REAL INTERVIEWS

I am a journalist almost all my life. I love my job, but only under specific circumstances. Sometimes I think how would be the questionnaire in a real interview, if I had the ability to ask and the interviewee had really the ability and the appetite to answer truly.

Something like a confession between a person and his therapist or a believer and his pastor.

Maybe a n historian, a “serious” journalist, a political affairs journalist, a from a political party journalist, or whatever journalist have different kind of questions to ask some people, but I, I really have just some simple questions to ask some people.

Lets say that I meet the ex Greek government, George Andreas Papandreou (or GAP). I don’t have any sonorous questions to ask him.

Maybe if I was a political serious television journalist would ask him “Do you understand that you –idiot, unable, small, deficient- destroyed the COUNTRY OF THE COUNTRIES? The country that gave the civilization to the world?”

“What do you think that the future history would write for you?” or “Do you feel responsible for the situation of the country today?”

No, thanks God, I am not like them. I would like just to ask him “Do you feel good that you sold out the country?” “Do you feel good being a betrayer of these people that made you rich?” “You were stealing them all this years and now you don’t have any problem to drive them to the pauperization” “Can you sleep the night thinking that you send the police against your own patriots, against these people that all these years helped your grandfather (yes the bands, as we all know very well are composed of three and more generations of persons of the same family), your father and finally you?” “What did your father, the friend of American system and your mother, the American, was telling you when you were a child: Greece is yours, like your plastic car?”

I just want the answers to these questions. I think they are enough to understand the real character of a person.

Same think for Hosni Mubarak. “Please, Mr. Mubarak, tell me, what you were thinking when you changed the name of the Ramses station to Mubarak station? Did you hope that people would forget Ramses? Or you were sure that your name in history would have the same importance with his?” “How could you sell a country with such a history?” “Who gave you the right to bring up your children telling them that Egypt belongs to them?” “Was it so difficult to think that these people that you took from them everything, and finally send the guns and the bullets against them one day would be against you?” “Life didn’t teach you that any situation, good or bad has approximately twenty years of life? Your omnipotence last thirty. More than the usual. It was not enough for you?”

Dear Susan, I can find a reason to forgive Mubarak (it is a figure of speech, he doesn’t have any excuse) because he was the president. But you? “How did you find so much money?” “What was your job, except of first lady of Egypt?” “Why all this people have to pay you because you got married a man much older than you? This is your problem, this is not Egypt’s” “Why you think that Egypt belongs to you and your sons?” “What did you tell to your children about Egypt? This is your property?”

Unfortunately, my list of such persons doesn’t end and unfortunately I could never do these questions to them, but I believe in justice. Not the human one and this one in the course. I believe in divine justice and in universe’s justice.

The truth, even after a long long time reveals.

And as Sophocles says “Κανένα ψέμα δεν γέρασε ποτέ”.