Dr James Manos (MD)

20 February 2010

GREECE: A VERY ILL ORGANIZED, CORRUPTED AND BANKRUPTED EUROPEAN COUNTRY

 

Summary

Greek is a bankrupted country because of 2 main reasons. All the money of the government funds are given to the 1 million public servants in a country of 10 million people. So 10% of Greeks are public servants, most of them are lazy and corruption is high. The public servants in Greece are paid with high salary, contrary to private sector employees who many are paid with 600 - 700 Euros monthly. The second reason that the Greek economy has been destroyed are the million of pensioners who most of them (especially the ones who worked on public section jobs) take high pensions and many take fake pensions pretending to be incapacitated (and bribing the committee of benefits). So all the money of the government in Greece goes to the (most of them lazy) 1 million public servants, and also to the million of pensioners.

Responsible for the economical crisis, the huge national deficit (13%) and foreign debt (more than 300 billion Euros!) is the politician Andreas Papandreou, father of the today Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou, who hired in the 80s' 1 million public servants (in a country of 10 million people) in order to win their vote (most of them were hired without examination, but with political means & pulls, and their only 'qualification' was that they belonged to the socialistic political party of Andreas Papandreou). However, the one who destroyed the Greek economy was Kostas Karamanlis, the former Prime minister, who is nephew of the former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis, and he was the one that ruled the country with corruption and nepotism (however corruption is something that characterizes Greece the last 30 years).

It is outrageous how the politicians of the last 30 years in Greece destroyed its economy. But the Greeks are the ones who vote their politicians, so Greek citizens are equally responsible. There are many other problems in corrupted Greece. Firstly, most Greeks don't pay their taxes, but pay less than they ought to. Most Greeks that offer a service never give a receipt.

Secondly, the cost of a Greek Parliament member politician is monthly 6.000 Euros that increases to about 12.000 Euros by taking part to comities. However, the total cost of a Greek politician is about 50.000 Euros monthly (with the people that occupy such as employees, police officers, the political office that keep, the car, the free telephone lines, the free letters that he/she can sent , the free voyages with airplanes etc). There are 300 politicians as Parliament members, so their cost is huge. The Greek politicians were so irresponsible, that when recently the economic crisis emerged, they hired without any competition about 250 employees at the Parliament that were friends or relatives of them.

Another outrageous fact is that in Greece not a single corrupted politician has spent a single day in the jail. The law about the ministers' responsibility is ridiculous and made to keep the politicians away from the justice. It is ridiculous that the political parties themselves decide if they will send a corrupted politician to the court. However, they have never done it the last years. Another outrageous fact is that the Greek political parties taker annually huge funds e.g. the governmental political party earns annually 30 million Euros. It is also said that they have prepaid their funds for the next 7 years. Furthermore many politicians former prime ministers have institutes that are paid with governmental funds. Also, many non governmental institutions have been funded with millions of Euros from the government (from many ministries such as the culture ministry, the foreign office, the education ministry etc).

In Greece the politician Andreas Papandreou, father of the today Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou, hired 1 million public servants at the 80s. Almost all were hired without any competition, but with political means and acquaintances, and only 'qualification' their political party ID card. The hiring of thousands of public servants continued the next years and now Greece has the highest number of public servants in Europe (10% of its population). In Greece most public servants have been hired with political means and acquaintance of a parliament member or a mayor or prefect. The public servants in Greece work many of them less than 5 hours (namely many are lazy), however they have been used tricks to earn a lot of money such as fake overtime hours, fake travel fees etc. They have also high salary (usually more than 1500 - 2000 Euros), contrary to private sector employees/ workers who earn 500 - 700 Euros! So all the money of the governmental loans go to the public servants.

Another problem is that Greece is a country with old aged population. So a big proportion of the governmental loans go for pensions. However, many Greeks take high pensions (e.g. more than 2000 Euros). Other take pension early, e.g. at 55 year old. Many Greeks take fake pensions and benefits by bribing a committee to declare them disabled. Also Greek women go to pension earlier than Greek men.

Many Greeks say that the politicians were the ones who stole the money all these years. However, the Greek citizens are equal responsible for the situation by voting the 'thieves' (as they call them) politicians, by using their political pulls and favors to find a job for themselves or their children and by bribing public servants in order to overcome bureaucracy. However, the ones today that should demonstrate should not be the public servants 'golden boys' (who have high salaries, high pensions and a permanent job), but all these people who earn 500 - 700 Euros on private jobs (that their employers often don't even pay their insurance) and the pensioners of 300 Euros. And, as mentioned, the people in Greece that are below the level of poverty are the 1/3 of the population. The rest 2/3 have enough money to live for several months or even years in case of a bankruptcy!

However, the rich Greeks, the politicians themselves, the presidents of public organizations and the public servants with big salaries and pensions don't seem that they will be the ones that will pay for the crisis. It is unfair for the poor to pay once again. But the rich will not pay, because they have moved their funds to foreign banks at Cyprus, Switzerland etc. More than 10 billion Euros was moved to foreign banks and off shore companies the last month. So the rich seem unwilling to pay for the economic crisis!

 

A) GREECE, A BANKRUPTED EUROPEAN COUNTRY

Greece the last years was supplying the European Union with fake statistic data about her real national economical deficit that is now 13%. Also, it is said that with fake financial data Greek entered the euro group (i.e. the European countries that have euro as national currency). Recently, an American bank was accused that helped Greece to buy its debt and show a fake picture of its economy at the EU (a fact that also helped Greece enter the euro – group).Today the real national Greek debt is about 300 billion Euros. The former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis is the main responsible man for destroying the Greek economy and providing fake economical data to the EU from the Greek public statistic service. However, the Greek governments of the last 30 years are responsible as well for destroying the Greek economy.

If you ask a Greek on the road about who is responsible for the impending bankruptcy of Greece, he will answer you ‘the politicians who stole the money’! Corruption and nepotism in Greece the last 30 years was high; however the Greek citizens are responsible for the politicians that they elect. In fact, most Greeks vote the politicians that they promise that they will hire their son or daughter at a public section job. In Greece, public servants are usually very lazy comparing with private sector employees; however they are paid with a high salary comparing to the private sector employees. Moreover, many public servants are bureaucrats, rude, they smoke their cigarette all day in front of the public and also they use tricks (such as fake over timing working hours, travel fees etc) to add more money on their salary.

In Greece the basic wage of a private section employee is 800 Euros (but may be as high as 500 – 600 Euros in a part time job), however the public servants earn a lot of money, e.g. more than 1500 – 2500 Euros. They also get high pensions (many have more than 2000 Euros pension). Contrary, the lowest pension is the one of a Greek farmer which is 300 Euros! By the way in Greece public money is spend to give huge pensions in some categories of public servants. Furthermore, many Greeks have bribed a medical committee and took a pension for being unable and incapacitated, but in fact they weren’t! It is said that the number of Greeks taking a fake pension or grunt as incapacitated is so big, that a great proportion of Greeks is considered as unable!

Moreover, in Greece women seem to be ‘cleverer’ than men and take earlier their pension, and although European Union has punished Greece for this, it is still happening! Also there are many other categories of people (usually public servants) in Greece that take early their pension (e.g. at their 50s’), comparing to the rest Europeans. In army you can meet many pensioners at their 40s’! Women in Greece usually take early their pension are treated different than women in Europe. Their excuse is that on their 50’s they need pension because they have to raise their children! Moreover, the Greeks take as pension a great proportion of their wage, contrary to the Europeans.

Many politicians used public section posts to favor many of their voters and with this way to take their vote. The politician that is responsible for hiring about 1 million public servants (in a small country of 10 million people) is Antreas Papandreou, who was the father of the today prime minister, Georgios Papandreou, and ruled the country from 1980 until 1989. However, all the governments of the last 30 years hired on a public section post and favored citizens in order to take their vote.

Even a few months ago, although the impending bankruptcy, the Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis hired thousands of ‘stage’ employees in the public section (in order to take their vote) although he wasn’t allowed to use these kinds of employees as permanent public servants. The whole idea from the EU was to use them for a few months just to gain experience! Off course all these ‘stage’ employees went on strike when the new government said that they couldn’t hire all these people! By the way Kostas Karamanlis (who is the main responsible for the Greek bankruptcy) is nephew of the previous Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis who ruled Greece for many years. In Greece most politicians and prime ministers are a bunch of families that rule the country for many years and you can see fathers and children as prime ministers or parliament members.

In Greece the governments of the last years blackmailed many public servants with fixed (for a few months or years) contract, promising that they will hire them permanently, in order to win their vote. When eventually the public servants were not hired permanently, they went on strikes, blackmailing the government to hire them as permanently! In Greece it is outstanding, but almost all public servants have a permanent post and their contract is for a lifetime! They also are not assessed and revalidated by anyone. However, the Greeks are never happy, and every day Athens is closed by strikers who demonstrate in order the government to increase their wage. However, if we see who is demonstrating, it is ironical but most strikers are public sectors who most of them have a good salary, a good pension, and a permanent job. It is not the pensioners of the 300 Euros pension or the employees of private sector with the 800 Euros salary (or even 500 Euros if part time jobs) that demonstrate. What a hypocrisy!

