Just before the Golden Dawn: Two American White Nationalists on holiday in Greece - Part 2

Posted by Guest Blogger on Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:27.

by Karl LaForce

25th March 2012, Greek Independence Day.

The activities for day having been canceled, we met George at our hotel and walked to the base of the Acropolis for coffees and conversation. The neighborhood between the hotel and the Acropolis is noticeably rundown. George told us, “In this neighborhood there are only immigrants, homosexuals, and junkies”. No sooner was that said and two hand-holding homosexuals exited the door of a building directly in front of us and turn toward the Acropolis, like some unholy and cursed prophecy had just come true right before our eyes.

The name of that area of Athens is called Thesion, and was formerly an upscale area of the city, before the government’s refusal to protect the borders of Greece and Europe from the flood of “human refuse of the Third World kind”.

We came to a street that is blocked with concrete barriers at each end. George said, “This is a synagogue and an Israeli consulate. No Greek institution in Athens is allowed to block a street like this, only Jews are permitted to do it.”

“It will make a good public restroom after GD takes control of parliament”, I replied.

As we walked, the number of non-white faces (we encountered) was disturbingly high. Afghans, Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Turks, Arabs, Gypsies and more, all the Third World seemed to have washed up here. The favoured immigrant status was the “asylum seeker”. But it would be far more appropriate to call them invaders. As far as we could see, they were involved in all manner of low-grade economic activity, including begging and selling second hand-clothing, some of which was quite probably acquired from home invasions and street robberies. They were standing around arguing, shouting, and generally degrading the area by their presence.

We arrived at a street-side restaurant along the walk up to the Acropolis. We started to discuss how Greece has come to this pass … how, after the ousting of the “bad dictator” Col. George Papadopoulos in 1974, Jewish-approved democracy was “restored” ... how all the good laws that Papadopoulos had implemented were tailored to Greece (there was no deficit, and economic policies supported the farmers and the workers) ... how the government, while far from perfect, was a much better government than any Greece has seen since. George told us how the Jews and leftists made sure that the youth was radicalized towards leftist ideas, the Papadopoulos government having failed to instill nationalist ideals and even been apathetic in that area. Papadopoulos himself died in prison - ignoble death that is a stain on the modern history of Greece.

We talked about the struggles GD has been through since it was founded in 1980 by Nickolaos Michaloliakos. It has faced the iron fist of the Greek police and the cowardly attacks of anarchists and communists. It had been slandered and maligned in the Greek media (when it got any coverage at all). Some members have been sent to prison, many under false charges and flimsy accusations for defending Greece from the Third World invasion. But on a happier note George told us how the Greek public has been driven to Nationalism by the lies and corruption of the current government. It is as if the dam of media lies protecting the government has burst, and the truth of government corruption and treason are everywhere for all to see.

One African came right to our table and tried to sell us CDs, something I normally see in Mexico and had not expected here, within the very sight of the Parthenon. “Go away” George says. The African looks at me, as if to say, ‘How about you?”

“Not even if you are giving away gold” I reply. He lopes away, and I hope he has felt our burning desire that he go back to his mud hut and abandoned children in Chad.

George insisted that he pay for the coffees due to the Greek practice of “Filotimo”, a Greek term meaning, loosely, that when a friend comes to visit you whether from the next town or far away treating him/her is the least you can do; a heartfelt gesture. He had prior business planned and could not accompany us on our pilgrimage up to the Acropolis.

My vivacious traveling companion and I headed up to the ticket booth only to find it closed. The police officer on the other side of the security fence told us that the Acropolis is closed three days a year; Christmas, New Years, and Independence Day.
I found it more than odd that the very day that the nation celebrates its Independence from Ottoman rule 1453-1821 is one of the days that the nation’s greatest historical treasure is closed to the public. A woman right next to us questioned one of the policemen as to why the monument is closed. He told her that this is how it is and there is nothing he can do - rules are rules!

Making the best of it, we both hiked up to the Hill of the Muses. We took the time to circle around on one of the many trails that crisscross the hill, taking in views of the city, the ocean and the Acropolis. When we got to the ruins at the top of the hill, we wondered how this monument must have looked when it was still standing, as only a small part is left. The monument at the top of the hill is called the Philopappos monument, build around 116 A.D in honor of Gaius Julius Epiphanes Philopappos, a prince of a Kingdom during the Hellenistic Age.

As we strolled around the area of the Acropolis we considered taking an open-top tour bus, and that was when we had one of our first encounters with Greece’s economic desperation. A taxi driver in a Mercedes Benz overheard our conversation. He told us in basic business English that he would give us a better tour, take us on a tour of the city, wait for us while we went to the Acropolis museum then, afterward, drop up us off wherever in Athens we wished, all for the same price as the tour bus; 20 Euros each. We told him that we were only talking about it and had not decided anything, and he started to insist. He talked faster, and more emphatically, and we could tell that this man, a clean-cut working class Greek, was hurting financially. He would be the first of many we were to see.

