Freedom ...

This is precisely the kind of story why I have chosen to write this blog in the anglosaxon.

I sacrifice this nation of birth, my language, for a nation of choice, my friends.

Portugal has always been a nation of emigrants, especially in the first half of the XX century - the poverty that raised the Salazarist dictatorship ended up being fed by ... the fascism!

As Fritz Richard Stern (himself member of a exiled family during the holocaust) said in Einstein's German World "When the people is not allowed to vote in the ballot they vote with their feet". Quoted from memory.

A enormous number of families left the Azores islands during this period to the US.

As there are many Guantanamos the Luso-descendents that live in the US who get involved in crime are often expelled back to Azores even when they do not speak Portuguese. There, not speaking Portuguese they are condemned to the most extreme isolation.

There is a fantastic documentary that was once presented in Portuguese TV about these forgotten people - an excellent documentary.

Some facts come to my memory: high speed driving was enough to be condemned to this tyrannous isolation where they were lost in translation.

One moment I will never forget.

In the end of the documentary a fantastic female voice sings the American anthem. The reporter asks: "What do you miss more from America?"

The reply: "THE FREEDOM ..."