The polls are in and it’s unanimous; our Nation’s leadership has failed us. Whether it is the elected officials at home or the leadership of our Diaspora and it’s useless advocacy groups, the previous generation of political leadership and ‘lobbyists’ have shown there true colors; as nothing more then a bunch of corrupt and self-centered phonies that have sold out Hellenism because of there own greed and inabilities to produce.
What has PASOK or New Democracy truly done when it comes to our National Issues? For once in Greek History, we can finally look past ideological lines and say confidently that neither the Left nor Right has done anything to secure our interests and honor in the international community. Now before you start holding fast to your party allegiances and start calling me a radical or better yet, saying ‘what does this Amerikaniki know’, riddle me this; When was the last time a Greek PM or government, for that matter, did anything productive to protect our National Rights in Northern Epirus or even help protect those Greeks still living there from Human rights abuses? Has our leaders brought us victory when it comes to protecting our Macedonian heritage from our Slavic enemies to the North? Have our brothers and sisters in Cyprus come any closer to returning to their homes and uniting there island? And I won’t even touch our problems with Turkish airspace and human rights violation against us and the remaining Greek minority. Needless to say neither side has brought us a breathe of fresh air and we Greeks continue to act like castrated dogs in the international scene. The shell shock of the Asia Minor catastrophe and the attempted coup in Cyprus must be brushed off, if we are to survive as an independent people.
As I’ve said this shame has not just fallen on our leadership at home, but it is also shared by those living abroad and the advocacy groups they claim to use in our national interest. Here in the United States groups such as Manatos and Manatos have embarrassed the image of Greek advocacy groups. Throwing fundraisers and supporting pro-Turkish politicians, such as Robert Wexler (D) of Florida’s 19th district, an outspoken friend of Turkey, who has even visited occupied Cyprus. Are these really the people we want lobbying for our national interests? People, who when I called to speak with them about such anti-Greek moves, were left dumbfounded and could only muster a nervous giggle as a responds, before claiming that they could produce pro-Greek comments by Representative Wexler, of which till this very day I continually wait to hear the magic words ‘You have mail’ from Manatos and Manatos. These family run Advocacy groups are nothing more then the American versions of the same corrupt political dynasties inside the motherland that keep Greece in shackles. It is long overdue that regular men and women wrestler the reins of power away from these monsters in order to protect and secure our continued national survival as Greeks. New stances and outlooks on our national issues need to be taken. We can not continue beating the same ineffective drum like a broken record if we are to survive. We must look outside the box and taken new fresh approaches to our problems in hopes of doing the unthinkable, winning.
Makedonia
For roughly 17 years since the dismantlement of the former Yugoslavia one of our most pressing national issues has been our attempts to prevent the rape and theft of our Macedonian heritage by Tito’s bastard creation of Bulgarian speaking pseudo-Macedonians. This long and up hill struggle has produced failure after failure for the Greek leadership since it foolishly backed down from its embargo of Vardaska in the early 90s.
For quiet some time this issue has been seen by many as a stalemate, with neither side willing to compromise from their hard-line stances. During which the Greek government foolishly relaxed its push and became comfortable with the status-quo, instead of continuing feverishly our cause until victory was achieved. Now the United States and its allies in Skopje have joined forces to force Greece to bow to the will of these revisionists. Our only pray falling on the government of Karamanlis to stand strong with his decision to veto NATO membership of Vardaska.
If we are to get the upper hand a secure a stronger position on the name dispute we must approach this issue from a radically new position. I for one, suggest a new foreign and domestic policy when dealing with Vardaska. Domestically, for years we have been fighting against the Skopjean claims of minority rights, which we have wisely stated can not be recognized. However, one possible change, in handling Skopje expansionists dreams in Macedonia, would be to first no longer identify them as Skopjean- rather identify them as Bulgarians and give them all the rights of other minorities- open Bulgarian schools and churches etc and allow the Bulgarian government not Skopje rights and claims to these individuals. Second, Skopje calls for the opening of Macedonian language schools should be answered positively. The Greek government should publicly support and fund the creation of several schools to teach the Macedonian dialect -that is the government should put together a team of linguistic and historians to piece back together the ancient Macedonian dialect of the Greek language to be taught today officially as Macedonian inside and outside Greece. When it comes to a new stance on foreign policy, the answer is very simple; we should take a page from the Serbian government over the issue of Kosovo. We should pull all our ambassadors from every embassy worldwide if the host nation recognizes Vardaska as Macedonia. For how can our government be taken serious, in side the Greek state, if we allow our ambassadors to stay in such countries?
