The Greek media, which has over the past five years lied, twisted the truth, and helped to shape public opinion in Greece can never be trusted and/or viewed as the force of truth and democracy in this country. Anyone with half a brain knows that they are corrupt, and they have their own agenda, which when based on the right amount ($$$), can flip flop from left to right and vice versa.
With clever marketing, loads of propaganda and establishment approved news, they present stories that they deem to be important and ignore other issues that could be more significant. Opposite views are never expressed and anyone who disagrees with the views of the reporter is immediately labelled a fascist, a lover of neo-Nazis and someone who is threatening democracy.
How can someone with a passion for free speech be a threat to democracy?
How can someone with a difference of opinion want to abolish the Greek parliament?
What a load of idiotic and hypocritical rhetoric from a group of people who received their jobs because of their looks and their connections to the political elite. What a load of crap from a group of people who are equally, if not more, responsible for helping to create a society of violent and dumified sheeples.
First of all, most of their negative reports about the Golden Dawn part are based on rumors and opinions, not facts. Specifically, some of these reports center on newspaper opinion articles (yes OPINION articles), which on their part are based on a "secret source".
LOL. What is a secret source? My mother could be a "secret source" and so could my imaginary friend. This is indeed a hysterical and at the same time frightening revelation. Hours and hours of news coverage that lash out at a political party with strong accusations basing their information on a "secret source" of some newspaper that for the past three decades has been charged of toppling and elevating governments. Besides, when you base your whole story on "secret source" and refuse to reveal this source, then it is almost like you are purposely manipulating a right that journalists have to manufacture propaganda. Moreover, since when did an anonymous report become credible? If we accept this argument then anyone can make an accusation -including my imaginary friend- and it can be credible. But will this hold up in a court of law? Seriously. So how can a reporter who respects himself go on live television and argue that this information is credible? Silly me... forgot we were talking about the corrupt Greek media.
That is the moment when television viewers should ask themselves: Will this hold in a court of law? The answer of course is NO, because the justice system does not investigate rumors, or anonymous accusations, it only investigates and prosecutes FACTS and real evidence.
So why is the Greek media helping the political elite to do this? Simple, the Greek media receives funding from the State, as well as many political favors. Let us not forget that television channels like MEGA -for instance- depend highly on government funds. The owner of this group heads one of the largest construction groups in Greece and has been charged of profiting highly from the 2004 Olympic Game construction works. Also, and as I mentioned earlier, for the right price they can do the bidding of anyone.
As for Greece's elite, and the establishment (meaning Greece's oligarchs) they cannot legally ban the Golden Dawn party from the Greek parliament because the Constitution obstructs them from doing so, so therefore they are doing the next best thing, which is trying to find needles in haystacks by discrediting the party in order to lower its popularity with the masses.This of course is something that is upsetting Evangelos -the Large- Venizelos who is their number one spokesman.
The political elite on the other, wants to benefit from this whole mess. The reasons are many.
"The ruling conservatives are afraid of the Golden Dawn party because many of their supporters migrate by the hundreds to the Golden Dawn party every time they feel that the conservatives are crossing the red line (or basically every time the conservatives lean a bit more towards the left). With rumored national elections only months away, the conservatives fear that they might lose power if they either attack the Golden Dawn party, or allow a climate of chaos to prevail. If this happens, then this will give rise to the leftist extreme party of SYRIZA and as a consequence to the Golden Dawn party as well.On to our analysis: The reason I believe the Greek media is extremely responsible for the present social mess, is because we witnessed this type of mud-slinging several years ago with the case of Vatopedi. The then PASOK party, led by George Papandreou, found it very difficult to rise in the polls, but after employing the Greek media, and especially ALPHA TV, a scandal was manufactured with the aim of discrediting popular Costas Karamanlis and his government and lowering his popularity with the people. Have you ever heard the phrase "continue mud-slinging even if it is a lie, sooner or later some mud will stick"?, well that is exactly what happened.
