Albania?

Considering a few things about this tiny New Jersey-sized nation, that paragon of blood-fued, oppression of women that leaves the Taliban behind, and, in the words of P.J. O'Rourke, a prime example of Bad Capitalism (see his book, "Eat the Rich", the Albania chapter) after its fifty-year excursion of isolationist Communism under Enver Hoxha and a couple of successors who, if they weren't Albanian Mafia, were allied with the fuedal highlanders who later went on to form the KLA, just what is it that makes NATO and the power elites love Albania?

I've said it before and I'll say it again: unlike most who take it upon themselves to write about what is happening in the Balkans, I have not only done the occasional study of Albania, I have done a several year study into their history, culture and mind-set. (For more info, go to Albania.com) I used to listen to Radio Tirana. I've read the Enver Hoxha-inspired "History of the Party of Labor of Albania", which is, amazingly for a commie tract, fairly historically accurate. I've read several works by Albania's greatest modern writer, Ishmael Kadare--by reading his stuff you get a sense of their culture and the vital importance of maintaining the "Code of Lek" which sanctions blood-fued as the ultimate problem solver. Without understanding the Code of Lek, you cannot understand Albania; thus, if you've never read Kadare, you will not know Albania, pure and simple. And, as I said above, I have read that Albania chapter of O'Rourke's. The most interesting point this chapter brings out is this: in fifty or so years, Enver Hoxha, the all-encompassing dictator though he was, never could conquer the Albanian highlands. This is bourne out in Kadare's "The Wedding": the highland-born heroine of the novel, about to marry a co-worker born in Tirana (they work at a caustic-soda plant near the highlands), cannot escape the ghost of her blood-fued victimized father, nor visions of the local ancient monestary and the aura of the Code of Lek--because Albanian communism, that "atheism" of theirs, never eradicated them!

Put all this together and what you have is a nation of backward-thinking folks thrown into the chaos of having to play about a 100-year technological catch-up, as well as try to figure out how to salvage an economy after the total trauma of the early 1990s when, in one fell swoop, Communism was overthrown, about 30% of its population was fleeing to Italy--the Adriatic 'boat people'--leaving the port at Durres a virtual ghost town, western 'decadent' culture was invading and everyone had Madonna CDs but no money and no jobs, people ate Tirana Zoo animals to survive, thousands of folks learned to drive on roads covered with pot holes--and, oh, yeah, things were the way they'd been for a thousand years in the highlands, except now the CIA--thank you, Goerge Herbert Walker Bush, who was worshipped in Tirana in 1991--was giving money to highlander chieftains so that now they could begin to carry out their plans, once and for all, for attaining that chimera of a pipedream--Greater Albania.

Let me say in no uncertain terms that Albania is also a paragon of ethnocentrism--I hate that term, but it is quite appropriate here. It was in the highlands, behind the backs of Hoxha and the others (or possibly with Hoxha's knowledge and duplicity), that the groundwork was laid for a few essentials: one, manpower to sow the seeds for the future KLA--these thugs are not worthy to be called a "liberation army"; two, through mafia-like networks, money was garnered for weapons and training, as well as the setting up of Europe's top conduit for heroin traffic as the Albanian Mafia became the most fearsome on the continent and possibly the richest as well; three, the savagery necessary to make this mafia so fearsome as well as the cold-bloodedness, in centuries of Code-inspired blood-fued, infused into the national character, stemming also from the fact that Illyrian (Albanian) generals and warriors were among the elite shock-troops of the Roman Empire; four, the understanding of the mechanism and brutality necessary to keep fuedalism alive in the twentieth century, where women are lower than even cattle (indeed, my claim that women under the Taliban fare better than they do in the Albanian highlands is justified!), and where many women and girls, in 2001, are sold into slavery (I guarantee it: if Albania ever joins the EU, nothing will be done about this!).

Thus, Albania is a perfect pawn for the New World Order, and Albanians are the perfect shock-troops to carry out their blood-thirsty plans. What the likes of the KLA did in Kosovo--genocide against the minority Serbs--with NATO's help, of course--and what they are about to do in Macedonia, then Montenegro, then even Greece, is precisely what the power elites brought them up to do: enslave women, terrify a recalcitrant populace, and bring the zombie-fying drugs of mental enslavement worldwide. They've been training themselves over hundreds of years to do it. As for their so called "Greater Albania," it's coming to a nation near you.

And one great and beautiful Albanian, Mother Teresa, is rolling over in her grave. So is John Belushi, only he's not laughing.