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Greek Youths Firebomb Police During Anti-Austerity Protests

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Groups of youths on the edge of a major anti-austerity protest in Athens threw rocks and firebombs at police outside Parliament, where the struggling government sought support for new cutbacks required to avoid a debt default.

At a rally of more than 20,000 in the Syntagma Square, police responded with tear gas to push the protesters away from barricades erected to protect the Parliament building and the lawmakers arriving to debate the new austerity plan.

Other demonstrators who had been part of the previously peaceful gathering also clashed with the violent groups of hooded youths, trying to eject them from their rally.

The protests were part of a 24-hour general strike against the new cutbacks, which the country must pass in order to continue receiving funding from a euro110 billion international bailout that is preventing it from defaulting on its debts.

A large part of central Athens was closed to all traffic and pedestrians as police mounted a huge security operation to allow lawmakers access to Parliament by car. Some 5,000 officers, including hundreds of riot and motorcycle police, used parked buses and crowd barriers to prevent protesters from encircling the building.

Greek Youths Firebomb Police During Anti Austerity Protests

“Resign, resign,” the crowd chanted outside Parliament. The protesters included both young and old, and many brought their children, hoisting them onto their shoulders to shield them from the crush.

Two separate marches organized by trade unions joined the rally in Syntagma. Such demonstrations have often turned violent in the past – three clerks died when rioters torched their bank in Athens last May.

But the latest austerity drive has brought many people onto the streets for the first time.

Greek Youths Firebomb Police During Anti Austerity Protests

“What can we do? We have to fight, for our children and for us,” said Dimitra Nteli, a nurse at a state hospital who was at the protest with her daughter. “After 25 years of work I earn 1,100 euros a month. Now that will drop to 900. How can we live on that?”

Her 26-year-old daughter, Christina, said the situation in Greece had led her to leave for the U.K. to study conflict resolution.

“I have no job here. There are no prospects,” she said.

Police spokesman Athanassios Kokalakis said 10 protesters were briefly detained. About a hundred people booed and heckled as cars carrying Prime Minister George Papandreou and President Karolos Papoulias swept past for a meeting.

Greek Youths Firebomb Police During Anti Austerity Protests

The general strike crippled public services across the country, leaving state hospitals running on emergency staff, disrupting port traffic and public transport, and forced radio and television news programs off the air during the morning. Journalists’ unions called off their strike to cover developments in Athens.

Flights were also operating normally after the air traffic controllers’ union dropped out of the strike.

“They keep asking us to give more,” said Ilias Iliopoulos, general secretary of the civil servants’ union ADEDY. “Now, again, they will cut our salaries and bonuses, from the little that we have left.”

The government needs to pass a new 2012-2015 austerity program worth euro28 billion ($40.5 billion) this month – or face being cut off from the rescue loans from European countries and the International Monetary Fund.

To meet their commitments, Papandreou‘s Socialists’ abandoned a pledge not to impose new taxes and have drawn up a four-year privatization program worth euro50 billion ($72 billion) – further fueling protests against austerity by public utility employees and other affected groups.

Some governing party lawmakers have publicly criticized the new cuts. One of them defected on Tuesday, reducing Papandreou’s parliamentary majority to five in the 300-seat legislature. Another Socialist lawmaker said he will vote against the bill, which is set for final approval by early next month.

Papandreou faces an open revolt from his own party and a refusal by the main opposition conservatives to back the new austerity bills, despite EU pressure for cross-party support.

Papandreou met with the president to discuss how to solve the crisis.

“A national effort is required. Because we are at a historically crucial moment and a time of crucial decisions,” Papandreou told Papoulias, adding that he was still in contact with opposition party leaders in an effort to garner cross-party support for the austerity drive.

“But on the other hand, everyone has to assume their responsibilities,” Papandreou told the president, according to a transcript of their conversation released by the prime minister’s office. “In any case, we will move forward with this sense of responsibility and the necessary decisions” to pull Greece out of the crisis.

The statements calmed concern, voiced mainly in the local media, that the prime minister might have been considering calling early elections.

The Socialists’ popularity plummeted in recent weeks over the new austerity plan. A weekend opinion poll gave the main opposition conservatives a four-point lead over their Socialist rivals, the first time the party has been ahead in surveys since 2009. The next general election is scheduled for October 2013.

With its credit rating deep in junk status, Greece is being kept afloat by the EU and IMF bailout, but will need additional support to cover financing gaps next year as high interest rates will prevent it from tapping the bond market next year, contrary to what the original bailout agreement had predicted.

On Monday night, Standard & Poor‘s slashed Greece’s rating from B to CCC, dropping it to the very bottom of the 131 states that have a sovereign debt rating. That suggests Greece’s creditors are less likely to get their money back than those of Pakistan, Ecuador or Jamaica.

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Nicholas Paphitis, Derek Gatopoulos, Petros Giannakouris and Lefteris Pitarakis in Athens contributed.