PASOK, on the other hand is hanging on a thin thread. Most voters in Greece will probably find it very difficult to trust this party again, let alone vote for it in the next elections and it is believed that they will lose even more voter momentum as the Memorandums unfold. The party is broke, and owns millions of euros to the banks. They are clinging on for life because they need the state funds that come with being a political party to stay alive. Striking at the Golden Dawn party comes natural to them because of many reasons, besides they are masters in propaganda and have Nobel prizes in mud slinging. Also, they will have a reason to strike at the conservatives and will probably accuse them of having extreme right elements within its ranks like they did all these years. Most importantly, their leader Evangelos Venizelos is terrified that if the Golden Dawn party comes to power, a thorough investigation of the long list of scandals that occurred during their period in government would also be conducted. Finally, with Golden Dawn in power, SYRIZA would also be in power and Venizelos' position in the party would be compromised since his long-time rival George Papandreou more or less controls some elements of SYRIZA and it would place Evangelos in a difficult position.
Speaking of SYRIZA, apart from the corrupt PASOK which we all know by now has parked in its corner, there are also far-leftist elements in this party that are not only the leftist version of the Golden Dawn party but are far worse and certainly more dangerous. Both the Golden Dawn and the SYRIZA party are in a fight for the control of the square as they say, and have been long time rivals. In downtown Athens they have battled against each other for years now in control of some of the central squares, just as street gangs do, and today they are in Parliament doing the same thing. The thing to remember here is that the more SYRIZA's popularity rises, so will the Golden Dawn's because one far left element always needs a far-right element for balance.
As for the Greek Communist party (KKE) and the Democratic Left party (DIMAR), and ANEL (Independent Greeks) there is not much to mention here, they will do everything in their power to maintain the voters they have because it is highly unlikely that they will even be voted into parliament at the next national elections (if we take the numbers from recent public opinion polls into consideration)."
Taken from - The Murder in Keratsini, An Autumn of Chaos & Attempts To Ban The Golden Dawn Party - Click here to read more.
The mud-slinging worked, people were indeed that naive, and suddenly Karamanlis was accused of being part of a huge scandal that basically was a manufactured lie. In fact the issue of Vatopedi was analyzed for months on the Greek news. It was so ridiculous that news reporters transformed into judges, guests on news talk shows transformed into juries and everyone had an opinion about the Vatopedi case, even though all the real evidence said otherwise and was never allowed to be presented. Everyone exerted their own verdict and thanks to the media, George and his cronies rose to fame and later on led Greece to its complete destruction and the arms of the International Monetary Fund.
As for the Vatopedi case... Trial, after trial, after trial and they have yet to find one ounce of solid evidence that proves that there was a politically motivated scandal here that involved kickbacks and money-laundering, and all that other garbage that was being thrown at the general public for almost a year (or Sept. 2008 until Sept. 2009).
This time the Golden Dawn party is the target and every party in the Greek parliament is drooling with the prospect of downsizing its popularity with the people because they want some of their supporters so as to strengthen their presence in Parliament. Remember, most of these parties are hanging on for survival and need voters in order to once again get into this elite club. This is why they suddenly all banned together against the Golden Dawn party, because they basically want to keep it all in the family and continue with their business as usual. What they do not realize is that Greek citizens are on to them and the people of Greece are sick and tired of their tried and tested recipes. (Like I noted earlier, we lived through similar political executions before.)
Because of our objective stance on the issue of Golden Dawn, HellasFrappe was also recently characterized as a blog that supports neo-Nazis. Basically, in Greece, if you have a difference of opinion, than that of the mainstream media -most of which is completely controlled by the Left -since it benefitted $$$ most under left wing governments-, then you are immediately blacklisted and only viewed as source that defends, speaks on the behalf of, or even supports beliefs that are not in line with the corrupted "establishment".
Desiring another point of view is a no no. Presenting a difference of opinion is unthinkable and supporting free ideas and free speech is a catastrophe. Obviously this is not "progressive" now is it? It sounds more like we are living under Stalin.
The establishment does not want Greek citizens to think and draw their own conclusions on the case of Golden Dawn, or on any other subject to be quite frank, because as free thinking individuals we will then have choices and become dangerous to the corrupt system, and as I noted earlier, they rather want to keep it all within the family. Think about it. How else would they be able to control us after that, we would question every law, we would question the motives behind these laws, and we would have power! In other words... We would be dangerous!
