Greek Supreme Court - State Religious Hate

[boyntonstu]

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/perversio...ice-greece

Quote:Saturday Feb 18, 2012

Perversion of Justice in Greece
For months, the people of Greece have vigorously protested decisions by their government. Now they should add their voices in protest against the judiciary, because justice itself is being perverted in Athens.

The courts of Greece are turning a perpetrator of anti-Semitism into the victim, and the victims into perpetrators.

Moisis Konstantinis, the former president of the Greek Jewish community, four other prominent Greek Jews, and two human rights activists are scheduled to go on trial starting Feb. 21 on charges of “aggravated defamation,” for calling a self-professed anti-Semite … an anti-Semite!

In 2007, they testified against Konstantinos Plevris, a right-wing extremist Greek writer and author of Jews, the Whole Truth, who was accused of violating Greece’s Anti-Racism Law. Plevris had written, “I am a Nazi and a fascist, a racist, anti-democratic and an anti-Semite” and that his book “is simple proof that we don’t count on the Jews. We despise them for their morality, for their religion, for their deeds, which all prove they are sub-humans….”

Mr. Konstantinis and others argued that these statements represent insults to the Jewish community. The trial court agreed. Plevris was convicted by a three-person panel of judges, despite a dissent by one judge, who had reportedly written on her personal blog: “(expletive) Jews, I wish Hitler had exterminated you completely.”

However, Plevris was acquitted by the Athens Appeal Court, which explained in its decision: “The defendant does not revile the Jews solely because of their racial and ethnic origin, but mainly because of their aspirations to world power, the methods they use to achieve these aims, and their conspiratorial activities.”

Only one thing was more outrageous than the Appellate Court’s use of an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about world domination to reverse the conviction – the Greek Supreme Court concurred.

Such is the justice system in which Mr. Konstantinis and the others accused must defend themselves against a charge of libel, the determination of which relies more on judgment than uncontested facts.

After an arson attack against a Greek synagogue in 2010, former Prime Minister George Papandreou wrote to Moisis Konstantinis that he and the Greek government “declare and reaffirm that phenomena such as anti-Semitism and racism are condemned and have no place in the Greek society.”

The Greek judiciary, though, clearly missed that message. A Greek court suspended prosecution of those arrested for burning the synagogue, citing insufficient evidence. Instead, it is the Greek Jewish leadership in the dock facing the accusations of Plevris, the infamous anti-Semite.

In classic Greek tragedies, either fate or a character flaw dooms the hero. The ludicrous situation Mr. Konstantinis and his co-defendants find themselves in is not a tragedy, but a travesty. Kafka, not Aeschylus, comes to mind.

Greece is currently suffering from a financial crisis and a political crisis. Should the Greek judges rule against the leaders of the Greek Jewish community, fair-minded observers will add “moral crisis” to that list. And Greeks demanding true justice will have every reason to go into the streets.

Could it get much worse?

Faith/State.........

[eye2i2hear]

Quote:Such is the system, in which the accused must defend themselves against a charge, the determination of which relies more on judgment than facts.

Now there's a quote of the day if there ever was one!?

Small world.

Come quickly the day that like the articles notation regarding racism, statism is seen for what it equally is.

[boyntonstu]

(03-03-2012 10:40 AM)eye2i2hear Wrote:  

Quote:Such is the system, in which the accused must defend themselves against a charge, the determination of which relies more on judgment than facts.

Now there's a quote of the day if there ever was one!?

Small world.

Come quickly the day that like the articles notation regarding racism, statism is seen for what it equally is.

That is exactly what happened to Marc in his latest YouTube video.

[NonEntity]

(03-03-2012 10:40 AM)eye2i2hear Wrote:  Come quickly the day that like the articles notation regarding racism, statism is seen for what it equally is.

The idea: Come quickly the day that statism is seen for what it equally is.

The parenthetical insertion: like the articles notation regarding racism,

Note the missing opening coma.

Come quickly the day that, like the articles notation regarding racism, statism is seen for what it equally is.

- HisPrickness


P. Ooops.

Missed the missing apostrophe:


Come quickly the day that, like the article's notation regarding racism, statism is seen for what it equally is.

[eye2i2hear]

(03-03-2012 11:47 AM)NonEntity Wrote:  P. Ooops.

Missed the missing apostrophe:

Come quickly the day that, like the article's notation regarding racism, statism is seen for what it equally is.

Dyslexia: synonyms = the bitch; see Muther [see also: a nice way to say stupid].

I'm guessing, that your dyslexia arena differs immensely from mine here (<=yeah, an informal format and not a manuscript submittal site), or you'd be way more compassionate empathetic to the mental energy exhausted on the likes of what is -or is it, isn't- the possessive apostrophe's usage. Mahn, I'm burning boo-coos of brain energy over here already. Not only trying to catch such, but then to go through the Dyslexia Dance of which way The Law sez it's to be/TO BE?! Just correcting my plethora of reversed letter typing to make for (proper and correct) spell-ing already is fatiguing enuff. Where even when you know what's correct, your (are they my?) fingers just persist in doing/repeating the same error the next 3-4-5 correction attempts. Next there's the 'natural state' aka the run on sentencing (think for your captured brain, yeah, sentencing in the judicial sense), the synonymous but not identical word options/choices [sic]... all given pause yet another nano-second, to ask: is The Rule this --or-- is it that? [off to look It up yet for the umpteenth time...]

[side bar: it's funny to me2, to think too, that when we hear we don't have all this before us to see... sew what'is goin' on heare?]

[shifts gently back to appreciative mode here]

[why isn't it "gentlely"?!?... why ask why?!]

[and this is 24/7...]

--trying2i

[NonEntity]

(03-03-2012 12:17 PM)eye2i2hear Wrote:  [and this is 24/7...]

--trying2i

Indeed, Y axe Y?

Ackshully, I've noticed of late that your sentence structure is generally much better. So kudos for the efforts. The issue I had on the other post that I gave you so much S*** about was the equivocation, not so much the assemblage of parts and pieces.

But the error above was so clear (the missing comma) and so potentially demonstrative as to it's value in promoting reading clarity that I just had to jump in and point to it. (the apostrophe was just a free Prickish bonus! ;-) )

- NonE

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(03-03-2012 12:31 PM)NonEntity Wrote:  But the error above was so clear (the missing comma) and so potentially demonstrative as to it's value in promoting reading clarity that I just had to jump in and point to it. (the apostrophe was just a free Prickish bonus! ;-) )

- NonE

On another plane, one thing that I've NEVER been able to grasp is "who" and "whom." I've had it explained to me about a zillion ways and times, and each time they might as well have been speaking Klingon for all the sense it made to me. I have NO CLUE what the rules are for that, nor why. I've concluded the best thing is just to randomly scatter them about willy nilly and figure that I have to be right on occasion and then, at least part of the time, I won't look like the total dufus that I look the REST of the time. ;-)