Dear Fellow Greeks and Citizens,
Because due to technical issues beyond our control in the www.VMedia.gr it was impossible to have live broadcasts on 27 March 2015, we feel it is extremely important to communicate to you what we had prepared to air during our show regarding the flux and critically important current events, publishing for the first time our notes for our show ʽBefore the Greek Peopleʼ, as we would have presented them live.
Greetings,
Olga and Tanya Geritsidou
1. Clinical depiction of the basic problem of the three Powers, focusing on Justice
The fundamental problem that has become clear by now regarding all Powers (Legislative/Parliament, Executive/Government and Judicial, which has received greater attention these days) is the representation on which directly or indirectly all the republican systems of the Western World, including that of our own country, are based.
This is caused because of the corruption and nepotism that prevails and the exclusion of the other available multiple choices, which forces the electoral body to misrepresent its Will and refrain from expressing it, due to the presence of representatives who do not represent their constituencies but only those on whom they depend so that they continue to have a stake in those multiple choices.
They are intermediaries of their own vested interests and not representatives of the electoral body; they are persons who are raised or selected from the lower party echelons as go-betweens the interests of the corrupt and nepotistic establishment and the electoral body instead of representing the electoral body against other powers.
This is the case because the electoral process does not produce true representatives but lords with superpowers and the ability to enforce their will with impunity or absence of fear of control. Their punishment is rare and when it happens, it is totally disproportionally mild against the severity of their crimes, it is pretextual and most of the times their case does not even go to trial.
Consequently, it is absurd to expect any government who has been manned by persons exhibiting such a degree of nepotism and cronyism to represent those who are by definition excluded by nepotism and are systematically exploited, that is, the totality of the People, and in our case, of the Greek People.
The only central function of such a government is to play the role of the intervener and entertainer who serves, like a used car salesman, the same interests on a different rhetoric bundled with a couple of innocuous ʽacts of political machoismʼ that under no circumstances concern of hurt the basic interests of those they serve.
This is the reason we are witnessing phenomena like those of the co-op of SYRIZA-ANEL and absurd scenarios of the type of Ionescoʼs ʽbald singerʼ unfolding.
Under this scenario, this government is prepared to uphold all stakes in favour of the real power groups they represent against the Greek People but by utilising another communicative policy that banks on the purported and so-called ʽindependentʼ Justice, so that the message that any failure to clean up the system or deliver results is not because the government ʽis unwilling to do soʼ but because the ʽindependentʼ Judicial system put a stop in its efforts to do so.
Please remember that before the present government we were actually witnessing the application of the opposite scenario at the times they felt the People needed ʽappeasementʼ:
The government was being portrayed at the ʽbad guyʼ against which the Supreme Court occasionally issued decisions that blocked its actions, and which of course the government never abided by (it did abide only by those court decisions that upheld its own actions).
Thus, by using different approaches, we end up with the same result in terms of manipulation policy.
Although it is a bitter pill to swallow and for the People to witness, it is clearly evident, even among those who state that they are willing to give this government a chance and wait to see how things will develop (that is, mainly expressed by their own followers and clientele).
Whoever is a careful and objective observer, and look not too deep below the surface at the statements released in the press by the government, he/she will understand that their motive is the continuation of the situation as is, among all sorts of pretexts they pose.
Let us give a simple example for each of the Powers
1. Judicial:
They claim that Papakonstantinou was acquitted from charges of wrongful neglect of duty because the required checks regarding the Lagard list and the names that he deleted from it could not be properly assessed, and so no judgement can be reached regarding the level of the damage incurred to the State.
If they really wanted to follow due process and see Justice done, then the first thing the judges should have done is to interrupt and postpone for further examination and proceed with the furnishing of additional forensic evidence which would have allowed them to form a more complete picture to reach their verdict. The mere fact that they went ahead with the trial on incomplete evidence, speaks of a motive to acquit on grounds of incomplete evidence: it is a media show that flaunts the power of the government cronies, which, in complete contrast to the vehemence of the Judiciary regarding the decisions about OAEE as well as the plethora of Citizens who are prosecuted on incomplete evidence and are routinely sentenced, shows that they will not allow a member of their clique to be condemned on grounds of a popular demand for Justice.
