In order for a dictatorship to exist a coup must first take place which will abolish the Constitution and the laws, enforcing a state of arbitrariness and violence which has nothing to do with anything Democratic. In 1967 it happened with military violence and the dictatorship which followed was called “the colonel dictatorship” since the ones phenotypically using the coup to rule were colonels. During their dictatorship they openly abolished Human Rights, terrorized the People through military and police violence and went on to pogroms of anyone resisting or consisting a risk for that totalitarian regime.
But this colonel dictatorship could not last long (a duration of seven years is not considered adequate longevity for a regime) because the obvious violent and oppressive character it had caused the People’s rage and the systematic, escalating rise of opposition despite the blackmail against them on a very basic level (i.e. ‘be quiet or I will kill you’). The People threw it off and rejected it despite the blackmail and the terrorism with the insurrections of 1971 and 1973 and clearly showed their intent to be independent and fully reject the political scene. For this reason it was forced to undermine the sense of power the People had acquired via the occupation of Cyprus and the boycott that took place on the Greeks who wanted to defend our Cypriot brothers (in one stride all of Greece went to enlist and be sent to Cyprus): they were told, in all the central squares and army enlisting offices in all the main cities where they had gathered up in great numbers that they didn’t have equipment and they didn’t have the capacity to do what they have several times in their modern military history managed. They were forced, due to the existence of the sea, which did not allow access to the island unless by the boats which ship-owners and the government had docked, to return to their homes, otherwise they would have rushed to the defense of Cyprus anyway, like in the case of 1940.
We will analyze more fully the treason that took place in the case of Cyprus in another article. The reason we mention it here is because it was the blow to the sense of power of the People that was dealt and made the People feel weak, unprepared, cowardly and incompetent. Therefore they were manipulated to believe they are incompetent to have managed such a thing as throw off a dictatorship (regardless if they had managed several times in their modern history) and it was made possible for K. Karamanlis senior to embezzle the power and the victory of the People and seem that he alone, mysteriously and miraculously threw off the tyrant of the People from afar and without any action able to justify how.
This underhanded act of manipulation, fully designed by special sociologists and social psychologists, rendered the concept of the politician as a kind of demi-god and protector of the People. The politician, according to the presentation and manipulation comes across as omnipotent, omniscient, invulnerable and unapproachable: that is he is a small god who should be adored and obeyed in order for him/her to minimally respond to the demands of the People.
In the same time the People come across as weak, ignorant, low quality, short sighted, superficial and dumb on the average, therefore in need of a caretaker who knows better and doesn’t listen to them, since nobody listens to a dumb person.
This basis and propaganda which was systematically cultivated after the Junta and the reinstatement of Democracy inspired in a People who was fearless, independent, proud and liberal, fear, dependence and fear of responsibility. But because this is superficial and at the slightest stimulus the pride, power and independence of the People surfaced (and surfaces), fact which threatened (and threatens) greatly those sapping the People a dictatorship at the level of 1967 had to be enforced.
But that wouldn’t have been able to last if the dictatorship was overt and via military violence. Therefore, what happened and holds until today is not the colonel’s dictatorship but the politician’s dictatorship:
How is this coup accomplished?
1. all the public sector was staffed in its crucial positions with people fully obedient (due to financial and social dependence) to the politicians.
2. nescience was enforced in all the People without exception, and parroting without content comprehension became the only way to advance in the educational system (and education is a staple of Greek culture and identity). Certain propaganda mottoes were given to be parroted by the People as axioms nobody can question (e.g. “the politician is made to rule”, “the People can’t know enough to judge/evaluate”, “we must follow the progress of abroad”, “Greeks are weak, backward and uncivilized”, etc).
3. the Constitution and the laws stopped being applied and taught, and the only thing being taught is that only lawyers have the right and capacity to know them and make judgments on them. Justice became a supreme force that Citizens could not and had no right to evaluate and examine (i.e. whether it is working well and is making proper judgments) nor have the right to demand persecution or punishment of oath-breaking judges or district attorneys or lawyers. The only ones who blatantly ignore Justice are the politicians, those small state gods to whom all in the justice system obey and cater to blindly (as we have seen in the depreciation of the court by no-shows or non-compliance with sentences unless that serves propaganda or People manipulation / politics).
4. the police was also staffed with people fully obedient and dependent on politicians: they protect, serve and are part of the entourage of politicians, threatening, ignoring and leaving defenseless the People not only from criminal elements (e.g. robbers, rapists, murderers, procurers, blackmailers, felonry, etc) but also enforcing through terrorizing the People to have the People behave as a subordinate and servant to the politicians (e.g. the attitude and behavior of the police towards legal, peaceful demonstrations of the People where the police attack with tear gas, bludgeons and chemicals against the People to give power to and keep distant the politicians).
5. the lawyers allowed to practice their profession do not apply the laws nor do they ever oppose oath-breaking judges who blatantly disregard the Constitution and the law while in the same time these lawyers terrorise their client that even if they have self-evident right with proof, evidence, documents and law on their client’s side, the client might still lose a trial without a lawyer or even with one. Lawyers of all shapes and sizes deny to check and charge any official and politician who blatantly breaks the law or votes/creates/ signs laws that are highly unconstitutional (even though the Constitution orders them to do it spontaneously).
6. the mass media, which belong to particular individuals connected, dependent or controlling politicians (or even are themselves politicians), do not allow any real People’s voice they can’t control or manipulate be heard and enforce all of the above elements with different methods of propaganda such as polls (completely unacceptable methodologically speaking), news commentaries, special montages, concealment of the true global and domestic political and social image (such as e.g. the projection of the political situation in the USA as the only regime and status quo on earth in our day and age while in places like Venezuela, Bolivia, and others a completely different approach is the norm, and a much more advanced socialization of the people is taking place against globalization, privatization and the axiom of great capital business aid as well as the deification of politicians).
