Die Neue Zeit
9th June 2010, 06:32
http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol6/vol6_no2_takis_greece_one_way_street.htm
The effective seizure of power in last October’s general election through a fraudulent electoral program which, even if it was somehow related to the usual statist “Socialist” program, it certainly had nothing to do with the opposite neo/social-liberal program of a drastic shrinkage of the public sector, i.e. the sector which the current Chairman of the “Socialist” International (and Greek Prime Minister!) considers to be Greece’s “big patient” which led to today's informal bankruptcy. This, at the very moment when even bourgeois international analysts and economists (as well as the markets!) talk about the chronic structural crisis of the Greek economy (which actually constitutes the cause of the systemic bankruptcy and not the public sector which is only a symptom of this crisis).
The clear contempt of the will of hundreds of thousands of strikers and demonstrators, but also of the demand for a referendum that could, even retrospectively, give some legitimacy to the barbaric measures. That is, the measures imposed today by the local and the transnational elites, simply in order to prevent the bankruptcy of our creditors (German, French, but also Greek banks e.g. the Eurobank of Latsis which is now struggling to conceal its exposure to the risk of Greek bankruptcy!), at the expense of hundreds of thousands among the lower social groups in Greece who are condemned, instead, into bankruptcy!
The almost totalitarian use of the TV channels and especially the state owned ones in order to conceal the popular anger at the systemic violence and to obscure (with the help of well known commissars of the system) the real causes of the crisis for which exclusively responsible are the local (political and economic) elites, as well as the transnational elite, who however are not being forced to sacrifice even a single swimming-pool from the tens of thousands of them adorning their Hollywood-type villas! Instead, the low (compared to European levels) salaries and pensions are slashed, thousands of jobs in the public sector are abolished, the hire and fire culture in the private sector is being institutionalised etc. It was, therefore, the ultimate token of impudence for state TV (ERT), which has become an advertising channel for the promotion of the parliamentary Junta and its leader, to denounce the short “occupation” of its studios by unemployed school-teachers (whom the “socialists” threw to the street in their thousands) as engaging in “anti-democratic dialogue,” when, for instance, on May Day all state channels devoted their evening news bulletins mainly in broadcasting cheap patriotic speeches by the “socialist” prime minister and his entourage, whereas at the same time the major international channels (BBC, AlJazeera, etc.) devoted the corresponding news bulletins mainly to the riots, which the graphic ERT presented as minor incidents, almost at the end of its bulletin!
Police-terrorism that is imposed supposedly for the “protection” of citizens against “terrorists,” anarchists and the like. In reality, police-terrorism has the sole purpose to terrorize the middle classes, who ― perhaps the first time in their lives ― show clear signs of overcoming the class of professional politicians that have deceived them and their party-puppets in the trade unions. The angry scenes outside Parliament on the day of the general strike, with tens of thousands of demonstrators calling parliamentarians as “thieves” and others repeatedly attempting to storm it, made it clear that this was not one more of the usual peaceful (and therefore painless for the elites) marches, and that the people outside Parliament had nothing to do with the carefree world of the elites inside it (and their media). No wonder the real world outside Parliament was met by the virtual world of the elites with tons of dangerous chemicals, so that the demonstrators and everybody else could take the message about who are the real bosses in present “democracy,” who can take any kind of decision against their “subjects” without giving a damn to their expressed will.
Τhe biggest crime of the parliamentary Junta, however, is the blatant distortion of truth as regards the “one way street” which supposedly the measures imposed by the transnational and local elites represent. On this the “socialist” government had surpassed even Mrs Thatcher, who has invented the term in order to describe the similar neoliberal measures adopted by her government in the early 1980s, who, however, did not prevent a dialogue on them, something effectively ruled out by the Greek social-fascists presently running Greece.
The effective seizure of power in last October’s general election through a fraudulent electoral program which, even if it was somehow related to the usual statist “Socialist” program, it certainly had nothing to do with the opposite neo/social-liberal program of a drastic shrinkage of the public sector, i.e. the sector which the current Chairman of the “Socialist” International (and Greek Prime Minister!) considers to be Greece’s “big patient” which led to today's informal bankruptcy. This, at the very moment when even bourgeois international analysts and economists (as well as the markets!) talk about the chronic structural crisis of the Greek economy (which actually constitutes the cause of the systemic bankruptcy and not the public sector which is only a symptom of this crisis).
The clear contempt of the will of hundreds of thousands of strikers and demonstrators, but also of the demand for a referendum that could, even retrospectively, give some legitimacy to the barbaric measures. That is, the measures imposed today by the local and the transnational elites, simply in order to prevent the bankruptcy of our creditors (German, French, but also Greek banks e.g. the Eurobank of Latsis which is now struggling to conceal its exposure to the risk of Greek bankruptcy!), at the expense of hundreds of thousands among the lower social groups in Greece who are condemned, instead, into bankruptcy!
The almost totalitarian use of the TV channels and especially the state owned ones in order to conceal the popular anger at the systemic violence and to obscure (with the help of well known commissars of the system) the real causes of the crisis for which exclusively responsible are the local (political and economic) elites, as well as the transnational elite, who however are not being forced to sacrifice even a single swimming-pool from the tens of thousands of them adorning their Hollywood-type villas! Instead, the low (compared to European levels) salaries and pensions are slashed, thousands of jobs in the public sector are abolished, the hire and fire culture in the private sector is being institutionalised etc. It was, therefore, the ultimate token of impudence for state TV (ERT), which has become an advertising channel for the promotion of the parliamentary Junta and its leader, to denounce the short “occupation” of its studios by unemployed school-teachers (whom the “socialists” threw to the street in their thousands) as engaging in “anti-democratic dialogue,” when, for instance, on May Day all state channels devoted their evening news bulletins mainly in broadcasting cheap patriotic speeches by the “socialist” prime minister and his entourage, whereas at the same time the major international channels (BBC, AlJazeera, etc.) devoted the corresponding news bulletins mainly to the riots, which the graphic ERT presented as minor incidents, almost at the end of its bulletin!
Police-terrorism that is imposed supposedly for the “protection” of citizens against “terrorists,” anarchists and the like. In reality, police-terrorism has the sole purpose to terrorize the middle classes, who ― perhaps the first time in their lives ― show clear signs of overcoming the class of professional politicians that have deceived them and their party-puppets in the trade unions. The angry scenes outside Parliament on the day of the general strike, with tens of thousands of demonstrators calling parliamentarians as “thieves” and others repeatedly attempting to storm it, made it clear that this was not one more of the usual peaceful (and therefore painless for the elites) marches, and that the people outside Parliament had nothing to do with the carefree world of the elites inside it (and their media). No wonder the real world outside Parliament was met by the virtual world of the elites with tons of dangerous chemicals, so that the demonstrators and everybody else could take the message about who are the real bosses in present “democracy,” who can take any kind of decision against their “subjects” without giving a damn to their expressed will.
Τhe biggest crime of the parliamentary Junta, however, is the blatant distortion of truth as regards the “one way street” which supposedly the measures imposed by the transnational and local elites represent. On this the “socialist” government had surpassed even Mrs Thatcher, who has invented the term in order to describe the similar neoliberal measures adopted by her government in the early 1980s, who, however, did not prevent a dialogue on them, something effectively ruled out by the Greek social-fascists presently running Greece.