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Greek Nazi party on the rise

 
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madoka



Joined: 27 Mar 2008

PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2012 1:46 pm    Post subject: Greek Nazi party on the rise Reply with quote

Time to fear indeed. . .

Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn warned rivals and reformers Sunday that "the time for fear has come" after exit polls showed them securing their entry in parliament for the first time in nearly 40 years.

"The time for fear has come for those who betrayed this homeland," Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos told a news conference at an Athens hotel, flanked by menacing shaven-headed young men.

"We are coming," the 55-year-old said as supporters threw firecrackers outside.

According to updated exit polls, the once-marginal party will end up winning over six percent of the vote and sending 19 deputies to the 300-seat parliament on a wave of immigration and crime fears, as well as anti-austerity anger.

Exulting in the apparent breakthrough, Michaloliakos quoted Julius Caesar: "Veni, Vidi, Vici" -- I came, I saw, I conquered.

Michaloliakos said his party would fight against "world usurers" and the "slavery" of an EU-IMF loan agreement which he likened to a "dictatorship".

"Greece is only the beginning," he shouted at reporters as he walked to the news conference, accusing foreign media of spreading lies about his movement.

At the last general election in 2009, the virulently anti-immigrant group had scored just 0.29 percent.

Once part of the country's political fringe, the Hryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) had already made headlines in 2010 by electing Michaloliakos, 55, to Athens' city council on a wave of anti-immigration tension in the capital's poorer districts.

Shortly after being elected to the council thanks to more than 10,000 votes in the Greek capital, Michaloliakos made waves by giving two fascist salutes captured by a television camera.

http://news.yahoo.com/afraid-exultant-greek-neo-nazis-warn-rivals-203620995.html
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northway



Joined: 05 Jul 2010

PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2012 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most shocking is th fact that enough people want to immigrate to Greece at the moment that people feel the need to lash out against immigration.
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Zackback



Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We'll see more of this.
People are just tired of the multicultural mess going on.
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comm



Joined: 22 Jun 2010

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zackback wrote:
We'll see more of this.
People are just tired of the multicultural mess going on.

When times get tough, people want to look out for themselves, their families, and groups they can form quick solidarity with. That leads to racism, extremist nationalism, and in all likelihood, violence.
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Julius



Joined: 27 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 7:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zackback wrote:

People are just tired of the multicultural mess going on.


Better leave Korea then, hadn't you?
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Zackback



Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk

PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 3:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I already left.
Living in a place with tons of interracial marriages (Philippines). It's great.
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young_clinton



Joined: 09 Sep 2009

PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh God another Hitler!
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