Today Greece is about to bankrupt. And the government asks the citizens to pay huge taxes in order to cover the national debt and deficit. However the irony is that in Greece, in case a bankruptcy commences, 1/3 of the citizens are below the limit of poverty and will starve. Another 1/3 has adequate money to live for many months! And the rest 1/3 is rich enough to live for some years! Greeks on their conversations usually avoid to expose their financial status, however, more than 2/3 of Greeks have high incomes, have their own apartment or apartments (many rent or sell them) and generally have a lot of money that inherited from their parents. It is not a coincidence that more than 90% of Greeks have their own apartment or house! So we have a ridiculous situation in which the citizens are rich, but the government is bankrupted!

The Greek politicians today ask the citizens to pay more taxes in order to overcome the economic crisis. This is right, because in Greece many citizens are corrupted as well as the government and the last 30 years only a few people in Greece paid their real tax. Most Greeks used several tricks to pay fewer taxes than they ought to. Even the immigrants in Greece rarely paid their taxes, however many of them (especially the Albanians) returned to their country with a lot of (black) money. However, many Greeks exploited the immigrants and used them as slave workers without any insurance (it is said that many immigrants worked without insurance even on public constructions).

Immigration in Greece was the last years so uncontrolled, that more than 2 million immigrants entered the country. Most immigrants are starving, however still Greek government doesn’t pay any attention to them. After all, the immigrants entered Greece, because the Greeks couldn’t protect their sea and mountain borders at all. All this uncontrolled immigration occurred with the blessing of the rich (that found cheap labor hands) and the main immigration wave from Albania started during the time that Kostas Mistotakis was prime minister and Antonis Samaras was foreign office minister. Now Samaras is president of the right wing political party, however he doesn’t seem to support the recent decision of the government to give to many immigrants the Greeks citizenship (something that perhaps was wrong because it would attract even more immigrants in the country!). On the other hand, it is weird that in Greece (and rest Europe) all the left wing political parties supported the immigrants, the time that capitalists exploited them and used them as cheap workers.

The governments of the last 30 years in Greece didn’t mind for the fact that almost anyone paid the tax for his/her real income. Furthermore, in several groups (such as taxi drivers) the government encouraged them to pay less tax than the taxes that they should pay according to their real incomes. Also many tax collectors were corrupted and could easily find you a financial offence (exploiting the Greek law) and make you bribing them instead of paying a huge fine!

The last 30 years there were many cases of bribery of tax collectors. Bribery in Greece is a national sport and public servants are often bribed from Greeks in order their case to move on faster, or to overcome bureaucracy. Bribing in Greece involved public servants such as tax collectors responsible for the tax, urban planning officers responsible for giving license to build a house (in Greece a great percentage of houses are illegal) , surgeons (in order to overcome the operation list or to look better a patient) etc. Also, manufactory companies bribe Greek politicians or prefects or mayors in order to take exclusively a public manufacture which not only deliver it with poor workmanships, but also they always overcharge it with fake extra costs that weren’t anticipated by the contract (off course the extra money went in their pockets). That’s why all Greek manufactures (e.g. a national road) costs 10 times more than the same ones in another European Countries, and also they are very bad manufactured with poor workmanships!

Not only were the Greek governments corrupted the last 30 years, but many citizens as well. Most Greeks steal the tax office by not giving a receipt. The ones that rarely give a receipt are doctors, surgeons, technicians (such as plumbers and electricians), cafeterias, night clubs, bars etc. Most Greek companies or tradesmen don’t pay the tax that they should pay. Also, many Greeks tradesmen in order to steal the tax office and not give a receipt, but also lure their clients that they will pay less money without a receipt!

Today the government asks the citizens to pay taxes in order to avoid bankruptcy. However, the politicians have not decreased their own salary! It is said that a member of the parliament is earning about 12.000 Euros monthly (including participation to committees, funds etc) the time a worker on the private sector earns less than 800 Euros! They also have free phone calls, they have free public servants on their office, no fees on airplane travels, they have police officers as bodyguards etc. In Greece the members of the parliament are 300. They are too much for a small country and also cost too much!

It is unbelievable, but on the parliament sessions you can see just a few politicians taking part (many times about 10 – 20 politicians) and it is outstanding for the Greek politicians to be paid, but not to be obligated to participate at the parliament sessions! The problem was ‘solved’ from the Greek Parliament by making their own TV channel and during the parliament sessions to zoom with the camera in order not to show that in most parliament meetings the politicians that participate are usually less than 10! Moreover, some years ago, politicians were smoking (the rag was destroyed from the cigarettes) and talking to their cell phones during the Parliament sessions (however the former president of the parliament Apostolos Kaklamanis made the rules of the Parliament stricter).

The trick that the politicians use to have a huge salary is a law (that they voted themselves) that says that their salary has to be equal with the judge’s salary. So, several times they have increased the salary of the judges (with the excuse to be less corrupted), but their motive was to increase their own salary!

In Greece there is not justice at all, and this can be proved by the fact that not a single politician has gone to prison for political fraud. After all, judges and District Attorneys in Greece are hired by the government! A few years ago it was revealed that some judges were participating at big fraud in which the court decisions were manipulated. In this fraud, only 2 judges went to prison (one of them tried even to negotiate her surrender when she was caught her in Paris and another one was said to be escaped at Lebanon!). It is said that there was a gang from judges and attorneys that set up many trials.

However in Greece going to prison does not mean that you will pay for your crime, because most prisoners after commencing the 3/5 of their penalty they have the right to be released from prison! It is ridiculous that in Greece many criminals (even murderers!) have been released from prisons a few years after their sentence. So life sentence does not exist in Greece!

Greek politicians have high salary that they haven’t still decreased and also have high pensions (even though they have been elected once!). Recently, the prime minister of Greece declared that the salary of the members of the parliament will be decreased to 15%. The President of the Greek democracy also agreed to a similar reduction. However, for a country with an impending bankruptcy this so small reduction on the wages of the politicians sounds ridiculous.

Other politicians take 3 pensions! For example a former prime minister takes 1 pension as being a lawyer, 1 pension as being a prime minister and 1 pension from being a journalist! Another fraud in Greece is that during the 80’s many Greeks took pension as partisans fighting the Nazi (during the occupation from Germans in the 2nd world war), however most of them weren’t partisans at all (many were even collaborators of the Germans or weren’t born that period).

The president of the Greek democracy takes as well a high salary (and a high pension, it is said that his salary is 18.000 Euros!) and these days with the economic crisis doesn’t seem to sacrifice part of his wage. Neither do the bishops of the Greek church who although they claim the words of Lord, they live a rich life with luxurious cars and houses (although Christ came to Jerusalem up on a donkey!), and don’t give their money to the poor, but in order to feed the poor they use usually the charity’s money and not of their fortune! The Head Priest (archbishop) in Greece has also a very big salary, paid by the tax payers.

Furthermore, the Greek churches’ fortune is literally millions of Euros and (with stocks at the national Greek banks, buildings that rent, institutes etc); however during the crisis the superior priests in Greece didn’t seem to mind for the poor and keep their huge fortune for themselves. Greek monasteries are also very rich, however not only they don’t give their money to the poor, but also use the Greek courts in all over the country to keep their fortunes and not lose a single hectare from their land! By the way, in Greece the priests are public servants too and they are paid from the government! However, it is doubtful if most priests give receipt for the mysteries that they commence. Neither the monks give a receipt when someone buys a ‘souvenir’ from a monastery… In fact, the orthodox Greek church doesn’t pay any tax at all for its mythic fortune and it is weird these days where the Greeks (for the first time in their lives) are called to pay high taxes, the Greek church does not pay a single dime as taxes for its whole huge estate! And the responsible for this are the governments of the last years that did not push the church to pay.

It is really outrageous, but all the elected political parties in Greece, and especially the 2 larger ones, take million of Euros as grants from the government. The governmental political party takes as grand 30 million Euros annually! The rest political parties of the Parliament take also a big grand. Not a single political party agreed to give its grand to the poor people, to save the Greek economy! Even now, with the economic crisis, the political parties still take million of Euros as grand and it is said that the big political parties have already prepaid the grand of the next 7 years!

These grants are huge and are used with the excuse that the political parties should use public money in order to avoid being bribed by financial interests! However, as many scandals have revealed, they are bribed as well! For example a German company had been bribed for many years the 2 big political parties and another smaller one. However, the crime for this fraud has been prescribed (i.e. erased), according to the Greek law. It is also unbelievable, but the 2 main suspects (one of them president of the Greek department) for this huge economical crime were left from the Greek justice to leave Greece (i.e. the Greek court did not banned their exit from the country) and now they are in Germany, where the authorities there found them… not guilty (covering also the whole thing).

It is also said that the Greek government bought a fake security system from this company for the Olympics of 2004 and paid million of Euros for a system that did not exist (so perhaps the taxpayers money was stolen once again). This big German company was accused for bribing the 2 political parties that were governments the last years, in order to buy exclusively their own products! However, it is said that the company took back its money by overcharging its services to the government!

Greek politicians ask today the Greek citizens to pay high taxes in order to overcome the economic crisis, however they do not decrease their own salary. Furthermore, there are many presidents and vice presidents of public section organisms and banks that take huge wages. These are the ‘golden boys’ and their salary hasn’t still decreased, although the impending bankruptcy!

