EPO People Power - Part XXVIII - A Sensitive Issue for Germany and The Netherlands
Also see: Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII | Part VIII | Part IX | Part X | Part XI | Part XII | Part XIII | Part Part XIV | Part XV | Part XVI | Part XVII | Part XVIII | Part XIX | Part XX | Part XXI | Part XXII | Part XXIII | Part XXIV | Part XXV | Part XXVI | Part XXVII
The EPO's Cocainegate will soon turn 4 months (later this month). Up until now not a single site (except ours) dared mention that it involves Team Campinos at Europe's second-largest institution. This means there's something profoundly wrong with Europe's media, which treats the EPO like a "sacred cow" and would not even touch any EPO scandal.
How did we get here? Sites like JUVE are mouthpieces for Team UPC (which funds the site), IP Kat is run by the litigation 'industry' (not scholars like its founder), and IAM is funded by the EPO. How are people meant to get news?
"I give you some hints," a reader has told us, "corruption is a very sensitive issue for Germans, because morality is so present in their society. They even toppled some of their national idols like Helmut Kohl, Franz Beckenbauer etc. over allegations which have never been fully proven, their morality mattered more to the people than the lawfulness of their actions. If you can make it about morals, with a stronger emotional punch, namely: that the EPO is corrupt and suppresses their staff while management earns 20k and buys cocaine from it; that the management is abusing German laws and their own staff, hundreds of German citizens included, while benefiting from immunity themselves; that this corrupt organization is actually collaborating with politicians and public servants like the Bavarian state government or the King of the Netherlands who participated in the 50 year EPC celebration in 2023; while taking into account that this secretive organization has built up a rather sceptical reputation in regards to the German public and German press for decades; then the punch almost certainly will land."
If Germans who read this series can communicate this to public officials or to their media, maybe they can strike a nerve and get the ball rolling. We, in the meantime, will just focus on giving a voice to concerned insiders and EPO stakeholders. █