Before even the speech of K. Karamanlis at the Thessaloniki Expo began, a great tide of commentaries was caused by the desecration, as all the media called it, of the icons of a chapel in the centre of the city of Thessaloniki. Over the glass of the icons, with white/silver spray they had blotted out the faces of the saints depicted or they had drawn the symbol ‘A’ for anarchy.
All the commentators, the reporters and the presenters correctly characterized this act as barbaric and a trespass of the Human Rights of the people who follow the Christian dogma/ religion, saying in variations that “you can believe what you like but you cannot destroy or offend what the other person believes in”.
Aside the fact that it is astounding how they discovered and ran to record images from this small chapel and they missed the great peaceful demonstration which they did not cover, it is obvious that this incident of desecration is used as a communicational tool for the down-rating of Citizens who would never offend God or Religion for the political actions men do.
That is verifiable from the general handling the mass media do when sacred symbols and personalities are desecrated by assorted instances of so-called ‘art’ where every atheist (or self-declared atheist for professional promotion reasons) does not respect what others believe and he/she destroys and offends them through vulgar readings (such as ‘M to N’ by Androulakis, ‘The Da Vinci Code’ by Dan Brown, and others), highly offensive images (such as comics, paintings where figures perform acts of molestation on religious symbols, advertisements abusing religious symbols to promote bathing suits, make up, drinks and other products) and offensive phrases/ conditions against any dogma/ religion but mainly the Christian/ Jewish/ Muslim ones. In all these instances the mass media not only do not care for the Human Rights and the feelings of each person following, believing and investing his/her soul in these religions and which are offended and breached but on the contrary they project this desecration and offense of the religious symbols as art, culture and progress.
Therefore the only thing we can conclude about the whole incident at the chapel as well as its commentary is that it is propaganda and a communication trick for the highly anti-humanitarian action and policy of the government and nothing more. The fact that all the news stories, advertisements and cultural shows and series are by law checked and vetted by the state and governmental agents before they are broadcasted, as well as the identical nature of the news report down to the basic ideas and phrases that seemed to have been written by the same hand for all television channels indicates that there is state leading and dictating instead of freedom of the press. This is unconstitutional and illegal and a quality of totalitarian and dictatorial regimes.