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Steve from Colorado <steve.from.colorado@cocks.net> wrote:
>
> Greece brings sanity back to how Europe and the USA must deal with
> criminal bankers and illegal aliens and other invaders.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19976841
>
> Greece's far-right party, Golden Dawn, won 18 parliamentary seats in the
> June election with a campaign openly hostile to illegal immigrants and
> there are now allegations that some Greek police are supporting the party.
>
> "There is already civil war," says Ilias Panagiotaros. If so, the shop
> he owns is set to do a roaring trade.
>
> It sells camouflage gear, police riot gloves, face masks and T-shirts
> extolling football hooliganism.
>
> On the walls are posters celebrating the last civil war in Greece, which
> ended in 1949.
>
> "Greek society is ready - even though no-one likes this - to have a
> fight: a new type of civil war," he says.
>
> "On the one side there will be nationalists like us, and Greeks who want
> our country to be as it used to be, and on the other side illegal
> immigrants, anarchists and all those who have destroyed Athens several
> times," he adds.
>
> You hear comments like this a lot in Greece now but Ilias Panagiotaros
> is not some figure on the fringes: he is a member of the Greek
> parliament, one of 18 MPs elected for the far-right Golden Dawn in
> June's general election.
>
> Theatre attack
>
> And for Mr Panagiotaros, civil war is not something theoretical.
>
> Last week he led a demonstration that closed down a performance of the
> Terence McNally play, Corpus Christi.
>
> As police stood by, apparently oblivious, Mr Panagiotaros was filmed
> shouting racist and homophobic insults at the director of the play, and
> the actors cowering inside the Chyterio Theatre.
>
> �
> Start Quote
> The attack on Corpus Christi has become a signal moment for Greek politics�
> End Quote
> "Wrap it up you little faggots. Yes, just keep staring at me you little
> hooker. Your time is up.
>
> "You Albanian assholes," shouts Mr Panagiotaros in the YouTube clip.
>
> Footage filmed inside the theatre, as rocks showered into its open-air
> auditorium, shows the manager making frantic calls to the chief of
> police, demanding protection from a mob that had begun to beat up
> journalists outside.
>
> Other footage shows Golden Dawn MP Christos Pappas "de-arrest" a
> demonstrator, pulling him from a police detention coach, as the police
> do nothing.
>
> Calls were made to the public order ministry, who ordered the chief
> prosecutor to attend the scene. No help arrived.
>
> "This was the Greek Kristallnacht," says Laertis Vassiliou, the play's
> director.
>
> "People went home with broken bones. Every day they phone me now, they
> phone the theatre, saying: your days are numbered."
>
> His eyes redden and his face begins to tremble as he tells me:
>
> "They phoned my mother, Golden Dawn. They said we will deliver your
> son's body to you in a box of little pieces.
>
> "I want to be told if we are in a democracy or a dictatorship?"
>
> Growing alarm
>
> The attack on Corpus Christi has become a signal moment for Greek politics.
>
> Though Golden Dawn members have attacked migrants frequently, in the
> past month the far-right party has stepped up its presence on the streets.
>
> It launched a raid on a street market in Rafina, where its uniformed
> activists demanded to see the permits of migrant stallholders there -
> demonstratively smashing up the property of those who did not have them.
>
> Now, with the attack on a theatre group, alarm is spreading among
> sections of society that were not previously affected by the party's
> actions.
>
> I ask Mr Panagiotaros: how can it be right for a party in parliament to
> have a uniformed militia that takes on, violently, the role of law
> enforcement, checking papers and overturning market stalls? He explains:
>
> "With one incident, which was on camera, the problem was solved - in
> every open market all over Greece illegal immigrants disappeared.
>
> "There was some pushing and some fighting - nothing extraordinary,
> nothing special.
>
> �
> Start Quote
> Policing the Greek crisis would pose a huge challenge, even without the
> issue of political support for the far right inside the police force�
> End Quote
> "Now, only with one phone call saying Golden Dawn is going to pass by,
> the police is going there. That means the brand name of Golden Dawn is
> very effective."
>
> He confirms the party's strategy is to force police action against
> migrants and to claim their right to make citizens' arrests against
> those they suspect of criminality.
>
> "It's like fashion - our dress code is now extremely popular and more
> people want to follow it. The brand name is synonymous with order, law
> and order and efficiency."
>
> And if it projects fear among perfectly legal migrants? I ask.
