Posted on 05/05/2010 9:22:54 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
ATHENS, Greece Deadly riots over harsh new austerity measures engulfed the streets of Athens on Wednesday, killing three bank workers as angry protesters tried to storm parliament, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and torched buildings.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets as part of nationwide strikes to protest new taxes and government spending cuts demanded by the International Monetary Fund and other European nations before heavily indebted Greece gets a euro110 billion ($141 billion) bailout package of loans to keep it from defaulting.
The three bank workers a man and two women died after demonstrators set their bank on fire along the main demonstration route in central Athens. As their colleagues sobbed in the street, five other bank workers were rescued from the balcony of the burning building.
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I suspect we’ll be seeing something like this soon enough.
“Evil banks” stupidity. The greeks are giving our anarchists food for thought.
They want their welfare, and they want it now!
Welfare used to carry a shameful stigma for those who recieved it. Now they are in your face demanding more! Shameful lowlifes.
The descendants of Plato, Socrates and Archimedes prove one thing: the movie “Idiocracy” is a documentary.
Hey Obama..please note these rioters are leftist govt union people. Who’s violent in this world? The commie left..all your friends.
The same thing would happen here if we cut the pay and retirement of govt workers and also cut welfare programs and actually tried to enforce our immigration laws.
It won’t be the long suffering tax payer..teaparty people who riot..they are god fearing honest people.
Greek protesters march through Thessaloniki. A fire-bomb attack on a bank in Greece killed at least three people as police fought pitched battles with striking protesters furious at brutal budget cuts designed to avoid national bankruptcy. (AFP/Sakis Mitrolidis)
The greedy corrupt insiders better hope not...If it ever came here, it would make Greece look like it's a small world Disney ride.
Greek riot policemen rest in front of graffiti written on the wall of a bank during violent demonstrations over austerity measures in Athens, May 5, 2010. Greece faced a day of violent protests and a nationwide strike by civil servants outraged by the announcement of draconian austeristy measures. Read more » REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE)
This is the nasty violence of Socialism withdrawal. Its necessary that whoever is in charge let it run its course and don’t dope the patient up again.
Just imagine what LA, Detroit, Buffalo, Atlanta, Filthadelphia wouldwill look like if their entitlements got cut we run out of money for their entitlements.............. Take naw' olans during Katrina and times it by about oh, I don't know..... TEN.
a statistic too.
I doubt Obama minds that the left gets violent .... remember his buddy Ayers group figured 25m would die in their effort to “fundamentally transform the United States of America”. To these people violence is only unacceptable when it’s by people who disagree with them.
It's getting really nasty there.
They have Tea Partiers in Greece?
Who knew?
/s
Apparently they didnt get dais gas and dais mogage pazmnts
Now if some group AGAINST government spending had done this, it would of course be the next step towards fascism.
All the truly productive Greeks must have come to America two generations ago, started restaurants, worked their
(_!_)’s off, and sent their kids to college.
They left behind the sheep and the cattle. Did anyone see the hammer and sickle’s on the protest banners in Greece? These are people who are looking for a free lunch.
I wonder if their politicians have an exit plan?
I'm afraid that what we'll see will be nothing like this...it will be far worse.
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