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Shkruar nga PamfletiWith today's retaliation against News 24, we are reminding Edi Rama of a wise saying by Napoleon Bonaparte: Two or three newspapers are more frightening than a thousand bayonets...
In the early hours of this morning, Edi Rama decided to show himself as he is at heart: a cowardly politician who cannot stand free speech and who uses the police as a pack of occupiers to close down any space where he cannot control the message. There was no court decision, no legal procedure, just a plan made in the dark and implemented with the speed of a mafia action.
The order to surround the building of News24, Panorama, BalkanWeb and Gazeta Shqiptare is not simply an administrative action. It is a political statement from Rama: “In this country, free speech depends on my mood.” He is not dealing with a criminal gang, because they are ready, but with a media group.
Ardi Veliu was on the ground; a name that needs no introduction in the long list of figures used for Edi Rama's dirty work. From police chief, deputy minister and chairman of the AMP, and now at the head of a state-owned arms company, Veliu is the example of a man who has always served without questioning the law, it is enough to carry out the order. With a monthly salary of 564 thousand lek, Veliu today did not produce weapons, but used the police as a weapon against the media.
But let's not be mistaken: Veliu is simply the enforcer. This is the work of Edi Rama. In his Albania, there is no boundary between the executive branch and the police; the police are a branch of the prime minister's personal power. He decides, they implement. The law does not enter into this equation at all.
By sending the police to seize a media building, Rama has moved into the open phase of authoritarian control. This is no longer hidden pressure, no longer grabbing advertising or blocking tenders. This is naked force, designed to show who owns the territory. Today it is News24. Tomorrow it could be any other media outlet that doesn't sing his anthem in chorus.
He knows well that no one can win the war with the media, but he starts this war anyway. He starts it because the fear of the truth is greater than the fear of losing. Every prime minister who has entered into open conflict with the media has come out a loser in the end. History is clear. But when power is accustomed to breaking the law to maintain control, arrogance becomes stronger than reason.
Edi Rama can make theater with Albanians, he can paint walls and talk about reforms, but today's reality is this: he has sent the police to close the doors of one of the largest news media. There is no more alibi. This is an open attack on free speech.
In the end, the prime minister must understand that power does not last forever and the police that he uses today as a private force will one day turn against him. Free speech cannot be hidden with police cordons. Every door he closes today will open ten more tomorrow. And on that day, neither uniforms, nor Veliu, much less Ilir Proda with his gangs, will be able to protect him.
To close, we are reminding Edi Rama of an old saying by Napoleon Bonaparte: Two or three newspapers are more frightening than a thousand bayonets . Neither the prime minister nor his obedient 'hounds' should forget this.
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