Since “anarcho-tyranny flourishes only when citizens surrender their rights”, the logical solution to it is to change the power dynamic back to the law-abiding Greek. This method will naturally result in more anarchy and tyranny itself. more funding to state security institutions like the police), since this tyranny is already unable to control the anarchy. One needs to realize that the solution to anarchy is not more tyranny (e.g. They are the prime example of taking responsibility for their own protection.
Yet in recent years we have seen that many Greeks are still resilient to that, have not been pacified and are standing up for their homeland (such as protesting against the opening of more reception centers), even if they are old and small in numbers. So as local islanders are literally terrorized by the hordes of fighting age men arriving on their shores (anarchy), the Greek government drowned in bureaucracy, transnational NGO’s, dictated by foreign courts and the European Union serves them tyranny. Greeks are dependent on the arrival of EU delegations, managerial planning for “refugee centers” and cannot take their own islands under control. The problem when living under anarcho-tyranny is that citizens are left in a totally passive role in securing their own protection. It’s easier and more profitable to enforce the law against the marginal lawbreaker than against those habitually committed to spreading mayhem. One should not mistake this situation as something accidental, as Francis notes:
What they can do is attack protesters who are rallying for Greek Macedonia, just like before the Prespa Agreement a few years ago.
The state security institutions only offer vague and half-hearted responses. These incidents are not isolated and their intensity and frequency are perpetually growing. Some days ago Pakistani prisoners in Corinth started burning the facilities and caused massive material damage. Two months earlier on the same island an illegal migrant stole animals, slaughtered them and sold the meat. This week police officers were brutally attacked by illegal migrants in Chios. Yet they cannot stop growing parallel societies among illegal migrants, human trafficking routes, rocketing crime rates and dirtier, more violent neighborhoods.Īll of that is happening at a time during which we witness headlines unimaginable even decades ago. Returning to Sam Francis, he points out that the best illustration for anarcho-tyranny is the police, which in Greece is a well-funded and high-equipped institution, technically more powerful than ever before. The average Greek citizen in this situation is squashed by two sides of the same coin: anarcho-tyranny. The state fails to punish criminals and at the same time criminalizes the innocent.
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While Greek citizens are fined extensively for not wearing a mask in the supermarket, illegal migrants are free to protest the streets for rights they are not entitled too. The recent regulations concerning the COVID-19 lockdown are more than emblematic of this phenomenon the rule of law may as well be factually dead. However, simultaneously it is showing signs of tyranny in the way in which it can drastically reduce the rights of law-abiding Greeks at any moment. Take a walk to Omonia Square in Athens and come back denying that what you see is lawlessness. The government functions in many aspects (providing electricity, water, the mail and collecting taxes, although the last one may be debated), yet it fails at the simple task of enforcing order: It is easy to condemn lawlessness and anarchy, but as Sam Francis himself notes: “ Anarchy is not quite the problem here.” The word, naturally a synthesis of anarchy and tyranny, can be interpreted in numerous ways.Īnarchy can mean Greek leftists de facto occupying a housing complex or neighborhood but it can also more generally describe the failure of a central government to provide security, control and basic human needs of its citizens. What may initially appear to be a fairly obvious reflection of social problems in America, reaches way beyond structurally and extends far over the Atlantic, into both Western Europe and Greece. Francis, has often been used in the US to describe the middle class being squashed by both a bureaucratic state and violent crime at the same time. The term “ anarcho-tyranny”, coined by the conservative American columnist Samuel T.
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