Around 6,000 illegal immigrants have been expelled from Greece so far this month during a police program named “Operation Xenios Zeus.”
This follows the election of 18 members of Golden Dawn to the Greek Parliament in June on a platform of “Greece for Greeks”.
The 30-year-old party has suddenly become widely popular as their message of patriotism has struck a chord in a nation reeling from the squeeze of the economic recession brought about by the criminal negligence of international bankers and EU bureaucrats.
Despite being a minority party in the Greek parliament, Golden Dawn is already chalking up victories on behalf of their supporters. Their very presence cajoles a previously lax opposition into desperate action to show the electorate that they are tackling the immigration issue.
Since coming into government, Golden Dawn have made it their task to repatriate much of the €3 million worth of ‘EU money’ that they now qualify to get under Greek rules for political party funding.
This activity has taken the form of distributing free food to unemployed Greeks to which around 30% of the working age population now belong. This has, of course, added further to their surging popularity.
Popularity for Golden Dawn is also high amongst the young as Greek students find their funding cut while banks are ‘bailed out’ with more taxpayer’s money.
Those opposing the rise of Golden Dawn have taken no time in stooping to the familiar, predictable, low calibre name-calling that always follows a political group who advocate the radical (sic) notion of putting people before banks and one’s own people’s interests first.
What seems commonsense to nations from Mexico to Japan, still seems to be controversial in Europe. Perhaps this economic crisis will offer an opportunity for a group such as Golden Dawn to show how a nation can reverse its fortune with a courageous stand against the internationalist banksters and the tired liberal dogmas of ‘equality’ and ‘multiculturalism’.
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