Kosmas Vidos records his thoughts in the Third World every week
Watching once again the ups and downs of Lakis Gavalas in the detention centers for debts to the State, I thought that this operetta does not concern me at all. I am strongly opposed to the public humiliation of anyone, whatever his crime. And I do not appreciate a state that uses the expulsion of people, surnames or not, in order to prove that he is doing his job properly. Which in this case, let us not laugh, does not do it. He would do it if there were not hundreds (and thousands) Gavalades. He would do it, even at the last minute, if he managed to snatch them (huge) amounts owed, and let us never learn their names. In conclusion, I do not want to know who owes, I want no one to owe, especially when I'm called, that I never owed, to pay his debts. There is something else that worries me: This is how the celebrities went to the facilities of Evelpidon, with Burberry (or whatever,what else) their scarves to cover the handcuffs on their hands, I consider that, in addition to inhuman and degrading, they are also dangerous. Because they target people in these times when most people's minds are… on the railings, that our jungle wildlife is hungrier than ever. Targeting can have dramatic effects: Who tells me that someone misunderstood will not approach the respective debtor to force him to pay (not necessarily by paying money) for his "pities"; That is why I insist: Let us never know their names, but let the state finally take care of them and get rid of their pending issues.
However, as much as I try to do it above, I do not hold… I can not go into more detail in the case of Lakis Gavalas, of an eccentric person, as they have characterized him, of a cosmic clown, I would say. Who succeeded, marketing his controversial taste in a society of nobles, to distinguish and get rich.
This gentleman has always been, in my estimation, a case indulgently comically tragic, which he confirmed with the latter (awful aesthetics) his appearances on the TV show "Fab 5". His ardent effort to provoke, with ridiculous appearances, but also with Madame Sussou level statements (his Greek, simply indescribably), some of them were amused, it mainly made me sad. And such was his self-humiliation all these years, that the recent (third in a row) his arrest, a fact that stigmatizes the life and reputation of any normal person, it looked like another indifferent episode of a pointless soap opera. I did not feel sorry for him either, nor was I shocked, nor did I shout "well done for exposing him!», nor anything. Everyone is responsible for their actions and pays for their consequences. Where I became furious, Nevertheless, it was when I was again confronted with his indescribable audacity. Even now, surrounded by police officers led to the straitjacket of the man who treasured at the expense of the state, at our expense, made him cute. He spoke in Nazi about "those who love me". He refused to acknowledge his responsibilities, saying that "Lakis Gavalas SA" has the problem and "not the face of Lakis Gavalas", as if his company was run by aliens, who, after they did everything,what did they do, they have left for their planet and we will never see them again.
He was talking to her… over mood, the same arrogance we had heard, a few weeks ago, to talk another big tax evader, Tolis Voskopoulos, when after the revelation of his own remoula he complained to the cameras: "You do not love me". You, again, why should we love you, Mister; Because you once sang "Blonde Beloved Virgin"; Who said that since then we have to bow to your artistic greatness with silent admiration; Turning his eyes to (to say it politely) your omissions; Ε, no! Because if people like you, blinded by self-admiration, they can not see how cheap and indecent they become with such behaviors, we and we see, and we understand, and we have a dignity that does not allow us to applaud your game. And I really wonder with all those who this year rushed to applaud Mr. Voskopoulos, at the nightclub where he appeared, giving him a "pardon", the moment they should be very angry with him, who should show by their abstention their disagreement with his economic tactics. As I wonder with those who still find Gavalas funny. And what do they say, referring to the Voskopoulos and the Gavalades of this country, "Their magic". Without realizing that (and) This kind of magic brought us here. At the same time I am waiting, at last, by the rulers to do their job properly, what they have ordered us: to make them pay (Voskopoulos, I read, is in… have a safe trip). And not to permanently punish those who did less or not at all and are now called upon to pull the snake out of the hole, at the moment the Lakides, wearing their very expensive snake skin shoes, they still dance claps around their Mykonian pool.
* The article was published in BHMagazino on 5 February 2012