Comments (145)

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  • BoilitDown
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:25am

    The radicals here in the United States are salivating at their turn to emulate the Greek youth. I’m sure the unions and other socialist based organizations are set and just itching to get out in the streets to create chaos.
    The big question is, are our intelligence and law enforcement agencies geared up and keeping an eye on them? Another question is, will Holder’s DOJ interfere with efforts to stop the radicals?

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    • tripl-e
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:31pm

      As in Wisconsin, you will see that the true allegiance of public employees lies with their union contract, not with their sworn duties and obligations to the public.

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    • Entropy
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:09pm

      Let them riot. It will be a great opportunity to show them who is boss. They think they are entitled to my earnings? I say come and get it and see what happens.

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  • barrycooper
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:21am

    The EU should pull out, and let this infantile nation see the consequences of short term thinking, and selfish parochialism. Problem is, the EU was a socialist project, and the goal was a net that included all, covered all, and controlled all. One ring to bind them.

    When you travel far down the wrong road, it takes time to retrace your steps and make a new decision. This is painful. But it is necessary. What else do you need to know?

    These children can pout and scream all they want about how life isn’t fair. The reality is that their cozy benefits have not been fair to much of the rest of the nation–and to their children, who are already suffering the consequences of their parents abdication of responsibility–and that what is happening now is in fact not only fair, but apparently needed to teach them some basic lessons about life.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:16am

    Firebombing police is an act of insanity. Whatever else, those are their countrymen, and to try to physically maim or kill is beyond me. Times are going to be tough everywhere because of the actions of socialist leaders, but we (thet) voted for those people, now we have to clean up the mess. I hope they ure out how to help each other. band together, pool their resources and bring their country back-without socialism, because that is what is ruining Europe-and the left it trying it here. Get ou the right vote! Nobody gets to stay home for the next elections!

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  • catndahat
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:11am

    To think this country was the cradle of Western civilization. Is there any better proof that our western way of life is coming to an end?

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  • ProbIemSoIver
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:10am

    See, America and the EU have a cancer…… It’s called the NWO malignancy. It needs to be removed, and quickly.

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  • Spinolio
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:02am

    This is what happens when the left takes over teaching. The young do not understand where wealth comes from and when it’s “taken away” they thing they are being wronged, rather than looking at themselves as the problem.

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    • Entropy
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:02pm

      They actually believe that there is a money tree hidden somewhere or that there are large warehouses full of cash that is being withheld from them. The only way to deal with a commie that thinks he is entitled to other peoples money is to put a bullet in their head.

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  • Aegis
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:00am

    Amazing socialism/collectivism/communism fail time and time again. And yet the progressive/statist, who BTW choose not to leave a free market economy, still argue that western imperialism is controlled by the wealthy elite but what the hell do you think socialism/collectivism do by putting the power in the hands of government bureaucrats. I’ll take make chances w/ western imperialism where at least I know that I have the opportunity to achieve wealth and prosperity.

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  • JohnnyJT South Philly
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:57am

    Hey, where did they get money to buy GAS?

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  • BQI
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:56am

    America, please, please, please wake up. This is what SOCIALISM LOOKS LIKE !!!

    Today @ BQI: 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating

    http://www.blackquillandink.com

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  • ProbIemSoIver
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:51am

    How is that “EU Hope and Change thing” working out for ya Europe? Gotta love socialism.

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  • I_Hate_Libs
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:51am

    Look at all the socialists wow Greece sucks big time.

    The horror of the Democrat mind.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:50am

    It’s easy to look down your nose at the Greeks but, how many American heads full of mush will be doing the same thing when the handouts stop?

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  • flsnipe
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:50am

    Comming soon to the U.S.

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    • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:36am

      Coming soon to Detroit. In a few months when the united states government goes broke and has to make big cuts in welfare programs. Detroit will have the biggest riot the world has ever seen. With a high school drop out rate around 75% and most of the city population depending on government assistance for food and housing, the riot will happen.
      I remember seeing convoys of michigan national guard troops headed for Detroit during the 1968 riot. It wasn’t a pretty picture, what is coming is going to be worse, much worse.

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  • ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:49am

    Hippies!

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  • Mr. Oshawott
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:48am

    If only the Greek government enforced their austerity plans years earlier…

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:45am

    I don’t think people should jump so quickly to the government side here! What if our government said since, we are 14 trillion in debt we are going to make everyone in America pay 75% of their income to the government? You bet there are going to be riots!!! There are also bad folks with bad agendas involved as well but be real about it as well, think in America how hard it is getting day to day!

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    • Entropy
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:02am

      I don’t believe that they are taking the governments side here. We know that the reason they are in trouble is because THEY put commies in office that promised them the BS benefits and it it THEIR fault. Therefore, by extension THEY should get thier heads bashed in. That’s all.

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  • zman173rd
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:42am

    Would anyone in the 80′s have thought the comments we see here now would ever be considered a possiblity? Scary that we see what’s happening in a socialist country as inevitable here. Scary but true. Don‘t think the gov’t isn’t reading everything you say here. Be warned. They WILL be at your door first. YOU are a threat to their new society.

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:06am

      @Zman Let them come for us. The people have had enough. The Great American people will not stand for socializm any longer. We are our forefathers sons and daughters, we will route them then root the little commies out. It is they who will live in fear, not us.