>
> "There are no legal migrants in Greece," says Mr Panagiotaros "not even
> one."
>
> Now Golden Dawn is suddenly everywhere. Its eight local offices at
> election time have become 60 nationwide. It is polling consistently as
> the third most popular party at 12%.
>
> Its parliamentarians have threatened to "drag migrant children from the
> kindergartens," and requested a list of the kindergartens with high
> migrant numbers. This, the Greek education ministry has willingly provided.
>
> Time and again there is a pattern to Golden Dawn disturbances.
>
> They target migrants, the Left, lawyers representing migrants, or in the
> case of the theatre picket, gay people. And the police stand by.
>
> In Athens police are even alleged to have referred people experiencing
> problems with migrant neighbours to Golden Dawn for help.
>
> Mr Panagiotaros confirms what opinion polls taken in June indicated:
> there is support for Golden Dawn inside the police force, way higher
> than in the general population.
>
> "I think with what they are saying now we have more than 50%, 60% of
> police staff that are following us - maybe more - every day it is
> growing," says Mr Panagiotaros.
>
> Many of his customers are police, who buy not just their riot gear but
> parts of their actual uniform from his militaria store, where police
> regulation shirts hang alongside T-shirts praising the Nazi group Combat
> 18 and the Chelsea Headhunters.
>
>   Golden Dawn members gave free food to Greek people after checking
> their IDs
> Policing the Greek crisis would pose a huge challenge, even without the
> issue of political support for the far right inside the police force.
>
> Anarchists have tried to counter Golden Dawn's patrols in migrant areas
> by staging their own, motorbike mounted patrols - hundreds strong.
>
> During a motorbike protest last week, a clash with Golden Dawn occurred.
>
> A unit of the motorbike-mounted police called Delta Force arrested 15
> demonstrators, stripping them naked in the prison cells and, say the
> detainees, using tasers, stress positions, humiliation techniques and
> beatings.
>
> A report of this in the Guardian last week has become a matter of
> national controversy here, and is strenuously denied by the government.
>
> On 8 October a further 25 protesters were arrested at a demonstration at
> the courthouse to support those originally detained.
>
> Yiannis, one of those detained, tells the story:
>
> "They searched us, made us strip, kneel. They hit me on the head and
> knees. They said we know where you all live.
>
> I meet Yiannis and Maria, two of those alleging mistreatment, in a quiet
> flat in Exarchia, the bohemian district of Athens.
>
> Both will speak only on condition that I change their names, and film
> them without showing their faces. Though charged eventually with
> misdemeanours, they were both held for four nights in police custody.
>
> Yiannis continues: "They said: You're finished and things are not going
> to be the way they were from now on.
>
> "They said they would pass on the video they filmed of us to Golden
> Dawn. They picked on me to use as an example to the others. They kept
> making me say to every new detainee: 'if you too disobey they will
> [hurt] your mother'."
>
> Maria, who has been calm and confident as we have prepared for the
> interview, now becomes disturbed as she tells her story.
>
> "They made me strip in front of the others," she says.
>
> "The Delta police arrived and spoke about Golden Dawn as if they were
> their siblings, including the officer in charge. They praised Hitler,
> saying he was better than Stalin.
>
> "They told us we should remember this - that they are Golden Dawn
> supporters now."
>
> �
> Start Quote
> The issue driving support for Golden Dawn is clear: illegal migration�
> End Quote
> Throughout the ordeal, the arresting officers from the Delta Force, says
> Maria, continually flaunted their political support for Golden Dawn.
>
> I put the allegations to Lt Col Christos Manouras, the spokesman for the
> Athens police. He tells me:
>
> "I am categoric that in this incident none of these things happened in
> the headquarters building of the Attica police. Greek police respect
> human rights - and this is a non-story."
>
> He adds: "These allegations were never made to the police. No charges
> were pressed, so the police could look into this from the beginning.
>
> "All the same, if anybody wants to identify themselves - or even if a
> general allegation reaches us - we will investigate it further. If it
> involves police, whether racist violence or violence against another
> person, Greek or migrant, we investigate in depth."
>
> Dimitris Psaras, whose new book, Golden Dawn's Black Bible, details the
> organisation's recent rise, believes the influence of far right within
> the police force works at an insidious level:
>
> "There is an osmosis of Golden Dawn supporters, between those working in
> the police and those in private security as well as those providing
> night club protection.
