Right-Wing Extremists’ Popularity Rising Rapidly in Greece

[alp227]

The video, which went viral in Greece last month, shows about 40 burly men, led by Giorgos Germenis, a lawmaker with the right-wing Golden Dawn party, marching through a night market in the town of Rafina demanding that dark-skinned merchants show permits.

Some do, and they are left alone. But the action quickly picks up, as the men, wearing black T-shirts with the party’s name, destroy a stall with clubs and scatter the merchandise. “We saw a few illegal immigrants selling their wares,” Mr. Germenis says in the video. “We did what Golden Dawn has to do. And now we’re going to church to pay our respects to the Madonna.”

Just a few months ago, the name Golden Dawn was something to be whispered in Greece.

But three months after the extremist right-wing group won an electoral foothold in Parliament, talk of Golden Dawn seems to be on everybody’s lips.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/world/europe/amid-greeces-worries-the-rise-of-right-wing-extremists.html?pagewanted=all

[geckosfeet]

1. Come on. Germany after WWI? Anyone?

Collective memories are short. But it is an international disgrace to let Greece fall to these thugs.

[Viva_Daddy]

2. This happens when the people lost faith with Government.

It's easy to forget: when people "lose faith in the system," they can turn to, you know, fascism w/out blinking an eye http://nyti.ms/QDEIV4
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[lunasun]

3. more Christofascists

Kristallnacht

“We did what Golden Dawn has to do. And now we’re going to church to pay our respects to the Madonna.”

[limpyhobbler]

4. frightening nt.

[SILVER__FOX52]

5. The World stands on the edge of a .............

Fascist abyss. Are we and our political Leadership, so ignorant as to unleash the forces of Fascist Nationalism when the stench of Hitler is still ever present. The global Plutocracy makes money with War and they don't care how many of our Children die. I guarantee, like Mit, they will not be fighting ( and dying ) in this War.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. Blame Godwin's Law

And blame every single person who has ever used it to shut down a conversation about the mistakes we've been repeating.

[Kablooie]

7. Right wing extremism seems to be a euphemism for 'evil' in every culture.

And there are always many whoe embrace it with delight.