Lines are being drawn in Greece

Greece tried socialism for forty years and we are seeing the end-stages of it as the government collapses and factions jockey for power. From the Financial Times:

Greek police �infiltrated� by Golden Dawn
Greece�s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has penetrated the country�s police force, set up caches of heavy weapons in remote locations and trained its recruits to carry out brutal attacks against immigrants and political opponents, according to the country�s top security official.

Nikos Dendias, minister of public order and civil protection, said in an interview with the Financial Times that Golden Dawn�s cult of extreme violence was �unique� among European far-right groups.

Using the term Neo-Nazi is disingenuous because the German Nazi parties full name was National Socialist German Workers' Party or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. The left-wing government in power is seeking to shift blame and the Golden Dawn wants to rebuild Greece into a new socialist Workers Paradise and we all know how well that will go... A bit more:

Analysts say Golden Dawn�s voter base is mainly among people hit hard by the country�s economic crisis, both young Greeks trying to join the labour market and the over-40s, who feel angry and frustrated at losing their jobs.

And that would be the majority of the politically active population -- those who see their futures being stripped to pay for the pensions of the 'entitled classes' who came before them. These people have no cushy pensions waiting for them when they retire -- if they can find a job initially. Kind of what we are doing with Obamacare -- signing up all the young people so their contributions pays for health care for us geezers... More:

The crackdown has sharply curtailed the party�s activities both in Athens and more than 50 regional offices that provide handouts of food and also organise regular activities including military-style training for would-be members and torchlit neo-Nazi events, according to Antonis Ellinas, a political-science professor at Cyprus University.

�The number of party events has dropped sharply all over Greece since the stabbing but the opinion polls show that core support for Golden Dawn has not been affected,� Mr Ellinas said.� This might imply an entrenched acceptance of the use of violence in Greek political culture.�

No shit Sherlock. They could have put in limits twenty years ago that would have nipped this in the bud but no; that is other people's money and we can just keep spending it, there will always be more. We need to take serious note as where Greece is today, will be us in about ten to twenty years if we do not wise up to the consequences of both parties actions.