All together, we waged a two
year long, high pressure campaign to disrupt the
Greek governments frightful endeavor to "clean" the
streets for the 2004 Athens Olympics. The disaster
specific products of this national exercise in
genocide were thousands of dead and maimed animals.
Thanks to our persistent
lobbying and the better late than never support of
national animal welfare powerhouses in the
USA, Greece pulled up her bikini bottoms but only
when the spotlight was cast upon her. According to
Greek sources, most of the surviving abandoned
street dogs of Athens, purportedly “saved” by the
municipal government in a last ditch effort to
appear “virginal” before the world and the press,
are nowhere to be found. The creators and purveyors
of animal protection laws are selectively short
sighted. Dirty money allegedly sprints from
outstretched hand to pocket and the underlying
fundamental mindset of a large share of the nation
remains unchanged. Neglect and abuse continues and
some animal advocates in Greece wage an enduring
battle against each other in a contest of pathetic
egos. I believe that it is time once again for us
to position Greece at center stage.
Compounding the "sinful"
behavior of certain government entities and some
citizens, the Greek Church is now scrambling to
salvage their credibility as scandal after scandal
emerges with clerics implicated in drug dealing,
antiquities theft, trial rigging, drug dealing,
prostitution and lewd conduct. Judges and
prosecutors are linked incestuously with the
priestly criminals. My God, what chance do the
animals of Greece have?
I have always been an
unabashed admirer of the beauty of Greece, and lived
there, while married for 14 years. In the last few
months I have temporarily distanced myself because
of total disappointment in a brutal society, runaway
corruption, a confluence of indifference, ignorance
and a lack of compassion.
If Greece's historic standards
and trends are any indication of future hope for
elevating the status of companion and farmed
animals, we are screwed, nope, correction, the
animals are screwed.
Certain government entities
have not only made a mockery of the "games", their
proud claim of giving "birth to civilization" but of
the Greek state and it's incestuously linked church
as well. The metastasizing scandals have cast an
indelible shadow over the integrity of an entire
nation. Greece has become a blank space in the
halls of civilization.
Again, I believe that it
is time once again for us to position Greece at
center stage. A
certain Greek citizen and her sidekick attorney are
on an unholy crusade to stop the re homing of
abandoned animals to adoptive, loving “parents” in
Europe and the United States. She slanders by
“testifying” that “foreign” and Greek animal
activists are engaging in commercial “dog trade” and
supplying vivisectionists and fur dealers abroad.
Oddly, she has convinced the crippled Ministry of
Agriculture that this is true and illegal
confiscations of these poor dogs in transit to
salvation are rampant
I wouldn't waste my time and
yours if I didn't believe that once again we will
gain the startled attention of the Greek state and
lobby for justice for the animals.
Please, please friends, copy
and paste the addresses of Greek officials and the
body of the letter that follows below to an e-mail,
sign your name, address and country and let's blast
them
