The assorted representatives of the two big political parties tried to hide their anti-social profile by attempting to give several excuses and explanations for the unacceptable condition in which the fire victims of Ileia province continue to live in.
The representative of the government on the matter, the president of the special cashtill for the handling of emergency situations P. Moliviatis, claimed that it was impossible to rebuild the houses that burnt down within a year, that the delay is due to the fact that not even half of the Citizens owning the destroyed houses had filed applications for funding and this was due to the fact that most of the dwellers of the area have migrated since several years ago. He also mentioned that they have spent up to today a fund of €400,000,000 for the help and support of the fire victims.
The above claims are fully unfounded and false except for the fact that our money was, indeed, spent, but as is obvious not for the true aid of our fellow Citizens.
Within a year it is fully possible, within the monetary limits already set, to:
1. replace all the destroyed houses with pre-fabricated of semi-pre-fabricated houses, delegating their installment and piecing together to the army, thus giving viable, functional and modern houses to all the fire victims within 40 days at the latest. After this, repairs of partly destroyed houses with materials of speedy application (e.g. ytong blocks, iron bars, etc) would have to and would have made it possible to have completed them within October 2007 (i.e. within 60 days so that the fire victims would be protected and prepared for the coming winter).
2. using the army and volunteerism, which they have proven to be able to rally and organize with the example of the 2004 Olympics, they should have had prepared the sod / soil of the destroyed olive tree orchards and vine yards during the fall, using the information in the land registry of the area or the files or the town planning archives or the IRS yearly property statements of the people in the area in order to trace the properties of each land owning fire victim again (to avoid trespassing) and count the number or roots of vines, olive trees or other trees that should and must be replaced for free so that production of olive oil and grapes will not be crippled but instead will bounce back. This is very important as the olive oil and grape production is a very important resource of our country and one which is undermined and battled by opposing interests promoting similar products by other countries.
The above process which would be just the first part of the aid of the fire victims, if the state officials were truly interested in supporting the Citizens feeding them, would not need an investment higher than €100,000,000 and for sure would not demand to spend €1,500,000 for the rebuilding of the town hall, to which they referred.
Also, P. Moliviatis had the audacity to say that the fire victims had not received further aid than what has been already given because the victims had not filed applications for it, fact which proves the hypocrisy and criminality of all those claiming such since an application/ statement to the state is needed only when the Citizen needs to make something known or ask for something that the state will not be able to be knowledgeable of or give unless it receives official notice. It is not needed for conditions of extenuating circumstance where the whole globe is aware of the problem and the self-explanatory needs of the victims there. It is anti-humanitarian and underhanded to ask anything bureaucratic to be done spontaneously by a person who is under shock after an extremely traumatic experience (instead of having your civil servants fill whatever is needed in and then send them out to very gently and politely seek out the victims for their final approval of things that are NOT included in the scope of first aid and repairs).
The president of the political opposition G. Papandreou had the gall to present as a humanitarian contribution/ aid to the fire victims (1 year later, in view of a pre-election period and to appease angry Citizens) the 30% (instead of 100% or the 70% he chose to keep) of the yearly state funding of his political party (i.e. money he has demanded arbitrarily from all the Citizens for his own interests, including the fire victims’ money), trying to demonstrate a social offer using the money coming into his party’s tills from the victims, exactly in the same way the rest of the parties and politicians embezzle without the People’s knowing so.
Regarding the activity of the Hellenic Red Cross which, at this time, is embarrassing its forefather Henry Dunant and all those who truly followed the principles of this Humanitarian symbol that was stolen from its creator: it should be busying itself with the people and not the symbols of power (the town hall) that serve and remind the existence and virtual power of ‘noblemen/ aristocrats’ to which they now openly refer, with P. Moliviatis as their representative, who is sustained by and enjoys state money, officially at least since the fall of the Junta/ reinstitution, with which funds he pays for his attire alone the equivalent of more than the yearly income of a middle class family in Greece. The same holds for all the ‘representatives’ of the People who for the first time are publically named ‘nobility’, something that had never been tolerated in Greece or by the Hellenic Constitution and therefore reflects who these ‘representatives’ truly represent while embezzling and shaming the Parliament pews, which the Greek People founded with their blood, fighting against noblemen of their kind.