Golden Dawn Gets EU Human Rights Seat

[ВАЛТЕР]

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/01/23/golden-dawn-gets-eu-human-rights-seat/


Golden Dawn Gets EU Human Rights Seat

The wife of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn leader has been allowed to join the Council of Europe, a human rights organization, despite her denunciation of immigrants as “subhuman” and as the party is being blamed for rising incidents of assaults on immigrants.
Over strong opposition, Eleni Zaroulia, was given the go-ahead to participate in the council’s proceedings in Strasbourg, France. Greece’s PASOK and Democratic Left parties, as well as several rights groups had expressed objections to the membership of Zaroulia, wife of Golden Dawn chief Nikos Michaloliakos.
The Council stated that her objection to immigrants does not imply it agrees with her stance even though the body is charged with a broad human rights charter. The committee also OK’d the participation of Tamas Gaudi from Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party.
The parliamentary assembly of the council had considered a ban on the two if they were found to be affiliated with parties that are “neo-Nazi, racist and anti-Semitic,” euractiv.com reported. Although critics say they are, the Council set aside the protests.
The challenge was introduced on procedural grounds by Italian MP Fiamma Nirenstein, who said that the values of these parties were in conflict with the Council of Europe’s ideals and principles. Both challenges were supported by at least 10 members of the assembly present in the chamber, belonging to at least five different national delegations.
“Ms. Zaroulia has said in her country’s Parliament that the immigrants were sub-humans who invaded her homeland and spread diseases,” Nirenstein was quoted as saying. “Mr. Gaudi Nagy has told his Parliament that there was a list of Jews representing a threat to national security, and who were exploiting the Holocaust to dominate the world.”
In a letter addressed to Greek Parliamentary Speaker Evangelos Meimarakis, two PASOK MP’s and one from the Democratic Left said that Zaroulia’s participation on the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, “has generated a barrage of strong reactions from European politicians and intellectuals, as well as from human rights organizations that deem Golden Dawn an overtly racist and neo-Nazi organization.”
The letter went on to say the participation of a “political party/organization that violates with its actions and with acts of violence the rights of local and foreign residents of this country” is “contradictory and tragically ironic.”
The legal challenge, meanwhile, was opposed by Jean-Claude Mignon of France’s conservative European People’s Party (EPP,) one of the most dominant in the European Parliament, who said that the pair had been elected following what has been considered democratic elections. “It is not the job of the Assembly to tell the Hungarians or the Greeks ‘You voted correctly,’ or ‘You didn’t vote correctly,” he was quoted as saying.


I have no comments. Just sharing. :cursing:

[Flying Purple People Eater]

WHAT THE FUCK. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS. FUCK THE EU. HOW DOES THIS BULLSHIT CONTINUE!? HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT SEE THE UTTER SHALLOW BASE OF THEIR APOLOGIST GOVERNMENTS!? A COMMUNIST PARTY IS CONSIDERED 'TERRORIST', BUT A FUCKING OPENLY FASCIST, WHITE SUPREMACIST AND NEO-NAZI GROUP IS NOT ONLY ACCEPTED BUT ENTERED INTO A HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP!? I am so fucking pissed off right now, oh god. Will this shit never end? This needs to be shared around.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

They never fucking learn, do they? The last time fascists were welcomed with open arms like this in Europe, it wasn't long before there was a fascist empire responsible for world war and genocide against various scapegoats.

Play with rabid dogs and you'll get bitten. But this simple concept seems to escape the Eurocrats. I thought they were supposed to be educated in things like history and whatnot?

[ВАЛТЕР]

I think that Golden Dawn is trying to make fascism appear friendly again. The capitalist class in Europe of course has no quarrel with this. The more Golden Dawns in European nations, the less they have to worry about us pesky revolutionaries. Giving them a Human Rights seat says "Hey everyone, the fascists care about rights. They want to help the people of Europe."

[Lacrimi de Chiciură]

The inclusion of the Hungarian "Jobbik" Party is equally absurd. They are neo-Nazis, plain and simple. There is a human rights crisis in Hungary right now because of their collaboration with paramilitary groups terrorizing Roma communities, as well as their fueling of racism with propaganda scapegoating "gypsy criminality." What a wonderfully treacherous way for Europe to cap off the so-called "Decade of Roma Inclusion," including in a supposed council for human rights a party whose leaders propose deporting families to "public order protection camps."

[Eleutheromaniac]

I just saw two days ago that they were trying to ban her? :confused:

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

I'll add my indignation with an extra dose of 'fuck you' to the naive / corrupt Euro Council fools that are allowing these individuals to hold any position that has even the most tenuous connection the idea of human rights
It's an extra insult to those whose rights their Parties have befowled and trampled on.

[Philosophos]

Well I'm not mad to EU just the people that fucking voted for GD. Before the economic crisis people would spit when they were saying nazis. They hated everything about them and now all of the sudden they vote and fight for them... Just ridiculous, idiotic, closed-minded with memory problems fucks that have surrendered to their animalistic insticts

[Art Vandelay]

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.

[Hexen]

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

[Wings Of Redemption]

I'm not gonna lie, this pissed me off. We never seem to learn from history do we?

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

If that's the case, then it's been decaying since the 1930s, if not longer.

[piet11111]

If that's the case, then it's been decaying since the 1930s, if not longer.

Quite a few would actually agree with that.

I would not want to draw a line somewhere and say that is the exact time capitalism went into decay but i would guess its closer to our modern times then to the 1920's.

