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

In our strange country a peculiar mentality prevails, because of which the equality of citizens among themselves and before the law, and the prohibition of discrimination provided for by the Constitution, are abolished.

It is known that since the revolution of 1821 distinctions and titles of nobility were abolished, with the proclamation of freedom and isonomy, that is, equality of all, nationals and foreigners, before the law. Yet in our time discrimination continues and citizens are still divided into the important and the unimportant (or unknown), as they were once divided into patricians and plebeians, into feudal lords (aristocrats) and serfs, into the strong and the weak, into slaves and free persons, according to institutionalized and socially accepted distinctions. Provocative forms of discrimination are observed everywhere, on every occasion and in every event, without exceptions, contrary to the definitions of the Constitution and of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. According to Article 21 § 1 of the above Charter, “any discrimination shall be prohibited, in particular on grounds of sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political opinions or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation”. The proclamations of the Constitution and of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union are regarded in our country as pious wishes. They do not educate conscience, they are not respected. They simply are not applied. And the courts comply with them reluctantly (when they comply), according to many of their decisions, by which these proclamations are judged inapplicable and no consequences exist when they are violated (they are leges imperfectae, that is, laws that do not provide sanctions if someone fails to respect them). A consequence of social discrimination is that injustice, inequality and social abnormality prevail, feeding generalized dissatisfaction. This is expressed through disobedience to the laws, through indiscipline, through continuous acts of violence and sabotage, and through the nullification of patriotic spirit. The socially powerful and important are not those adorned with virtues, knowledge, ability, learning, honesty and ethos, but, in order of rank, first the rich, regardless of the sources of their enrichment (such as “our” representative at the 2004 Olympic Games), second the relatives (sons, nephews, daughters and nieces, spouses, best men, grandsons and granddaughters) of the rich and of politicians, who are likewise extremely wealthy (such as nephews, sons and daughters), and third the party appointees and the parties’ strike groups. In hierarchical terms, the important are those who hold key positions in the state mechanism, ministers, deputy ministers, presidents, vice-presidents, acting presidents, general secretaries, mayors, judges, bishops, clinic owners, senior figures of trade unionism and of guilds, certain prominent journalists, particular lawyers, bankers, senior and highest-ranking police officers, mistresses and lovers, well-publicized artists (actors, singers and others). All these are paid from the state treasury with money borrowed from the country's creditors. All the rest belong to the great mass of the people who serve the important and privileged, carry on their backs the whole of the tax burdens and the responsibility even for natural disasters, are conscripted and struggle for the whole, that is, also for the drones of prosperity, and obey orders and laws, being corrected by state authority when they stray and do not comply with the wishes of the important. The results of discrimination are that (a) the prominent and important person is not checked and does not account for himself, unlike the obscure and unimportant person who is constantly subjected to checks by various oppressors (police officers, judges, prosecutors, bankers, tax officials, inspectors, forest guards, preachers), (b) the important person prevails in litigation against any unimportant, obscure and weak person, (c) the important person, even under conditions of crisis, increases his property and material power, while the unimportant person risks starvation, because he bears the entire burden of taxes and various charges, threatened at the slightest thing with losing his freedom, his work and his rudimentary property, mainly his home, if he has one, (d) the important person has friends everywhere (“his own” people) to push aside obstacles, whether legal, social or otherwise, while the unimportant person is forced into conflict while trying to obtain the absolutely elementary things to which he is entitled, (e) the important person educates his children through studies in colleges, abroad, with special tutors and with all modern means, so that they become the next important and powerful people, leaders, members of parliament in their parents’ place, distinguished judges with a family tradition, entrepreneurs, directors and supervisors of others, that is, (f) of the unimportant who struggle for the daily wage, for daily bread, for survival, without prospects beyond their dreams and without strength beyond their hands. If the unimportant person does not have the favor or tolerance of some important person or persons, he will not get back on his feet. He will suffer. He will constantly find obstacles. His children will suffer, they will not acquire the education of the important, and, on top of that, they will be accused for their limited education and their family weakness. They will not be able to go to Asteras Vouliagmenis to fall in love, as the sons of the patricians do [Nomika Epilekta “Difficult September”], nor will they ever stop fighting to pay bills, loans, taxes and charges. The unimportant and unknown are conscripted, while the important and famous are exempted from service or serve fictitiously, for show (the case of the nephews of the “national leader” from Serres and other similar cases). This state of social inequality is approved, maintained and reinforced by modern Greeks, while in other cases they simply remain inactive. Most seek to become important while they are unimportant, without counting toil, sacrifices and means, and without caring whether those means are honorable or dishonorable, with preference for the latter. The ideal and ideology is the acquisition of wealth, regardless of the efforts that will be required. The ruthless, criminals of every kind, the deceitful, the usurers, the grabbers, the insatiable and even the murderers have become idols (the case of Koemtzis). They are admired and become models for imitation. The violator of laws and morals is no longer punished if he belongs to the important, and especially to the rich. He confronts the laws provocatively and always escapes and is vindicated. On the basis of the finding that the important are a minority, while the unimportant constitute the overwhelming majority of citizens, the majority must change this sick social condition by abolishing discrimination. Immediate cleansing is needed through the prevalence of morality, of universally proclaimed principles, and of fundamental political, social and human rights. A struggle is needed so that constitutionally guaranteed full equality may prevail, through which the division into unimportant and important, into strong and weak, into privileged and non-privileged, will cease to exist. The abolition of the above distinction is achieved when morality, with its rules, prevails in society, together with respect for human, political and social rights and the proclaimed principles of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which has been in force since 1 December 2009. And when the third power, the judiciary, functions, staffed by brilliant personalities with ethos, principles, experience, knowledge and training. Without meritocracy, ideology and principles, society will not be upgraded into a field of equal opportunities and equality, but will slide into an abyss of decline from which exit will become more difficult and, finally, impossible.