Mrs Merkel
You, Europe, German... have built a high wall
between the North and the South. This wall have grown for centuries, but now it is high and cold. This wall is the wall of the money,
the strong border that defends the north's wealth.
Europe is being built upon the rule of the free movement of capital,
and all the chains are for the people. The protection of the great fortunes
is prioritized against the persons needs, and millions of people die
and suffer because of the coldness of this system. Everybody has seen human heads floating in a cold sea, because these souls needed to run
away from the war. And now I want to remember that German and other
european countries have sold weapons to many states, and some of the
purchaser states are at war with others.
Some weeks ago, on TV, you denied a
young girl the prospect of success, and you made her cry. That was
cruel and real, but, in fact, that was just a symbol, because your
policy, the policy of the European barons, is making many people cry,
and soffer, and even die.
Mrs Merkel, tear down this wall!
And changing a bit the words that
Ronald Reagan said once in your country, for I join you, as I join
your fellow countrymen in the North, in this firm, this unalterable
belief: Es gibt nur ein Human Kind. [There is only one Human Kind.]
And still changing Reagan words, I say
that in the South of our beloved Europe, stands a wall that encircles
the free sectors of the Earth, part of a vast system of barriers that
divides the entire humanity. From Ceuta, in the south, those barriers
cut across the world in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs,
and guard towers. In some spots, there may be no visible, no obvious
wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same.
Still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to
impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian
economic system.
And even though Ronald Reagan had no my
ideas, nor my political point of view, I want to recover here his
great words when he said that standing before the Brandenburg Gate,
every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a
Berliner, forced to look upon a scar. In the same sense I could say
that staring the tragedy of the poverty, eveyone is a human being
separated from his or her fellow men or women. Every man is a
Berliner, forced to look upon a poverty's scar.
And it was President Reagan who said that the
German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is closed. As long as the gate is closed, as long as this scar of a
wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that
remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind. In the
same sense I could say that the migratory question is open as long as
the wall you are holding is closed. As long as the wall is closed, as
long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the
migratory question alone that remains open, but the question of
freedom for all mankind.
And nothing to add when Reagan said:
Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds
among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor. We
welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security
go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen
the cause of world peace.
And using only some words of Reagan and
changing others:
There is one sign Europe can make that
would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of
freedom and peace. Mrs Merkel, if you seek peace, if you seek
prosperity for Europe and for the world, if you seek freedom for
every human being: Open this gate! Mrs Merkel, tear down this wall!
This wall will fall. Beliefs become
reality. Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot
withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand
freedom.
And although I have started recovering
some Reagan words, I'm finishing with the words of another great
president, closer to my ideas. President Kennedy said all free men,
wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a
free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
Today we could say the same, changing just one word: All free men,
wherever they may live, are citizens of a society where people are
worth more than money, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in
the words "Ich bin ein Einwanderer!" "Ich bin ein
freier mann!" “Ich bin ein menschlich”
And finally, I want to recall some
words that you pronounced about Catalonia and Spain some days ago,
when you said that every government must obey the political
agreements. I just want to reply that sometimes there has not been
any agreement but imposition. Sometimes the national laws have been
drafted while swords were sharpening. Sometimes there have been a
bloody war, and sometimes the winners of that war have said: “we
are going to destroy and burn any signal of this state, so that
nobody ever reminds that they once existed as a nation”. Sometimes,
many times, rules, laws... have despised the deep essence of a
nation, its language, its culture, its self-government... Many times,
we are not speaking about agreements but about impositions. Mrs Merkel, doesn't allow that the economic reasons stifle the main
objective of any honest statesman (or stateswoman), the freedom of
the persons and the peoples.
Let democracy talk. Let freedom talk.
Up above war treaties.
Mrs Merkel, tear down this wall, and
the other too!
