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Postby Kifeas » Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:55 am

Bananiot wrote:Highlander, we had the opportunity and we blew it, thanks to people like Papadopoulos, Yiorgadjis, Lissarides and Sampson, who started working on the downfall of independent Cyprus the day after we signed the agreements. Do you think we can win things by simply shouting slogans?

"Get lost" was my line Kifeas. Plagiarism will not get you anywhere? Do you know the meaning of the word charlatan? I wonder!


Charlatan is someone behaving and acting excactly like you do! I.e. someone who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a quack or fraud.
( http://www.answers.com/topic/charlatan )
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Postby THE HIGHLANDER » Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:14 am

Bananiot wrote:Highlander, we had the opportunity and we blew it, thanks to people like Papadopoulos, Yiorgadjis, Lissarides and Sampson, who started working on the downfall of independent Cyprus the day after we signed the agreements. Do you think we can win things by simply shouting slogans?

"Get lost" was my line Kifeas. Plagiarism will not get you anywhere? Do you know the meaning of the word charlatan? I wonder!


YES BANANIOT,
I agree the world is full of charlatans,whether they be world leaders,politicians or just simple door to door sales people,very few are genuine and most are full of empty promises they cannot or have no intension of delivering.

"IN GOD WE TRUST UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL"
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Postby Piratis » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:40 am

Bananiot wrote:Highlander, we had the opportunity and we blew it, thanks to people like Papadopoulos, Yiorgadjis, Lissarides and Sampson, who started working on the downfall of independent Cyprus the day after we signed the agreements. Do you think we can win things by simply shouting slogans?


So the Turks are allowed to perform crimes and illegalities for decades and centuries and everything is fine and they should be rewarded, but to GCs it can only be given half a chance and if they don't use it (if we assume it was possible) then they should be convicted in eternity while the others continue with their crimes as usual?

Thats what you believe, and that what Turks want. But we will not capitulate. We have every right to demand human rights and democracy for all, and nobody can remove this right from us.

If we were all losers like Bananiot, after 3 centuries of Ottoman rule (4 centuries in the case of Greece) we would all speak Turkish and Greeks would just be part of history like the Aztecs.

We will never give up, we will always fight for what is right and just.
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Postby Viewpoint » Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:53 am

Kifeas wrote:
Bananiot wrote:Kifeas wrote

You are also on the payroll of Papadopoulos, as a highly paid state employee, yet no one stops you from publicly supporting and promoting the Turkish pan-turanist propaganda and objectives on the Cyprus issue, which aim at vindicating and legitimizing the ethnic cleansing, usurping and Turkification of 37% of the Greek Cypriot's ancestral and historical homeland.


The little fascist is suggesting that we lick the boss (no matter who he is) because this is how, in his twisted mind, all public servants should behave. They should give unquestioned support to whoever the President is. Furthermore, he suggests that any criticism directed at the President is playing into the hands of the Turkish propagandists. I detest this kind of argument and remind everyone of Voltaire and ask you to compare him with Kifeas.


What a crook you have really become of!

You quote the above, which was made in response to your nonsense that Claire Palley is on the payroll of Papadopoulos, in order to discredit her work, in order to show you that merely being on the payroll of someone doesn't make your views identical to those of your boss, and one such example I tried to indicate to be that of your self, and now you have the audacity to so provocatively twist that to show that meant the exact opposite of what I so profoundly suggested! Get lost crook! Charlatan!

The Annan Plan was a plan that was supported by the international community (UN and EU).


The initiative was supported by the international community, like always, but not the content of the final product (plan /proposal) itself! The EU had simply said that if we -the people of the country- are ready to accept it as the final solution, it (the EU) would accommodate it! Neither the EU nor the UN said to us that we must accept it, because it is the only solution that we can possibly have! Stop lying! Nevertheless, the mere use of such a stupidly pathetic argument shows your stupidity! Why then on the referendums they had one "yes" and one "no" as the two possible replies and they didn't have two "yes" instead? What a joke you have really become, to resort to such poor and stupid arguments!

There were many things in it that could have been better. Papadopoulos did not negotiate it with a view of making it better for the Greek Cypriots. He infact made it worse so that he could ask for a loud "no". Ask yourself why and there you have the answer: He has been against BBF throughout his life and he wasn't about to change his mind only a few months after climbing to the top job.

What a bunch of Nonsense!

