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%