Is José Saramago an unpatriotic traitor?

The daily's columnist, Ferreira Fernandes, defends the Portuguese writer José Saramago, who recently said that "Portugal will end up becoming part of Spain". "Saramago has been accused of everything, even treason". Because he said that we will one day find ourselvesa part of Spain. He didn't even say that he wanted this. He said it the way you mention something inevitable, like, 'The world will disappear one day'. Are the Scientists who say this to be insulted too? I am not going to join in the howling. Saramago is over 80 and he is still working, despite everything. He pays taxes in Portugal although he needn't. He also practices a useful profession: He writes. He doesn't, for example, sell pit-bull. And he writes in Portuguese. In a country that likes to repeat that 'my homeland is the Portuguese language', no one has the right to call Saramago a traitor."

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