I live in the largest Greek neighborhood in North America. Greeks are very defensive about how they are portrayed, so I am not surprised your friend told you this. This is not a protest for LIBERTY, but one for keeping a lifestyle that can't be maintained by a generous welfare state anymore.
Right, it makes no sense that a straw that breaks the camels back for tea partiers is cuts to government pensions.
You’ll notice I didn’t say that this was a protest for “liberty”. What I did say (well, what I’m reporting that I was told) is that they are totally fed up with a heavily Socialist government that has managed to screw up virtually everything they’ve touched. The announced, upcoming cuts are just another symptom (in their eyes) of the government’s incompetence and failure.
It tends to be the case that rioting in the streets throughout the world is restricted to a certain ‘type’ or class of person. The left, one might say. While they riot, the rest of the citizenry sits at home, fat and happy, or unhappy.
When the Tea Party assembled in cities across the US, or on the two occasions they came to the Capitol, there was no rioting.