Archive note: This text comes from the old archive of Nomika Epilekta and is carefully preserved for historical and informational reading.

We are suffering from the new economic crisis. Incomes have fallen, many have lost their jobs, taxes have increased and multiplied irrationally, non-existent or fictitious incomes are being taxed, laws are becoming stricter, individual rights have been restricted and state power has grown. Under the pretext of fighting crime, many innocent and unsuspecting people are persecuted, punished, publicly humiliated and imprisoned.

The whole population, with very many exceptions (privileged politicians, their relatives, the national contractors, former black marketeers, the ruthless, fraudsters, gold dealers and unrepentant usurers), has been seized by pessimism. Famous journalists (famous for their audacity, insolence and wealth) contribute to it with all their strength, intensifying national despair in every way.

Proof of the new crisis, which has ended up being insurmountable, is not only the soup kitchens, nor the unprotected homeless and the tragic suicides of the desperate, but also the mushroom-like increase of gold-buying "offices", founded by various types who, in every era, prosper at the expense of others, feeding on crises. In the past there were the callous black marketeers. Then came the smugglers, who acquired monstrous wealth and, having lost every feeling, settled on our necks. Now, just as ELDE firms once sprang up, pawnshops are springing up, with bright, attractive signs and extensive television advertisements inviting us to give them our jewelry, gold objects and silver items at satisfactory prices...

In this crisis, which we caused ourselves, the governing politicians, unrepentant, repeat the mistakes of the past. Without abilities, ideology, courage or vision, they neither inspire nor guide the people toward the exit from the crisis. With spasmodic, unjust, delayed and erratic measures, they try to please the leaders of the great European states, mainly Germany, and instead of leading, they remain followers pretending to be leaders. They continue to appoint "their own children", especially their relatives, to the public sector, provoking with their arrogant behavior. And they are not moved by the reactions, criticism and strong disapproval of the governed (a characteristic example is the Polydoras case).

In implementation of the third memorandum, government officials unsuccessfully attempt to rid themselves of the surplus and idle employees, most of whom they themselves appointed ("settled" or placed).

Government action extends to all sectors of economic and social life: it abolishes tax-free thresholds, revokes privileges, tries in vain to limit the lawlessness of professional trade unionism, while at the same time abolishing useless "services" created for the sake of voters who, from one moment to the next, were transformed from village residents and farmers into highly paid public employees or "functionaries" (feeding the monster of bureaucracy with abundant food so that it could grow even stronger).

From government deputies come words of restrained optimism, accompanied by the warning that, if the government effort fails, Greece will go bankrupt, will be expelled from the European Union, the euro will cease to be our national currency and, in short, the end of the world will come.

Opposed to government action is the reaction of the opposition, both the main opposition and the minor opposition of heterogeneous reactionaries, who define themselves either as progressives of the radical left or as popular right, far right and communist left. In essence, the whole spectrum of the opposition consists of citizens in ideological confusion who do not differ from each other or from their governing colleagues. All are afflicted by obsessions, fixed ideas, rigidities and fanaticism, while claiming authentic ability to provide solutions to the economic, social and national problem.

The methods of reaction remain the same: strikes, acts of violence, shouting, insults, slogans, road blockades, obstruction of those who wish to work, threats, occupations, destruction of public and private property and chaos.

The mass media do not support civilized, sober, modern and rational proposals for exiting the economic, political and social crisis; on the contrary, they reproduce the extreme, extremist and irrational versions that begin with the exercise of crude blackmail against the "Europeans", who "need us and will not expel us from the European Union and the single currency", and end with charting a solitary course in the modern interdependent world. A course like the one Cuba chose and North Korea follows, or the one Cyprus attempted, only to end in foreign occupation of half its territory!

Whoever has the endurance, disposition and time watches the televised confrontations of the supposedly opposing factions, united by fanaticism, irrationality and foolishness. He hears the overlapping cries, the monotonous monologues, the ruminated obsolete slogans, the threats and the bluster.

Some who are recognizable from their television activity benefit from the confusion caused. They are journalists, actors, lawyers, professors and other professionals who, thanks to their dense presence on the small screen, succeeded in dragging along many uneducated and gaping people in order to climb to the much-desired and privileged parliamentary office of benefits, idleness and enjoyment. The common element of all these new patricians is unrestrained and sudden enrichment, which stands in direct contradiction to their speeches on behalf of the poor, the humble and the despised, to their lamentations and to the hypocritical concern for the unemployed, the low-paid and pensioners emitted through their fiery words.

Corresponding to government action with its old-party character is the pharisaical reaction of the opposition, and all together, those governing and those opposing, compete in irrationality, extremes, fanaticism and stubbornness, pushing the country into the abyss and complete destruction, which they seem to desire and pursue.

The only solution to the problem of the economic, political and social crisis is for citizens to become reasonable and, rejecting party affiliations, divisions, factions and fanaticism, to demand, each in his own environment and with his own small or great powers, that the mockery by professional politicians and patricians cease. There must finally be healthy, modern, civilized criticism of demagogues, deceivers of the people and fraudsters, with the aim of their immediate expulsion from the political stage and their neutralization through reason and prudence, so that, with the prevalence of reason, a ray of the light of hope may appear in the distance.