Golden Dawn (Greek Nazis) bring charges against Jewish-Marxist philosopher for "defamation"
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[quote]Savas Mikhail has never hidden his anti-fascist commitment, and has not ceased, in the last years, to denounce the sinister activities of the Greek neo-Nazi organisation “Golden Dawn” (Chryssi Avghi)... In 2009, this organization, which openly and insistently claims the heritage of the Third Reich, presented, to the Greek Courts, a lawsuit against a great number of militants of the entire Greek Left or Far Left, as well as against all the immigrant associations, cultural groups, and independent personalities. By decision of the Prosecutor--named by the Neo-Liberal Right-wing government--the police called in 2012 all these personalities for interrogation. All of them refused to come, but presented by their lawyers legal depositions answering and rejecting the accusations.
After examining these documents, the Prosecutor decided to bring to the Courts only two of these dozens persons accused by the neo-Nazis: Savas Mikhail and the former Dean of the Polytechnic School, Constantinos Moutzouris, who was accused of having permitted Indymedia, an alternative social media, to use the facilities of the School for its emissions. As for Savas Mikhail, he was accused of “defamation” toward the neo-Nazis, because he denounced them as criminals; of “incitation to violence”, because he called to fight fascism; and “attempt against civil peace” for having called, in a pamphlet, to demonstrate against Chryssi Avghi. Meanwhile, the Greek neo-Nazis unleashed a brutal anti-Semitic campaign against Savas Mikhail, denouncing him in their media as “an agent of the Jewish world conspiracy against the Greek Nation, aiming to provoke a civil war and establish a Judeo-Bolshevik regime”.
This affair has of course raised numerous protests in Greece and Europe, but nevertheless the trial will take place, and the date will be September 3, 2013. It is an important issue: beyond the accused persons, it will be decided if it is still possible in Greece, in the future, to freely express antifascist ideas. The whole affair illustrates not only the extraordinary arrogance of the so-called “Golden Dawn”, but also the more and more obvious complicity of the present Greek government, presided by Mr Antonis Samaras, with the Greek fascists. Several of the Ministers in this increasingly authoritarian and repressive government come from the Far Right: the “adviser of the Minister” for Immigration, Kostoulas, is the author of a negationist book glorifying the Third Reich; the ruling party’s (so-called “New Democracy”) parliamentary group’s spokesperson at the Parliament, Makis Voridis, is a former leader of the “Nationalist Youth Movement” promoted by the dictatorship of Colonel Papadopoulos (1967-1974). The recent decision of Antonis Samaras to pure and simply close ERT, the Greek public television, and throw out all its employees--a decision which provoked a governmental crisis, with the departure of the moderate Democratic Left Party--was warmly supported by Chryssi Avghi.[/quote]
[img]http://po.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/savas-matsas.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.thecommentator.com/system/articles/inner_pictures/000/003/974/thumb/Golden_Dawn.png?1374576839[/img]
[source]http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/3964[/source]
It's just come to me that Golden Dawn sound like a pissing fetish group.
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;41933470]It's just come to me that Golden Dawn sound like a pissing fetish group.[/QUOTE]
It always makes me think of the Mythic Dawn from Oblivion.
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;41933470]It's just come to me that Golden Dawn sound like a pissing fetish group.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=kidwithsword;41933618]It always makes me think of the Mythic Dawn from Oblivion.[/QUOTE]
oh why did you have to say that, now all I see in my head is someone someone on the nexus would make
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;41933470]It's just come to me that Golden Dawn sound like a pissing fetish group.[/QUOTE]
That's ruined their name for me now completely.
i wish all these fascist groups would stop ruining the red/black color scheme for everyone
Their flag is absolute shit, it looks like a noodle
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i've made way better facist flags out of spaghetti
Its pretty fucking rich for a Neo-Nazi group to be accusing people of 'inciting violence'
[QUOTE=Bumgall;41933830]Their flag is absolute shit, it looks like a noodle
[editline]23rd August 2013[/editline]
i've made way better facist flags out of spaghetti[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_(art)[/url]
[quote=Wikipedia]They were among the most important symbols in ancient Greece; they, perhaps, symbolized infinity and unity; many ancient Greek temples incorporated the sign of the meander. Greek vases, especially during their Geometric Period, were likely the genesis for the widespread use of meanders; alternatively, very ocean-like patterns of waves also appeared in the same format as meanders, which can also be thought of as the guilloche pattern.[/quote]
It's used as a symbol of Greek heritage. Golden Dawn didn't create the fucking Meander.
Frankly it's just another cool geometric pattern with a rich history of symbolism being slowly destroyed by a group of evil men who can't just come up with their own fucking design. It's the swastika all over again.
The fact they have 18 seats in the Greek parliament is alarming
Lessons from history currently being unlearned.
People who shout Godwin about this piss me off, not that anyone in this thread has. I just want to smack them for being hipster shits. It's not a case of Godwin's Law if they [I]literally are Neo-Nazis[/I].
And, Greece, what the fuck is wrong with you. It hasn't even been a century. You cannot be, as a society, that stupid.
[QUOTE=mugofdoom;41934654]
Frankly it's just another cool geometric pattern with a rich history of symbolism being slowly destroyed by a group of evil men who can't just come up with their own fucking design. It's the swastika all over again.[/QUOTE]
I am going to be so biblically pissed off if the meander band I have tattooed on my forearm gets culturally raped into a misconstrued symbol of ignorance and hate within the coming years. :(
[img]http://s23.postimg.org/fus4l5057/meander.jpg[/img]
Doesn't this happen a lot? Whenever there's an economic crisis, people get way more conservative, and sometimes that means the fascists can sneak in and gain a lot of seats (18 is a [i]lot[/i] compared to most fascist parties' 0). That's why there was the sudden surge of fascist parties in the 30s, I believe.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;41938046]Doesn't this happen a lot? Whenever there's an economic crisis, people get way more conservative, and sometimes that means the fascists can sneak in and gain a lot of seats (18 is a [i]lot[/i] compared to most fascist parties' 0). That's why there was the sudden surge of fascist parties in the 30s, I believe.[/QUOTE]
In the 30's it wasn't so much them [I]sneaking in[/I] but rather them persuading the masses that they can make things better, and they (usually) actually pulled it off for a while, which got everyone's love, affection, and loyalty. After they had that, they then proceeded to fucking destroy themselves and cause wars and millions and millions of dead people including many of my relatives. :suicide:
Party like its 1933
[QUOTE=Quark:;41938193]In the 30's it wasn't so much them [I]sneaking in[/I] but rather them persuading the masses that they can make things better, and they (usually) actually pulled it off for a while, which got everyone's love, affection, and loyalty. After they had that, they then proceeded to fucking destroy themselves and cause wars and millions and millions of dead people including many of my relatives. :suicide:[/QUOTE]
My Czech Great-Grandfather lived threw the horrors of the Second World War when he fought in a partisan group for his homeland. I really hope that this Fascism problem Greece is having doesn't grow anymore because otherwise I fear we might see history repeat itself. Even at a smaller scale it would be horrible.
[QUOTE=kaine123;41938539]My Czech Great-Grandfather lived threw the horrors of the Second World War when he fought in a partisan group for his homeland. I really hope that this Fascism problem Greece is having doesn't grow anymore because otherwise I fear we might see history repeat itself. Even at a smaller scale it would be horrible.[/QUOTE]
I had family members fighting for Nazi Germany and against Nazi Germany. Makes looking up to my ancestors a challenging thing...
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wow my title might give the wrong impression here
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