Nikitas wrote:The purpose of the posting was not to cause anyone to repent, I am definitely not into religious fits!
The interesting point was that this was not organized, it was a spontaneous burst of anger by many people, in one place and the fact that it turned into an unplanned protest is significant. The spontaneous nature of the event shows that people have had enough of this nationalist bullshit they are being fed every day, especially when the crap gets in the way of important things like going to work to make a living.
It was also interesting to see that it that the regime took the event seriously enough to send a minister to apologise.
I did not include some of the quotations from the Politis news report. But people at the check point were shouting for the EU to send monitors who will do serious monitoring of what is happening in the north. Others were protesting having to show their ID cards every time they cross the check points. These are signs that the TCs are not all that keen on separation, contrary to what VP and others say in this forum. And it is obvious why- it is dumb to have international frontiers to separate people who a) feel they are Cypriots b)need to move about to do their business over the whole island and c) because it is ridiculous to do such fancy ass stuff in an island which is 60 by 150 miles.
In the end it seems that the need for a job and the growth of "institutions" like IKEA and Carrefour are going to do more for unification than a thousand graduates in political science.
If we were clever and agile thinkers we should start a campaign, somethling like "buy from a TC today" in the south to support the small traders who come to the RoC every day to sell their wares. It might sound funny , but buying from these people is practical "confidence building measures" that far outweigh the crap that goes on behind closed doors followed by cryptic remarks made by small minded politicians to even smaller minded press guys.
The VAT returns from these small traders are also valid EU aproved statistics of how the economy is beginning to unify. and so gives the lie to the "isolation" song many like to sing.
People travel from one country to another in search of work, this is normal doesnt mean they are supporters of that country, all they want is the money to bring home to their famalies in the TRNC just like anywhere else in the world, wouldnt read to much into it, its called cheap labour.
As for buying gods from the TRNC, you are kidding arent you this has been tired and no GC firm would survive if they purchased good from the north, the green line regulations are in place the figures for purchases are a joke a total failure as GCs will not buy from TC producers, history repeats itself.
