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Thank you

by deviousdiva
Mon Apr 23rd, 2007 at 09:00:57 AM EST

to everyone at ET who emailed me and left comments during my recent troubles . I really appreciate it. I apologise for not being around here at all recently. My life is upside down and I don't seem to have the energy or time to be anywhere else. The most important thing that has come out of all this, is that the Roma series has gained a readership that would not have been possible without the uproar that people like yourselves have created. Thank you on behalf of myself and of the Roma here and around the world who are receiving some much needed positive attention in a world that has turned its back for so long.

Please feel free to post about this issue on your own blogs. The reponse has been incredible and the fascists have been well and truly beaten in this case. At least as far as blogging goes...

Thank you again and I will be back here again very soon.

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Thank you | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Thank you (4.00 / 4)

I was just thinking about you the other day...my wife and I are about to book a nice, quiet summer trip to SW Greece...so you sprang to mind. Sorry to hear of your troubles, and do hope it is sorting out okay for you. You have been missed, so please keep checking in! And hang in there...life can be so challenging sometimes...

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by whataboutbob on Mon Apr 23rd, 2007 at 10:13:24 AM EST

Re: Thank you (4.00 / 4)

I'm so glad it became a kind-of positive experience. I was genuinely suprised that site took your personal details offline.

All power to your pen.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Apr 23rd, 2007 at 03:50:27 PM EST

Re: Thank you (none / 1)

Thanks for taking time to update us!

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Apr 23rd, 2007 at 05:08:11 PM EST

Re: Thank you (none / 1)

Courage, Diva! And keep us informed.

"Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char

by Melanchthon on Mon Apr 23rd, 2007 at 06:33:55 PM EST

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I'm so sorry to hear of all of this, DD, but, as Helen said, at least it turned into a sorta-kinda-good thing. As always, no place is free of assholes. The best we can do, depending on the situation, is ignore them or shout them down. And, with those two strategies, I think we're getting better. Two steps forward and all that....

I just love the fact that Hellenic Nationalist apparently so wants a revolution in, and has so much pride in, his fatherland that he, clearly being the genuine article, lives in New York -- the logical starting point for a revolution in Europe, of course.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Tue Apr 24th, 2007 at 10:33:03 AM EST

Re: Thank you (4.00 / 2)

Maybe he is a wannabe Greek Ahmed Chalabi?...

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Tue Apr 24th, 2007 at 11:07:19 AM EST
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Re: Thank you (none / 1)

Perhaps, but the problem then becomes one of the Republicans only paying attention to New York when attending fundraisers on the Upper-East Side or exploiting 9/11. Take those away, and it's just a city of twenty million liberals.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Tue Apr 24th, 2007 at 12:23:06 PM EST
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Re: Thank you (none / 1)

I skimmed through some of his stuff a while back when DD mentioned him and... no. He has a hard time deciding which he hates more, the Turks or the 'Judeo-West'. Generally positively disposed to other Muslims as long as they're anti-American and not immigrants.

by MarekNYC on Tue Apr 24th, 2007 at 02:19:01 PM EST
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Re: Thank you (4.00 / 3)

It's not surprising, but what kind of a moron would actually "out" a person's identity knowing full well the sort of demented nutjobs that are plentiful in Athens. Having said that it is quite indicative of a certain mentality, that is not on the decline in Greece (New York? The poster is living in New York? The blessings of a nationalist diaspora eh?)...

Doogie Howzer is a riot, he actually says that: "It is YOUR SIDE that resorts to violence in the streets of Athens" - by which he means that "HER SIDE" is one and the same with anarchists that clashed with police over the past months (and possibly students who were demonstrating against proposed Educational reform). It is a rather illuminating comment: a world-view that draws lines that include on the other side anyone left-of-centre or that is socially active in any way, including anarchists, leftists, demonstrators, human rights NGOs(a lot of which have very little to do with the left BTW) and anyone that isn't an admirer of Georgios Papadopoulos.

Anyway, my deepest sympathy and sorry about not posting about this on my Greek blog - I found out too late (after the information was removed) and was on a blogging hiatus due to too much work...

There is a sordid history of attacks and intimidation against perceived "national traitors". Unfortunately a new kind of ethno-centric idiot is multiplying. BTW I note that great Roma folk and popular musicians are embraced as part of Greek modern civilisation at the same exact time that a whole lot of people refuse to even have Roma children in the same schools as their own...

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Tue Apr 24th, 2007 at 12:27:16 PM EST

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A more sinister interpretation: maybe he means street crime, which he ascribes to immigrants, and "her side" is xenos?

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Tue Apr 24th, 2007 at 02:54:16 PM EST
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In the context of what's being said... I think it's the clashes with the police and the vandalism he's referring to.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Tue Apr 24th, 2007 at 04:40:40 PM EST
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