Golden Dawn Gets EU Human Rights Seat

[ВАЛТЕР]

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013...n-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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

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/tu...-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)