Lawlessness and anarchy have always comprised components of Oligarchies and
Absolute Rule regimes, and the disappearance of any Human Rights. The most
successful of anarchies seem to operate where the first unlawful and illegal
party is the state itself: governments enjoying superpowers, over and above any
control, which, by making use of subjectively and arbitrarily-defined legality
and legitimacy, they enforce the cruellest Anarchic situation in a society
whereby the only law is the will of the powerful one, and in this case, the
powerful one should be considered this party that has control of the guns (at
least initially, because, as we shall see below, this is just a superficial
estimate which is nevertheless easy to take hold as true). During yesterdayʼs
demonstration but also during our everyday living, we have come to experience an
in fact Anarchic show of Power whereby no law takes effect unless the ʽpowerfulʼ
(that is, the government controlling the anti-riot squads (ARS) and possibly the
army) deems it proper.
Many may contest that point and say that there is no such thing as anarchy in
Greece because shops are not being plundered and the banks are not closed. But,
the distinguishing mark of anarchy does not lie so much on whether the
plundering is official or unofficial but on whether it actually happens or not:
Shops are being attacked by bandits who remain uncaught and unpunished, by
scene-crashers and hooligans who break shop windows, with the state of course
punishing the shop-owners themselves because they try to do their (independent)
business. Banks have all in fact put a stop in all sorts of loans and ʽpouring
capital into the market by means of business loansʼ becoming therefore gangrene
in the process that continuously drains huge sums of Public funds. In fact, in
other words, banks are closed as far as Citizens are concerned and they
technically keep our accounts still open, pending of course new orders.
In other words, and as we shall expose more analytically below, anarchy exists
in fact at every level of our daily livelihood, and only in the most formal of
procedures may one find a façade of ʽnormalityʼ.
We shall come to the same conclusion regarding the rest of the state sectors if
we look carefully. In any case, the very existence of various definitions of
what is legal and what is illegal, what should be allowed and what should be
prohibited, what should be given free and what should be restricted, should be
taken as the only unshakable evidence of the rule of anarchy in a society.
Given therefore the fact that we are being ruled and governed by real anarchists
(who arbitrarily label every adverse to their plans legal rulings simply as
ʽopinionsʼ and disregard them, while other court rulings that go their way are
elevated to a status higher than this of the Ten Commandments) we should stop
and think and decide which our reaction against such a situation should be.
At this time, GAP and the 300 parliamentarians, are acting by the totally
Anarchic element of ruling ʽby the rule of the powerfulʼ in a social jungle
whereby ʽpowerfulʼ is labelled as everything that has to do with the markets and
the debtors while everything and everyone else, us for example, are by default
ʽpowerlessʼ.
We are then called upon to decide whether we would like to live in a social
jungle whereby the powerless become fodder for the powerful and whereby no Human
Right can possibly take any effect, and certainly neither can Constitutional Law
(the laws issued by the GAP government have nothing to gain from the Sultan
ʽfirmansʼ) or to demand the eradication of the real Anarchist element
(politicians, bankers, large-scale industrialists, multinationals, etc)
demanding legitimacy in effect.
Legitimacy resembles an edifice: It is based and built on foundations which must
never be disregarded or give rise to controversy. Otherwise, and lacking such
foundation, the whole edifice of legitimacy crumbles to the ground and the
jungle of the powerful one takes effect.
In our case, the founding stones of Legitimacy that should be our A and Z of OUR
EVERYDAY LIVING and not just a theoretical or philosophical stance of ours, are:
Human Rights and the Greek Constitution and in such order of importance (given
that unfortunately, our Constitution includes inconsistencies that run contrary
to its Founding Articles).
Human Rights were institutionalized after WWII so that the whole of Humanity
would guarantee that never again would there be such animal-level cruelty such
as Nazism or human exploitation rampant in the 19th century or earlier, during
the Industrial Revolution. We are therefore obliged not to abide by any law that
contradicts Human Rights and those Articles of the Constitution that stress and
align themselves with Human Rights. We have to resist any attempt made by the
real Anarchists to inflict uncontrollable anarchy in our society.
In our daily living, this means the following: Since we have reached the point
whereby they attempt to enforce their rule of power and capital on us by means
of a totally treasonous and anti-constitutional government that boasts an
extremely powerful state mechanism of terrorism and sequestering of the People,
even when such People are protesting massively and with resolve, if we really
wish to rid ourselves of this Junta that has beset us after fraud and juggling
during the 2009 National Elections and the 2010 municipal elections, we owe it
to ourselves both concertedly as well as individually to try to isolate this
para-state mechanism.
Movements of disobedience against anti-constitutional and anti-humanistic laws
are the first steps in isolating this para-state mechanism, and must be
intensified in every case.
Civil servants should, making use of their own Code of Conduct, refuse in
writing to execute anti-constitutional laws, Presidential Decrees and circulars
and not allow themselves to become the praetors of their management.
During demonstrations, the protestors should keep in mind that anti-riot squads
(ARS) who bear no number or can show on demand a signed mandate from the Greek
Police headquarters or the Ministry for the Protection of the Citizen, ARE NOT
LEGITIMIZED in engaging in any act against peaceful demonstrators, neither do
they have the right to block otherwise peaceful processions towards the Syntagma
Square, the Unknown Soldier and the House of the Parliament.
Hooligans and scene-crashers are their collaborators and belong to a state
militia, as I have already testified, and since they do not carry IDs, they must
be immediately arrested and brought in for identification, which is something
the ARS are obliged to do, otherwise they commit disobedience and
insubordination.
Non-involvement of ARS when the hooligans and scene crashers commit crimes under
the standard Penal Code, constitutes admission of ARS in collusion to such acts
and indirect effort to neutralize the demonstration by using the most
anti-constitutional and criminal of manners (such acts fall under the laws
against conspiracy in the Penal Code).
Use of chemicals is prohibited by Human Rights in any case. ARSʼs actions to
contain the demonstrators and also refraining from protecting demonstrators from
hooligan action, constitutes admission by the governmental regime in using
illegal security forces to enforce its rule and not law enforcement, and thus
admits to its active efforts to dissolve the Constitution by force and use of
weapons. We have to activate Article 120 of the Constitution, which is not there
as a choice but as a mandate of ours – it is law for all us Greek Citizens.
Finally, still on the issue of ARS and hooliganism, whoever can stand and watch
the Greek flag being burned or otherwise defiled and refrain from protecting
such national symbol, become automatically traitors and oath-breakers (in the
case of sworn to duty ARS) and must be seen and treated as such under the
pertinent laws and by their internal codes of conduct.
Also, beyond dealing with our behaviour in our daily lives, we should all of us
in concert occupy ourselves seriously with the legal tenets of enforcing
Legitimacy, something that the anarchic dictators are extremely afraid of, and
that is precisely why they have increased so much the fee for depositing of any
law suit, so that we should even refrain from shouting ʽthe real thieves are
crying ʽthiefʼʼ, and tolerate ourselves being called ʽunlawfulʼ, while it is
them who have effectively (and formally, too, if we take GAPʼs admission that
ʽhe had to take a step backwards in democracyʼ at face value) dissolved
Democracy.
On the basis of what we witnessed during yesterdayʼs protest, we are preparing
our first legal action at every level about which we will keep you posted.