Greek Inspector General Leandros Rakintzis reports blatant cases of huge corruption and bad attitude. A Culture Ministry employee has in his bank account ten million euros that he is unable to justify according to his poor income! Another case relates to a department head at the Health Ministry who sits on twenty different committees, all paid positions! Rakintzis notes that such committee positions should not be subject to remuneration anyhow. A state hospital doctor took with him the files of 440 patients when he left his position to set up his own private practice!
Hospitals admit elderly people who require nursing care or are confused because their children bring them there so that they can take a few days of vacation! This, of course, drives up healthcare costs.
Greece has more than five times as many civil servants per capital than the United Kingdom. The country's inflated government apparatus consumes tens of billions of euros a year. An administrative office called Kopais, named after the lake of the same name near Thebes, which was established in 1957. The purpose of the office was to prepare for the draining of the lake so that roads could then be built in the lakebed. In that same year, which is now over half a century ago, the lake disappeared forever. But there are still 30 employees doing nothing at Kopais today.
The government agency that was created to manage a bid to make Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki, a European cultural capital in 1997 is still humming away. Its employees are supposedly working on winding down the major event and settling up the accounts, 13 years later, chatting and doing nothing.
Municipal authorities all over Greece have borrowed huge sums and had subsequently been unable to service their debts. Most of that money ended up in the secret offshore accounts of kleptocrats.
Plato and Aristotle asserted that different regimes produce different types of human beings, and regimes ought to be judged by the character of their citizens. In Europe, the growth of interventionist welfare state has damaged personal responsibility and integrity, fostered dependence, undermined families, rejected venitism, and promoted corruption. Especially in Greece, the most corrupt country on Earth, Graecokleptocracy is accepted as a normal thing, and most Greeks rely on graft, sinecures, cheating, incivility, cacodemony, cancer of socialism, jingoism, religionism, lies, and kickbacks. The character of modern Greece of the 300 Graecokleptocrats is the opposite of the character of ancient Greece of the 300 Spartans of Leonidas.
The Achilles Heel of the national character is licensure. Basil Venitis asserts that all licenses should be abolished, including doctors, lawyers, and marriage. Licensure is an immoral exercise of force, an overly burdensome restraint on trade, a violation of the right to liberty, a mill of kickbacks. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. One of the many reasons why government licensure is incompatible with liberty, therefore, is because it is destructive of economic freedom. No other nation demands more licenses than Greece.
Anyone has the natural right to pursue any means of providing for himself so long as in doing so he does not act fraudulently or otherwise violate the rights of others. The State mandated license turns the free market upside down. It prohibits everyone from producing in a given industry except for those who are granted the privilege of doing so by the state, especially those who provide huge kickbacks to kleptocrats. The state, in such a scenario, absorbs all individual rights unto itself and then divvies up some of those rights in any number of ways.
Under a licensing system, such as we have today, if someone attempts to exercise his natural right to provide for himself without the state's nod of approval, which usually comes with kickbacks, that person goes to jail. Imprisonment for supporting oneself in an honest and non-fraudulent manner which does not infringe on the rights of others just doesn't seem right. Preemptive protection is offensive in nature, and therefore, is itself a violation of natural rights. In a free society, it is only after fraud or another violation of rights takes place that the state has the right to intervene on behalf of the consumer.
By means of the licensure power, the State can permit the individual to eat or it can condemn him to starve, unless he gives kickbacks to kleptocrats. So long as the government has the power to issue licenses to live, we cannot claim to be free, and living without freedom is not much of a life. Fortunately, we still have a license to kill unsound and coercive government measures, so let us use that license to regain our right to live.
Greece requires more licenses than any other country. For anything you do in Greece, you have to take permission from the government, a bureaucratic task that requires filling myriad papers. It's impossible to fill all these papers accurately. That's why Greeks either give up or give kickbacks to public employees to accept incomplete piles of papers.
As the Latin expression puts it, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? This is a phrase from the Roman poet Juvenal, which is literally translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?" It is also sometimes rendered as "Who watches the watchmen?" In Greece, the watchers of watchmen are all corrupt!
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out Greeks, robbed at gunpoint by Graecokleptocrats, survive by schemes, fraud, sinecures, and mugging each other. Rousfeti means expensive political favors, which pervade everything from hiring public employees to property deals. Tax evaders and law breakers receive visits from officials eager to collect kickbacks. In return for leaving the guilty untouched, officials receive fakelaki, envelope containing bribe in cash. The standard rate for kickbacks is 10% of the forfeited penalty. Desperate Greeks now pray for a new dictatorship! Allons enfants de la Grece!
Venitis notes that Gregory means fast in Greek. Gregory's tax is fakelaki for fast service. Without it, you will wait for ever! All Athenians know very well that without Gregory they will have to wait many months before a state IKA physician could see them. If you want a surgery, you will have to give the IKA surgeon at least 5,000 euros kickback, that beloved Gregory! The surgeon would ask you how is Gregory. If you do not present Gregory, you will have to come back to IKA months later to answer the same question. If Gregory is not fat enough, the IKA surgeon might pseudoforget his scissors inside you! Allons enfants de la Grece!
Greeks are fed up with all politicians. A range of government policies since the end of dictatorship in 1974 have made them feel powerless and betrayed by a centralized kleptocracy that claims to know what is good for them better than they do themselves. The welfare Graecokleptocracy has created not a feeling of security but a culture of dependency on crumbs and sinecures and a loss of responsibility. The all-powerful 300 Graecokleptocrats are willing to say anything to fool Greeks and do anything to get kickbacks.
