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Greek youths firebomb police station
The Australian ^ | 14 Dec 2008 | Anon

Posted on 12/13/2008 6:43:43 PM PST by 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 ...

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anarchists; chaos; communists; exarchia; firebomb; greece; gymn; gymnasium; hoodedyouths; policestation; stalinists; thessaloniki; youhts; youts
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To: elkfersupper

“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.


21 posted on 12/14/2008 4:42:25 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: BlackVeil

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.


22 posted on 12/14/2008 6:27:07 AM PST by seatrout (I wouldn't know most "American Idol" winners if I tripped over them!)
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To: Prole
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).

23 posted on 12/14/2008 8:00:21 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is not 'free'.)
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To: M. Espinola

I smell Russian involvement in this.


24 posted on 12/15/2008 8:12:09 AM PST by Thunder90
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To: Thunder90

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


25 posted on 12/15/2008 12:39:22 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is not 'free'.)
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To: 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."

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.

26 posted on 12/15/2008 7:06:32 PM PST by apro
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To: Kolokotronis
Why not?

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

27 posted on 12/15/2008 7:35:07 PM PST by elkfersupper
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