>
> "Sometimes the same person can be providing all these three services.
> They usually meet in local gyms and specific coffee shops owned by those
> who share the same ideology."
>
> Mr Psaras believes that harsh police treatment of drug offenders and
> migrants gives a tacit signal to Golden Dawn that its illegal attacks on
> these groups are welcome.
>
> I repeatedly put the question to Lt Col Manouras as to what strategy the
> police commanders have adopted to mitigate the risks of individual
> police support for Golden Dawn compromising operations.
>
> "Every day we make operational plans of how to deal with such
> phenomena," he says.
>
> "Rest assured we stand by the citizens and we try to prevent such
> situations.
>
> "Of course we can't be on every corner. We are not magicians, to be able
> to ensure within two minutes that nothing goes wrong. But we do
> intervene immediately to normalize the situation."
>
> Growing support
>
> Golden Dawn has gained ground spectacularly in two leaps. First, during
> the riotous summer of 2011, when the right wing Christian nationalist
> party Laos disintegrated after it joined the pro-austerity coalition.
>
> �
> Start Quote
> Last month, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, warned Europe
> that his country was on the edge of a Weimar Germany-style social collapse�
> End Quote
> Laos vanished and Golden Dawn took its place, scoring 6-7% in the
> inconclusive Greek elections of May and June 2012.
>
> The second spurt is occurring now, as the coalition government - which
> includes Conservatives, Socialists and the "moderate" Marxists of the
> Democratic Left party - has failed to put a lid on the crisis.
>
> And the issue driving support for Golden Dawn is clear: illegal migration.
>
> Faced with virtually uncontrollable borders, the coalition government
> launched a roundup of migrants from the city streets, and has detained
> around 4,000 in makeshift camps. A further 3,000 have been deported.
>
> A senior lawmaker in the ruling New Democracy party told me, back in
> June: "What will solve the Golden Dawn problem is getting an immigration
> policy. We haven't had one."
>
> But the crackdown on immigration has not stopped Golden Dawn's rise. As
> the media have joined in - relentlessly identifying foreigners with
> crime - the far right's poll rating has increased.
>
> Theodora Oikonomides, a journalist at the alternative radio network
> RadioBubble, who has covered the rise of Golden Dawn, voices a fear
> common to many:
>
> "Golden Dawn's favourite themes, such as xenophobia, homophobia and
> anti-Semitism have now become part of Greek public discourse, whether at
> the political or at the social level.
>
> "By failing to take action against Golden Dawn while nodding and winking
> to its electorate at every opportunity, the Greek politicians - who are
> now in power with the support of European partners - have opened a
> Pandora's box that will not close any time soon."
>
> Political war
>
> Last month, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, warned Europe
> that his country was on the edge of a Weimar Germany-style social collapse.
>
> What I have seen on the streets of Athens convinces me this is not
> rhetoric. The situation is changing rapidly.
>
> There is a violent far-right party, its MPs committing and inciting
> violence with impunity; a police force that cannot or will not prevent
> Golden Dawn from projecting uniformed force on the streets. And a middle
> class that feels increasingly powerless to turn the situation round.
>
> When Angela Merkel came here last week, there were violent scenes and a
> total lockdown of the city. Only from the TV news can the German
> Chancellor have witnessed the impact of the EU-imposed austerity.
>
> Well here is what it looks like to Golden Dawn's second in command,
> Ilias Panagiotaros.
>
> In the garden outside his shop, protected by 15-foot high fencing and
> beefy colleagues in their black T-shirts, he tells me:
>
> "Golden Dawn is at war with the political system and those who represent
> it, with the domestic and international bankers, we are at war with
> these invaders - immigrants.
>
> "And if Syriza wins the next election, we will win the one after that.
> It is not a dream that within one, two or three years we will be the
> first political party."
>
> And here is how it looks to Laertis Vassiliou, the theatre director
> whose play was shut down:
>
> "If the European Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Parliament,
> the Greek parliament don't intervene in this situation I am afraid to
> think what's going to happen. Europe must do something if they don't
> want a revival of the Third Reich again."
>
> Close up, in other words, the social and political outcome of the IMF
> (International Monetary Fund) and EU (European Union) austerity
> programme, and of the implosion of mainstream politics in Greece, looks
> like a catastrophe for democracy.


It's about time somebody stood up to the atheist faggots and 
their fucked up supporters.

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