It has by now become apparent to everybody what is happening in Greece in terms of government and politics. Beyond any theories on the reasons and causes of the economic default of the country, the ominous developments, the necessity of every set of austerity measures and every other such excuse projected by the mass media, both local and international provocateurs, the basic reasons around which the present politics revolves are the following:
1. A complete and utter redistribution of wealth is in effect, by means of curbing every cash flow availability and property holdings from the many (the People at large) and re-channelling to the few (the plutocracy).
2. A systematic withdrawal is in effect of all the held rights of the People and of the safety valves won over by People’s fights during the last century to guard those rights so that the People could be protected in their daily pursuits and not become uncontrollably exploited by every ‘more powerful’ party.
3. Along the above withdrawal of long-held rights, even the theoretical guarantee of the State of Justice is also withdrawn (as State of Justice we refer to the establishment of the basic principles of Equality and Human Rights / Constitutional rights regardless of political conditions).
4. Citizens are forced to shoulder the consequences of certain parties amassing wealth, something that happened without the people’s own permission and at the expense of the State, while the true culprits enjoy impunity and accrue stupendous wealth to themselves, a practice they keep on to based on the same tactics.
5. It is at this point that we must seek to understand the misunderstood term ‘government elected by the people’ and the responsibility loaded on the People for the actions of the government presently in power. As much in the older governments, as in the present PASOK government under G. Papandreou, People’s input in the political affairs is purely decorative and only during election time (regardless of the fact that particular electoral laws preclude particular results from occurring, with directed distributions of votes, statistical manipulation of results, etc). As soon as elections end, the People disappear from the stage and will have to wait until the next elections to actively express their stance against every governmental policy. Of course even then, the People’s cannot be expressed properly because of the particular electoral laws which strengthen bipartisanship apart from further institutionalizing party politics.
But particularly in the present government, we have an even more blatant usurpation of the power and sovereignty of the People, since this particular PASOK government secured the majority in the Parliament because they promised the People they would follow a completely opposite (at least in theory) politics to the one they are following now and have been following since election.
This, no matter how one looks at it, is fraudulence and therefore the government is not legitimized on the basis of the People’s mandate of October 4th, 2009 to act as they do and proceed with the four points I referred to above. In other words, this government, on the basis of their own commitments and pre-election declarations is not legitimate, and one could even go so far as to say that it resembles a coup d’ etat since it has no mandate to carry on these present politics, even on the basis of the present electoral law. To be legitimized, this PASOK government, having seen the situation that they claim they have seen once in power, should have informed the People furnishing complete evidence (names, dates, amounts, deals, etc) and its complete and detailed platform they would support to change the situation (making detailed reference to what this would mean for the People and the country). Then they should have immediately declared new elections, or a plebiscite by which the People voting simply ‘yes’ or ‘no’, the People would give a new mandate in knowledge of all the consequences of such mandate.
Of course this did not happen for reasons that are not difficult to think of: Because it is certain that the People would vote against such a programme, and would demand punishment of almost the sum total of the political and industrialist world of this country. This is of course without discussing the rightful demand that all illegal holdings be returned.
So we see clearly that there is no democracy in Greece, not even through the filters imposed in the Constitution. On the contrary, we are witnessing the cruel oligarchy of a few families and their entourage, who decide, decree, gamble and profit provocatively on our backs and claim they are doing it in our service!
G. Papandreou’s actions abroad and the way he cedes the sovereignty of Greece to foreigner investors blatantly ignoring the People (the particular ‘prime-minister’ answers only to the foreigners, while he announces horrid measures to the People, reminiscent of the German regency of Otto).
And we reach now the point of asking what needs to be done for this hurricane that is scything in on us very fast and expropriates even our water and offers it up for exploitation to businessmen, totally illegally, and in blatant disregard of any sense of State of Justice.
If we, as the People, wish for social justice and everyone in his or her own social group that in its totality is called the Greek State shoulders his or her own responsibility, we should observe the following: It is the responsibility of the People, as article 120 of the Constitution stipulates, not to tolerate normlessness or illegality or a dictatorship that I have described above and that we all live on our skin with a variety of tension of feelings of despair. We should show decisively and immediately at first, that the government is not legitimate, that it does not enjoy the approval of the People and then discipline the government to act according to the laws and the will of the People and demand restitution of all funds illegally begotten and used.
This can be achieved by an informal and very pervasive plebiscite which will relay to the government its own unconstitutionality, where it should look to find funds to cover its various deficits and who to target as enemies of the People. The organization of the collection of signatures is simple and can be extremely fast due to the available technology and the possibilities it offers.
We need as many signatures as the votes (in number, not in percentage) that the government used to get elected and roam on our fields (Greece however is a field that belongs to its People and not to each government), so that we get to have the same say as the government in what is going on.
Serving the result of the informal plebiscite to the government cannot and should not be attempted through the classic channels of ‘unionism’ and other organizations (including all political parties) of all kinds, but solely by Citizens, and not by inaccessible Citizens or by families who have vested political or business interests in the present situation. To succeed at overthrowing and cancelling out of the destruction that has already occurred, we can no longer rely on any representative of any kind or identity. It will have to be us, who will have to take care of our House, because, as the situation goes, every other way has been subdued to those who for generations have exclusively exploited political life, the state apparatus and the resources and funds of the state.
If we do not do this, we have been told what will happen: Harsher consecutive measures / taxes / and surcharges will effectively reduce us to working only for the daily food as serfs, while few tycoons will enjoy immense wealth. There will be unconstitutional and anti-humanitarian superpowers, that will effectively snatch with summary procedures, properties, incomes, households, freedoms, and witness a reign of terror which will legitimize them all and anchor them even deeper. Greece will become a protectorate, a colony, and will resemble other small or big states (India, China, Cyprus, etc).
The real question and the real challenge that we, as People are now faced with is to decide to claim our rightful position back on the political center stage and our return as Sovereign People as the Constitution stipulates. And we can do this immediately, bloodlessly and legitimately so that we will have no further need to resort to extremities and much pain.
The plan exists, and it is simple and effective. It makes use of only the right of the People to demonstrate peacefully (but in a smart and effective way) that uses the element of surprise, coordination and vigilance to secure the peace from outside aggravators as well as crowd control units of all kinds, so that the government of Greece cannot ignore what the People of Greece mandate, and enforce obedience to the will of the People, according to the articles 1 and 2, and now on.
The only thing we need is to be decisive in assuming the one and only responsibility that we have as People in this phase: to guard the Constitution and Human Rights and be responsive to our upholding the Constitution, as Citizens, and guarantee its enforcement onto the state / society (article 25s, article 120s). The rest are simple, logical steps, much safer than the ones we are now forced to take by the totality of the politicians, the grand industrialists and the banks.