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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The victims do not surprise me, the hard-left even in this country seeks out and targets Bankers.
To paraphrase Reagan, “If it takes a bloodbath to clean up our financial sector, let’s get it over with.”
the movie “Idiocracy” is a documentary.
I took my wife to see it when it came out. She now remarks to me at least once per week that she is increasingly frightened how quickly it is becoming reality.
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.
Some highly respected, tenured University professors have told me face-to-face that street violence can be fully justified if the goal is “social justice”.
Limbaugh just said “We are seeing our future in Greece”....
Did I hear that right??
yeap. The more our tax dollars go to ‘charities’ the more painful it will be when we stop payment on the ‘charities.’
years ago it was out of NATO...
then it was Bush go home...
today it is IMF
it is still the same anarchists.
“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.”
I love the irony. I will take to the streets and burn the capital and roast the bankers on a spit for the right to sit back down on my fat a**, drink coffee and collect my check.
I wouldn’t worry, its Europe. This will just blow over. I mean what are they gonna do, exterminate 24 Million people. It’ll never happen. After all, this is Europe and Europe is civilized, right?
(Sarcasm Off).
“FESTIVAL FESTIVAL!!!”
for those star trek fans of Landru
See what heppens if there’s even a hint of the monkey pellet machine running out of pellets?
How do you suppose the entitled classes will react here when the monkey pellets stop?
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