a1 The new year arrived with more “human rights” initiatives by our cartoon government. Lost in the maelstrom of the national economic collapse, and eager to prove he’s busy with “important” things, George Papandreou is exerting himself to pass a new immigration bill that would legalize outright thousands of illegal immigrants. The bill has jolted this usually apathetic society, with the great majority opposing automatic legalization for immigrants who have arrived here by breaching the country’s (open) border.

The core of the proposed bill is the legalization of children of illegal immigrants who were born here; the bill baptizes them Greek on the spot. The bill will also allow immigrants residing here for a minimum of five years to vote in local elections.

I think George and his cohorts have gone totally bonkers.

Either George is absent from this country – his spirit floating out there in the ether of higher and loftier things than running this wretched land – and he can’t see what illegal immigration is doing to us… or, he is deliberately following “advice” by his foreign friends and the ubiquitous “non-government organizations” on how to unhinge what has been left of this society, so that Greece becomes one big, complacent, permanent cesspool that can serve as the pressure vacuum absorbing the impact of waves of Asian and African illegal immigration aiming at Europe.

What is happening right now in Italy should be a lesson to our local “equality and solidarity” gurus. A walk in downtown Athens should be also instructive. The old commercial center is entirely in the hands of black African peddlers pushing counterfeit “luxury” goods, like bags, purses, and “brand” umbrellas. Such is the onslaught that even a veteran PASOK cabinet minister, Anna Diamantopoulou, who currently holds the Education portfolio, was moved to warn that downtown Athens must be reclaimed by the Greeks. In a letter she wrote to Papandreou’s right hand man and minister of state, Harry Pamboukis, Diamantopoulou warns that the situation is out of control and that “mass conflict” can ensue at any moment! Extraordinary! (See the news report in Greek).

I have no idea how this cartoon government will react to such warnings emanating from its own ranks. Or, rather, I do have an idea: there will be more stroking of the “human rights” crowd and more permissive policies to strengthen the flow of illegal immigrants into this country. Indeed, this most catastrophic proposal of automatic citizenship for children born to foreign parents in this country will be our undoing. Who would stop the new wave of younger aliens pushing to reach Greece and procreate so that their offspring grab automatic Greek and EU citizenship?

What escapes the sorry excuses for “governors” now in power is that Greece is hardly the same as the United States, which does retain a clause of automatic citizenship for children born on US soil. The US is vastly bigger and wealthier and founded on very different principles; it is a self-proclaimed “nation of immigrants” and as such it continues to offer certain openings to foreigners arriving at its shores (although things have become a lot tighter since 9/11 and the pressure for further tightening is increasing). American lessons cannot be applied here. This is a small, fragile land occupied by people who have gradually lost their sense of self-preservation and defending what is their own thanks to decades of “progressive” ramblings by bankrupt “socialists” and others of the same ilk.

I am deeply saddened at the collapse of this town where I was born and raised. I feel deeply frustrated that our “state” would allow these throngs to overtake us with such ease. I really believe it is high time to sweep the streets and send the message that Greece is unwelcoming to all illegal immigration. Or, maybe, hostile to all illegal immigration! How’s that?

And the sweep should also include all of our own “progressives,” a small, but very loud and intrusive minority that has been allowed to drive developments and undermine our sovereignty as a Nation every step of the way.

Unfortunately, Ephialtes was a Hellene and his descendants are obviously very much present in our day and age.