When the government asked the Greeks to help in order to overcome the economic crisis, the first who went onto strikes were the farmers (last month), the tax payers and the custom inspectors. The last 2 categories of public servants have a big salary that although it will be decreased they will still earn a lot of money (after all, in this category of employees, many have been caught of bribing). So they still have money to live. It is strange, but in Greece the only ones who strike are the public servants ‘golden boys’ who take big wages and pensions and do not mind that in private section there are employees who are paid with 500 – 600 Euros, neither mind that some people take 300 Euros pension.

However, in Greece the strikes are totally manipulated by the trade unions that belong all of them to specific political parties and play political games manipulating the union’s rights. It is not a coincidence that many trade unionists have become parliament members or even ministers using their influence! The farmers recently closed the main national roads in Greece. Off course this strike was totally manipulated by the trade unionists that belonged to the nongovernmental political parties. The last years the Greek farmers annually close the roads in order to blackmail the government and earn more money.

In Greece everyone can make a strike. It is unbelievable, but in Greece everyday there are strikes (especially in Athens) and even 30 people can demonstrate and close a road! Even the employees of the ministry of culture go every summer on strike and close the Parthenon for the tourists! Even the ambulances crews go on strike in Greece! Also, even the students in Greek High Schools, Senior High schools and universities every year strike, close by themselves the school and demonstrate for many weeks, in order to lose their lessons! By the way, the universities in Greece are manipulated by the political parties (according to the Greek law that gives them the right – with students as their representatives – to rule the universities by taking part at the Dean’s council!). The anarchists rule the Greek universities too. The Dean (especially in Athens) hasn’t got the power to kick out the anarchists from the universities (recently he was beaten by the anarchists who took control of many universities in Athens).

Almost all in Greece strike in order to increase their salary and their pension. Never did the Greeks demonstrated for something else (such as terrorism for example, or a better health or education system) except money. The irony is that the ones that demonstrate in Greece are usually public servants that already gain good wages and good pension and want more, or people that were hired (with political pulls and favors) as public servants and when their contract expired, they blackmailed the government to hire them permanently. It is also outstanding that 2 decades ago there weren’t any official competitions for hiring public servants. It is said that during the 80s’ the only ‘qualification’ that a candidate needed, in order to be hired as a public servant, was his personal ID card from a political party or a phone from a politician!

About the farmers in Greece, in fact it is said that many of them have stolen million of Euros from the European Union by taking funds for big areas of cultivations and farms or animals that they did not really possessed (however this data is based on rumors and can’t be ascertained). It is said that the area that the Greek farmers claimed they had in order to take the European funds we could cover the area of whole Balkans! There were also many other frauds from many farmers (such as the one that is said that they wet with water their cotton in order to show heavier!) that most were done with the awareness (and perhaps the complicity) of the governments of the last 30 years.

Another problem with the farmers are the interfering thieves that are responsible for the fact that any product is bought from a farmer a few cents and it is sold in the market 10 times more expensive. The governments of the last years did not mind to deal with all these thieves (contrary the last government was accused for a fraud with the high prices a milk company). Neither the last governments did anything to punish the thieves of big companies and super markets that created a mafia cartel in order to impose high prices at several goods. Greece indeed is a very expensive country, however it has the lowest wages in Europe.

Governments in Greece were the last 30 years all corrupted. The political scandals were many, however not a single politician went to jail in Greece. Furthermore, the last years the politicians voted a law that says that when the country has elections and a new government comes, then all the political crimes of the past years are prescribed (erased)! And the scandals do not stop. In 1989 there was a big scandal with a banker that stole his own bank and had economical relationship with the government of the Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.

No one went to jail except the banker, who after a few years was released from prison and now it is said that he works as a company counselor! Off course, not only Andreas Papandreou wasn’t imprisoned for this fraud, but in the history the media passed the phrase of the ‘dirty 1989’ and attributed the whole thing to a conspiracy and a political plot from Papandreou’s political opponents!

Another huge scandal was the scandal of the Greek stock market on 1999 in which almost all Greeks, with the encouragement of politicians and the media, played their money to the stock market and lost them all! The 99% of the money of the Greek people was stolen and since now not a single one, politician or businessman, has gone to prison for this outrageous fraud. After all in Greece the justice is in favor of the thieves and the law says that after 10 years the crimes are prescribed (erased) (after 20 for a felony)! Greece in fact is ruled by 10 businessmen that control the media, the public constructions and generally have all the money and manipulate the government.

The prime minister of the period that the Greeks lost their money at the stock market fraud was Konstadinos Semitis and it the same man who is responsible (with his foreign office minister Theodoros Pagalos, also grandchild of a previous dictator) for the surrender of the Kurd Leader Otsalan at Kenya to the Turks and also for the humiliation of Greece on 1995 when the Turks were about to have a war with Greece for the Imia, a small rock island in the Aegean Sea (in fact for the whole thing responsible seems to be a mayor of an island near Imia who, without any permission of the government, raised a Greek flag on this island and this infuriated the Turks who debated its dominion!).

During the fraud of the Greek stock market, the government plaid also funds of public insurance companies to the stock market and off course they lost them. For this fraud still no one went to prison. By the way, the public insurance companies have all of them big premium for the citizens to pay, however they are bankrupted because the ones who managed them are responsible for not managing well their money. As a result, today most public insurance companies have not even money for paying the pensions to the insured! However it is ridiculous that in Greece there is not a single ‘national insurance company’ but several public insurance companies that have all of them debts. As mentioned, in Greece there is no justice on pensions, and many Greeks take high pensions (more than 1500 Euros) the time that others take only 300 – 500 Euros pension!

In addition, frauds with Greek doctors (and employees of the public insurance companies) and also frauds of hospitals' dealers with the hospital’s supply with drugs and machines are most responsible for the bankruptcy of the public insurance companies, by overcharging them with millions of Euros in order to steal a percentage of this overcharging for drugs and hospital equipment. This is the case for all the Greek hospitals in which many drugs and equipment were overcharched and bought 10 times more expensive in order some thieves to earn money. The irony is now that the suppliers ask their money from the Greek hospitals! So with this fraud, millions of Euros were stolen from officers at the Greek hospitals. With this money Greece would have the best health system in the world! Now it has the worst!

Another recent huge scandal in which participated the government of Kostas Karamanlis, was the scandal of Vatopedio. Vatopedio is a monster at Agio Oros. Agio Oros is a ‘holy mountain’ in Greece full of monasteries, in which women are forbidden to visit (in order not to scandalize the priests)! This monastery using a ‘contract’ paper from the years that Greece was occupied from the Turks claimed that a big lake near the monastery belonged to it. The politicians that took part in this scandal sold public properties to buy this lake from the monastery, but they bought it very expensive. So, public fortune was stolen in this huge fraud in order to buy a lake from a monastery! Not a single person went to jail. It should be mentioned that ministers of the previous government took also part at this fraud. It is also said that the high priest of the monastery had many political friends.

It is strange that the judges in Greece recognize papers and contracts that were written during the time the Turks occupied Greece. That means that Greek courts recognize the Sultan’s occupation of Greece! However, many Greeks have contracts for building plots and contracts for lands that are from that period or have papers made from thieves that after the Greek revolution of 1821 just occupied a land and with the years it came to their own possession! After all, there is a law in Greece that says that if you occupy a land for several years, then it comes to your own belonging (usucaption)! So many Greeks have lands that they haven’t really worked to buy them!

Furthermore, millions of hectares in Greece have now license and there are even whole towns with house that do not have any kind of license from the urban planning service. Many of these illegal buildings are build even in lands that have been burned after a fire during the summer and it is said that the Greeks are the ones who burn themselves their own lands during the summer in order to sell them and build them! The government is aware that 50% of Greek houses are illegal, but not only demolishes these illegal buildings, contrary it supplies them with electricity. Also Greek governments have legalized many of the former illegal settlements. Moreover, many times Greeks have bribed the urban planning service in order to give them a license to build a house, when this is illegal. Also most Greeks have bribed the driving license bureau in order to give them a driving license; even they have failed the exams! That’s why Greece has the worst drivers in the world!

Another problem is that in Greece they use thousands of police officers as guards of politicians, journalists, businessmen, and other VIP people. These policemen are occupied as guards of VIP and the same time the remaining policemen are a few, so delinquency in Greece has reached high rates and today New York seems safer than Athens in which terrorists, anarchists and mafia of immigrants (Albanian, Russian and Romanian mafia) and gangs control everything and in which the police officers are not only inadequate in number, but also not trained sufficiently to deal with the crime. Today Greece is a corrupted country where mafia controls everything (something like Russia). Also many immigrants are occupied with illegal things such as smuggling (whole Athens is a bazaar of smugglers who sell at the road their goods, usually Africans, Indians and Pakistani) and prostitution (in the center of Athens black African prostitutes are thousands). Also drug dealing is uncontrolled in Athens in which the drug addicts have accumulated to the city.

There is also several other frauds in Greece. An outstanding ‘legal’ fraud is that millions of Euros are given from the government as grants to none governmental organizations and groups (usually this money is given from the ministry of culture or the foreign office) and perhaps there is a huge fraud from many organizations that take these grants from the governments, sometimes perhaps they don’t deserve to.

