The murder of the 17-year-old student Christos Michalopoulos comes to beadded as the third cold-blooded execution by armed men in the last twoyears, after Nikos Sampanis and Kostas Fragoulis, as well as the fourth,including that of Kostas Manioudakis after his torture by policeofficers in Crete. They come to be added to the long bloody list ofmurders by the paid guards of the state, clearly not only in the Greekstate but on a global level (see France). ---- But we want to focus onthe first three aforementioned murders, to highlight the common elementsthey contained. In all three cases we have the murder of young children,Roma all three of them, which is not accidental, but exactly reflectsthe widespread racism towards this particular group of people, which isconfirmed by the position of the cop who killed Christos and in hisapology he said that he considered him dangerous (without, of course,being able to substantiate such a claim). These murders also have astrong class character, seeing the example of the murder of Frangouliswho was murdered in Thessaloniki for a EUR20 petrol robbery. The dogs ofthe state perform their historical role and defend the interests of thebourgeoisie, not hesitating to pull the trigger and send new children tothe ground, even for EUR20, exploiting the hatred against the Roma as atool to exonerate their murders deeds. We clearly understand that theRoma are not a special group outside of society and we stand by the sideof only those who are class-wise close to us, that is, the multitude ofcommunities that live in miserable conditions. They are the onesexperiencing both the racism and the gunfire, not the "winners" of thesecommunities who live in opulence from the profits of illegal activitiesand are invoked by all sorts of racists to establish supportingarguments in favor of state killers.These murders are a result of the politics that approves them and givesthem an alibi. It is no coincidence that the killer cops are at homewith their families. Nevertheless, we do not expect any punishment fromthe system that arms them and which they guard. But I find itinconceivable that young people are murdered and society remains apassive spectator. Only we can put an end to state authoritarianismtowards all social and class groups that are being attacked every day.But a society in decay, accustomed to death, which cares for nothingbeyond its narrow family circle and the self-interest of its members, isa society which cannot ensure that such barbarities stop. It is asociety of inhumanity. But since we are all members of this society andinhumanity does not characterize it as a whole, we have a moral duty tochange it.For the state, every cop is nothing more than an expendable bodyguardpower. This is how governments and government officials see theirguards. On the contrary, we do not see the neighbor, the colleague, thefriend, the neighbor, regardless of his gender, race and specialindividual characteristics, as expendable. We cannot accept death (ontrains, at borders and seas, in police stations and by bullets in thewild) as a normalized condition. Because, after all, if we do not resistdeath and the constant devaluation and devaluing of our lives, then thehabit of death as a normality will not exempt anyone and none of thosewho do not belong to the lines of economic and political dominance.Saints Anargyro - Kamaterouhttps://anarchism.espivblogs.net/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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