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out that for 35 years since dictatorship, Pasokleptocrats and Neodemokleptocrats who took turns in running Greece, the most corrupt country on Earth, borrowed as if there were no tomorrow, and they received 200 billion euros in kickbacks from Siemens, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, MAN, Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, Ferrostaal, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, antitrust, military purchases, monasteries, and many more. Through mismanagement, robbery, kickbacks, and nepotism, they drove the cradle of democracy to the brink of bankruptcy with a public debt of 350 billion euros.
Michael Christoforakos, the former president of Siemens Hellas, set a videocamera in his Siemens office, producing DVDs starring 200 Graecokleptocrats, kept at two public notaries. Christoforakos has the tiptop Greek politicians on DVD kowtowing to him for more kickbacks in exchange for lucrative overpriced contracts! The DVDs prove that Premier Costas Simitis, 10 ministers, and 80 MPs of Pasok, Premier Costas Caramanlis, 8 ministers, and 75 MPs of Nea Democratia, and 20 journalists shared two billion euros of kickbacks. Christoforakos, who now lives in Munich, identified John Bartholomew of Nea Democratia and Costas Geitonas of Pasok as the coordinators of kickbacks. Siemens set aside 10% of the revenue it received from state contracts to pay off Nea Democratia and Pasok as part of a bribery system that ran from 1975 to 2007.
The huge Greek debt is not due to spending, but robbing! It's not fair for poor Greeks to pay this debt, but for Graecokleptocrats to return the loot, mission impossible. That's why Greeks revolt against 300 Graecokleptocrats with bombs, molotovs, guns, strikes, and riots! Many revolutionary groups try to overthrow Graecokleptocrats and hang them in front of the Greek Parliament! Most Greeks pray now for a coup!
No Graecokleptocrat has ever gone to jail! Venitis asserts that impunity of the 300 Graecokleptocrats is the most freakish justice in the world! The most infamous house on Earth is the Greek Parliament, aka the Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square, which houses 300 wild prostitutes, minotaurs that suck the blood of Greeks! It's a long way from the 300 Spartans of Leonidas to the 300 Graecokleptocrats of the Grand Brothel! Allons enfants de la Grece!
Returning the loot is hard to do. 300 Untouchable Graecokleptocrats, the most corrupt politicians on Earth, those freaks that enjoy absolute impunity, assert they will never return the 200 billion euros they robbed from the Greek treasury, kickbacks, and churning the nest eggs of poor workers! The loot is safely deposited in secret offshore accounts, and it's very hard to trace it.
Greeks now demand the legal confiscation of all assets belonging to Graecokleptocrats, in order to ensure the repayment of the debt which Graecokleptocrats have admittedly caused, by inventing parliamentary immunity. All present and past MPs since 1975 should be examined for all unlawful and criminal actions taken against the assets of the Greek State, including those which have expired under the statute of limitations, in order for justice, truth, and transparency to be reinstated in Greece. Let it be.
The economic tragedy unfolding in Greece is the welfare state taken to its logical conclusion. When groups of people use the state to live at the expense of others, the feedback loop about the costs of those transfers is attenuated, often by design. The welfare state therefore makes commitments that it cannot honor. By the time creditors or taxpayers say Enough, the welfare state has created a clash between expectations and means that leads to unrest and hardship, a clash that never had to occur.
Venitis muses that Papandreou is a Don Quixote who is tilting at the windmills of speculators. Papaconstantinou is a Sancho Panza who helps Papandreou to attack imaginary kallikantzaroi. The quixotic adventures of Papandreou lead nowhere, because he is surrounded by Graecokleptocrats who play farces on him. The cruel practical jokes eventually will lead Don Quixote to a great melancholy.
Venitis notes that adding insult to injury, the 200 Graecokleptocrats who robbed 200 billion euros since dictatorship in 1974 established kangaroo courts in the Greek parliament to investigate themselves for various scandals! There are 300 Graecokleptocrats in the Greek parliament. This means two out of three judges are the culprits themselves! These are the people who got two billion euro kickbacks from Siemens the last ten years, churned 80 billion euros of pension funds of poor Greek workers, gave huge valuable land to monasteries in exchange for kickbacks, got many billion euro kickbacks from military purchaces, traded antitrust panenalties for kickbacks, and myriad more scandals. Moreover, Graecokleptocrats will get several million euros in overtime payments for investigating themselves! No wonder, Greece is broke.
Out of 200 culprits, the Siemens Kangaroo Court of the Greek Parliament has found only two culprits: Anastasios Mantelis and Theodore Tsoukatos of Pasok. Out of two billion euros in Siemens kickbacks, it has found only two million euros in kickbacks! If this is not tokenism, what is it? It's amazing that the two main culprits, Costas Caramanlis and Costas Simitis, were not even invited to testify! Nevertheless, all Greeks demand Caramanlis and Simitis to be hanged in front of the Greek Parliament now.
The Dirty Dozen most corrupt kleptocrats on Earth were Costas Caramanlis of Greece, Costas Simitis of Greece, Suharto of Indonesia, Ferdinand Marcos of Philippines, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, Sani Abacha of Nigeria, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti, Alberto Fujimori of Peru, Pavlo Lazarenko of Ukraine, Arnoldo Aleman of Nicaragua, and Joseph Estrada of Philippines.
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