one of the lodgers. On their way out, they damaged the lodgers’ cars. Six members of the organization were arrested a few hours later. They were identiied by the victims and they were charged with grievous bodily injury, serious damage, home intrusion, and violation of the law on weapons. All of them walked free on restrictive terms. The defendants were not charged with criminal conspiracy. Naturally, there was no mention of the highly inlammatory speech by the Golden Dawn candidate, which was materialized overnight. In the same period when Golden Dawn was sweeping public hospitals and day nurseries, meeting resistance only from facility workers (nursing staf, doctors and teachers) and private citizens, the Ministry of Citizen Protection, aided by prosecutorial and judicial authorities, declared the principle of “zero tolerance against anomie”. The occasional government declarations about “anomie” have always arrived with a supplement: an extension of the concept of anomie. Thus, anomic, unlawful or illegal come to mean any act or behavior that deviates, difers from or opposes power, regardless of its oicial characterization under criminal law. Despite this extended view of law and order, neither the police nor the judiciary bothered to deal with any of the aforementioned Golden Dawn actions or with numerous others. On the contrary, “zero tolerance” was reduced to violent evacuations of various anarchist or broadly letist and radical squats, oten without even a request by the legal owners of the buildings. In 2009, ater various letist and anti-racist organizations published tracts calling for anti-fascist demonstrations, members of Golden Dawn iled a lawsuit against these groups for incitement to violence and conlict and criminal defamation. Three years later, an Athens public prosecutor started a criminal prosecution against the secretary general of the Workers’ Revolutionary Party, Savvas Michail, a well-known Marxist intellectual of Jewish origin, for incitement to violence, as well as against the former rector of the Greek Polytechnic University for having allowed the use of the university’s electronic network by the unidentiied administrators of the Athens Indymedia website59. At hearings held on 3 and 4 September 2013, it emerged not only that no incident whatsoever was caused by the letist organizations during the demonstrations in question, but that the only trouble not just threatened but actually occurring involved the stabbings of ive immigrants a short while ater a Golden Dawn rally, under the guise of an “Inhabitants Committee” gathering. Nevertheless, the prosecutor hastened to put on trial not just the accused persons, but also the historic European slogan, “The people don’t forget, they hang fascists”, terming it the expression of an illegal opinion and of intolerable sentiments of hate and violence. These, of course, are absolutely to be condemned, and yet pursued only when they are expressed by the Let. 59. 54 | On this particular case, see http://www.efsyn.gr/?p=103260. ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG