Diversion
Source: in-cyprus.com
Amidst all the madness happening everywhere these days, Cyprus’s Police finally had some “successes” – for those who claim they never achieve anything: They managed to arrest two young women and a man protesting the killing of Pakistani national Khan Shoaib.
The man was taking photos with his mobile phone, which was deemed a privacy violation (in a public space?), while the women were demonstrating without a permit (along with 100 others who… got away) chanting “cops, pigs, murderers” – the familiar slogan from anti-police protests that was considered offensive – but why? “Cop” is slang for police officers, there was indeed a killing by a police officer’s gun, and pigs are actually clean, gentle animals (they only become dirty due to human treatment, so they’re the ones being defamed in the comparison). According to some witnesses, the chant was actually “cops, fascists, murderers” – and if arbitrary arrests aren’t fascism, they’re at least an abuse of power.
Days earlier, the Police had “solved” the murder of the Pakistani man found dead 20 kilometres away: They had shot him themselves (they claim they fired in the air or at the smugglers’ car tyres, but the bullets behaved rather erratically), despite the misleading autopsy by the coroner, who determined that the hole (from a bullet) in his back was caused by a small stone when he fell (why did he fall?). Let’s not forget the successful arrest of Oz Karahan and George Tattis for their… subversive banner at the parade reading “Cyprus Republic the only solution – Apartheid is not a solution”. Their trial, which began on Friday, will continue on March 12th. In both cases, the arrestees didn’t submissively accept their arrest! This is standard police practice: If other charges don’t stick, better have a backup plan.
We had another police success: They arrested (in his cell, he hasn’t escaped yet) Serbian lifer Dejan Loy, a professional bodyguard-turned-hitman, who gave a three-hour (!) online interview from there to “Not Guilty TV Podcast” (using a mobile phone he shouldn’t have had), accusing the Police of corruption (imagine that!). He was caught out by the promotional trailer the channel posted online – see how nothing escapes our brilliant detectives? “From the moment [after the interview] the investigation team was activated and Loi’s cell was searched,” the prison management announced – bravo! But how do inmates get mobile phones? It’s simple and requires no detective skills: Who can resist a generously paid favour for a peaceful murderer? There’s also a theory that this is all deliberate, to emphasise the necessity of the notorious (and extremely expensive, and unnecessary if guards did their job) mobile phone blocking system, to benefit the companies selling it.
All of these are mere trifles while we await President Draculump to demolish the world as we know it. The signs are more than obvious: Even on Cypriot roads, you see signs everywhere in Greek and English reading ΕΚΤΡΟΠΗ / DIVERSION. America’s (and the world’s) super-minister Musk is accused of giving Nazi salutes, as if his words weren’t enough and we needed to see the Hitler salute to be convinced. Meanwhile, ELAM’s Geadis Geadis was invited to Washington for the unmentionable one’s inauguration, representing his like-minded European far-right colleagues who are celebrating, while (masquerader) Fidias invites the other Mascara to the European Parliament to discuss “safeguarding democracy from foreign interference and algorithmic manipulation” – in other words, to confirm that (partly thanks to him) security is zero and democracy kaput.
Meanwhile, the government persists with its policy of opening checkpoints. Free movement will exist when these are no longer needed, but in the meantime, the normalisation of occupation is evolving into a kind of solution. In medical terminology, this phenomenon is called “retrograde amnesia”: the difficulty in recalling memories of a previous event – in this case, the invasion and occupation, an ongoing crime. Many are operating with amnesia today: When Ankara’s puppet talks about “new realities”, he’s obviously addressing those who’ve forgotten (or don’t want to remember) the one existing reality that now seems invisible, with only some annoying checkpoints remaining as reminders. Perhaps that mysterious Metropolitan of Paphos, Tychikos, has a point here: “We shouldn’t eat what people who aren’t of God offer us, because they put demonic things in our food or drink to contaminate us,” he claims. Are you listening, President, as you dine with the unfaithful Tatar? Your local metropolitan warns against accepting anything they give us! Checkpoints may not be edible, open or closed, but they’re offered for a different kind of consumption.
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