The Next Time Someone Tells You American Politicians Are Uncivilized, Show Them This Video

Mike Riggs | 6.7.2012 2:57 PM

Things are heating up in Greece, the alleged birthplace of democracy. In the video clip below, Golden Dawn (see: Nazi!) Party spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris throws water in a woman's face on live TV, then attacks Communist Party deputy Liana Kanelli:

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Y 13 years ago

You know who used to like to throw water in women's faces and then attack communist party leaders?
1. Ben the Duck 13 years ago
  
  The Silver Age Aquaman...?
2. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
  
  Rick Blaine?
3. Paul. 13 years ago
  
  Bobby Brown?
Citizen Nothing 13 years ago

At least it wasn't the Golden Shower Party.
1. Ska 13 years ago
  
  Ain't no party like a Lemon (house) Party!! Heyy --- hoooo!!
Warty 13 years ago

Golden Dawn

AVENNNNNNNGE MEEEEEE
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

Nazi leader attacks people - if that's not dog bites man I don't know what is.

I was expecting a brawl with many participants, but it was simply an attack by the sort of person you would expect to engage in such behavior.
Hugh Akston 13 years ago

That was the girliest fight I've seen since Episiarch refused to give up his bus seat to an old lady.
1. Ska 13 years ago
  
  When Episiarch swings his purse, he means it.
2. Episiarch 13 years ago
  
  That was my seat!
3. Paul. 13 years ago
  
  That was no lady!
Brett L 13 years ago

More fun than a Taiwanese parliament meeting.
Warty 13 years ago

Nice logo.

I imagine the party slogan is something like, "Death to the enemies of the fatherland!" It would be really disappointing if it wasn't.
1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  It's not quite a swastika. More of a wimpstika.
  1. Warty 13 years ago
    
    Those are penises, you moron. It's paying tribute to the noble and manly tradition of pederasty.
    1. Randian 13 years ago
      
      It does look like a male-male "69" stylized.
      
      ....
      
      Or is that just me?
  2. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
    
    Or, you know, a Greek key.
    1. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      Is that a sex toy?
      1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        It might be a whip.
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        It's quite clearly a locking anal pear.
        
        Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
        
        I don't even....
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        The things I learn at H 'n R!
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Wow. I had no idea that people would want to do that to themselves or each other.
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        If it can be imagined, it has already been used for sex.
        
        NeonCat 13 years ago
        
        From Barney Miller
        Wojohowicz: "You can point to any item in the Sears catalog and somebody, somewhere wants to have sex with it."
        
        Brandybuck 13 years ago
        
        I'm just shocked it has been imagined
        
        Ska 13 years ago
        
        I thought they stopped making those after the Inquisition. I should really have know better.
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        The lock is a nice touch.
        
        Jesus H. Christ 13 years ago
        
        I won't even click on that. Who knows where that link has been?
        
        MisterDamage 13 years ago
        
        I _knew_ just _knew_ I shouldn't click. I just couldn't help myself.
    2. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      Well, obviously. But I doubt that the resemblance to the Nazi swastika is entirely coincidental.
      1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        I wonder if the original Nazis will sue for trademark infringement? I think it might qualify as a "famous mark", which would give it heightened protections. Who are the heirs to the Nazi operations these days?
        
        Entropy Void 13 years ago
        
        Um, that would be Obama Campaign HQ, sir.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Well, okay then. They should sue.
  3. JW 13 years ago
    
    You dumbass. That's clearly the evil universe Federation symbol.
2. Randian 13 years ago
  
  It's something completely dull like "Greece for Greeks", your typical braindead nationalist dreck.
  1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
    
    The real Greeks left long ago.
    1. Warty 13 years ago
      
      All the real Greeks are Turks now.
      1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Of course. They all moved to Constantinople when they were running the empire.
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        Why'd they change it?
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        I can't say. People just liked it better that way.
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        That's none of your business.
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        Why did Constantinople get the works?
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        That's nobody's business but the Greek Nazi jerks'.
        