Once again, I remind people that in the world we live in there are no ideal solutions but options, especially for a tiny weeny country such as Cyprus. We have been offered some better options in the past but declined to take them, making sure that the Turks recieved the blame for the stalemate. This worked quite well while Denktash ruled supreme in the north. Basically, we kept the flame going for a different kind of solution that would see Cyprus becoming a unitary state once again with the majority running the country and the minority enjoying all legitimate rights. Of course we were thinking wishfully, as always, but when things did change in the north, our shortcomings were quickly exposed. The whole world now thinks that we are the community to blame and that the Turkish Cypriot community is to be rewarded for maintaing a positive and helpful stance. The victims became the giulty part and Turkey got a resolution at the UN asking her to continue it's good efforts for a solution. The amazing thing is that Padopoulos put his signature on the print but no patriot of this forum protested against it.


Even more nonesense!

Once again I ask: Can we climb down from the clouds and face realities? Realities that were formulated not only by Turkey but mainly because of our own incredible lust to turn the island into a part of Greece (Makarios's speaches in Panayia and elsewhere in the early 60's pay testament to the fact).



There you are! We are the main guilty ones, and therefore we should accept the illegitimate objectives and ambitions of the TCs, Turkey and the Anglo-Americans, and accept a two "pre-existing nation /state" solution, a disguised partition that would have legalized the illegitimate and immoral fait accomplices of Turkey against us, and a confederation on a 50:50 sharing of the Cyprus's international personality and representation; because it was mainly our fault. And then you complain that I call you for what you are, …a traitor. As if Makarios was not the one been overthrown with a coup by a minority of right-wing extremists, because in their rightful view he had abandoned Enosis and tried to solve the Cyprus issue on the basis of independence, from 1968-1974.

Yes, I supported the Annan Plan and voted, among others, for the Turkish army to leave Cyprus and the number of settlers to be restricted to a few thousands. I voted for the Plan because I knew fully well that it was an option that we could not affort not to take. Simitis did so too and of course he was no traitor. He knew only too well that it was the best we could do, under the circumstances. Yet, with the benefit of hindsight, if I had to choose, I would probably still choose the Annan Plan, even compared to a Plan that offered a unified Cyprus, because with our mentality it is probably better if the two communities are separated for the immediate future into their respective geographical regions. From this point of view the Plan was a masterpiece and took well into account, both our recent history and the mentality of a people with zero political culture.

Then why aren't you proposing your TC friends to keep only the 18% of Cyprus for their state, since you prefer geographical separation as you have explained above? And was the Annan plan one that accounted for a temporary geographical separation, or it was one in which geographical separation and splitting of Cyprus into two ethnically based “nation-states,” a permanent? Read the TC Constituent State’s constitution to find this out, and …piss off!

Yet, what weighed really heavily in my mind prior to the referenda was that I knew that Papadopoulos will never be able to manage the "no" of the Greek Cypriot community. Klerides and Vassiliou would have done it in an elegant and a political manner. They could have easily shown the world that the Greek Cypriot community did not reject solution but a specific plan. Papadopoulos will never be able to do this. Remember how he cried on TV when he asked us to give a loud "no"? Well, a politically cultured man would have cried if he had asked his people to vote "yes".


How could he have been able to managed the "no" adequately and convince the international community of his true motives and intentions, if traitors like yourself, Lukas Charalambous, Nicos Rolandis and CIA, all you are doing since the referendums was to constantly defame and discredit him in the eyes of the international world opinion and in the eyes of the TC community -in forums and local English language publications that would also find their ways directly in the Turkish and Anglo-Saxon press and media; with slanders and lies that he is a Turk hater, a hard liner, a nationalist and someone that doesn't want a solution but only partition, because he doesn’t want to share power with the other community, and all the rest of rubbish that you keep bumping around all the time?

The foreigners and the TC community will naturally believe that if Greek Cypriots say the above, then they must be true to some extent. They do not know or imagine that they just come out of the mouth of a spiteful minority that acts deliberately against the interests of its own community. The Turkish propaganda will also naturally make full use of them to further their aims, something that already happens as we speak.



You are clutching at straws your arguments are weak to a level of being pathetic..you really need to take a step backwards and rethink your attitude and mentality disorders as you only serve to push the wedge of division deeper between our communities, which I personally believe is your main goal. Your success is measured by the negative reaction of many TCs whom you help to understand the dangers of reuniting with a mindset like yours and Piratis and whats appears to be the majority on this forum.
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Postby observer » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:19 am

Bananiot wrote rhetorically:
We (i.e the GCs) are the main guilty ones, and therefore we should accept the illegitimate objectives and ambitions of the TCs, Turkey and the Anglo-Americans.