Also million of Euros are given from the Greek government as grants to institutions that many politicians – former prime ministers have established! One former prime minister is said that he takes grunts for his personal institution and his daughter takes grunts for an organization in which she is president. Greek tax payers pay for all these grants of groups and organizations. Furthermore, public (tax payers) money is used from the government to pay to the media in order to publish governmental advertisements. The profit is that the government uses its money to have the media with its side. However, media (that belong to 4 – 5 businessmen that rule Greece) blackmail themselves the government and actually the media decides who will become the next prime minister by advertizing him and making his image. Many famous journalists in Greece are friends with many politicians and have even their cell phone!

In Greece, famous TV journalists are paid with amounts that exceed 50.000 Euros monthly, however it is doubtless if the pay their relevant tax! In the public TV there are hired so many employees with political pulls and favors that it is said that many employees of the public Greek TV and radio take their salary at their home without going to their job. And Greek tax payers pay all these people who were hired in order a politician to take their vote. In the public Greek TV it is said that the people who were hired with political means and favors are so many, that if they called all of them to come at work (instead of staying at home and receiving their salary), there will not be any space for them to work at the building of the Greek public TV!

Many employees were hired also in former public airways in which not only the number of employees was excessive (many were hired with political means and pulls too), but also the government paid illegal funds to the public airline (thus paying several fines from the EU). However, in the past the employees of the former Olympic public airways were under strikes all the time (especially in summers) humiliating Greece to the tourists. When the airways were bought by a Greek businessman, the government paid big amounts for all these public servants to take early a pension or to be hired (it is said that were hired with the same big wages) from other public section companies!

There are also many other groups of public sectors who continually were going on strike. For example in the past the employees of the public power station went continuously on strikes and they turned off for several hours the electricity causing black out of all the Greek cites! Ironically, these public servants had big salary and pension and many were hired with political pulls and favors by politicians.

Furthermore, the garbage collectors went often on strike because they wanted a permanent job (they were hired with fixed term contracts by the municipals that used them to take their votes) and also the municipal of ‘Aharnes’, a suburb of Athens, closed by himself the rubbish dump of Athens (because he didn’t wanted it near them) and as a result Athens garbage was accumulating to mountains because of a single mayor, humiliating Greece to its tourists!

Also in Greece when the public telephone service was sold partly to foreign investors, there were so many public servants there (many were hired with political pulls and favors as well) that the government paid million of Euros for them to go early on pension. Furthermore, last month dockers (longshoremen), when the port was sold to the Chinese, were paid million of Euros from the government to go early on pensions, even though ironically they were paid with huge salaries (it is said that they earned more than 2000 – 4000 Euros monthly!).

Finally, Greece is a totally anarchistic country. The anarchists are so many in Greece that on December of 2008 they burned Athens (and demonstrated in several other Greek cities) and they kept burning Athens for 1 month! The media in Greece (keeping a left wing approach) always favored the anarchists and did not even dare to call them ‘anarchists’, but anti- rulers! In Greece all the major cities have houses where the anarchists join together. The police in Greece all these years was incapable to catching the anarchists that every month burned Athens, although they are about 100 – 200 people!

The last years the anarchists in Greece every night in Athens and Salonika burn public cars or embassy cars, or banks and foreign companies! They also steal supermarkets, steal banks, and also place bombs in several Greek or foreign political targets. A few years ago they launched a rocket with a bazooka against the American embassy! Recently, they put a bomb outside the Greek parliament! Terrorism in Greece during the last decades had many victims (Americans and others) and seems that anarchist have a connection with several terroristic groups in Greece (with Greek and American targets), as well with common criminals such as bank robberies.

It is outstanding that an anarchist a few months ago confessed that he killed a police officer, but the media reported that he was crazy and did not realize what he said!). Also, many times the anarchists have been used the universities asylum law (that only in Greece occurs) and used Greek universities in Athens and Salonika in order to find shelter. Off course the anarchist vandalized the universities and used them as places to fix cocktail bombs. On 17 November 2009 the anarchists assaulted the Dean of the University of Athens, used the university building at Athens as asylum and hanged at the university the flag of anarchy! The media reported that the government went well with the anarchists, because this time Athens wasn’t burned!

However, the anarchistic attitude has been expanded to the Greek population and most Greeks act like anarchists in their real life. They don’t pay their taxes, they never give a receipt, they are very rude drivers and all the time swear at road and don’t stop at the pedestrian crossing lines, they park their car wherever they want, they smoke wherever they want (even in taxis or in public spaces or even at internet cafés or in front of their children) etc. It is said that Greeks are so unruly people that only a dictatorship would work in Greece! About the Greek politicians, they are (many of them) the same corrupted that many citizens are.

But the main responsible for destroying Greece was Andreas Papandreou who was elected in 1981 with the slogan ‘change’, but destroyed Greece by hiring (in the 80’s the only qualification for hiring often was your political ID card!) more than 1 million public servants (more than Germany) that were most of them lazy drones. Also by giving enormous power to labor unions (that manipulated this power to go on strike every day at Athens), by not using with a logical way the European funds and grants and finally by creating a huge national debt and a big national economical deficit that was accumulated the rest years and today things are so difficult to avoid bankruptcy. However, the last prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis was the one that gave the final shot and not only destroyed the Greek economy, but also took part at a big fraud by giving fake data to the EU about the Greek economy. Ironically, the president of the Greek bank is vice president of the European bank! However, although he mentioned recently that he had informed Karamanlis as well as Papandreou before the elections of last October that the real deficit was about 13% and not lower, as the last government claimed!

The sad is that the Greek citizens are so much spoiled the last 30 years that they seem unwilling to lose their properties and help the government to deal with the economic crisis. It is ridiculous, but in fact Greece is a bankrupted country with rich citizens!

Many Greeks say that the politicians were the ones who stole the money all these years. However, the Greek citizens are equal responsible for the situation by voting the ‘thieves’ (as they call them) politicians, by using their political pulls and favors to find a job for themselves or their children and by bribing public servants in order to overcome bureaucracy. However, the ones today that should demonstrate should not be the public servants ‘golden boys’ (who have high salaries, high pensions and a permanent job), but all these people who earn 500 – 700 Euros on private jobs (that their employers often don’t even pay their insurance) and the pensioners of 300 Euros… And, as mentioned, the people in Greece that are below the level of poverty are the 1/3 of the population. The rest 2/3 have enough money to live for several months or even years in case of a bankruptcy!

However, the rich Greeks, the politicians themselves, the presidents of public organizations and the public servants with big salaries and pensions don’t seem that they will be the ones that will pay for the crisis. It is unfair for the poor to pay once again. But the rich will not pay, because they have moved their funds to foreign banks at Cyprus, Switzerland etc. More than 10 billion Euros was moved to foreign banks and off shore companies the last month. So the rich seem unwilling to pay for the economic crisis!

Off course, European Union, should never pay, at any cost, the debts of Greece, neither should countries such as Germany use a single euro from their taxpayers to pay Greece. Greece needs to pay for the crimes of the past and the Greeks are one by one responsible for their corrupted governments. After all, even though if Greece will not be eventually labeled ‘bankrupted’, in fact Greece has been already bankrupted and its economy is destroyed for the next 30 years… Thanks god, sins are paid!

B) GREECE, A CORRUPTED AND ILL ORGANIZED EUROPEAN COUNTRY

The corruption in Greece has reached high levels and it keeps happening not only with the citizen’s tolerance but on the contrary many times with their participation. First of all, the citizens are responsible for electing and re- electing a corrupted government by their vote. Greek citizens many times voting for personal gain, even it is the country elections or the prefecture/municipal elections. Which means that their vote decision is made considering only who will give a job to them or to their children. Thus, substantially the vote has been turned into a transaction...

The corruption in Greece has reached high levels and it keeps happening not only with the citizen’s tolerance but on the contrary many times with their participation. First of all, the citizens are responsible for electing and re- electing a corrupted government by their vote. Greek citizens many times voting for personal gain, even it is the country elections or the prefecture/municipal elections. Which means that their vote decision is made considering only who will give a job to them or to their children. Thus, substantially the vote has been turned into a transaction...

Generally in Greece corruption is huge not only from the politics, but also from the citizens. . There have been reported from the mass media (taken from governmental sources) that there is a percentage of incapable people, who in fact go through a medical committee (who perhaps been manipulated) and who actually are not incapable at all. However, it is said that some manage to take incapability benefits or pensions, plus they have all the other discounts (purchase of "incapability" car, etc.). The above were mentioned by the media in the past.

The worst problem is the one that Greeks call "intermediate" or "tooth" or "connection" and almost every one of them has used it at least once. However, practically all Greeks are using the acquaintances they have in various public administrative services, governmental or municipal or prefecture. That way, any nomination or advance to higher social-economical positions or just a better treatment comes as a benefit from those acquaintances. Greeks are using their acquaintances during all their lives and unfortunately many of them owe their social and economical advance to those acquaintances. In other words there is favoritism everywhere.

The worse form of favoritism is in the Greek army, where every bum, every hobo enjoys a better treatment just because he has political or military acquaintances, for world exclusive. Not even the English prince Harry himself, didn't had a better treatment in the army than the other soldiers. Part of the Greek army is said to be the military air force department which is more or less the department of the "connections" and most of the times the soldiers that go there are the ones who have acquaintances political or military.