What has PASOK or New Democracy truly done when it comes to our National Issues? For once in Greek History, we can finally look past ideological lines and say confidently that neither the Left nor Right has done anything to secure our interests and honor in the international community. Now before you start holding fast to your party allegiances and start calling me a radical or better yet, saying ‘what does this Amerikaniki know’, riddle me this; When was the last time a Greek PM or government, for that matter, did anything productive to protect our National Rights in Northern Epirus or even help protect those Greeks still living there from Human rights abuses? Has our leaders brought us victory when it comes to protecting our Macedonian heritage from our Slavic enemies to the North? Have our brothers and sisters in Cyprus come any closer to returning to their homes and uniting there island? And I won’t even touch our problems with Turkish airspace and human rights violation against us and the remaining Greek minority. Needless to say neither side has brought us a breathe of fresh air and we Greeks continue to act like castrated dogs in the international scene. The shell shock of the Asia Minor catastrophe and the attempted coup in Cyprus must be brushed off, if we are to survive as an independent people.
As I’ve said this shame has not just fallen on our leadership at home, but it is also shared by those living abroad and the advocacy groups they claim to use in our national interest. Here in the United States groups such as Manatos and Manatos have embarrassed the image of Greek advocacy groups. Throwing fundraisers and supporting pro-Turkish politicians, such as Robert Wexler (D) of Florida’s 19th district, an outspoken friend of Turkey, who has even visited occupied Cyprus. Are these really the people we want lobbying for our national interests? People, who when I called to speak with them about such anti-Greek moves, were left dumbfounded and could only muster a nervous giggle as a responds, before claiming that they could produce pro-Greek comments by Representative Wexler, of which till this very day I continually wait to hear the magic words ‘You have mail’ from Manatos and Manatos. These family run Advocacy groups are nothing more then the American versions of the same corrupt political dynasties inside the motherland that keep Greece in shackles. It is long overdue that regular men and women wrestler the reins of power away from these monsters in order to protect and secure our continued national survival as Greeks. New stances and outlooks on our national issues need to be taken. We can not continue beating the same ineffective drum like a broken record if we are to survive. We must look outside the box and taken new fresh approaches to our problems in hopes of doing the unthinkable, winning.
Makedonia
For roughly 17 years since the dismantlement of the former Yugoslavia one of our most pressing national issues has been our attempts to prevent the rape and theft of our Macedonian heritage by Tito’s bastard creation of Bulgarian speaking pseudo-Macedonians. This long and up hill struggle has produced failure after failure for the Greek leadership since it foolishly backed down from its embargo of Vardaska in the early 90s.
For quiet some time this issue has been seen by many as a stalemate, with neither side willing to compromise from their hard-line stances. During which the Greek government foolishly relaxed its push and became comfortable with the status-quo, instead of continuing feverishly our cause until victory was achieved. Now the United States and its allies in Skopje have joined forces to force Greece to bow to the will of these revisionists. Our only pray falling on the government of Karamanlis to stand strong with his decision to veto NATO membership of Vardaska.
If we are to get the upper hand a secure a stronger position on the name dispute we must approach this issue from a radically new position. I for one, suggest a new foreign and domestic policy when dealing with Vardaska. Domestically, for years we have been fighting against the Skopjean claims of minority rights, which we have wisely stated can not be recognized. However, one possible change, in handling Skopje expansionists dreams in Macedonia, would be to first no longer identify them as Skopjean- rather identify them as Bulgarians and give them all the rights of other minorities- open Bulgarian schools and churches etc and allow the Bulgarian government not Skopje rights and claims to these individuals. Second, Skopje calls for the opening of Macedonian language schools should be answered positively. The Greek government should publicly support and fund the creation of several schools to teach the Macedonian dialect -that is the government should put together a team of linguistic and historians to piece back together the ancient Macedonian dialect of the Greek language to be taught today officially as Macedonian inside and outside Greece. When it comes to a new stance on foreign policy, the answer is very simple; we should take a page from the Serbian government over the issue of Kosovo. We should pull all our ambassadors from every embassy worldwide if the host nation recognizes Vardaska as Macedonia. For how can our government be taken serious, in side the Greek state, if we allow our ambassadors to stay in such countries?
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