One thing is certain, the establishment will do everything in their power to direct pubic opinion to where it wants it to go, and if anyone goes against this, and actually takes a stand, then they can expect to be automatically blacklisted, titled a conspiracy theorist and in the case of Golden Dawn they could also get slapped with the title "fascist" or neo-Nazi lover.
Of course try explaining all this to a "paid by the establishment troll" who goes on the social networks and begins characterizing your blog as a voice of the Nazis because it does not agree with the establishment. If I had an answer to that then I would also be able to solve the mystery as to why the media views the throwing of Molotov bombs as a non-violent act, and sees the hanging of the Greek national flag on your house as a fascist act!
This is how they have twisted our society around, but we are up to here with this cr**p.
And just for the record (and for the 10000th time here on HellasFrappe), this blog does not and never has politically supported the Golden Dawn party and anyone who has ever visited this blog, and has read more than one article on this blog knows instantly that we are strong supporters of the Karamanlis family. (This is the family that brought democracy to Greece after the fall of the Junta.)
This might of course upset the "paid by the establishment trolls" but this is the truth... So stomach it ok?
Secondly, we know that there was a brutal murder committed, and we are relieved that the person who committed this unspeakable crime was arrested. Let us hope that justice prevails and that he serve a life sentence for his crime. But this has nothing to do with voicing our opinion about the media's abuse of the Golden Dawn party. Most importantly, it does not give the Greek media the right to wear a halo over its head and help the system that destroyed this country to come out looking like it is the only force that wants to save it either!
If the media wants to hit the nail directly on the head then it has to begin talking about why the masses turned to a party like Golden Dawn to begin with. But they will never do that because then this whole smear campaign against the far-right party will only turn around and blow up right in their faces.
Basically they are afraid of discovering that most people turned to the Golden Dawn party because Greek citizens got tired of being brainwashed into turning their backs on their national identity. For the past 30 years, the progressive parties -or the Greek Left-, have done everything in their power to globalize the Greek population. By doing so, they supported -and still do- human trafficking into Greece and lawlessness. They have also presented new interpretations in Greek history and promote left-wing intellectuals who attempt to present this information as facts. At the same time they rewired customary values and traditions and made them too conservative and non-trendy. This in return created a society of wannabes who get excited if they are spotted on Paradise beach in Mykonos, or if they go on a shopping spree in Kolonaki. Obviously they used the mass media to achieve all this and as a result Greek citizens abandoned what they knew and now embrace modern and progressive interpretations of history, and democracy. What the Left did not realize though, and probably never will, is that history cannot be re-written and/or ignored and their sins cannot be washed away because of manufactured rhetoric.
Secondly the Left, together with the Greek media, promoted a culture of violence. Violent acts by hooligans and anarchists were tolerated, and those who enforced the law were either labelled "batsoi" (a White trash characterization of the Greek police) and/or oppressors of democracy.
How insane is that? In other words, throwing Molotov bombs and burning down buildings and even murdering people (as in the case of Marfin) is tolerated, but complaining about these acts and wanting to terminate this lawlessness is viewed as undemocratic. This disgusting and twisted culture ideology has been the dominant force in Greece for the past three decades and that is why you see law enforcement officials being presented as the evil force that wants to oppress us, and the hooligans that vandalize, burn and loot as the force that wants to liberate us. This is what allowed crime to skyrocket in this country, and this is what has frustrated a good portion of society. This is the reason they turned to an extreme element for help because they are fed up.
All these practices, which are extreme left ideologies -especially of anti-authoritarians who have their own style of political "dialogue"-, sent a large section of Greek society -especially the youth- in the opposite direction.
This is what gave rise to the Golden Dawn party and as much as it hurts the Left -and to a larger extent the establishment- they are responsible for the present situation.
Conservatives are also very responsible for the present situation. For the past three decades, and after being treated as the whores of democracy by the Left, they never really took a stand against these trends. And the reason they did not do this is because they were stuck in a Matrix where the Left never allowed them to wash away the sins they committed in the 1940s to a portion of the population. As a result, they were never given any real opportunities in employment (most public sector workers are Leftists) and they were never permitted to develop (most of the industries that were either forced to close down in Greece from assassinations, bankruptcy, etc., were owned by conservatives). And this is why you see many flip-floppers today who are basically cowards that do not want to lose the little that they have and basically gain from anyone who is in power.