However, the Greek army has a lot more problems. To start with, some years ago, Greece was under trial to the Amnesty International because the conscientious objector were been sending to jail! Another problem in Greek army is that some celebrities (like members of the parliament, actors, singers and many more) are accused by the media for not even join the army at the first place, since they get excluded using various fake medical certificates, or they serve in an office!

In Greece a Turkish-Albanian attitude exists, that overrules (which has literally passed into the Neo-Greek ‘genes’ since they were degraded under the Turkish conquerors for 400 whole years) and doesn't seem to be leaving. An attitude of degradation, sneaky behavior, (small) fraud, bribe, favoritism, nepotism, etc. But it's also the Greek politicians in a wide meaning (members of the parliament), even those in the local authorities (mayors, prefects) that have spoilt the citizens by some of them promising a job position or a favorable act for their affair.

But the question is - beyond the bribes and the beneficial politics - if there's any real public constructions. Many of the public constructions is said that have been made with money multiple than those already exist. The government as much as the local authorities (mayors, prefects) often use public money with a way that may considered fraud but in Greece is legal: the famous ‘direct assignments’. In other words, when a public construction needs to be made, there is no competition carried out (this can happen under a cost limit), instead there is an agreement under the table with a specific construction company that gives the "bribe" (money percentage) for their choice instead of choosing some other company, while - because of this "bribe" - the construction is been made with a smaller budget that it should.

As a result of this the Greece is the champion in bad constructed public constructions (as most Greek roads that are the worst in the whole Europe). On the other hand, there are accusations for several frauds in the assignments through competition, too. The conclusion is that when there is a low budget for a construction in the first place (usually in order to be lower than the limit of direct assignments even if that means that one construction has to be split in parts), then the result is a bad construction, with a quality very much lower than the international scientific standards. Finally, some constructors steal the money that belongs to the Greek people, and to the EU, too.

However, as in every fraud in Greece, it is very difficult to find evidence. Also, something considered as frauds in Greece perhaps can be permitted by the Greek law! And politicians make the laws they find better for their own good!

Greece is the only country in the whole world that almost every day has the capital's (Athens) streets closed by demonstrators (even by only 30 - 50 individuals!!!) that usually require the increase of their income. Also, opposition political parties are back of most strikes. Even the schools are often closed because the students are so bored to study, so they prefer to take control of the school building for several days. On the other hand the universities are in bad condition, the professors of all rungs of the education aren't been evaluated by anybody, while in England if a professor gets a negative evaluation from his students or pupils he's getting fired and that's the right thing to do. The Greek universities are also the gathering place of junkies and anarchists.

The anarchists in Greece whenever they want (e.g. after a strike) they enter in the universities and they vandalize public properties. The police don’t dare to arrest them because of the supposed ‘asylum’ of the universities! So they let the anarchists to vandalize the universities that use them to hide after being chased by the police after a demonstration. They also act provocative on demonstrations, and with their vandalisms they give the excuse to the riot police to destroy the demonstrations.

In Greece the anarchists whenever they want they burn national or international (usually American) companies and banks, they burn cars of the states or embassies, they invade in police stations and steal the officers weapons (!), they steal banks, they steal supermarkets and give the goods to the pedestrians (like Robin Hoods!) and they use the illegal immigrants appearing as their protectors. On strikes the anarchists are hooded and don’t show their face. There is also a connection of the anarchists with criminal acts (like kidnapping and bank robbery) and they are also connected with terrorism. However, the anarchists don’t want any kind of country. They hate countries, and any kind of power such as the police. But without a country, without a State, the law of the jungle will occur and the fittest will eat the weaker. Closing with the anarchists, it is surprising that in Greece the anarchists are manipulated by the mass media which not only are afraid to call them anarchists (they call them anti- rulers), but many times they take their side and e.g. when the anarchists and the fascists fight. However in Greece the anarchists whenever they wish they can burn and vandalize Athens and many other major cities.

Returning to the strikes, the demand of the demonstrators are often reasonable (don't forget that Greece has the lowest wage in Europe), however the demands are often unreasonable too and based on personal interests, for example until recently the schoolteachers were in the past on strike, demanding the increase of their salary, which is reasonable and a good reason to strike for, however nobody seemed to pay attention to the fact that the teachers (as well as the professors) is said that they are getting paid during the school holidays (among them the 3 whole months at the summer) when they aren't working. No one mentioned either, that some do private courses (even if that's illegal as they are public servants) and of course they don't give invoices! In Greece public sector servant who have big wages and pension strike. However people who work on private sector jobs (for part time cheap job or max 700 Euros full time job) or pensioner farmers of 300 Euros do not demonstrate…

In Greece, as a world exclusive, the paramedics are on strike (they even use the ambulances at their demonstrations), the hospitals are on strike, the taxi and the bus drivers are on strike. When a hospital is on strike there are human lives put into danger. In Greece there is also the system of rollover after hours working between the hospitals, which means that if someone needs to be treated and lives next to a non-working after hours hospital, he won't be treated in that hospital! In Greece everyone working on public sector can go on strike. For example people working on electricity public organism caused black out for several days, even though they have big salaries and pensions comparing with the 700 Euros people take as salary on private sector jobs.

In Greece the percentage of women that participate in the parliament and prefecture/municipal elections is disappointingly small. Even smaller is the people's trust on women politicians (that even women don’t trust!) who does not vote the women candidates. In Greece there is however a strange situation with women. The Greek women are retiring in younger age than the men (as if in the age of 50 and more they have to take care of the family) and they don't join the army (even if they don't have children before their 30s) as men. However, in Greece there is something against women: at Mountain Athos, a place full of monasteries that has a strange governmental autonomy (a state in the state), women not allowed to cross over, in order not to be a temptation for the monks!

Unfortunately, Greece has been ruined by one particular politician: Andreas Papadreou, during his long lasting governing (about 11-12 years): before that everything was prohibited in Greece, with Andreas everything was allowed. His laicism was historic. The same way was the manipulation of the crowds, too, which even Gabel would be jealous of!

Everything pointed in this document became even worse during the governing of that supposedly socialist politician. Of course, however, they did exist before that and they continue to happen after his death. In fact, Papadreou had been accused (but found not guilty because of the lack of evidences) about the scandal with Crete bank, a very big economical fraud.

Thru the years, in Greece the favoritism, the nepotism, the bribes and the exploitation of the public money took enormous dimension. And they are still continuing today, even if the governments have changed. The governments are changing, the corruption remains the same. The latest years there is a scandalous favoritism concerning the parliamentary compensations and the salaries and the pensions of the members of the parliament and of the judges. Also public servants, academics and militaries have big salary and pension. The rest working on private sector are paid with 700 Euros salary.

A few years ago there was the enormous corruption scandal in the field of justice and the unbelievable thing is that some judges and attorneys were accused for being manipulative.

However, junkies are been arrested and convicted, in the contrary with the celebrities and the drug dealers who not only don't get arrested, but even if this happens they're proven innocent in the court or convicted for only a few years imprisonment and sometimes they just disappear during their first few days leave from the jail (that's another schizophrenia, they offer a few days leave to prisoners, as if they were public servants). At the same time, in Greece in fact there is no life sentence! As soon as a convicted criminal passes the about 3/5 of his sentence in prison he's allowed to leave!

Another field having problems is the education and for that the politicians have the main responsibility. Every government of the last 30 years abused the education system. The last 30 years every government in charge applies their own changes on education. Of course, for the Greeks there is always something to benefit of, so the pupils, as a world exclusive, are taking the control of their schools and universities (here is where the teachers are against to their evaluation!) and closing the streets substantially aiming mainly to lose lesson hours or to suppress the changes that the government made in education and which makes the things difficult for them!

The parents are usually requesting and pushing the teachers to give high degrees to their children and later when the boys join the army, again the parents request from their military superiors to help their children have as easy time as possible in the army. Also, again as a world exclusive, Greece is the only country where the private courses are essential in order to succeed in the exams for the tertiary education. This is, in some way right, but it's not right to replace the school with the private courses! Note that the private courses are been taught sometimes by public teachers (even if that's illegal) who sometimes are stealing from the state, as they don't give invoices.

The main responsibility for those problems in education is upon the parents who are pushing their children to get the best degrees and the result of that is that Greece is the first country in Europe that has high skilled unemployment and the highest number of doctors and lawyers, and there are much more specialists than we need in fields like civil engineering, physics-mathematics, philology, mechanical engineering, policemen etc.

But what do the Greek parents do about that? They insist to the degrees!!! So, when their children can't get in a Greek university they send them aboard. There are Greek students almost in every country around the world, but most of them (especially for medical studies) are in England, Romania and Bulgaria. They don't care what kind of degree they'll take in Bulgaria and Romania, as long as they get a degree! How does the Greek ministry answer to all those problems? By simply increasing the positions of the students accepted in the tertiary education and that way we don't only have high unemployment for the graduates, but we keep getting even more graduates. Also, many of them are getting accepted in a university aboard and take tests to get transferred to a Greek university or they are using the Erasmus program in order to study a part of their studies is Greece!!!

