Freedom is being murdered in liberal Europe. First in Greece, and then in Slovakia, we see the true face of liberalism – the intolerance of the tolerant. Two verdicts in the last few days highlight the way in which the authorities are turning to extreme repression to eliminate all possibility of political resistance to their lockdown and mass immigration disasters.
Wrapping up a lawfare assault that began in April 2015, the presiding judge, Maria Lepenioti, said the court had concluded that seven of Golden Dawn’s 18 former MPs, including the party founder, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, had led a ‘deadly organisation’. The rest were found guilty of participating in a ‘gang’.
The seven defendants, all former MPs and one current MEP, were convicted in a show trial based on the accusations of bitter opponents and the testimony of paid and coached grasses, have been sentenced as follows:
Mixaloliakos, Kasodoaros, Lagos, Panagiotaros, Germanis, Paapas all 13 years each in prison. Mattheopoulos 10 years.
The second verdict of liberal totalitarianism came yesterday in Slovakia, when Marian Kotleba was sentenced to four years and four months in prison. In theory the charismatic nationalist leader of a party with 17 Members of Parliament was found guilty of promoting extremism by giving charitable help to poor families. Here too, however, the real crime was to build a party capable of attracting serious levels of popular support.
Additionally, it is certainly relevant that both parties were key members of the Alliance for Peace and Freedom. The APF also horrified liberals right across Europe by succeeding in putting together a very real pan-national organisation, whose very existence gave the lie to the tired old System propaganda about “nationalism leading to xenophobia and war.”
To deal with Greece first, Golden Dawn rode a tidal wave of popular anger against austerity measures imposed by the EU’s puppet regime in Athens. The party won 21 seats in the 300-member house to become the country’s third biggest political force.
Although subsequent relentless media, legal, financial and physical attacks ground the party down and out of parliament, the country’s Brussels’ puppet regime and its media and Soros-NGO allies are still terrified of Golden Dawn, and are determined to kill and bury it in an effort to deter any future challenge to their monopoly on power.
The Greek president, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, said the judgment was “an important day for democracy” and evidence that Greek institutions were able to “fend off any attempt to undermine them.”
To put that into plain English, we now know that any electoral challenge to the rule of the nation-wreckers in Greece will be crushed by force.
Indeed, the result of the monstrously undemocratic trial us being hailed by the liberal-left all over Europe. Amnesty – which is supposed to oppose political repression and defend the victims of persecution has applauded the convictions. It’s Europe director, Nils Muižnieks, crowing that: “The impact of this verdict, in what is an emblematic trial of an extreme far-right party with an aggressive anti-migrant and anti-human rights stance, will be felt far beyond Greece’s borders.”
The Guardian, which styles itself “the world’s leading liberal voice”, is even more enthusiastic. Under the headline “Ex-leader and MPs found guilty after biggest trial of fascists since Nuremberg” it revelled in “a court verdict in Athens with ramifications for the far right across Europe”.
APF President Roberto Fiore has been quick to condemn this co-ordinated attack on freedom and democratically expressed dissent:
“It is clear that political trials are now routine in Europe. This is the reality of how political correctness has declared war on men and women with a Christian vision of society.
“If Golden Dawn weren’t opposed to mass immigration, if it were in favour of gay marriage or if it were ideologically Marxist, it would not be on trial today.”
“As for the trial against Kotleba, it would be comical and absurd if it didn’t involve the credibility of an entire judicial system.”
This view has been echoed by top Italian lawyer Carlo Taormina who has declared that “the trial in Athens would have not taken place if it wasn’t for the patriotic and Christian stance of Golden Dawn.”
Turning now to Slovakia, the travesty of justice is even more striking given the alleged ‘crime’ of the defendant and the blatant abuse of the legal process by the elite to silence a popular rival.
Earlier this year, Marian Kotleba’s traditionalist LSNS party, which is demonised by opponents and Soros-funded NGOs as ‘neo-fascist’, gained enough votes, over 8%, in the election to enter parliament for a second time, taking 17 up seats in the 150-seat national assembly.
Opponents were perhaps even more alarmed by the fact that opinion polls and surveys throughout the campaign showed over 20% of young voters backing the party, which had based its campaign on opposition to political and elite corruption and stressing the need for more effective protection for law-abiding citizens against criminal gangs.
The LSNS also gave voters the opportunity to register their mistrust of the European Union and to express their opposition to efforts to promote LGBTQ dogma and non-white immigration on Slovakia.
