Deadly firebomb attack in Greece

[R13...]

TIA!

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you noticed this is taking place in Greece didn't you? you know... those people living on the piece of land jutting out into the mediteranean next door to Turkey, Bulgaria and Albania ... the people who's national sport is to come from behind

Actually Greece is part of Europe... but never mind.

This is Africa?

Of course I know where Greece is... we really need that sarcasm emoticon a.s.a.p

What a donkey

that's just rude

 

[Alan]

'Peaceful' comrades in Greece are at it again....

Clashes between hooded youths and anti-riot police erupted in central Athens on Wednesday during a mass protest against severe government austerity measures.

One elderly civilian was slightly injured and taken to a hospital during the clashes, said eyewitnesses and local journalists, who joined a 24-hour nationwide general strike thath has paralyzed public services, hospitals and mass transportation across the cash-strapped country.

The strike also has led to the cancellation of more than 100 flights at Athens International Airport and closed the Acropolis and other major tourist sites.

The rally was part of Greece's first major labor protest this year as Prime Minister George Papandreou's Socialist government faces international pressure to make more lasting cuts after the nation's debt-crippled economy was rescued from bankruptcy by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

Thousands of demonstrators remained at Syntagma square in front of the Greek parliament as groups of hooded youths threw rocks and Molotov bombs at policemen who respond with tear gas and flash grenades, blanketing parts of the city center in choking smoke.

Protesters chanting "Don't obey the rich -- Fight back!" marched to parliament as the city center was heavily policed. A brass band, tractors and cyclists joined the rally.

Unions are angry at the ongoing austerity measures put in place by the Socialist government in exchange for a 110 billion euro (150 billion U.S. dollar) bailout loan package from European countries and the IMF.

Police were on high alert because violence has marred many previous rallies in Greece during the past year.

On May 5, 2010, three bank employees died during an attack by hooded arsonists at a bank branch near the parliament.

Elsewhere, about 15,000 people rallied and minor scuffles broke out in Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, while Stathis Anestis, deputy leader of Greece's largest union, the GSEE, said around 60 demonstrations were being planned in cities and towns across Greece. He said the GSEE was in talks with European labor unions to try and coordinate future strikes with other EU countries.

pics of policeman hit by petrol bomb

 

[Nanfeishen]

'Peaceful' comrades in Greece are at it again....

Of course blame the communists for everything, how very 70's

Biggest reason for what is happening in Greece :

The Socialist government of Prime Minister George Papandreou is cutting spending and raising taxes to reduce its debt mountain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12551636

And a damn good reason for striking:

the people's refusal to pay for the mistakes of a series of governments accused of squandering the nation's future through corruption and cronyism.

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/I-Won-t-Pay-movement-grips-debt-ridden-Greece-1024428.php

Clearly a situation where the citizens are becoming more and more fed up with having to fork out money to a corrupt government who squanders their taxes, and then expects the people to fork out even more to save them.

Good for them, it is time people said enough is enough, and that they dont want their money propping up useless bureaucracies.

 

[R/SGT]

'Peaceful' comrades in Greece are at it again....

pics of policeman hit by petrol bomb

Since the Petrol Bombs are lethal weapons the greek police should retaliate in kind against anyone using one, only problem is that other people will be injured due to petrol bomb breaking or over penertration by the bullet.

 

[Alan]

Of course blame the communists for everything, how very 70's

If the shoe fits...

From you own link...

Protesters of PAME, a Communist Party-backed labor union, gather at the toll stations of Afidnes about 25 kilometers (12 miles) north of Athens

Biggest reason for what is happening in Greece

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12551636

And a damn good reason for striking:

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/I-Won-t-Pay-movement-grips-debt-ridden-Greece-1024428.php

Clearly a situation where the citizens are becoming more and more fed up with having to fork out money to a corrupt government who squanders their taxes, and then expects the people to fork out even more to save them.

Good for them, it is time people said enough is enough, and that they dont want their money propping up useless bureaucracies.

Yes carry on murdering people and destroying property.:erm:

At dawn last Friday, about 100 bleary-eyed activists from a Communist Party-backed labor union covered ticket machines with plastic bags at Athens metro stations, preventing passengers from paying their fares, to protest public transport ticket price hikes.

Other activists have taped up ticket machines on buses and trams. And thousands of people simply don't bother validating their public transport tickets when they take the subway or the bus.

"The people have paid already through their taxes, so they should be able to travel for free," said Konstantinos Thimianos, 36, an activist standing at the metro picket line in central Syntagma Square.

In one of their frequent occupations of the toll booths on the northern outskirts of Athens recently, protesters wore brightly colored vests with "total disobedience" emblazoned across their backs, and chanted: "We won't pay for their crisis!"

The tactic has cropped up in the health sector, with some state hospital doctors staging a blockade in front of pay counters to prevent patients from paying their €5 flat fee for consultations.

Critics deride the protests as yet another example of a freeloading mentality that helped lead the country into its financial mess.

"The course from initial lawlessness to final wanton irresponsibility is like a spreading cancer," Dionysis Gousetis said in a recent column in the respected daily broadsheet Kathimerini.

"Now, with the crisis as an alibi ... the freeloaders don't hide. They appear publicly and proudly and act like heroes of civil disobedience. Something like Rosa Parks or Mahatma Gandhi," Gousetis wrote. "They're not satisfied with not paying themselves. They are forcing others to follow them."

Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/news/arti...-debt-ridden-Greece-1024428.php#ixzz1ErOjTT3g

Typical lazy ass union comrades threatening and intimidating people if they don't get their way.

 

[Palimino]

As they used to say -- "Beware of Greeks bearing Gifts"

This refers to ‘The Wooden Horse of Troy’. A bunch of Greeks were laying siege to Troy (another bunch of Greeks in a walled city). They couldn’t get in. They left a ‘gift’ of a huge wooden horse at the gates and pretended to go. Concealed within the horse were some Greek soldiers. When Troy pulled the horse into the city, the concealed Greeks opened the gates of Troy that night letting-in the Greek army. Troy fell.

Note: Achilles (a Greek hero) was killed here.

 

[(@) (@) twister]

This refers to ‘The Wooden Horse of Troy’. A bunch of Greeks were laying siege to Troy (another bunch of Greeks in a walled city). They couldn’t get in. They left a ‘gift’ of a huge wooden horse at the gates and pretended to go. Concealed within the horse were some Greek soldiers. When Troy pulled the horse into the city, the concealed Greeks opened the gates of Troy that night letting-in the Greek army. Troy fell.

Note: Achilles (a Greek hero) was killed here.

You also watched the movie hey

 

[Palimino]

You also watched the movie hey

Nope (I knew there was one). My knowledge of Greek mythology is from a children’s book. They were really exciting yarns about Cyclops, Ulysses, Minotaurs & Labyrinths & clever Ariadne and her thread, etc.

 

[TheHiveMind]

Seems like the countries who voted for socialists are having the financial troubles. The socialists always spend too much money. By the time their opponents take office, there is no money left, and people learn to associate the anti socialists with financial struggles, cuts, job losses, and they learn to associate the socialists with never ending money. In reality the anti socialists create the money and the socialists spend it all.