FranzJoseph
09-19-2004, 05:43 PM
Very brave young man tells the War Biz to shove it... excerpts from his statement and one American reader's excellent short comment.
Greece still has honor -- and the Mama's comment makes me proud to be an American this afternoon. Would anyone here try to deny that the truth is spreading?
Slow maybe... but spreading.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/79553_comment.php
Greek soldier denies to embark
by Anarchist comrades from Greece Saturday September 18, 2004 at 08:49 PM
Greek soldier denies to take part in the Gulf war
The past three days, I have been imprisoned at Corinth’s Civil Prisons. I was accused of being a deserter, because I refused by means of my public statement on May 8th 2003 to embark on frigate Navarino, which was destined for the Gulf War and on which I was assigned a five-year service as a volunteer. On Monday morning, September 9th 2004, I appeared willingly at the Piraeus Naval Court, hoping that my 16-month “hostage” situation would come to an end. There, I was arrested and driven to the five-member naval court, where I was given a jail sentence of three years and four months... I am confident about the justice of people, more than the state justice that sentenced me; there is the justice of the Greek people who flooded the streets by thousands against this dirty war; this justice is much more important and true, and it has not announced its verdict yet.
George Monastiriotis
Civil Prisons, Corinth
One of the reader's comments:
Mamas Hide Your Babies!
by somebody's mother Monday September 20, 2004 at 05:21 AM
USA:
Mamas hide your babies, because they're ALL going to be forcibly sent to the middle east to die for one tiny country -- soon, starting with the U.S. "The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service."
Greece still has honor -- and the Mama's comment makes me proud to be an American this afternoon. Would anyone here try to deny that the truth is spreading?
Slow maybe... but spreading.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/79553_comment.php
Greek soldier denies to embark
by Anarchist comrades from Greece Saturday September 18, 2004 at 08:49 PM
Greek soldier denies to take part in the Gulf war
The past three days, I have been imprisoned at Corinth’s Civil Prisons. I was accused of being a deserter, because I refused by means of my public statement on May 8th 2003 to embark on frigate Navarino, which was destined for the Gulf War and on which I was assigned a five-year service as a volunteer. On Monday morning, September 9th 2004, I appeared willingly at the Piraeus Naval Court, hoping that my 16-month “hostage” situation would come to an end. There, I was arrested and driven to the five-member naval court, where I was given a jail sentence of three years and four months... I am confident about the justice of people, more than the state justice that sentenced me; there is the justice of the Greek people who flooded the streets by thousands against this dirty war; this justice is much more important and true, and it has not announced its verdict yet.
George Monastiriotis
Civil Prisons, Corinth
One of the reader's comments:
Mamas Hide Your Babies!
by somebody's mother Monday September 20, 2004 at 05:21 AM
USA:
Mamas hide your babies, because they're ALL going to be forcibly sent to the middle east to die for one tiny country -- soon, starting with the U.S. "The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service."