To this we should add the routine persecutions and jail sentences by OAEE IN THE ABCENCE OF PERTINENT LAW of a whole critically important sector of the Greek economy such as the free-lance professionals who by their nature are the natural social and economic competitor of the government cronies.
2. Legislative:
We are witnessing a continuation of the phenomenon of a Parliament that operates by excluding a number of elected members of Parliament, and which operates with fewer than 300 MPs, which is illegal and pretextual.
What should have been done regarding the issue of Golden Dawn, is for the Supreme Court to declare the Golden Dawn Party illegal, precluding any possibility of their representation in the Greek Government. This however should have been done at least since 2012, as we said back then.
However, the mere fact that two consecutive Parliaments have tolerated the systematic exclusion of Golden Dawn MPs from exercising their duties for which they had been elected to the silent acceptance of all other parties suggests a preparatory practice for a de facto violation of the Popular Mandate.
3. Executive:
In a systematic manner, all party governments that come to power unilaterally violate the mandate given to it by the People upon their election. We have already said that as regards the GAP to Samaras governments and we are now witnessing this SYRIZ-ANEL government attempting the same thing by communicating the message that they are following the Popular Mandate that supposedly binds them to remaining within the eurozone under at all costs.
But they forget that the mandate given to this government by the People particularly to SYRIZA was the immediate application of the Thessaloniki commitment (regardless of whether or not, we the Geritsidou agree with this commitment or not) REGARDLESS OF WHETHER EU PARTNERS AGREE WITH IT AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE GET THREATENED OR NOT WITH AN EXIT FROM THE EUROZONE.
On the ANEL side however, we have their commitment to the safeguarding of National Sovereignty even if this means exit from the Eurozone.
We therefore see that under no circumstances did the Greek People mandate to remain within the Eurozone at all costs, as the government now claims.
The People mandated IMMEDIATE ANNULMENT OF THE MEMORANDUM AND OF ASSOCIATED LOAN CONTRACTS, AN AUDIT AND ERASURE OF THE DEPT AS NON-SERVICEABLE IN THE LEAST, REGARDLESS OF WHAT EU/TROIKA/THE EUROZONE STATES/OTHER STATES SAY.
What we are instead witnessing is an effort on the part of SYRIZA-ANEL to furnish us with the same submissive politics wrapped up in fat rhetoric that has no point.
Based on these simple evidence, you can see exactly what we told you in the beginning, e.g., that these people have manned all the institutional posts and represent not us, the Greek People, the average Greek, or Country, but others.
On the point, Tsipras keeps on talking about the German War Reparations but his minister under his command, has yet to sign the court decision about Distomo.
II. The basic solution
The basic solution to all these problems is for us to transfer our political representation so that every elected representative will be simply a proxy of ours with very definite powers and specific jurisdictions which could not be transcended rather than a kinglet with superpowers on practically everything.
In other words, we are referring to simple delegates-executioners of the will of the People and not interpreters of the Popular Mandate with unlimited powers in its name.
Normally, this would call for a new Greek Constitution. Unfortunately however, these are particularly difficult and dangerous times and we should under no circumstances allow a change in the Constitution before the interpreters-power mongers-usurpers of the Popular Sovereign disappear.
What we should demand for NOW, that is, IMMEDIATELY, is the carrying out of consecutive REFERENDA on the issue of Memorandum and Loan Contracts as well as on every other related issue, including but not limited to the legality of our remaining in the Eurozone and the European Union, given that there has been a Popular Mandate for our exit from the EU and NATO since 1981 that Andreas Papandreou violated.
To respond to all those who claim that there can be no constitutionally accepted referendum on the Memorandum due to the fact that no referenda are allowed for economic issues, THE ANSWER IS THAT:
Since the Memorandum has always presupposed the de facto submission of all social and humanitarian policy to foreigners, a fact that radically changes the Regime of the Country for any reason, IT IS NECESSARY THAT A REFERENDUM BE CARRIED OUT ON THE GROUNDS OF REGIME CHANGE OF THE COUNTRY, EVEN IF ONLY TEMPORARILY.
