From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.greek
Subject: The Greeks are indeed evil (:-)
Date: 6 Nov 1992 08:55:39 -0600
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My friend Hasan B-) Mutlu of AT&T, Chicago, IL writes:

> >looking out both for the interest of the US and the interest of Greece.
> 
> Will it make the crimes of the Greek governments disappear? Not a chance.
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>  <<In Corfu Jews were subjected to violent attacks and almost constant
>   persecution by its Greek population. They had to row in the galleys
>   even when they had committed no crime. They had to provide food and
>   lodging for soldiers on demand, were required to go to Greek law courts
>   on the Sabbath as well as during Jewish festivals, and as elsewhere in
>   the Byzantine empire they were compelled to act as public executioners,
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   adding to the public wrath to which they were normally subjected. After
>   Venice took control of the island in 1386, conditions became even worse.>>
>                                        ^^^^

One of Ancient Greece's little known but important contributions to
humanity is the elixir of eternal life.  As such, the Byzantine
emperors of 1386 were able to continue living well into the 21st
century, and hence be held accountable for their crimes. The recipe
for this elixir did not survive the brave Turks' invasion of Islambol
(er, Istambul, er, Konstantinoupolis). 

For example, Constantinos Paleologos, the last emperor of the
Byzantine empire, sat out the Ottoman Empire's (tm) occupation of
Greece, and appeared in the 1930's as Constantine Caramanlis. Another
Byzantine emperor, Constantine the 3rd, is in reality Constantine
Mitsotakis, Greece's current Prime Minister. It is no coincidence that 
both are named Constantinos.

Historians theorize that each and every effort that the hideous Greeks
have led against the Turks has been led by still-alive-after-600-years
emperors of the Byzantine empire. They successfuly led the uprising
of 1821 and financed a good part of it thru money laundered during
the Byzantine Empire's better days. 

An offspring of Palaiologos was even found on USENET, posting last
year on soc.culture.greek and demanding his empire back. It is rumored
that in 1922 he convinced the Greek government to lead a futile 
effort to invade Anatolia. After the defeat he is allegedly running
a 7-11 in Oak Park, IL. 

Both emperors had a relatively boring few centuries living it up in
Florida. Efforts by well known prosecutor Hasan B-) Mutlu to bring
them to justice have been futile so far, as the supreme human rights
court that is handling his petition has a hard time believing that
todays's Constantine Karamanlis and Constantine Mitsotakis (Greece's
President and Prime Minister respectively) have been alive since 1386.
This will be an extremely hard case to prove for the prosecution, in
particular since the recipe for the abovementioned elixir is lost, but
Hasan B-) Mutlu's able team is confident that justice will finally
prevail and the Criminal Greek Government of 1386 will finally pay for
its hideous crimes.


Spiros
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Spiros Triantafyllopoulos                       c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com 
OUZO POWER                                      strianta@st486.UUCP (soon!)

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