This is not as far-fetched as it sounds, because we all know that in Greece you need to rub the back of the government in order to even be given the time of day (or funds in this case.)
The country that gave birth to democracy changed and those who once declared that "Greece belongs to the Greeks," (Andreas Papandreou 1980s) passed on to a nation that said "we want to thank the Americans" (Costas Simitis 1990s). The followers of Aris Velouchiotis who were once poor and wanted equality for all Greeks, allowed their supporters to to declare that the "Aegean belongs to its fish" (George Dalaras) and today they endorse Soros ideologies or the "open boarder" theory and are some of the richest personalities in Greece.
In fact the Greek Left has been the dominant force on all fronts for the past three decades (media, education, government, etc) and it has deliberately isolated those who, like us here at HellasFrappe, continually insist that democratic and revolutionary ideas can easily be combined with conservative values to express a true national and realistic identity for the Greek people.
What they never realized, and probably find it hard to digest, is that in Greece, which is threatened by Western bankers and neo-Ottoman dreams, the issue of patriotism is not a secondary issue like they want it to be but the PRIMARY concern of all people. It is also the ONLY issue concerning the Greek Diaspora as well -which is said to number at least 17 million people-. Attempting to alter this either by tilting towards the East (Turkey) or to the West (US), is suicide to any force (domestic and foreign) because Greeks were oppressed for far too long and will never compromise their country over a political belief. The Greek flag was conquered with blood, and it can never be sacrificed to any one particular political party or ideology.
These are issues that will never, EVER be addressed by the Greek media. But then again, what do you expect from a force that only talks about violence, and/or a culture of violence, and only points the finger at the Golden Dawn party when they themselves promote social violence every single day to all viewers by screening violent movies, endorsing violent video games, promoting pornography, and showing news reports of violent acts.
Speaking of violence, why is an act committed by the Left termed "revolutionary" and why is the same act characterized as "oppressive and dangerous" when it committed by the extreme right?
It is still VIOLENCE.
If I brake your left hand and then brake your right hand will you only feel pain from the right side? Or will both hands hurt? Obviously both hands will hurt! Violence is violence whether it comes from the left or right. So why does the Greek media tolerate violent acts from the Left but condemns the same acts from the Right? Because the Greek Right supports the law, the constitution and the Greek army and therefore has the general public on its side, whereas the Greek Left supports lawlessness and is against the Greek army and the Greek constitution.
Let me give you a little sample as to how the Greek Left and the corrupt media have operated hand in hand in recent Greek history. The practices of all this incoherent violence -from the Leftist parties and the Greek media- climaxed with the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008. Over the past two years, HellasFrappe has been the only English-speaking blog from Greece that has slammed the actions of these groups which we know used the unfortunate death of Alexis to spread chaos all over the country by destroying businesses, and public buildings (therefore giving way to economic and poltical instability). All this occurred under the conniving eye of SYRIZA -and especially its then leader Alekos Alavanos-, but also with the blessings of PASOK and its corrupt media buddies. The latter group saw the riots as an opportunity to overthrow the conservative government of Costas Karamanlis and allow their man -George Papandreou- to rise to power. We have more than once questioned the tolerance of the Greek media to all that violence and warned readers that unless things changed then this would lead to the rise of the extreme right. But did anyone listen? No.
Finally, ignoring the Golden Dawn party, and not allowing them to have a voice to state their opinion, combined with the spreading lies that they will be banned from Parliament might spice up a nightly news report, but it is something that is not being digested by the masses!
Attempting to label a murder by a madman as a "political crime" is also a damn JOKE.
The Golden Dawn party cannot be banned. When it became a political party they recognized the Greek Constitution and therefore cannot be banned! Secondly this is not permitted by the Greek Constitution to begin with.
So the idiotic and Neanderthal arguments you hear every night from incompetent buffoons on the nightly news (this also includes many Greek politicians from the left and the right) only allows Golden Dawn to be viewed as a "victim" of the corrupt establishment and therefore makes them even more appealing to voters. (After all, even negative news is good news because basically it keeps you in the news).
Generating fake public opinion polls, and spending hours with cheap talk is not going to lessen their popularity either.