Whenever an interpretation of the Popular Mandate is required, it is up to the giver of this Popular Mandate to interpret it, which in this case is no other than the Greek People itself.
There is no other way to rid ourselves of this situation that is literally killing us, even now under SYRIZA-ANEL:
(some references to examples regarding the governmentʼs culpability:)
* foreclosures
* odious taxes that are also anti-constitutional and contrary to human rights (direct and indirect taxation, property tax, etc)
* an unwillingness to confront the tax evasion of the big capital / the lamoges / cronies of the government.
* systematic appropriation of public holdings – rampant privatisations, etc.
* violation of Human Rights witnessed across all levels of the intervention by both state and private crony shareholders.
* illegal and exorbitant charges levied through the public utility bills.
* embezzlement of property rights of the insured under the major Public Insurance Funds
III. The practicality of applying and an advanced announcement of Athropocetrism in our series of future shows.
Whatever political model we have described so far is foreign. Historically, the Greeks have never abided easily with a TOP-TO-BOTTOM political system but instead to a self-determining, self-organising system whereby its common demands are channelled effectively to the top for their crystalisation and common consensus.
This is because on the basis of Greek civilisation and philosophy, The Person constitutes both a unit and a cell of a greater multifunctional organism from which it is inseparable.
It is not, as in the Papal Western societies, a cog identical to the rest with an emphasis at summarily identifying and excluding every cog that is different, every one that manifests initiative, and/or disagreement with the orders coming from the top.
The exercise of power and punishment on those cogs alone is totally foreign to both the Greek as well as the Byzantine logic and practice.
Precisely however this papal logic of the Lord under God who uncontrollably, arbitrarily, unpredictably and with impunity decides-orders and enforces is the very regime that not only we but the totality of the nations of Europe are suffering from, particularly the Eurozone Nations.
Instead of papal authority we now use terms like European Commission / troika / institutions, and instead of ʽunder Godʼ it is ʽunder Debtʼ and the assorted examiners of the holy inquisition they unleash on us seem to be targeting only the middle classes and below.
Those characterised by them as ʽpossessedʼ (that is, as in dept) must go through a series of tortures and death ʽto salvage their soulsʼ in the other life (for example ʽswim the witchʼ).
This is the Western dark ages mould we are called to break again.
We the Greeks are the ʽprotestantsʼ in this Front as a People. That is why even the government is trying to show a protestant style while in effect still remaining papal in orientation. [****personal for Tanya: if we were Ellinofreneia or Lazopoulos, we would show Tsipra and his government dance to the tune ʽI want to see the Popeʼ!!!!!].
We should, as the Greek People, enforce immediately/here and now direct democratic principles as a transitory state to a new Democratic Regime which will be real and not republican as is the one we are living under right now, which has evidently failed miserably in Greece, since it is none other than a covert kingship, as we have explained in one of our older shows.
It is practical and not time-consuming or expensive to hold Referenda, provided that:
1. Referenda are organised and carried out by the state and not by private third parties such as Singular Logic.
2. Posts required for their successful completion are filled on a voluntary and temporary basis by Citizens.
3. It is a thematically-specified periodic institution that should be carried out at least twice a year comprising a category of issues to be voted for in a single plebiscite.
In this manner, the Popular Mandate becomes clear and is no longer in need of any interpretation with whatever political consequences this might have.
Without therefore changing the existing Constitution in the least bit we can have a true preliminary stage of factual Popular Sovereign doing away with whatever attempts to interpret it and the loopholes that this might create.
In the massive demonstration that are coming, – because if the present government keeps on doing what it has been doing, the same massive turnouts that once demanded from it not to take a step back, will now come back to ask them why they took that step back –
a series of
REFERENDA
Which we should demand on the basis of 120Σ just as the previous generation had done by calling for 1-1-4.
Good night!
Translation courtesy of Michael T.