[aligator_am]

Saw this article a few minutes ago, can't say it's 100% accurate but makes me wonder will Greece turn in to a fascist / totalitarian state if they get launched out of the Eurozone and protests escallate from what's happening now?

Could we have a Greek Hitler? will he bother showing up for meetings or be too busy filling in tax returns?

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/n...y_6854190.html

(ANSAmed) - ATHENS, MAY 11 - More than half of all police officers in Greece voted for pro-Nazi party Chrysi Avgi' (Golden Dawn) in the elections of May 6. This is the disconcerting result of an analysis carried out by the authoritative newspaper To Vima (TheTribune) in several constituencies in Athens, where 5,000 police officers in service in the Greek capital also cast their ballot.

At some polling stations Chrysi Avgi' obtained 19 to 24% of votes.

Others, like Agios Panteleimonas and Kypseli, traditional strongholds of the party, reached 15 to 18%. According to the newspaper, at the 11 polling stations (from 806 to 816) located near the police station (Ellas), Chrysi Avgi' received most votes, reaching 18.64% at station 813 and 23.67% at number 816.

Other polling stations situated at a short distance from the ones mentioned before, where police officers do not vote, recorded 12-14% of votes for the Golden Dawn party.

Moreover, the four polling stations located near the riot police station (MAT), used by the police, recorded percentages between 13 and 19 for Chrysi Avgi'.

These figures, To Vima underlines, are impressive, considering the fact that other polling stations close to the riot police station reached 7-10% of votes for the pro-Nazi party. Based on the electoral lists, 550 to 700 people have voted at each of these voting stations, of which 20 to 30% police officers. This means, the newspaper worked out, that 45 to 59% of police officers have voted for Chrysi Avgi'. (ANSAmed).

[minidazzler]

Cops looking to have an Authoritarian state, well, I never.

[ejmaztec]

Originally Posted by aligator_am

Could we have a Greek Hitler? will he bother showing up for meetings or be too busy filling in tax returns?

I don't think the Greeks bother with those, they play their cards very close to their chests.

[Nodin]

Drachma=/=jackboots.

[Capt'n Midnight]

Bit like the figures Sinn Fein are getting here.

And you can take it there are just as many people diametrically opposed same as here.

I've heard of people voting for the treaty simply because SF were against it. Will be the same in Greece.

There was some unpleasantness during the 1940's in Greece and more recently in the former Yugoslavia so probably they know that too.

[Zebra3]

Will Greece turn in to a fascist state if they leave Euro?

If they do, they could set up an alliance with the US then.

[Pottler]

Greece was always slippery - no telling what way it will slide.

[aligator_am]

Originally Posted by Pottler

Greece was always slippery - no telling what way it will slide.

Wonder if Ireland's head will be next on the chopping block if / when Greece coils up?

Not sure if the whole fascism thing will take off here again, how many years did we have under the wonderful guidance / oppression of the Catholic Church?

As my Dad said, the SS could have learned a lot in brutality ideas from the Nuns here

[Pedant]

No. However I do think that Greece with see increasing clashes between the far-left and the far-right. Eventually though, I think the radical left will gain sway in Greece.

[suicide_circus]

Originally Posted by aligator_am

Could we have a Greek Hitler?

Adolphus Hitleropolus?

[St.Spodo]

I thought 'Nazi' was an arbitrary term to describe them until I did a bit of research into them. They are in essence a neo-Nazi party.

[aligator_am]

Originally Posted by suicide_circus

Adolphus Hitleropolus?

He's very likely a direct descendant of Alexander the Great, I think he expanded Eastwards looking for more Jews to do in.

[bnt]

Which Fascists would be in charge, then? The Neo-Nazi "Golden Dawn" party, which took 21 seats in their parliament? Or the Communist "KKE" party, with 26 seats? If they tried to broker an agreement, that would be about as durable as the Hitler-Stalin pact that was in effect at the start of WW2.

PS: they're going back to the polls, since all attempts to form a government have failed.

[aligator_am]

Originally Posted by St.Spodo

I thought 'Nazi' was an arbitrary term to describe them until I did a bit of research into them. They are in essence a neo-Nazi party.

I'd say you're correct, from what I know of them (farily limited) they are a neo Nazi bunch, also saw that they denied that the holocaust happened which is mad stuff, if they can come out with that kind of mental crap and they still get more votes in the upcomping June election then I would worry about the future of Greece (beyond the obvious financial doom).

[Domo230]

A great bunch of Fascists