We continued walking the area until it got late, all this walking naturally made us hungry, so we started to look for a place to eat dinner. We were both in agreement that we wanted souvlaki, Greek-style roasted meat, and as luck and tourist demand would have it, there are a multitude of souvlaki restaurants to chose from around the Acropolis. We talked with several men who worked the sidewalk like side-show hawkers trying to draw people in, including one older man who warned us that his competitor does not have the quality meats he carries, “He might serve you a stray dog”, the older man says, which I chalked up to a certain form of Greek hyperbole. We finally settled on a place, very clean and stylish, with the simple name of “Souvlaki”. The food was great, but the best part was the staff; 100% young whites. We found this in nearly every restaurant that we went to in Greece. The immigrants work in the unregulated parallel economy and in crime.

As we left the restaurant on our way back to the hotel we were confronted with one last indignity to the ancient spirit - the sidewalk vendors had left for the day, leaving behind an almost unbelievable amount of garbage!

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Comments:

Posted by Graham_Lister on Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:16 | #

“To discover who rules, follow the gold” is the, hardly novel, but often wilfully obscured ‘take-home’ idea of Thomas Ferguson in his book:

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems.

Ferguson’s ‘investment’ theory of political change is one which privileges political economy and ‘intra-group conflict’ within elite strata as the key mode of explanation. Ferguson, analysing New Deal case-studies, concluded that business elites, not voters, usually determine both the nature and course of electoral realignments. The fundamental market for political parties usually is not voters. As as number of recent analysts have documented, most of these voters possess desperately limited analytical resources and little or no substantive understanding of public policy issues (called by some ‘rational ignorance’) and - especially in the United States – exiguous information and have little genuine interest in political ideas. As Ferguson puts it:

The real market for political parties is defined by major investors, who generally have good and clear reasons for investing to control the state . . . During realignments . . . basic changes take place in the core investment blocs which constitute parties. More specifically, realignments occur when cumulative long-run changes in industrial structures (commonly interacting with a variety of short-run factors, notably steep economic downturns) polarize the business community, thus bringing together a new and powerful bloc of investors with durable interests. As this process begins, party competition heats up and at least some differences between parties emerge more clearly.

Ferguson, of course, acknowledges that ordinary voters also can become more active and effect the process, but: “only if the electorate’s degree of effective organization significantly increases”. But essentially the dynamic is one in which top-down processes and competition between differentiated intra-elite interests predominantly drive the system.

No wonder politics in Greece, as elsewhere, is so narrowly defined if Ferguson’s account is creditable.

There is a documentary based on Ferguson’s work here - http://goldenruledocumentary.blogspot.co.uk/

In a Western-style democracy, the ordinary citizen is effectively (we are told) a king, but a king in a constitutional democracy, a king whose decisions are merely formal, whose function is to sign measures proposed by the executive. The problem of democratic legitimacy is homologous to the problem of constitutional democracy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to make it seem that the king effectively decides, when we all know this is not true? ‘Free elections’ involve a minimal show of politeness when those in power pretend that they do not really hold the power, and ask us to decide freely if we want to grant it to them. What we call the ‘crisis of democracy’ isn’t something that happens when people stop believing in their own power but, on the contrary, when they stop trusting the ruling elites, when they perceive that the throne is empty, that a real Schmittian-type decision is now truly and terrifyingly theirs to make.

Politics always concerns how the economic pie is distributed – who gets a slice and how much? Much of the debt crisis is a mirror imagine of that – who gets the debt and how much do they have to pay off? But the system is rigged in a myriad of ways in favour of the banks. The Greek struggle is to throw the parasites of international financial from off their collective backs – and prevent their nation becoming a de facto protectorate of a greater German – this time enforced around the instrument of the ECB rather than the crude mechanism of the Wehrmacht. Of course an Icelandic style default is not a pain-free option but it’s rather better than abolishing what little national sovereignty remains to attempt to pay back debts that realistically cannot be so. Such odious debts are deeply toxic to the well-being of Greek society and the polity in every-way imaginable.

Returning to the way in which the system of corporate law etc., systematically and pro-actively encourages extraordinary risk-taking in the banking sector see this account by Andrew Haldane (who is the Executive Director for Financial Stability at the Bank of England).

One snippet:

Under the so-called Basel III agreements struck in 2010, banks’ minimum equity capital ratios will rise fivefold over the next decade, from 2 per cent to close to 10 per cent of assets for the largest global banks. That is a significant shift. Will it be enough?

Recent academic studies suggest not. A 10 per cent capital ratio translates into bank leverage of roughly 25. So even once Basel III is in place, an unexpected loss in a bank’s assets of just 4 per cent will be enough to render it insolvent. History is full of such unexpected bad news, from wars to shocks in oil prices. Basel III is a good starting point, but may not be the finishing line.

