It would be unfair not to mention here that there are over 300000 (three hundred thousand) households without power in Greece today. It is a result of the Haratsi tax that was attached to our power utility bill. That combined with a hike in the cost of electricity and other taxes that are attached to that utility combined also with a fine for exceeding 2000 kwh in a four month period... many households owe in excess of a thousand euros to the power utility. Many families have reached a dead end. Consider that in the last two years families with an annual income of a measly 6000 euros where facing a tax bill of over one thousand euros. The cost of living in Greece is higher than most of the euro zone. Keeping a family in milk and bread alone costs in excess of 800 euros a year. Add to all this the one and half million unemployed and one can imagine that the country is on the brink of either a revolution or a civil war. Many desperate youths joined the Golden Dawn party. A party that openly proposed the violent oust of democracy and the rekindling of Nazi ideology with a full dose of hatred. All this Goebbles style propaganda culminated in the stabbing murder of Fyssas this past fall. What followed, nearly two months later, was a drive by shooting of anyone standing outside the Golden Dawn party offices in New Heraklion. Two youths payed the hatred with their lives and a third got away. Fast reflexes indeed. This shooting did more to change the political climate of polarization in Greece than anything else in the last six months. And I say six months because it has been that long since the government locked down our public tv. If you can't make sense of any of this I don't blame you. I will keep blogging but don't expect things to become less nebulous just by reading this blogg.
An ironic application of the GD parties motto Blood Honor Golden Dawn.
Next installment will be on the closing of public tv last June and the 70th anniversary of the Kalavryta slaughter.
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