I know little of the motives of the Anglo-Americans (to rid themselves of a minor nuisance would be my best bet); the motives of the Turks are probably a mixture of seeking their own security and protecting their TC kin. The motives of the TCs is clearer, to avoid being dominated and subjugated by the GC majority, and I see nothing illegitimate in that. This may not be the wish of all GCs, but the evidence of this site (and others) shows that it is true of a large number.
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Postby miltiades » Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:16 am

VP on Kifeas :

""""as you only serve to push the wedge of division deeper between our communities, which I personally believe is your main goal. """

Here we go again the kettle calling the pot black !! These words fit your outlook VP 100% are you sure you were not referring to yourself !
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Postby Viewpoint » Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:33 am

miltiades wrote:VP on Kifeas :

""""as you only serve to push the wedge of division deeper between our communities, which I personally believe is your main goal. """

Here we go again the kettle calling the pot black !! These words fit your outlook VP 100% are you sure you were not referring to yourself !


The difference is that I admit to seeing noway forward other than division recognized or unrecognized due the ever widening chasm between our communities but people like Kifeas think they are doing their community a service and influencing the other side in desiring reunification with bigots, calling people traitors and on the payroll and all the other derogatory names when they speak up and tell it as it is only proves the GCs do have many things to hide and are more geared towards revenge then reconciliation. These types of people are more dangerous and cannot see or appreciate the other sides viewpoint.
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Postby Sotos » Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:01 am

observer wrote:Bananiot wrote rhetorically:
We (i.e the GCs) are the main guilty ones, and therefore we should accept the illegitimate objectives and ambitions of the TCs, Turkey and the Anglo-Americans.

I know little of the motives of the Anglo-Americans (to rid themselves of a minor nuisance would be my best bet); the motives of the Turks are probably a mixture of seeking their own security and protecting their TC kin. The motives of the TCs is clearer, to avoid being dominated and subjugated by the GC majority, and I see nothing illegitimate in that. This may not be the wish of all GCs, but the evidence of this site (and others) shows that it is true of a large number.


:lol: :lol: :lol: The Turks have the excuse of TCs for occupying Cyprus. And IT IS an excuse. But what excuse the British have? If Cyprus is just a nuisance for them why do they have 2 military bases, huge spying antennas, Echelons and all that in Cyprus? Why don't just they leave? They all want to dominate Cyprus because of its strategic location and everything else is your usual bullshit to cover the truth.
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Postby Bananiot » Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:03 am

Kifeas wants people to take him seriously. This is what he wrote, when trying to create his own demons so that he could fight them:

You are also on the payroll of Papadopoulos, as a highly paid state employee, yet no one stops you from publicly supporting and promoting the Turkish pan-turanist propaganda and objectives on the Cyprus issue, which aim at vindicating and legitimizing the ethnic cleansing, usurping and Turkification of 37% of the Greek Cypriot's ancestral and historical homeland.


The above statement (sic) was made in response to what I said about Claire Palley who wrote a biased book after serving for 25 or so years as a paid advisor to successive Cypriot Presidents and of course to Papadopoulos. Kifeas thought that I am also on par with Palley, because I work in ... public schools. Thus, he extrapolated that if I could be critical of the President so could Palley, if she so wished. Having created this demon he then went on to use all the weapons in his arsenal to fire some interesting salvos of the type "Papadopoulos is an angel" who "was never and has never been a Turk hater, a nationalist and a chauvinist". Probably, by now he has possibly managed to convince himself too. Well done kifeas.

Nevertheless, Kifeas logic is seriously flawed and I better stress it out in the vain hope he may just see some light at last. The status of an advisor to the President is not quite the same to that of a public servant, even to a teacher. We have our own trade unions and we have been known to pick serious fights with the presidents and his Ministers and his government at large. He cannot fire us because we were not appointed to our jobs. We claimed our jobs in transparent, democrartic processes and no President can touch us.

Should I be writing all the above? Should I be stating the obvious, just because of the childishness of Kifeas? I wonder.

P.S. Birkibrisly, your last post was very well thought of and wise and I agree with it one hundred percent. You have managed to list all the reasons why I became a fervent supporter of the Annan Plan as the only option that could unite Cyprus and lead, in the prosperous years to come, to reconsilliation and a chance for a new start, with the horrible past forgotten and new generations of people that would debate changes (after a period of peacefull and productive co existence) and actually produce solid arguments that these changes are needed. No one would then reject them if they came from both communities. We missed the train my friend and now our options are limited even more.
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Postby Sotos » Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:07 am

Bannaniot is it more important if some "Claire Palley" is biased or that that Annan that should not be biased was 100% with the Turks because they Americans told him?
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