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| RELEASE GEORGE BALAFAS |
| George Balafas' case consists of a logical paradox.
The more decayed the charges against him are proven, the harder the judges' attitude against him becomes. The more obvious the political reasons of his imprisonment are shown, the tougher his fate becomes. The more people are convinced that he is a victim of a state frame-up, the more the USA and the local guards of their dominion interventions are being intensified. For a long time it has become obvious, in the courtrooms and out of them, that G. Balafas is a victim of the state repression in its most vulgar and barbarian form. While the Security's "evidence" is proven to be set up and the witnesses turn the charges into pure rubbish, G. Balafas remains in prison for four years now. Why he remains in jail is as obvious as his innocence. By means of his detention: a) Those in charge of the modernisation -that is of the violent redistribution of the social income on the cost of the weaker classes- try to send a clear message to the today and tomorrow victims of their policies. Anyone resisting the neoliberal barbarity, anyone trying to rise up fences against the raid of an ill and greedy elite, anyone refusing the dictatorship of money will sooner or late be a prisoner of the modernising regime's praetorians. They know that the policy of poorness, of unemployment, of misery is and will be faced up by evermore tense social resistances. That is why they already take measures to deter them. b) The State Department as well as the various american "antiterrorist" agencies -the leading role played by CIA- seek to ensure their unimpeded absolute domination. Any voice contesting the present order of things (on local as well as on international level) is dengerous and must be silenced. That is why the State Demartment throush the statements of its representatives and its "reports on terrorism" gives the unprotected order for G. Balafas' imprisonment. c) The judges' power tries to hit once more the civil rights and the freedom of the individual. The road to a more authoritarian and rythless state -the prison state as it is called- passes through the prosecution and the imprisonment of militants, through the penalisation of their political activities and their human relations. That is why, in this case, they show their most disgusting and hard face ridiculising even that bourgeois legality which they presumably are to defend. George Balafas' imprisonment, in brief, serves the interests of the dominant elite. The "brave new world" promised by the metamodern thinkers is once more proven to be nothing but the intensification of the imperialist dependence, the capitalist exploitation and the state repression. So, it is selfevident that the movement of solidarity to G. Balafas is not limited in denouncing the brutal injustice committed against him and in demanding his release. It is an undetactable part of the larger social movement which fights against the present and the future the dominants are elaborating. The solidarity to G. Balafas is an outcry of rage against the prehistorically and barbarian world we are forced to live in. It is an outcry of hope, a demand - desirable and prohibited- for a world which will no longer be based on violence and deception but on freedom, on equality, on solidarity! |
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