luni, 19 august 2013

Gypsy king

If you lived in a cave the last days, maybe you didn't heard that his majesty Florin Cioaba II passed away in a Turkish hospital.
For 3 days all the TV stations mourned the death of the the great king Cioaba.
If all the most praised Romanians  would die tomorrow,in a plane crash (as happened in Poland), maybe the TV station will speak 15 minutes.
But maybe Florin Cioaba is a special man. Maybe he reduced illiteracy in the gypsy community, maybe he helped other poor gypsies.
When asked what king Cioaba has done for it's community, the only thing that came in Mr. president Basescu mind, was: "He christened a lot of gypsies".
We have a saint among us and we didn't know.
After saint apostles Peter and Paul, we have saint apostle Cioaba of the gypsies.
Anyway in order to sanctify Cioaba, he must perform a miracle. He can start by giving 300000 dollars to the Turkish doctors, who tried to save him.
Till his sanctification maybe we should bury him, in Aachen near Charlemagne, another monarch that christened people.
Till now I underestimated the influence of some gypsy leaders on the Romanian politics, but when I saw all the televisions bowing to their money and their influence, I realized that they have penetrated deeply the political environment.
The connections between Romanian politicians and gypsies stretched back in communist era, when the party officials sold protection against the law, and gypsies provided money from black market.
These fruitful connection was maintained, gypsy leaders providing now votes from their community, and politicians providing laws:
-The gypsy gold confiscated by communists was given back very fast but the buildings confiscated are still not given back.
-Some gypsy groups own now the historical center of Timisoara, using false claims
-At the past referendum, some politicians from Cluj's National Liberal Party branch were accused of negotiating vote selling with some known criminals. The criminals were not gypsy, but there were cases when poor gypsies were rounded up by some leaders and sent to vote for a certain party in exchange of some meager sum of money.

If the gypsies will be educated and well off, the authority of these kings will fade, and they will not have political power to trade with politicians.And politicians will find hard to obtain majority in some electoral colleges, without the help of gypsy leaders.
So the politicians have all interest to support the authority of these kings.

Update:
Cioaba's family after claiming that it didn't have money to pay the medical bill, had obtained now the release of Cioaba's body in exchange of 15000 $ instead of 300000$. Before that they requested help from romanian goverment.
The rest will be payed later.
Anyway if they want to pay back the money, the could sell the funeral television rights to television.
I could list some interested televisions:
-Manele TV for the funeral concert of Adrian Minune, si Nicolae Guta
-History Channel for a documentary on Cioaba dynasty.
-Discovery Channel for the making of a gypsy funeral.



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