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Orthodox Iconographer Elias Damianakis - May 21, 2019

Το ψάρι και το καλάμι A Response to George Likomitros' Kalami Calamities By Elias Damianakis

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Mark Twain

Το ψάρι και το καλάμι

There’s a Greek phrase my old departed friend Apostolos used to say “το ψάρι και το καλάμι” or “the fish and the [baited] pole.” This is what social media aficionados call “click bait.”

Currently an online scandalmonger surfaced with dubious content whose main purpose is to attract traffic and encourage visitors to click on a link to his web page “Kalami.” George Likomitros of Florida, a convicted felon and social media psychopath has demonstrated this shameful behavior and uses malicious implications against our leadership as click bait fodder for promoting his delusional conspiracies. Scandals and lies so big and of such ominous proportion they would make Goebbels blush.

Disparagements so disturbing and fallacious they need not be repeated, but rebuked! When asking locals about George the most common answer I received was “αυτος ο ατιμος είναι όνομα και πράγμα απλός λύκος με μήτρα.” “That dishonest man is exactly what his name denotes ‘a crown wearing wolf.” Evidently, he would implicate his own mother if it would garner the attention he craves. | In his bizarre stories he slanders the Ecumenical Patriarch, Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, Bishop Maximos of Melitene, Metropolitan Nathaniel, and | Fr Alex Karloutsos to name a few. Manifestly the most desirable personalities for disreputable tabloids and weak critics such as Likomitros to exploit.

Beyond defamation of sexual malfeasances, embezzlement, and other sorted affairs the delusional George Likomitros credits himself for influencing the elections of Archbishop of America, unraveling the St Nicholas Shrine predicament, exposing financial corruption in the Chicago Metropolis, and so much more. In his most recent diatribe, the disingenuous George Likomitros poses a set of ultimatums masqueraded as questions to the new Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, initiating his utterances by addressing him as Cardinal "ο καρδινάλιος." Demanding answers to loaded questions well beyond Mr. Likomitros’ ability to comprehend.

In the end, George Likomitros, his canards and writings are to be admonished and condemned as worthless fictitious lies. And those conduits who distribute his works should be ashamed and reprimanded in public forums denouncing them as “fake news” outlets.

“Adorn yourself with truth, try to speak truth in all things; and do not support a lie, no matter who asks you. If you speak the truth and someone gets mad at you, don’t be upset, but take comfort in the words of the Lord: Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of truth, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 5:10).”
+ St. Gennadius of Constantinople

[ Orthodox Iconographer Elias Damianakis
  archonelias.com/blog/kalami-calamities
  May 21, 2019 ]