The only thing that will deflate their popularity is if the State actually begins doing its job! But the Greek State does not have a clue how to stop the anarchists from throwing Molotov bombs, or committing vandalism, or destroying public property, etc. It does not know how to stop human trafficking, the drug trade, etc. And the reason they are clueless is because they never address the issue head on.
And I ask: What are taxpayers to do? Are they or are they not entitled to some dignity?
When the state ignores the rise in crime in areas such as the center of Athens (specifically around the area of Omonia), when it does not arrest and convict the real culprits of the economic crisis (high ranking corporate and political officials), when they allow characters such as George Papandreou to come and go as they please in this country and when they generously give hundreds of millions to corrupt publishing houses (and their opera houses), and do not use this money to generate jobs for the people (the current unemployment rate is almost at 28%) then citizens will turn their attention to another extremist element for help.
It is simple logic.
These are the real reasons behind Golden Dawn's sudden rise in fame over the past two years.
It is not because they help elderly woman to go to the bank safely as some reports claim, or because they hand out food to starving families, or even because they strike sentiment in many of us by supporting Greek national issues, it is because the Golden Dawn party directly and boldly attacks the very same forces that placed Greece in the economic, geopolitical and social mess that it is in today. This is why they are popular.
But of course the Greek media, the progressive Left, and the establishment refuses to accept this truth and certainly it is reluctant to face up to its responsibilities. That is why it spits out so much garbage about this political party and slams anyone who disagrees with them or has a difference of opinion. Unfortunately the conservatives -who want and thirst to remain in the elite club and are cowards to take a stance against this insanity- are once again playing into their game.
Conclusion: The more Greek political parties and the media refuse to address these issues and accept their mistakes (and correct their behavior), the more Golden Dawn will continue to become popular with the people. The more the establishment refuses to address national issues and instead promotes falsifications about our history, our culture and our national identity by promoting opinions and interpretations or characters such as Repoussi who deny the Genocide of Asia Minor Greeks, more and more Greek citizens will turn to the far-right party for help. And finally the more the Left and the Greek media disallows a difference of opinion to be expressed and slams anything that disagrees with their views, then more and more people will turn to parties such as Golden Dawn!
Stalin ideologies cannot, and will NEVER, be tolerated in the country that gave birth to democracy!
What they should realize is that Greek citizens have had it up to here with all this nonsense. The political elite has no right to speak about a "democratic arc" and argue that Golden Dawn does not belong tho this arc when we all know that the Greek Communist party does not even accept parliamentary rule -AND NEVER HAS-.
Do you ever see anyone discussing this on the mainstream news or warning that they will ban them from Parliament? Obviously not. Attempting to exercise criticism to the Left labels you a fascist in Greece.
If the far-right does not belong to this democratic arc, then neither do many other parties as well.
Example: Some extreme elements in SYRIZA that several years ago defended notorious members of the November 17 terrorist organization, and who last year called on Greek citizens to stage an armed struggle against Greek parliamentarians, and others that went on Facebook and announced in August that chaos will erupt in September and that all members should begin collecting stones, planks of wood, bricks, slabs of marble, iron, rope and lighters (yes lighters!) -to start chaos- do not belong to this " Democratic Arc" either.
And most importantly, all the political parties who have corrupt politicians within their ranks who have either been accused, and/or convicted. should not be in the "Democratic Arc" either! (This eliminates everyone).
So much for their hypocritical "democratic arc".
So I dare you. Call us fascists for defending both sides of the coin, even though we have cleared up that we do not politically support Golden Dawn. We will still continue presenting both sides of the story because we believe in democracy! Most importantly, we will continue to fight for a purer and more genuine democracy in this country, just like the Karamanlis family did where the participation of the individual in politics would not be mediated by professional and corrupt politicians, the mass media, and corpotocracy but by citizens who truly respect and love this country.
Signed
Marina Spanos
Read more about this case and the background to this story by clicking here
19.9.13 - SPECIAL REPORT - The Murder in Keratsini, An Autumn of Chaos & Attemps To Ban The Golden Dawn Party - http://www.hellasfrappe.blogspot.com/2013/09/special-report-murder-in-keratsini.html
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