Greek youths firebomb police station

The Australian ^ | 14 Dec 2008 | Anon

[BlackVeil]

HOODED youths firebombed a police station next to the Exarchia district where locals held a silent vigil for a teenager who was killed a week ago.

Police fired tear gas and were in hot pursuit of a group of about 100 youths who had congregated there - with similar numbers in Thessaloniki also vandalising a gymnasium before holing up in university premises.

The fresh outbreak of hostilities ...

[Prole]

Who is doing the rioting?

Muslims or Greeks?

[Kolokotronis]

“Who is doing the rioting?

Muslims or Greeks?”

Sadly, Greeks.

[ETL]

Who is doing the rioting? Muslims or Greeks?

In this photo from a December 11, 2008 Marxist.com article, the protesters can be seen giving the communist fist salute. Marxist.com is obviously a pro-communist website.

And here they are with large red flags...

"After four days of struggle we can now start to draw some first clear conclusions. Without any doubt this movement deserves the title of 'teenager uprising'. We have here a new generation of tens of thousands of school students erupting in a huge explosion, the biggest for 20 years, if not even more, in Greece. We have clear symptoms of an instinctive revolutionary spirit, and a clear tendency to target not only the present bourgeois government but also the bourgeois state and the capitalist system as a whole."

http://www.marxist.com/greece-teenager-uprising-big-general-strike.htm

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[BlackVeil]

Thanks for the pics and links. This appears to be a significant event - the resurgence of left-wing militancy in Europe. It was always strong in Greece.

[Verginius Rufus]

There was an interesting column in Friday's Wall Street Journal, page A17 (I haven't checked to see if it's online) about the Greek riots--claiming that the authorities are basically standing by and letting the rioters attack businesses and vehicles. The author (Greek name) was connected with a think-tank, Center for the Study of Classical Liberalism or something like that.

[Kolokotronis]

I read the article. Its a good one.

[elkfersupper]

Coming soon to a place near you.

[ETL]

Coming soon to a place near you.

We've already had our revolution. The Marxists won without resorting to violence.

[elkfersupper]

We've already had our revolution. The Marxists won without resorting to violence.

My kids aren't going to pay an 85% federal income tax rate.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

I think:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122902983101699381.html

[Lurker]

My kids aren't going to pay an 85% federal income tax rate

Nor are mine.

We'll 'shrug' long before that....

L

[proudCArepublican]

They say on our news this is over a child being killed yet this article and on DW TV and Russia Today it clearing states that the “Youth” were given a whole lot of promises by the government and got nothing in return like the article is pointing out. Clearly the kid was the thing that started it but it is bigger and we should look very closely because our government has promised a whole lot of stuff I don’t think they will be able to deliver. And since we have a bunch of kids who feel a sense of entitlement this could happen here said to say.

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, that was the column I had in mind--I remember the quote from Seneca.

Seneca was the brother of Gallio, who "cared for none of those things" (Acts 18:17).

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Good find. I would post it but I am lazy and forget if WSJ is excerpt only or whatever.

[Prole]

Communists, eh?

Fools, all.

[Cacique]

My kids aren't going to pay an 85% federal income tax rate.

You are not far off he mark, they will; A) not have any money to pay axes Or B) Be slaves to the sate paying 110% of their earnings including the new tax to pay for the Punic Wars.

[VanShuyten]

Already happened once. Watch the movie “Z”. It’s pretty good, even if it’s pretty red.

[gwilhelm56]

**My kids aren’t going to pay an 85% federal income tax rate.**

You’re right.. they will have a FLAT TAX ...95%

[Kolokotronis]

“My kids aren’t going to pay an 85% federal income tax rate.”

Why not? Your parents and grandparents did if they made enough money. In fact, from 1950 to 1963, we had the highest marginal tax rates in American history, 91%-92%. We had three short recessions in 1954, 1958 and 1961 but otherwise it was a time of growth in employment and real wages.

[seatrout]

At least these kids have the gumption to get off of their backsides and take to the street when they realize they’re being screwed. Not just a bunch of passive whiners like most young people in the West, these days.

[M. Espinola]

The ringleaders instigating the rioting are a collection of far-leftists, commies and so-called 'students', hooligans out to grab whatever they can from broken storefront windows, which they have already smashed of course.

Greece is in her eighth day of horrific, economically destroying, leftwing promoted urban looting, fire bombing banks and general street chaos. So much for Merry Christmas....

High-tech confrontation: Protesters aim a laser pointer at riot police during clashes on the weekend in Athens that followed vigils for a youth killed eight days earlier by police. Photo: Petros Karadjias

The communists are attempting to overthrow the center-right government. The communists pulled this before, at the close of World War Two, dragging Greece into a bloody civil war (1944-1949).

[Thunder90]

I smell Russian involvement in this.

[M. Espinola]

Putin would relish getting a foothold on NATO’s southern flank.

[apro]

"They say on our news this is over a child being killed yet this article and on DW TV and Russia Today it clearing states that the “Youth” were given a whole lot of promises by the government and got nothing in return like the article is pointing out. Clearly the kid was the thing that started it but it is bigger and we should look very closely because our government has promised a whole lot of stuff I don’t think they will be able to deliver. And since we have a bunch of kids who feel a sense of entitlement this could happen here said to say."

The root cause for the riots is the publics discontent with the current administrations reform plans. Such demonstrations have been held on a regular bases across the country for almost two years now in opposition to the government's plan to amend Greece's constitution. Greek anarchists, students, unionists and party activists because of public anger over government economic policy and reforms in the academic fields. Last year more then half the school year in Greece was lost because of riots, i.e. demonstrations and students taken over schools and unviresities. On Thursday and Friday(12/4/08 & 12/5/08) the Nurses Unions in Greece went on strike, those strikes led to Saturday night's riots, those riots had the police out in force to stop them and it was during the Saturday night riots that the kid was accidently shot by a police officer. That death set off more riots 'in the name of the kid who was killed' said some, but in reality its over their discontent with the government trying to make economic and academic changes in the country, as well as hooligans taken advantage of the situation to riot for basically nothing. This is why you are seeing so many students, they are against the reforms that the Greek government wants to make in the universities. Unfortunately this kind of rioting is common thru out Europe thanks to their socialistic culture that is a breeding ground for anti-capitalist leftists, anarchists and hooligans, mostly youths and students are involved behind the riots and more of then not they come from wealthy familes.

[elkfersupper]

Why not?

We had no federal income tax for the vast majority of this country's history. That's why not.