I think that last line might be something of an understatement! And as Schmitt reminds us law is another form of politics - even banking law. Perhaps especially banking laws.

Posted by grecian on Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:28 | #

It hurts to read this. Greece is my ancestral homeland. I have been there in coldwar times and recently. It is so different and so depressing.

Posted by paulus on Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:52 | #

It is a tragedy, a greek tragedy by modern greek dramatists. How on earth was it possible by Greeks themselves, the public at large, to allow and permit the invasion of their homeland by the flotsam of the thrild world ? Greece is not an immigrant land—- like USA or australia—-, Greece has very limited space and resources and it is just enough for Greeks living in Greece. How does one explain the creation of a zoological, human zoological theme park in the land of Greece ? What possible business a pakistanie, and indian, and agfhan, an african, a chadian, nigerian, chinese, whatever else, could find in Greece ? I am not talking about an individual, but masses and masses of them who are in a surreptitious way and insidious manner colonizing the historical fountain of our very own civilization ??? .

Posted by Robert in Arabia on Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:50 | #

From SBPDL:
I work as a contractor for the Federal government in Atlanta, GA. When I started in 2001, whites were a clear majority. Most of the blacks occupied menial positions. Over the past ten years 90% of all new openings have gone to blacks. I was telling a colleague the other day that sometimes when I walk across the sprawling complex of new shiny buildings (paid for by your tax dollars) that I feel like I am the only white person who works there. 99% of the security guards are black…this is no exaggeration. I always think that something bad starts to happen, the I will be hopelessly trapped at my workplace and cut off from rescue from anyone. What is happening here is coming to your home cities as well. This is an organized, directed campaign to oust all whites from positions of power and put the reigns of power squarely in minority hands. I’m sure this is happening in the military as well…with editorials in Stars and Stripes decrying the amount of black officers, etc… Can you only imagine what will happen when all emergency services are run by “well qualified minorities”? Come here to Atlanta and you will see exactly what happens…response times for fires and emergencies are horrific. Call 911 about anything suspicious and you get ‘Why dat sospisus?? What he doin’ dat wrong?’ Since Trayvon Martin I don’t even bother calling anymore. I’m certain they don’t even log the calls so they can’t be audited later.

After living in ground zero for BRA for the past twenty years, I am looking for an escape hatch. It is only the collapse of the housing market that has kept me here this long. My entire life is now spent on figuring out activities for my children to do which have a very low likelihood of encountering blacks (you can imagine how hard that is living in Atlanta…) Folks, this is no way for anyone to live. I like to remain an optimist, but honestly…how many of us are among “Those Who Can See”? Will there always be sizable numbers among our population that will sell us out the first chance they get? The sad fact is that the type of event needed to radically change people’s outlook will leave us with a world that will not be too pleasant to live in afterwards. The evil which brought us to this point is very strong and pervasive. It will not easily be turned back by some kind of shooting war. After the dust settles from something like that it will sneak back in, waiting patiently to sow its destruction once again. I’m not sure what the answer is…but dialogue like this really helps. I wish we could have a discussion board related to this site, because I enjoy reading the comments almost as much as reading the posts themselves.

Posted by Leon Haller on Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:05 | #

The answer is ETHICAL CHANGE. Recognize that racial integration is in no way morally mandatory, and that it is bad for whites. And then act politically on this new understanding to empower whites as much as possible.

We need white nationalist politics. Period.

Posted by John Sholtes on Sat, 12 May 2012 22:24 | #

Yes only the Jews are permitted to do it. When will all Europeans wake up and smell the jew. Why do we allow the jews to control our media, politics, spreading their hate and mass murder of our people and demoralize our children with their porrnography, pedophilia, prostotution, white slavery and total destruction of white societies. Hitler although never did try to exterminate the jew instead 2/3 of the jews in Europe were sent to New York was right in getting them out of Germany and now that they do have their promised land it is time to send them to Israel.

Posted by Edwin on Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:29 | #

Are you really unaware why a Jewish or Israeli institution would have concrete barriers in front of it? It is not for any special privileges as you imply. It’s because the Greek police want to prevent a terrorist bombing by Muslims, a bombing that could also kill or injure passer-by.

The Greeks created this situation all by themselves. Lots of vacations time, big pensions, borrow money to pay for all of it. And who told them not to police their borders? Illegal immigrants just walked right in.

And somehow it’s “the Jews” who have caused all the problems of Greece? There are hardly any Jews in Greece! You are off in la-la-land.

Posted by Samual on Sat, 12 Oct 2013 02:56 | #

Edwin you are a moron. There are many Jews in Greece. There have been Jews in Greece since before Christ. Look it up Sherlock.