresight and ability to take a stand against what is unjust is a precious quality only few people can nowadays share. On the 1st of April, 1955 the youth of Cyprus vociferously resisted and protested en-mass at the fear of being sent to prison or shot at and killed by the British army and yet, they took up arms and struggled against colonialism until they achieved the “impossible”.
They may have been “half-asleep” but were certainly were not “half-dead” and one day, they woke up and did what was right. Those actions and true convictions of yesterday’s youth have created the new Republic of Cyprus. Impassively, citizens today preferred to remain “half-dead” rather than demand the right to decide their own fate.
JUST LIKE SHEEP
At the present, things are not so encouraging for the island. People are angry, pessimistic and furious at the system, the politicians and their parties. They blame both for ruining their lives and robbing any hope left for their children’s future. The unemployment is set to reach over 120,000 persons by the end of the year and the food line ups are getting bigger and bigger by the day while hundreds of families will soon start to see their homes repossessed by the banks as a pre-condition for EU-Troika’s 10 billion euros loan.
This dastardly trend has begun with a vengeance and some people now find themselves abandoning their homes unable to pay their mortgage. This is the new EU Cyprus under the promised EU prosperity. Europhiles truly believe it’s a price worth paying to keep the euro and to remain a loyal and an obedient member of this EU failed institution.
Cypriots by nature are a proud dignified people and to be reduced to such a humiliating state of despondency by a group of EU bankers in collusion with the Cyprus government, is not only a crime against humanity, but it is also immoral. No government has the constitutional right to inflict such a misery upon the nation because of its own failed policies and incompetence. Those responsible for this catastrophe should be named, apprehended and prosecuted. If found guilty, they should be send to the gallows without parole!
Aphrodite may be angry, but Cypriots are rolling over for austerity measures.
Aphrodite may be angry, but Cypriots are rolling over for austerity measures
Unfortunately, no one in public office has ever been prosecuted for wrong doing in Cyprus. Conveniently the mounds of dirt are swiftly swept under the carpet so as not to cause ripples or shake up the system, a system where everyone has their fingers deep in the honey pot. It is no wonder the young have become passive and indifferent.
It will need a strong government with revolutionary policies to clean out the present mess and this is not impossible. There are positive signs ahead such as the discovery of natural gas and if handled wisely it will transform the island into a land of hope and prosperity, as has never been seen before. If Cyprus adopts the Norwegian Natural Gas Model to its fullest, then the sky is the limit. There are certainly lessons to be learned out of the ashes of this economic crisis.
Meanwhile, Cyprus is heading into unchartered waters. Geopolitically, there are many political traps set in its way and it will take a very clever and a very wise government to steer the ship into safe waters.  Let’s hope the present new government will do the right thing and steer the ship into safety.
If not, Cyprus will be entrapped with additional harsh memorandum along the way and will never become free or be in a position to govern the island without Troika’s say so! Ultimately, Cyprus will gain a new shipmaster under the terms of an EU-style economic colonization. This is the New Cyprus of today.