Alarmed by the growing popularity of the party, the country’s Powers That Be set about clamping down on dissent and developing police and legal frameworks for ‘lawfare’ attacks on Kotleba and his followers.
Of the prosecutions that have followed, the most high profile has been the court action against Marian Kotleba himself. The excuse was his action in fulfilling the party’s election pledge that MPs would give some of their parliamentary income to poor constituents.
On the 14th March anniversary of the establishment of the First Slovak Republic, at a high school in Banská Bystrica, Mr. Kotleba presented three cheques for 1,488 euros to good causes. The first recipients were a family with a handicapped child; the other two were poor families. The amount was decided simply by dividing they money donated by the LSNS parliamentarians in three.
The figure was, predictably reported by the mass media as a reference to the ‘Fourteen Words’ (“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”) a concise formulation of ethno-nationalism created by American extremist David Lane, and to 88, which is regarded as Nazi code.
Without the ‘controversial’ amount, the gifts would, of course, have been completely ignored, but the hysterical bigotry and hyper-sensitivity of leftist journalists made them unable to resist reporting the story. Thus they publicised the fact that, at last, Slovakia has a man and a party who actually care enough about ordinary people to give them not just state money, but also their own.
After an initial attempt to prosecute was blocked, the authorities brought a second action against Kotleba, upgrading the alleged offence to the more serious crime of forming, supporting and promoting a movement aimed at repression of human rights.
After an eight-hour closing speech – in which he pointed out that no one in history has been prosecuted for helping people in need – a defiant Kotleba faced Slovak journalists outside the Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok. “I can’t say that I’m happy, because I expected an acquittal,” he said. “It is clear that there was a political order that it should be closed already, that Kotleba needs to be ‘dealt with’.”
The verdict shocked even those who already understood the deep ‘intolerance of the tolerant’ which is so often displayed by modern liberals. Judge Ružena Sabová sentenced the popular party leader to a staggering four years and four months in prison.
Quite apart from the sheer injustice of jailing a man for the crime of giving his own money to charity, it is also a fact that Slovak prisons are dominated by gypsy gangs, and hence potentially very dangerous places for people who have spoken out against the failure of the police and courts to deal effectively with gypsy crime.
Announcing his intention to appeal, Kotleba pointed out that the trial did not prove at all that he had committed a crime. “I am disappointed and disappointed in the process. I expected the state to comply with the legality of the process, “said the chairman of LSNS. He described the accusation as fabricated. “Nowhere in the current legislation is it written that you commit a crime by by donating any amount of taxable money to someone,” Kotleba added.
The prosecutor also spoke to journalists: “15 years after banning the Slovak Togetherness – National Party, the Slovak Republic has finally achieved the conviction of a leading representative of extremism in Slovakia,” he said, adding that it “sends a message to all the people in Slovakia who support democracy”.
The prosecution certainly does send a message. It tells us all too clearly that, even when a nationalist party does manage to overcome the uneven playing field and systematic unfairness of the electoral system, the liberal elite have no hesitation in manipulating the law to crush the political insurgency.
This was first seen in the case of the banning of the Vlaams Blok, which saw the most popular party in Belgium outlawed as a “threat to democracy”, with the political and media elites apparently oblivious to the irony and absurdity of the decision.
The latest turn of the repressive screw highlights how liberal democratic system is not there to give the public a voice and the power to change things; it exists to provide an illusion of choice.
By their intolerant actions, the liberals create the risk of frustrated and angry individuals turning to terrorism. The task of serious nationalists is to use the legal system to try to restore the right to challenge the System at the ballot box. In addition, we need to pioneer a constructive, moral and effective alternative to such nihilistic violence on the one hand, and futile electioneering gestures on the other. If they will not let us play their game fairly, we need to invent and enjoy our own!
MP Kotleba has announced that he is appealing the decision in Slovakia, but Roberto Fiore sees both cases going much further: “We are witnessing an eclipse of Justice and we will have to appeal at the highest possible level in Europe.”
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has previously ruled in favour of organisations such as Kurdish extremists, so will be under pressure to uphold the right of indigenous Europeans to organise peaceful and constitutional political parties.
Mr. Fiore concluded his comments on the whole affair by promising our colleagues in Greece and Slovakia that the Alliance for Peace and Freedom will be organising lobbying and protests to warn the public that “freedom is becoming something rare at the time of political correctness and Covid19 lockdown.”
The struggle continues!
