THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY » Facism http://deviousdiva.com The only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for enough good people to do nothing. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:46:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Police and Neo-Fascists http://deviousdiva.com/2008/02/11/police-and-fascists/ http://deviousdiva.com/2008/02/11/police-and-fascists/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:36:51 +0000 deviousdiva http://deviousdiva.com/2008/02/11/police-and-fascists/ As a follow to my posts on the riots in Athens just over a week ago, (here and here), this is an interesting article from Greek journalist Chronis Polychroniou (professor and head of Academic Affairs at Mediterranean University College, University of Teesside (UK) in Athens, Greece) at the Online Journal

Published photographs showing members of Chryssi Avgi attacking, side by side with the police riot units, members of the extra-parliamentary left brought back dark memories of Greece’s fairly recent political past where anti-communist hysteria generated close alliances of official state structures (police, military, intelligence services) with parasitic political organizations and led to the brutal suppression of dissent, liberty and human rights, to concentration camps and torture, to a climate of fear and intimidation

The extreme right in Greece is largely represented by groups such as Chryssi Avgi. To say that they pose any immediate or direct threat to constitutional democracy would be a far fetched proposition. On the contrary, they have — and should have — the right to openly profess their political ideas and beliefs, just like any other political group or organization, as long as they abstain from violence and the use of hate for political aims. The problem is that they don’t. Members of Chryssi Avgi have embarked on a course of political discourse and action for whom hate and political violence is a way of life. Its members are known to carry knives and other deadly instruments whenever they march and there have been many recorded occasions of stabbings and beatings of their opponents. As such, Chryssi Avgi represents a carcinogen on the body of contemporary Greek political culture and the apparent association of sections of the Greek police with this group is a reflection of the road that the political culture of the country still has to travel for the full purging of its authoritarian past

Read the full article here

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Antonis Androutsopoulos, a senior member of the right-wing extremist group Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn), was jailed for 21 years on three counts of attempted murder. In 1998 he attacked three left-wing students leaving one of them with severe head injuries. He claims he is innocent and that he is

a nationalist not a murderer

Innocent ?

He had been on the run for seven years.

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