The above characteristics of the administrative coup which has taken place in Greece were ascertained scientifically by us with the following action:
Primarily we composed the legal document of the Declaration (viewable in the activism page in this site) where, as the Constitution says and as they make propaganda the politicians and justice will do if thus notified, we mentioned in detail all the unconstitutional phenomena and policies as well as the list of the Constitution articles being breached. According to the propaganda projected, whenenever a breach of the law is reported justice (and the politicians and mass media reporters) directly take action and persecute those responsible for reinstatement of order or at least an examination of the charges being made.
After we allowed for more than the Constitutionally and legally allocated time for the authorities to process the document we sent (which we officially served with a bailiff so they will not be able to claim it was lost or not received) we searched and demanded for the answer and response the law stipulates.
The prime minister of the country K. Karamanlis (junior) clearly state that he was not going to uphold the Constitution as he had sworn he would.
The president of the Democracy K. Papoulias (who is responsible for the defense and maintenance of the Regime) said the same.
The president of the Court of Audit said the same.
The president of the Council of State (charged with seeing that the Constitution is upheld) said the same.
The president of Parliament refused to take an official stand.
We went in person to the district attorney on Friday September 19, 2008. After primarily attempting to intimidate us with yelling, depreciation and behavior fit only for the heaviest criminals in order to be dissuaded from our legal research of the course our extrajudicial complaint had taken (about which the district attorney didn’t want on no occasion to inform us), we learned from simple clerks that our complaint for the breach of the Constitution which the district attorneys have sworn to defend and the call for protection as Citizens until order is reinstated we had made, was shelved.
We asked, as the law determined and everyone is obligated to demand (as the document makes one’s words official) to be given this information in writing we well as the name of the district attorney responsible for the order to shelf the complaint. The clerks were scared and began seeking the cover of their superiors so that they wouldn’t be sanctioned in case they followed the law without first taking permission.
We ended up in the office of an administrative attorney who is the one responsible for these orders (as we were orally informed by the employees) who denied (with shouting, banging his hand on the table and making dramatic gestures) to give us in writing what we were orally told, in the exact same words, to the last syllable, with which all the previously mentioned recipients of our complaint had made their refusal(“I am here to mete out justice and not reply to correspondence with Citizens”). He than left running out of his office (without even taking the time to get his designer jacket or to secure official documents lying on his desk) denying to tell us his name as the law obligates him to.
Instead of doing as the law prescribed, he sent in two police officers who were stationed at the particular floor to threaten us with legal charges (which no legislation supports) in case we didn’t immediately leave the office and waive our legal rights and demands. When that did not work, after we said that if they believed such a law existed they were free to apply it, the particular police officers tried, with the help of three clerks the attorney sent and the police officers asked for, to threaten us with the motto “the district attorney is above the law and is the law and if you question that we will arrest you”. This, no matter for much of a joke it sounds to any person familiar with the bare idea upon which a democratic regime is based, is a very serious threat terrorizing and gagging a great percentage of the Citizens as it comes across and enforced as an axiom by the news. When even that did not work, and after we calmly explained that only in a dictatorship that is true as the law and the Greek Constitution does not give such supreme power to any justice personnel or politician but on the contrary it punishes those presuming to have such, the police officers threatened with violence which they clearly said the district attorney ordered them to exercise on us. They also added that if they did not do so (as they said they didn’t themselves want to) they would have immediate and heavy sanctions by the particular attorney and that they would already have repercussions because they had not already and violently gotten us out of the office by then.
We repeated that the moment the district attorney gave us his name and the written report of his service’s activity regarding our extrajudicial complaint we would leave normally as we anyway intended to do. But the district attorney did not show up and the police officers, in the presence of other clerks and other district attorneys threw us on the floor from the seats where we were seating and then lifted us by pulling on the arms and legs while we protested for the unconstitutional conduct of those actions and behaviors. Any Citizens who happened to be there and ran to our aid as well as support of the righteousness of our claims, shocked by the brutality they were witnessing and were not expecting in the district attorney building of a Democratic State, were threatened by the two police officers exercising violence on us that they would be immediately arrested.
After we were thrown in the aisle the officers stood guard in front of the office of the disappeared district attorney while the rest of the district attorneys and employees tried to make us “not shout that there is a dictatorship”. Afterwards, after they unofficially told us the name of the district attorney in question, they informed us of the procedure to be officially informed of it without the possibility to be denied an answer and they promised through the same process of ensuring answers (which is not widely known to the Citizen and about which they still had illegally threatened they would not answer) they would give us the answers we wanted in writing.
As now there is the possibility of criminally charging the district attorney and as it is their greatest concern not to openly come across as dictators and terrorists of the People we were ‘given a service’ both in the issue of the written response we wanted and the issue of acceptance of our law suit (which we subsequently to the extrajudicial complaint we filed and is going to be soon translated and presented for you in the complaints section) regarding HIGH TREASON, despite that the office hours for that sort of filing had passed by the time we could do it.
The conclusion we can draw on the basis of all of the above is that the definite administrative coup which has taken place is trying at great lengths to remain hidden from the People (as the People will not stand for it if they suspect it exists) and exists only because the People is misinformed and terrorized with lies (such as the claim that the district attorney is the law and above the law directed for the Citizens). The presence of just two Citizens who are aware and cognizant (or demand to be told in writing the law being claimed to exist and being applied) is enough to turn to disorderly flight those presenting themselves as fearless small gods.
[the above phenomenon of fear of those in the administrative positions is not unique or single. It is highly representative and we can (and will presently do so) prove it we State documents and recorded conversations with similar administrative officers for the past at least 35 years of scientific, political, social and economic life and action.]