Far-right MP's attack on mayor fuels ire

Time has come to begin prosecuting members of Golden Dawn for crimes like the racist attacks against immigrants and violence against legitimate political opponents. The ultimate responsibility lies with the Government in Greece, the police and judicial authorities. We did not fight fascism in WWII and then later during the Junta just to have fascists reappear in different guise. Greece is not Ukraine or Russia, it is not Germany or Lithuania, or for that matter France, where the far right has a large constituency and dangerous violent racist past. The fact that no government has adequately dealt with issue of asylum seekers, or provided genuine rights to immigrants has much to do with the rise of Golden Dawn and their manipulation of migration and the crisis to make some less educated poor Greeks blame immigrants and refugees for the financial crisis. When did the previous governments, left and right, launch mass education campaigns on racism? Do the Greeks in Greece actually understand the long term benefits of migration? Especially at a time of economic crisis it is important to support the most vulnerable and to assist them in integrating and in creating new international links for the benefit of Greece. Racism has gone on for far too long in post 90s Greece. Greeks were happy to exploit the labour of illegal migrants and refugees and to do so illegally without paying taxes or health insurance, but they are not prepared to allow these same people rights and responsibilities. The hypocrisy in all this is that Greeks are the first to scream loud accusations of racism and bigotry when member nations of the EU suggest that they were profligate or make them share the proportion of the blame that they should share for the chaos which has befallen their nation. Time has come to stand up for migrants in Greece and for the good people of Greece against the dark shadow of fascism. The Greek consuls general across the world should make it clear to Mr Samaras and his colleagues that citizens of multicultural western democracies judge Greeks by the worst not the best that nation has to give - at least for now. Lambis SA