Prime Minister Edi Rama’s relationship to facts is nowhere more clear than in the way in which he erroneously appropriates the sayings of authors, philosophers, and statesmen. In a meeting today with the State Police, the Prime Minister used, for the second time, a “citation” that he attributes to the Emmanuel Kant.
Referring to the accusations of the police made by the Democratic Party (PD) and the Socialist Movement for Integration (LSI), the head of government declared in front of the assembled police forces:
I want to tell that whenever you feel unjustly accused, to recall an expression of Kant: When someone accuses you for something you have done, he did it himself or is ready to do it.
This is the second time Rama tries to give weight to his words by appropriating the German philosopher. The first time was in an interview with Ilva Tare.
In reality, Emmanuel Kant never stated anything remotely close to what the Prime Minister pretends. In fact, as Exit has explained before, Prime Minister Rama has a history of fake citations, abusing the names of Kant, Mother Theresa, Milan Kundera, and Christopher Wren, in order to give some weight to his own opinions.
Most recently, Prime Minister Rama erroneously attributed the phrase “All those who forget their past are condemned to relive it” to Primo Levi. In spite of this painful error the phrase continues to decorate the entrance of Bunk’Art 2, which, like the Prime Minister, has only a fleeting relation to the truth.
