Well, that’s the issue I see: The guys who are on fire aren’t being shielded by their buddies.
In that case, I’d be trying to get to somewhere where I can deal with the fire, and that’s why I think you see these guys who are on fire moving whilst standing.
What is needed now in these situations is either a crew-served weapon to utterly intimidate the crowd or a sniper to take out the anarchists who are whipping up the crowd into a frenzy of looting and destruction. Either the government can go for “shock and awe” and slaughter so many people that there will be no more riots (and I think a gunship with a mini-gun or two passing over the crowd would do this pretty well), or the government gets rid of the clowns with the black hoodies and masks (which I think should be the order of the day - these anarchist clowns have been allowed to grow too numerous all over the western world for the last 10 years now).
The government is quickly losing any semblance of control in this, and soon there will be no point in being a cop on the street, trying to control the riots. At that point, governments typically go to full martial law and bring in troops with armor.
And that would be bad, and would signal the complete end of Greece. No one other than the wild adventure junkies would bother going to Greece for a holiday while the nation is under martial law.
Cops on fire, Athens in flames. Seems like it's pretty cut and dried. I've seen this movie before. It's just been updated to include cell phones.
Sparta, Persia, Rome, self-inflicted, Germany, whatever.
They have a serious problem, with a capital F.
/johnny
Were you an informal advisor for Muammar Gaddafi?
It’s just a matter of time before we see a military coup in Greece and a new government run by, and controlled by, the military.