However even the ancient Greek has something in common with the current and maybe all the negative characteristics the ancients had, have now pass into the common subconscious of the neo-Greeks. So, maybe the ancient Greece had a huge culture which won't be an exaggeration to say that it was the constitutional foundation of the western culture, however the ancient Greek history is consisting of civil wars among the cities-states, like the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece or in the later history the civil war after the revolution of 1821 (they even killed the 1st governor Kapodistrias and also imprisoned the general Kolokotronis who set Greece free!). Also there was a civil war after the German Possession on 1944, however the British have a great responsibility for it.

They ancient Greeks even condemned to death the philosopher Socrates and exiled Aristotle. On Byzantium they exiled the Patriarch Megas Chrisostomos who became after saint!

In ancient Greece, some cities, like Sparta and (less) Thebes, had cooperate even with the Persians, while we must not forget that when the Persians attacked Greece, the Northern Greece (Viotia, Macedonia, Thessaly, etc.) was spontaneously surrendered (!) to the Persians (except the 700 Thespians who fought in the side of the 300 of Leonidas, but nobody ever mentions them). Also, during the German occupation in 1940, some Greeks co-operated with the Germans as traitors and created battalions of Greek traitors para militants (‘hites’, ‘tagmatasfalites’) killers like the Ess Ess Nazi killers.

In ancient Greece we must not forget the fact that Alexander the Great, after the Lamia War, substantially occupied the rest of Greece and demanded (with the use of the weapons) from the other cities by the treaty of Isthmus to recognize him as the emperor! It's a surprise that there were Greek mercenaries everywhere, even in Egypt where the 7th century B.C. Farao Psamitihos used Greek mercenaries to the expedition against Nubia. In fact, Alexander himself fought along with 30000 (!) Greek mercenaries to the side of the Persians (their leader was Darios) in the battle of Hisos in 333 B.C.! Anyway, Greeks were using mercenaries too, like the Celts!!!

Regarding the Byzantium period (don't forget that Byzantium was the eastern Romaic empire) the history there is very dirty, including unbelievable intrigues and barbarian races came Greece, like Slavians,Ounnies, even Vikings! First of all during Byzantium era the last real Greeks had been slaughtered, the ones that the Christian founders called nationals (idolaters) and some of them became famous like the slaughters of Theodosius, also the pause of the Olympic Games and the demolition of the ancient Greek temples took place during that period. During the second half, when the Turks were ready to prevail to Constantinople, the Byzantium preferred the 400 years of enslave, instead of asking the Pope's help. But even when the Greek revolution started against the Turks, it was the Patriarchy the first hurried to... excommunicate it!

Therefore, everything is good and beautiful with the ancient Greek culture, but the Greek history stinks everywhere you touch it. Isn't it better to read the English history for example about the Butica the Celts queen who defeated the Romans?

Returning to today's gloomy reality, one field where you can find corruption is the police. In fact, often there have been arrests of policemen that not only don't fight the common crime, but instead some are cooperating with them for example in cases of blackmail, drugs etc. In the police there is corruption, especially in the suburbs where almost everyone knows each other well. Last year, in Veria somebody killed his girlfriend because more likely he was jealous of her. Even if he was the only suspect the police didn't pushed him for months to reveal where he had hidden her body. When the case reached dead end the police reporter Angeliki Nikolouli of the TV station ΑLTER from Athens with her team (one of the team members was a former high profile police executive) pressed to reveal the truth and after a short while the perpetrator was arrested. However, there is continuing again in Veria. In February 2006 a minor was missing. The local police didn't find the perpetrator for months.

Eventually, the reporter Nikolouli, once more doing what the police should have done, found after her research and revealed in a video her discussion with 2 minors - members of gang - in which a kid admit that it was them (the gang) who killed the missing teenager (they beat him and through him down the stairs) and then got rid of the body.



In general, in Greece there is an abuse use of the term "children" and their supposed innocence. All of us know, from the elementary school, punks who were often organized in gangs. Every human being can be a criminal being from the early childhood and the main reason is the distraction of the family.



Returning to the gang in Veria, actually for the punishment of illegal act of persons still in the child age there is a legal problem. In Greece in order to make or cover frauds they vote for new laws in the middle of a summer night. However, many other laws are very old and dated back to dictator Metaxas days on the 30s (in fact there was one law dated to Othonos days and on the end of 19th century). Thus, the children of young age aren't been punished by enclosure, but instead by taking away the parental assiduity and maybe by enclosure in an institute.

But not even the pedophiles have been punished in the past. Usually, the pedophiles declared that the pornographic material they had been only for personal use (just like the declaration of a junkie about the drug found in his posses)!!!

Except Veroia’s gang, recently was reported another case of police goofs with a young man murdered in Akrata and his body was left near the train trials, in order to appear as an accident. At first the research of the case took over the... road accidents department, while a "key-witness" was send back to Albany (!), and there wasn't any brief formed against anybody, so for the police that murder is a case of suicide, which means that if the TV show of the channel ΑLΤΕR hadn't bring it up, the dead man would never been vindicated.

However the phenomenon of the suicides is quite often in the army too, there too is no check, as it's known to everyone that the army is state in the state and has even its own courts... In fact, is been said that the drug usage appear in high percentage into the army.

Another problem in Greece is that it is the most homophobic societies the homosexuals are been named daily with inappropriate words and generally they are pushed out of the society. All these are Turkish remains (because in the Moslem countries the homosexuals are barred alive), however let's not forget the "ottoman sex" which the Anglo-Saxon call today "the Greek way", because of the homosexuality that ancient Greeks had and which isn't ever been taught in the Greek schools!!!

Surprisingly, the majority of the Greeks consider that homosexuality is only the passive sex and not the energetic!!! At the same time, there are obvious homosexual tense even to the young children e.g. if you observe the 5-10 years old young boys playing computer games in any Greek Internet cafe (in Greece the Internet is seldom used in the Internet café but children play violent computer games) you'll notice that they swear, using homosexual implies like "I f..ed him" (meaning I killed him) and many more. But in older ages too the boys very often use homosexual implies in their daily vocabulary (e.g. "I'll f... you") and there is also a hidden homosexuality which unfortunately is been strengthened by the bad family environment. In Athens where is a more free society the homosexuality is more often than in the suburbs where it's consider even today a serious social spot... At the same time, don't forget the fact that a percentage of the general population had during the late childhood (!) or in the teenage some homosexual experience which they and sometimes some psychologists name a sexual experimentation!

Greece is a country holding a lot of negative first places in Europe. So, Greece is: first in children overweight (I repeat that the Greeks not only eat junk food but they also don't exercise), first in drug usage among teenagers and first in smoking. In Greece children are start smoking while they still are in the elementary school and they are so irresponsible that they smoke everywhere, even the employees in the public services and banks, but also into the taxi, also the doctors into their office, also the patients on the hospital balcony or in the front yard!

Greece is also first in the road accidents (the Greek drivers are the rudest and they are driving in the worst roads in Europe), the last country in the Internet usage and the broadband speeds (and the first in computer games), first in corruption, last in competition, first in percentage of population to doctors, especially to Greek doctors that studied in Romania and Bulgaria. Also, Greece is first in number of lawyers and police officers, even if there is actually lack of policemen in the streets, since most of them is body guarding the politicians and celebrities such as TV personas. Also, Greece is the first in giving up the basic education and in the child employment, first in the low birthrate (the Greeks have as an excuse - as usual - financial reasons, however the immigrants even they are poor they have 2 or more children), first in abortions (no sexual education exists) and first in sending students (and money) aboard, etc. However, Greece is the first country in home-owners. The Greeks are complaining all through their lives that they don't have any money but the most of them have their own house!!!

Also, Greece has the lowest wages, the lowest pensions and the lowest unemployment benefits. The biggest problem are the low-pensioners who are asking money from their children (if they haven’t closed in a nursing home), and also a lot of unemployed skilled young people. At the same time, Greece is the last country in Europe in the size of the compensations which the court decides for individuals that had damage due to a public organism. Classic examples are the road accidents with motorbikes or cars that fell in a road hole (we know that many roads have been constructed through the direct assignments) and they got injured and when they're looking for their legal rights substantially they become a tennis ball between the public services (municipality, prefecture, water supply service, ministry of public works) to find out who's responsible.

Regarding the first place in the road accidents the reason is that the Greek drivers are the worst in the whole world plus they're driving in the worst roads in the world. Many roads are been constructed through the corrupted systems of the "direct assignment" by construction companies that not only is said they bribe for been selected, but they also construct the construction with lower budget than they should. Also, there are thousands of minors driving motorcycles without having driving license and without wearing helmet, while often the young ones are driving drunk in the night after going to a night club. But let's not forget the fact that often, according to mass media reports, many Greeks is reported by the media that are buying their driving license giving money to their driving teacher in order to pay the committee (even if today the situation is a little bit better)...

The Greek drivers are very rude and the men behave irresponsible to the women drivers and they swear. Generally, everyone is swearing and hand gesturing the one another. By the way, the open palm gesture is a humiliating gesture and along with the swearing "as...le", the jealousy and the tense to create gangs are characterizing the Greeks all around the world. The Greeks are the worst drivers in the world and you see every single day pictures like illegal pass through, trucks driving in a convoy the one behind the other. You also see cars taking a 180 degrees turn in central roads, people driving motorbike with wearing helmet and driving a car without wearing seatbelt, small children without seatbelt and mothers holding their baby in the front seat (which means that in case of a collation the baby will become the mother's airbag), parents driving a motorcycle having their small child or even baby on their laps and also minors driving motorcycles without helmet and even kids driving trackers!

