CBS/AP/ December 4, 2012, 4:44 AM

Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party targeted by bomb blast near Athens

In this Oct. 26, 2012, photo, extreme far-right Golden Dawn party lawmaker Ilias Panagiotaros speaks in his shop in central Athens.

In this Oct. 26, 2012, photo, extreme far-right Golden Dawn party lawmaker Ilias Panagiotaros speaks in his shop in central Athens. / AP

ATHENS, Greece A bomb exploded outside the local office of an extreme right-wing party in an industrial town west of Athens early Tuesday, causing significant damage to the building but no injuries.

The explosion, caused by a home-made explosive device that appeared to contain dynamite, occurred before dawn at the Golden Dawn party's office in the town of Aspropyrgos, authorities said. The blast caused significant damage to a shop on the ground floor of the building and to the party offices on the first floor. It also blew out windows of several nearby stores.

Golden Dawn, a formerly fringe party with a deeply nationalist agenda that advocates expelling all immigrants from Greece, rose to prominence in recent elections amid the country's deep economic crisis to win 18 seats in the 300-member parliament.

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CBS News correspondent Monica Villamizar interviewed Golden Dawn's political director, Yannis Vourdis, in May. Vourdis talked about the group's political ambitions, saying, "once in Parliament, we will implement our program" — with their priority being the expulsion of immigrants, who they blame for Greece's current economic crisis.

The party denies accusations that it is behind a wave of violent attacks against immigrants. It has also been accused of demanding lists of foreign children who attend daycare or kindergarten schools, and of pressuring local businesses to fire foreign workers and hire Greeks instead.

The socialist party, one of the three parties in the governing coalition, has been calling recently for Golden Dawn to be outlawed.

Buffeted by a financial crisis that has left a quarter of the workforce unemployed and the country facing a sixth year of a deep recession, Greek society has grown increasingly polarized. Clashes between alleged Golden Dawn party members or supporters and far left-wing groups have occurred in recent months in Athens.

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Lilith32 says:
Idiot fascists, you anti-white scum are laughable, for decades you have been able to do what you want to the ignorant defenceless peoples of Europe, multiculturalism has been able to run free and infect and disort. But now the tide has turned and you left-wing bigots are urinating on yourselfs, when you rapist racist immigrants are caugh and beaten up, when your lying journalist lies are laughed at by the people. When you anti-freedom of speech laws are unable to contain your lies anymore. You turn to terrorism, terrorism is the last act of the vanished.
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Lilith32 says:
Golden dawn is the only force against international banks and globalists in Greece, I can only imagine the unbelievable challenges Golden dawn faces, media is 100% negative to them, labeling everything they do as "nazist" "fascist" "racist" as multicultural media always label organisations of white people that resist multiculturalism of course, But golden dawn also deals with trying to protect old Greeks, young greeks from increasing virulence anti-Greek racism.

As well as being attacked by leftist motorcycle gangs beating down anyone with a Golden dawn t-shirt, and now the leftist has turn to using islamic terrors style attacks.
The heroism of Golden dawn members cannot be understated. Fighting against the economic, political and medial elite for the survivial of their people.

And the smear, imagine being called "neo-nazi" for trying to save your people from genocide!
Imagine being called racist for opposing goverment racial laws discriminating against your people(affirmative action) as well as the massive anti-white violence spreading thru every multicultural society.
Imagine being called fascist for opposing the actual fascist of EU!
Imagine being called "thug" when your members are being beaten down by motorcycle gangs of leftist armed with baseball bats and knives.

Oh, by the way, I recently saw George Soros, the billionare zionist would start a program to feed only immigrants in Greeks.. Remember when Golden dawn feed only Greeks and was called "nazi" for feeding only white people? Anyone think multicultural media is going to call George Soros a nazi for only feeding brown people?

http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2012/10/30/george-soros-helping-greek-migrants-would-show-european-solidariy/
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