Renowned legal expert Kostas Kourkoulos explains and reveals why what is being said yesterday about the decision of the Supreme Court is a “perversion of reality.”
“First the facts.The following had happened in the wiretapping trial:
Four people were sentenced by the Athens Single-Member Plenary Court to fatal sentences, for committing the related crime of interception.
At the same time, by order of the same court, the records of the conviction were forwarded to prosecutor, in order to further examine whether there is evidence of the commission of the crime of espionage against the country.
The prosecutor of the Supreme Court who studied the minutes, apparently, did not find such evidence.
He therefore ruled the obvious: that the transmitted minutes did not reveal evidence of the commission of the crime of espionage as well. So he compulsorily put the case on file.
After the publication of this prosecutorial order, the Internet demagogues went on a rampage of unbridled demagoguery. And they are poisoning society with their perversion of reality, using the trick of every bargaining fraudster: they project the evidence to be proved as a given (we call it “taking what is asked for”).
So, because they are obliged to prove that such evidence exists, but they know it doesn’t, they engage in a subterfuge: they project it as a given that it does exist! And because society cannot suspect that such cynical demagogues exist, it believes the lie. And the situation on the Internet is in absolute madness. Because demagogues have not only abolished not only the truth-lie difference but also the difference between paranoia and formal logic.
As a result, what is happening today on the Internet is reminiscent of what Defoe said in connection with the insanity of the citizens of London at the time of the 1698 law against the spread of popery:
The streets of London are full of brave countrymen, determined to fight to the death against the papacy, not knowing whether they are horse or man.
This is the triumph of demagoguery.”
*This article was published at booksjournal.gr