At the same time, the biggest problem in Greece are the taxi drivers who are giving a bad name to the whole country internationally by some of them stealing from the tourists (and the locals), with taking more than one separate passengers, with their rudeness, the customer selection (if he doesn't like you or where you're going he doesn't give you a ride, even if he doesn't have another customer) etc.

Even the news reports in Greece are horrible (except those of the national television). Greece is the only country in which the news reports are been done through tele "panels" and particularly this year from one main anchorman and 4-5 co-presenters who say their personal (or their boss) opinion as objective!!! But the reporters and the news anchormen who are presented as uncorrupted often they or their bosses are involved with the politic-financial authorities and trusts.

The news reports are a parade of exclusive 10 - 20 members of the parliament, mainly from Athens. At the same time, many of the reporters are contacting the members of the parliament and the ministers on their mobile, as if they were good friends! The worst thing is that, against every sense of journalistic deontology which prevents the news anchormen to express their personal opinion, the news presentation is been done in a completely substantial way, and the worst is that the news reports are been turned into a TV show. In fact there is a TV channel that instead of the breaking news presents gossips and news of the famous.

The worst thing in the Greek TV is the tele-trials. In other words when there is a rather popular issue on TV there's a parade of all the relatives of the dead who are yelling and searing that he was uncorrupted and the victim of the cruel society. At the same time, almost every day for various issues there's a parade in the news and shows of lawyers against all senses of deontology. I wonder why the law association doesn’t ever remove anyone from their position and I also wonder why the 10 particular lawyers from Athens are always present in the TV shows.

What's happening with the tele-trials is that no one ever is able to make a sure conclusion, as the TV can't ever take the place of the court rooms. However in the court rooms sometimes, too there is also an unbelievable mess with the trials been continuously postponed (often with the excuses that a defender or a prosecutor is ill) and often the hearing of a case is been held after many years, while with the resorts to the highest court a case can make it to the hearing in over a decade. By the way, since I mentioned the resorts, Greece is the only country where a person or a small village has the power to resort to the territory council and to the European court in order to cause a delay to a civil construction, as happened for example with the incapability to find a space for sanitary burial of the litter because of the fact that every little village is been resorting to the territory council and cancels the construction.

An other huge problem in Greece is the side economy, with the most classic problem the fact that almost no one is giving invoices; however the Greeks themselves never ask for the receipt. That way, in a medical visit the doctor rarely give a receipt for the services or the handyman (e.g. plumber or electrician) who visits a house for a repair or a convenient store or a shop. Only the super markets are giving receipts every time and some of the shops that sell cloths or electric appliances. Also, many Greeks are stealing from the taxes. The simplest way is not to give invoices. There are often reports of bribing a tax officer. However they are stealing from the tourist, too: everybody knows the profiteering and the tax evasion in the tourist places (especially the Greek islands). Therefore the last years the tourists prefer Turkish beaches, except of the English who choose the Rhodes Faliraki for sex-tourism!

In the public health field everybody knows the situation with the "envelops", which means that any patient in order to pass through the waiting list and have a surgery earlier or just in order to have a better treatment by the doctor he has to pay him more. This often happens after the doctor's pressure (usually the surgeon's), however sometimes the patient himself causes it spontaneously!!! However the waiting list for a surgery is often fake! Even if not, it can be bypassed with a ‘present’ to the surgeon. In Greece you can bribe everyone!

An other problem in the field of Medicare that concerns every doctor who writes prescriptions is the directed prescription.

In other words, there are medical representatives of various pharmaceutical companies that not only inform the doctors about the new medicines, but they also advise them to prescribe the medicines of their company with exchange some gifts like pens (!), travels for conventions, kitchen supplies - electric appliances etc. In fact, the pharmaceutical companies are sponsoring medical conferences and often the medical-pharmaceutical and biotechnological research. Therefore a sponsored research is often unreliable. However Greek doctors are the only in the whole world that prescribe medicine and the more drugs they prescribe the more various gifts they earn from some drug companies!!! So patients usually take drugs that they don’t need!

In the health field there is a mess. The worst thing is the extra beds putted in the hospital's corridors called "ranches" and the fact that the doctors are actually examining the patients on the ranches, and the nurses are proceeding in actions (like the change of the urine collector) in public view. However the relatives of the patient are also coming in groups in the hospital and there are 3-5 relatives staying with the patient all day long filling the hospital with the germs they carry. Often, they deny leaving the room during the doctor's visit, while other times they cause problems to the doctors themselves showing them how they should do their own job.

In any case, the hospitals are horrible, having the minimum nursing personnel, while unskilled and without experience doctors often undertake the responsibility to "get the snake out of its hole". The Greek hospitals aren't at all "teaching hospitals" like the equivalent ones in other advanced countries. The worst is that the section of the hospitals that meant to take care of the emergencies where the Emergency Rooms and the TEAM who's going to meet the patients don't even exist. There are simply some curtains and some usually unskilled specializing doctors. I have never seen a professor or consultant going down to the emergencies. Often, even the commissaries allow difficult situations to be handled by unskilled doctors. Even the medical centers of the suburbs don't have the essential medical equipment they need, however they are actually the places where usually the unskilled doctors go, who have just graduated the medical school and don't even have a specialty yet.

Substantially the medical centers of the suburbs are acting like transfer departments for the prefecture hospitals and those are acting like the transfer centers for the bigger hospitals in Athens or Thessaloniki. However even the transfers have problems, since not only there are not enough ambulances but there are also no drivers for the ambulances in many hospitals and medical centers. Greece is the only country where in many medical centers of the province ambulances have simple drivers and not paramedic as they should.

An other problem in the hospitals is the small number of beds in the Intensive Treatment and Intensive Care Units for which the patient's relatives are using even political acquaintances in order to get a bed! However the state itself recently, instead of increasing the number of the beds in the Intensive Treatment and to hire new personnel, decided to rent Intensive Treatment beds in the private hospitals!!! Regarding the EKAB (ambulance system), there's a horrible situation with the ambulances which have insufficient equipment and unskilled paramedics who often are bored of carrying a patient on hands; therefore they use wheel chairs instead of a stretcher!

Also, it's often to see them going up in an apartment without carrying all the necessary equipment and if the patient (that has been waiting for hour for the ambulance to arrive) is still alive, then they're going back downstairs to carry the stretcher (and if they aren't too much bored, they may carry the oxygen too). Also, in the past they often confirmed a death without even do a cardiogram! Isn't it time for the EKAB to have real doctors or even better to give a suitable education to the paramedics - following the example of the advanced countries as USA- so they can be skilled saviors and capable for medical actions like intubation, cardioversion and issuing IV medicines? Regarding the helicopters used for transferring patients, those are mostly serving the islands (however they, too are often used after political pressure of members of the parliament and local authorities) also you'll never see a helicopter over a road accident even though Greece is first on road car accidents. In the province things are like in the third world. For example at the hospital of the island Kefallonia (according to statements to mass media that the persons in charge made in the 1st of October 2006, after the death of an old lady who waited for the ambulance for 3 whole hours). In that hospital was mentioned in the media that they had some ambulances, however only one of them was on call, since they only had 2 paramedics for all the ambulances who were also taking the 911 calls.

In the hospitals there is a complete opacity and - according to the reveals that the reporter Nikos Evangelatos made in his night show "Reveals" in September 2006 - there is a lot of opacity for the hospital supplies. In fact a special medical cotton that normally costs 6 Euros, in Greece is been bought for 500 Euros!!! Also, they often give to the patients expired medicines which n the best case are inactive, though in the worse case they can cause septic shock. The opacity for the supplies in Greece isn't only happening in the hospitals, but it's a general problem and there are many accusations made through the mass media, however in the parliament have been made accusations about the opacity in the military supplies.

Greece could solve their economical problems if they decrease the enormous expenses spend on military supplies, and also if there was a decrease to the salaries and pensions of the parliament members, militaries, judges, professors and the bank executives. However the main problem is that a huge part of the national budget is been spent for military programs (Greece comes first to military equipment in NATO, as if it's the Nazis Germany) and not for the health and not for the education. The classic excuse is that the US presses for purchasing the equipment they're selling or that there is the danger Turkey attacking Greece (even if she's a NATO member) but they don't convince anyone. The real reason is the billions Euros profit comes from the supplies for the military programs... In any case, the politic tactics of the ministry of national affairs the last 25 years was a politics of continues compromise with the Turkey and the US that supports Turkey. In fact, some years ago Greek agents almost delivered "into a plate" to the Turk spies the leader of the Turk ΡΚΚ, Otsalan, and actually in Africa (before the wanted by the Turks Abdullah Otsalan was living in Greece without anyone bothering him).

Greece is the "black sheep" of the EU and continuously receives penalties like recently with the uneven treatment of men and women so they would both retired on their 65th, because in Greece the women are retiring earlier (also women don't join the army as men, although they have children after their 30s), for the non recognition of the degrees of foreign universities and colleges (as if the third world Greek universities are better than the English) etc.

