March 28, 2024

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Troika – 2 Dirty Secrets They Are Trying To Hide From Greeks

There are 2 fundamental issues in Greece which could completely dissolve the Troika’s control.

2 things that if they are exploited by the Greek people, could massively cut the power that Greek politicians have over the population.

Either one on their own are enough castrate the Troika, the 2 together are a brick wall to further “measures”.

How worried are the Troika about these 2 issues?

Given the propaganda being pumped out by the media in Greece you would have to say the Troika are extremely worried.

So what are the 2 tools/facts/issues that the Greeks could easily exploit to take back their country?

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The first is staring Greeks in the face and in addition to that, every Greek is aware of the situation. The problem is that the vast majority of Greeks either can not or do not want to put two and two together and realise the personal ramifications of the situation.

The Greek legal system is at the limit of what it can cope with.

The typical back log for a court in Greece is around a year and this can be easily extended by any competent lawyer.

The Greek court system would be simply be unable to cope if even a small percentage of the population decided to actively resist paying the increased taxes and demanded their day in court.

In 2009 Greece had 368,000 recorded crimes in total. If only 3 % of the Greek population of 10 million decided to passively resist the austerity measures, the work load of the courts would be doubled, or in other words, the legal system would at worst grind to a halt and at best suffer severe delays in hearing cases.

Assuming all cases were pled not guilty, the situation would quickly spiral out of the control of the government and would reach a point where it would simply not be feasible for the government to enforce the new taxes.

And this is why we see the Greek government, illegally in my opinion, employing semi-private businesses to collect taxes on their behalf.

The Troika and the Greek government know, that if there were even a tiny amount of passive resistance to the property tax for example, the Greek legal system would cease to function.

This issue on its own is sufficient to make the collection and enforcement of the new taxes completely unworkable.

But there is one more fundamental fact about Greek government infrastructure that further amplifies the problems of the court system.

The Greek prison system simply does not have the space to hold violent prisoners, let alone non-violent, political prisoners who are resisting the Troika by refusing to pay unfair taxes.

2 prison governors have already refused to accept any more prisoners which is forcing police stations to hold prisoners.

The Greek prison system has reached the precipice and is teetering on the edge of complete chaos. The words of a prison governor, not mine.

Without wanting to sound redundant, even if the court system in Greece could somehow miraculously deal with double the workload or more, the Greek legal system is completely and utterly powerless to punish “offenders” because the state simply does not have the capacity to detain any more people.

If the Greek people can simply see through the government propaganda that dramatizes the problem of tax evasion they would see that this government propaganda has one purpose and one purpose only.

It is not to try to get people to pay more taxes. It is designed to try to stop Greeks from protesting in the most effective way imaginable ie the withholding of taxes they feel are unfair/illegal/immoral.

If Greeks can see that tax evasion has absolutely nothing to do with the problems Greece has today and if Greeks can understand that the massive dramatisation of tax evasion by the government is simply designed to try to stop people from legitimately protesting, control will quickly be stripped away from the people who want to destroy the Greek economy.

It will only take a very small percentage of the Greek population to realise that non-payment of taxes that they see as unfair is a legitimate form of protest, to expose the fundamental weakness of the Greek government and Troika.

I am told that there are Greeks who are prepared to fight for their country, right now, not in the future but now, things have got that bad. The problem they tell me is that they do not know who to fight, there is not an obvious foreign military force on the streets of Greece so they feel powerless to do anything.

If this is the point people have reached they need to realise they do not need to risk their lives for their country to free it. It is much easier than that.

Those Greeks who are ready to fight for their country need to realise they can fight for their country without risking their lives and in the process do something that is arguably more effective and much easier.

They can simply take a political stand against their oppressors by not paying the taxes they fell are unfair, unjust, immoral or illegal.

As I said, it will only take a very small percentage of Greeks to realise they do not have to risk their lives for their country, they simply have to refuse to pay the taxes they think are unfair and face the extremely small possibility that they will become a political prisoner at some time in the distant future.

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