“People need to stand up”, D. José Ornelas tells Rádio Renascença
Portugal’s top bishop has compared what one newspaper calls “the positions of United States president Donald Trump” with those of the former leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler.
In an interview with Rádio Renascença, the president of Portugal’s Episcopal Conference, said: “‘When you hear the words ‘America First’, it’s the same as ‘Deutschland über alles’. It’s the same thing: everyone else takes a back seat and only has a place in the world after us. It’s saying ‘we dictate the world’ (…) This is not an order; we are reaching the end of world order and of everyone’s capacity. And then what comes next is what is very dangerous. It is the question of saying: “I want Greenland; I want Canada”. This cannot be! This is Lebensraum, Hitler’s living space, achieved with the enlargement of German territory in the Second World War (…) This has to be taken seriously!”
Assuring his interviewers that he is not proposing a conflict with the United States, Portugal’s leading bishop stressed it is “important that the mentality and culture of this world, and people, stand up”.
Claiming to be “not at all calm” about what has been happening since Mr Trump took office in January, the bishop stressed that “if we want a new order, if we want hope, we have to fight for it”.
Reports of his interview refer to another juncture where he said: “In order for us to have hope, and to be the founders of hope, we need to be on our feet. There is no point in falling asleep. You cannot fall asleep right now!”
Following up on D. Ornelas’ words, university lecturer, former mayor and former PJ investigator Francisco Moita Flores writes that after “three months in which there has not been a single day without the vomiting of nonsense, someone has said out loud what fearful politicians are saying very quietly. (more...)
Portugal’s top bishop compares US president Trump to Adolf Hitler
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