[Overture]

Honestly, is anyone really surprised?

[Rafiq]

Europe is so fucked

[Tim Cornelis]

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

The rise of Jobbik in 2006 preceded the economic crisis. The rise of Turkey's neo-fascist MHP (more popular than Golden Dawn as well as more violent) did not occur against a background of economic crisis either.

[ВАЛТЕР]

Europe is so fucked

Well, what do you expect? We haven't had a proper world war to blow off some steam in a while now. :rolleyes:

[Comrade #138672]

This is making me feel nauseated.


The rise of Jobbik in 2006 preceded the economic crisis. The rise of Turkey's neo-fascist MHP (more popular than Golden Dawn as well as more violent) did not occur against a background of economic crisis either.Still I think it is quite correct to say that Fascism is generally Capitalism in decay.

[Rafiq]

Well, what do you expect? We haven't had a proper world war to blow off some steam in a while now. :rolleyes:

I don't quite catch you

[ВАЛТЕР]

I don't quite catch you

It's just a crappy joke. See this and you'll get it http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-august-9-2011/sh-tzkrieg---european-wars

:P

Europe is very much indeed fucked. It is only a matter of time before fascism becomes an acceptable position for one to hold. When that happens, we all know who they come after. (The left)

[Hexen]

Does this mean we'll see another Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain in Europe again as in Fascism is on the rise?

Of course like I suggested before we need a Fascist clock which estimates/guesstimates how close a society is towards Fascism.

[feeLtheLove]

a nazi got a seat in EU human rights?

hell must have froze over.....

[The Intransigent Faction]

So, uh, are they banning her or not?! http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/426584/20130122/golden-dawn-greece-eleni-zaroulia-council-europe.htm

[Lobotomy]

I too do not have much to say, aside from what the fucking fuck.

[Questionable]

The scariest part about this is that there's no one to fight the fascists this time.

I know some will argue that the Soviet Union downright helped the spread of fascism, but even if we ignore their role in history, most countries still had radical leftist parties with membership in the thousands. There was a chance to fight back, but today there's nothing like that. I can't even imagine something like the International Brigades popping up at this point.

I can only hope things will change.

[ckaihatsu]

Does this mean we'll see another Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain in Europe again as in Fascism is on the rise?

Of course like I suggested before we need a Fascist clock which estimates/guesstimates how close a society is towards Fascism.


You mean like the 'Doomsday Clock' -- ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_clock


Tell me what to "draw" for a political fascism doomsday clock, and I'll (fucking) do it -- !


Ideologies & Operations -- Left Centrifugalism

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Ideologies & Operations -- Fundamentals

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[MP5]

It appears that these morons now have a chapter in Montreal. Great just what Canada needs more extreme right wing politics :rolleyes: . I would be all for firebombing these bastards if i was in Quebec but sadly i am not. We should learn from the past on how fascists should be treated.

[ckaihatsu]

The Obama administration’s resort to unlimited quantitative easing and its aggressive “pivot to Asia” to contain China have encouraged Abe to fire his own shot in the developing international currency wars, as well as to remilitarise Japan. After a decade of US-led neo-colonial wars in the Middle East and an emerging scramble for Africa, the Japanese ruling class is drawing the conclusion that a strong military is necessary to prosecute their economic and strategic interests.

This slide towards an even more devastating global war is being accompanied by the whipping up of poisonous nationalism in every country. The only social force that can prevent war is the international working class through a unified struggle to abolish the profit system and its division of the globe into rival nation states, and establish a worldwide planned socialist economy to meet the social needs of humanity as a whole.

http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/26/pers-j26.html

[Karl Renegade]

agree with everyone. these GD people seem to be something from 1930's europe. Where exactly does this blame foreigners for all your country's problems ideology comes from anyway? This party has the potential to be a very dangerous example to all like-minded groups in europe. Far right people are idiots! what's the point of fearing blacks? fear globalization, I say.:glare:

[Hexen]

You mean like the 'Doomsday Clock' -- ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_clock


Tell me what to "draw" for a political fascism doomsday clock, and I'll (fucking) do it -- !


Ideologies & Operations -- Left Centrifugalism

http://s6.postimage.org/zc8b2rb3h/110211_Ideologies_Operations_Left_Centrifug.jpg (http://postimage.org/image/zc8b2rb3h/)


Ideologies & Operations -- Fundamentals

http://s6.postimage.org/cpkm723u5/3_Ideologies_Operations_Fundamentals.jpg (http://postimage.org/image/cpkm723u5/)

Yep as in analogous to the Doomsday Clock.

Might as well do it since we actually need it.

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

It appears that these morons now have a chapter in Montreal. Great just what Canada needs more extreme right wing politics :rolleyes: . I would be all for firebombing these bastards if i was in Quebec but sadly i am not. We should learn from the past on how fascists should be treated.

Guess what? They also have a branch in Nuremberg, the city where the Nazis established "Die Rassengesetze" the 'Race laws'.

[ckaihatsu]

Yep as in analogous to the Doomsday Clock.

Might as well do it since we actually need it.





Tell me what to "draw" for a political fascism doomsday clock, and I'll (fucking) do it -- !


Okay, so to start you should brainstorm and make a sketch of what you're thinking of. It can be rudimentary -- just make sure to include all concepts and labels that you think are pertinent.

You can either scan the sketch or just take a photo of it with a digital camera. You can provide it here as a .jpg attachment to a post.