        Silver Fox 13 years ago
        
        People liked it better that way?
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        The Greeks should rise up and attempt to retake the Byzantine Empire.
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        They tried that once. But, now that Ata-Turk has been called back to Krypton, they should be able to succeed.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        I say they hire some Australian and New Zealand mercenaries and land them near the Dardanelles.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Ataturk! Ataturk!
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        Come to me, Ata-Turk! I defy you! Come and kneel before Churchill!
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Is Ataturk like "Atta boy!"?
        
        Ska 13 years ago
        
        Does his fuzzy hat turn into a saran wrap prison when thrown as a projectile weapon?
3. dbcooper 13 years ago
  
  One of their MP's is in a neo-nazi black metal band. Face paint and all.
4. Kolohe 13 years ago
  
  Kinda looks like 2 middle fingers. Which makes sense for their politics.
Braadacus Maximus 13 years ago

What did the National Socialist hand say to the Social Democrat's face? SLAP!!!!
Ben the Duck 13 years ago

Oh, yeah. The only thing holding these baclava-heads back as a nation, right about now, is the lack of one more big, fat monetary bailout.
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

The Golden Dawn leader's real name is Aleister Crowleyopolis.
sage 13 years ago

THE BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY IS DEAD GAME OVER MAN!
1. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  As well as being the birthplace of democracy, Athens was also the place where they first discovered how much trouble democracy could get you into.
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    "Here, drink this."
    1. Dr. Frankenstein 13 years ago
      
      I was thinking of
      the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
  2. Ben the Duck 13 years ago
    
    So, "democracy" = "lithe young boys," then?
2. Randian 13 years ago
  
  It's a good thing Wisconsin makes all that cheese to go with Moaning Mike's delicious whine.
3. Entropy Void 13 years ago
  
  THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!111
  
  http://youtu.be/T_ttcSaTheI
Zeb 13 years ago

US politics is really quite reserved and civilized compared to a lot of the world.a s far as I can tell.
Tim 13 years ago

I hate Ithaca Nazis.
Jerry on the road 13 years ago

I can see Riggs isn't doing A.M. Links anymore...
Tim 13 years ago

Wait. Is that Ann Coulter?
ChrisO 13 years ago

I think we've just found a way for CNN to get out of the ratings basement...
1. Ben the Duck 13 years ago
  
  Heck, I'm thinking ESPN.
  1. Ted S. 13 years ago
    
    "Chris" Everett
ThatSkepticGuy 13 years ago

Now how do you suppose it is that a nation of people who apparently take Nazis and Commies seriously enough to engage them over matters of state on live television find themselves on the verge of utter dissemination?
1. Suthenboy 13 years ago
  
  I was just thinking the same thing....and when is it ever bad for a communist to be beaten on television......
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    It could be worse; they could combine forces. The Commie Nazis.
2. Aresen 13 years ago
  
  "utter dissemination"?
  
  Does that have anything to do with 'publish or perish'?
3. joshua corning 13 years ago
  
  a nation of people who apparently take Nazis and Commies seriously
  
  The irony is that Nazis and Commies hate the Greeks.
  1. Paul. 13 years ago
    
    Not Nazi and Commie enough?
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

No wonder Greece is in the position it is. Half of their politicians are on bath salts. (The other half no longer have faces, I assume.)
1. Kolohe 13 years ago
  
  Is Braavos a Greek Isle?
Tim 13 years ago

The problem is that the opposing parties are unbending in relation to each other.
1. Jesus H. Christ 13 years ago
  
  Bending over in Greece isn't exactly the safest position to take.
Paul. 13 years ago

I know you guys don't want me to re-re-re-re-re-post that picture of the Greek Military Uniform. Because it never gets old (to me).
1. darius404 13 years ago
  
  I've never seen it.
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

The Golden Dawn's other logo is a crowbar, because that's how they separate the men from the boys.

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