A public mess was the result, in 2005 and 2006, of the reveal that the reporter Nikos Evangelatos made in his TV show that in Greece: Α) In the restaurants they recycle whatever remains in the plates and then serve it back to the next customer. Β) In the bakers shops the flour is full of insects and there are mice all around the place. C) The frozen fishes are been defrost and sold as fresh. D) The hygiene conditions in restaurants, food stores and food warehouses are very low. Ε) In the some super markets they remove the outer of the expired yellow cheese and sell is as toast cheese or trimmed cheese. F) The expiration date on the food is often changed etc.

In Greece there is unbelievable opacity. It's a frequent phenomenon to see a public servant been bribed like a tax officer, urban planning personnel, doctors (usually the surgeons and doctors who are bribed to send patients to private clinics or diagnostic centers) and many more. Very often is the bribe that is said to take place often in order to buy a driving license (even general practitioners and eye doctors is said to been bribed in order to write fake certificates that the candidate driver is healthy). The bribe is often been done after the public servant's (e.g. tax officer) blackmail, however more often is been made spontaneously (!) by the individuals in order to finish with their issues earlier.

An other problem is the massive and unverified entry of illegal immigrants through the unattended Greek boarders and the un programmed entry of almost 1 million immigrants in a country of 10 millions, aiming only to keep satisfied the factory owners and generally all the Greek people that are taking advantage of the cheap workforce that pay cheap and don’t give insurance. Political asylum has been given to many (e.g. Kurdish, Iraqi and Afghani) who convinced the ones in charge using the classic excuse "if I go back to my country I'm going to be executed". Of course the immigrants constitute cheap working hands that don't ask for superannuation and have no legal rights. In fact, in the past, when they finished their job, their boss, in order to save to not pay them, was calling the police who send them back to their country! However they don't give up, because the Greek boarders was and still are full of holes, and that way they could always come back.

In Greece dominates an acquaintance attitude and rarely those cases are going to the court among various associations (doctors, lawyers), even if that happens usually the punishment is small. The same happens also with the statutory administrative examinations in the public sector. Even the members of the parliament have the unacceptable parliamentary asylum according to which they can't be prosecuted, unless the parliament decides otherwise and as you already thought, rarely the parliament decides to send any of their members to the justice... Another acquaintance attitude of the members of the parliament is that the politicians decide by their own to get an increase to their own salaries!!! And they do it often!

In Greece dominates "the thief of the thief" attribute. They steal from one another. Very often the convenience stores are stealing from their customers (rather legally, even if there is illegal profit) by overpricing the products. Many shops (e.g. with clothes or shoes) sell 100 – 300% more expensive a product than the price they buy it. Also some super markets, too have been reported from the media to steal the customers by showing different prices on the selves than the one you actually pay at the cashier and also often they advertise special offers (in cost or content in gr or ml) that don't actually exist or are lower than the one in the advertisement.

The worst is that Greece is a country with the lowest wages in EU and very low competition and that way no one skilled foreigner comes to work in Greece. If they choose Greece they will quit quickly because of the huge bureaucracy! After all there is already high unemployment in the young and educated people in Greece. However, the Greeks are an idle race. They prefer to use foreigners for the heavy duties, while they (asking from their parents) just wait for a position in a public service where they're going to do nothing all day and pay well for being lazy. They fill such positions in the past and now using political and other acquaintances and not their skills. The things became a little better since the ASEP system is used according to which there's a competition for the new personnel, however there are a lot of successful candidates who remain without a job for years.

The Greek police are a mess. The police officers (except maybe from those in the big cities) are afraid to arrest the burglars and often they don't even come (especially in areas around Attica) when someone call them to report a broke in. Of course, there are police departments with 2-4 policemen in the night; therefore they can't come because there is not enough force. However, often you'll see indifference from the policemen to deal with the common crime and especially with the drug dealers.

The classic excuse of many policemen is that "I have a family and children". Therefore the civilian should take the law in their hands, since the policeman is afraid. However, the incapable policeman could have an office position and let the capable one protect the society. Where the policemen come first is when it comes to the dissolution of demonstrations and as bodyguards and security of the politicians and VIPs – celebrities. If only we could have all those policemen that are now bodyguards of politicians, of businessmen and of journalists and of many other out to the streets to face the common crime, then the criminality would have been decreased.

But what can be done, when we don't even have on foot police patrols. Another huge problem is, as a world exclusive, the unbelievable rudeness of the Greeks to the policemen and especially to those in the traffic control whom they literally swear and they threaten to go after them using their acquaintances (as we said before Greece is the country of the acquaintances and the "intermediate"). However when the policeman or the ones in the traffic control have taken their position and advance through his acquaintances it's a natural result to be afraid of any punk that threaten him in the street! Even about the traffic fines the Greeks often go to the police department and ask the commander to erase them!!!

Greece is also a country full of illegally built houses. Such buildings are everywhere and often constitute entire cities. The state not only isn't demolishing them, instead they can get electricity, too. The police has huge responsibility who don’t arrest the land grabbers (is there bribe of the police officers?) and also there is responsibility of the urban planning department (there we do have reports of bribes) who even they don't recognize as legal, they don’t demolish the illegal buildings. However the state is making legal entire cities of illegal buildings! Unfortunately, though, usually those buildings aren't owned by poor people, instead the most of them belong to people who already have a house and use the illegal one as a summer residency. In Loutraki, for example, there are hundreds of illegal buildings, most of them owned by Athenians who use them as summer house. However in Attica there are thousands of illegal buildings too. Many businessmen have mansions that have illegally trespassed the coast and aren’t arrested. Politics aren’t keen on arresting their backers!

Beyond the illegal buildings, there are also enormous illegal acts been made by various cycles who decide the prices of the olive oil, the milk, the petrol and the heating fuel, the wine, the vegetables, and many more. They are the famous intermediates who profit billions of Euros when they buy the product in a very cheap price from the producer and sell it into the super markets or the street market over-priced up to 100-300%. No one touches these ‘intermediates’. In those cycles obviously participate among others the big industries that cooperate in order to buy the products in a ridiculously low price from the producer and sell it over-priced.

The biggest fraud is been done with the fuel oil which even if today its price is internationally low, only in Greece is been still sold over-priced. On the other hand, there are a lot of reports of frauds relating to the petrol. However the reporter Nikos Evangelatos revealed in last spring that even the milk is been adulterated, since some of the big industries buy cheap milk powder or bulk from our neighbor Balkan countries from bad quality farms. However the orange juice also is often imported in ice columns from Brazil according to Evagelatos research.

Regarding the olive oil, which is not only been bought in ridiculously low price from the producers, but it is also been exported to Italy (where is been used for making their own oils extra virgin) and a part of that is said to been imported back in Greece, of course in a higher price! Regarding the (national) competition committee who is supposed to check the illegal profit, is been proven to be entirely corrupted when on September of 2006 were arrested 3 employees (in fact the 2 of them were related) who were involved in a case of bribing from a milk industry who reported the bribing, while left to be meant that they're going to help reveal the cartel who decides the price of the milk.

Finally, the Greeks as a nation haven't learned yet to discus, instead they yell and make noise. Every form of assembly, from the pupils assembly and the parents assembly into schools, to the students assembly in the university, the assembly of the householders in a building and the parliament assembly, everywhere instead of calm and civilized discussion there are yelling and swears. By the way, in the university elections, however in the local authorities too (municipalities and prefectures) in Greece, as a world exclusive, there are political parties participating! That way, in the municipal and prefecture elections the Greeks vote the political parties! The same in the students elections too. Generally the assemblies of the students in the universities are very noisy, and that's something that characterizes generally every form of assembly in the country that the democracy and dialogue was born.

In conclusion: Greece is a country where "the thief of the thief" attribute dominates, where everybody's looking how to settle in a good position and huge importance have been given by the Greeks to the acquaintances and especially the political ones. As a country, is even worst from the Turkey. Maybe because the Turkish (conquerors of Greece for 400 years) and Albanian (the Turks brought in Greece many Albanians called ‘arbanites’) remaining have pass into the DNA of the neo-Greeks of nepotism, bribing, corruption and so on.

In a final analysis, in Greece is not important who you are, but instead what you declare that you are and what acquaintances you have. Also, in case of frauds in Greece it is usually impossible to find evidence because things are covered up (especially by the politicians) or other times something considered as a fraud in Greece is not, but considered ‘legal’ if it doesn’t break the Greek law!

Closing I will mention that Greece is a wonderful country but inhabited by people, the new (neo)-Greeks whose governances of last 30 years totally destroyed the nation that once raised philosophers such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. If you ask the Greeks who is responsible for destroying Greece the last 30 years they will answer: the politicians. But they are the ones who elected and still elect them!

However, corruption is something that characterizes all the western governments and it is not only a Greek phenomenon.

NOTE FROM THE WRITTER

The author overexaggerates about many issues, in order to make his point clear. Furthermore in this article the writer expresses his own subjective opinion. This article was written based to media reports (TV reports and newspapers articles) which many of them are unreliable and cannot be ascertained at all. So the viewers of this article are requested to NOT accept a priory anything written in this article before they ascertain it by research of official reliable objective sources. Also, some of the information in this article was taken by the TV show ‘politikos marathonios’ of the Greek politician Vasilis Leventis that is published on www.antidiaploki.gr

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This text was send as a complaint to the European Union (commision) and also was sent to be published at international media.