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:14am

      I hope they get Congressional consent first,or I
      will have Boehner issue another Ultimatum..

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  • christos
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:36am

    …….Olive orchards were not enough for them,contentment is nowhere to be found–beware of Greeks bearing gifts,unless of course it’s olives…….

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    • GeorgeWashingtonslept here
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:51am

      I’m Greek. My parents were born in Greece. I was in Greece in the 80′s. They were communists back then and still are. I say let them fall into the Mediterranean. One out of three work for the government and are complaining because they can’t retire now until age 45. They have socialized medicine there for decades and it sucks. The last place you go to is the hospital for care. You go there to die. Another thing……………Greece should have passed on the Olympics……….that cost like 8 Billion dollars……money they obviously didn’t have………………….I bet we could buy Greece for that amount of money…………:)

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  • Andybetterideas
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:34am

    “No jobs??” Well, go out and MAKE ONE, you looser.
    I can see opportunities for work just by looking at those pictures. What you SHOULD be protesting are the taxes and government regulations holding you back. Do you really think money comes from anywhere other than a person’s labor?

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:56am

      They are complaining about their jobs and pay the pansies. If they had any ambition they could get off their lazy butts and just accept the invitation by our, soon to be impeached or voted out President, and come to America illegally where welfare and jobs flow like milk and honey. Maybe we can send our unions to Greece.

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:29am

    I loved how the dog was protesting as well. Too funny.

    And this gem…“Now, again, they will cut our salaries and bonuses, from the little that we have left.”

    Bonuses? Hey there stupid, your country is bankrupt. You shouldn’t be getting bonuses when your employer is broke.

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  • Chooch
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:21am

    Is that a purse he wearing? Or is it a European shoulder bag? Anyway he should get cracked for wearing either.

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    • Entropy
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:55am

      The “WHAAACK!” of a night stick upside the head of a commie prog is music to my ears.

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    • Goldline_scam
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:39am

      Wow … such Christian values expressed here. Just beat people over the head … nice.

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    • ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:37am

      who said anything about being Christian or Christian Values? There should be some kind of action against those attacking the police and being out of line….

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    • Entropy
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:32pm

      @Goldline_scam
      Just because somebody is a Christain does not automatically translate into them being fools or sissies that take crap off of people. We pay our own way and do not expect earned wealth to be taken from one group and given to another for sitting on their butts. Yes, I am a Christian and I want the commies wacked in the pumpkin. Get over it.

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    • 50BMG
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:23pm

      @Goldline_Scam

      How is stealing by the government a “Christian value”? Please tell me where in the Bible I’m prohibited from defending my life, liberty, and property from those who are taking it from me by force, because that’s what socialists do.

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  • kentuckypatriot
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:20am

    why no mention of the bailout to Greece from the US? I thought our dollars helped, guess not.

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  • Ron_WA
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:19am

    Get ready. If the US really gets spending under control like we should then expect at least some degree of protests when people take big hits to things they have become accustomed to.

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    • Goldline_scam
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:38am

      That’s exactly what the government in Greece is trying to do … get spending under control, and implement an austerity program. Yet they are derided as Communists. They are doing exactly what the GOP will do should they win the next election – cut government spending in an attempt to balance the budget.

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    • ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:46am

      People who receive Benefits from the Govt will flip out when they are cut back or taken away. Get a job losers! Make your own money instead of taxpayers making it for you!

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  • ramburner
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:16am

    Coming to your town SOON!

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:02am

      I like to think we Americans have more class and self-reliance than that. Not all, obviously, but the vast majority.

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    • justme72
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:12am

      I am afraid we WILL see riots here soon:(

      Scary times.

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    • Entropy
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:47am

      The politicians in the US will NEVER let this happen here-at least not during their lifetimes. They will just keep on borrowing and keep on promising. They know that if they try to reign in spending here they will get ropes around their necks. They don’t care about the kids or grandkids, just themselves. And , the cops here will protect them like they are protecting their own pensions and early retirement-oh wait….sorry.

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    • 50BMG
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:56am

      The politicians will do everything they can to delay this sort of thing here, but they’ve already cast the die that will make their future decisions and actions meaningless. We are dependent on other nations for a large part of our debt. When -not if – they decide to stop lending us money, the politicians will be out of options. They can do the Weimar Republic approach, which led to hyperinflation (think that won’t cause chaos?), followed by a dictatorship.

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    • New Dawn Comin
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:10am

      Where do we sign up? Kick a liberal!

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  • Brasil2520
    Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:15am

    Socialism at it’s best

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:19am

      I suspect we will see this either in late September or early January. Earlier if the economy collapses…
      I live in a small town. We call these morons…target practice.

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    • barak hussein osama arafat brotherhood
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:24am

      So obama wants to send Greece something like $50 billion so their union workers can retire at 45, while we here in the U.S. have NO more money for Social Security and Medicare, which we all paid so dearly for, and now WE must work to 75 or death, whichever comes first.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:28am

      Coming to a union rally near you……

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    • Mikhail Kennedy
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:30am

      Time to let these socialist nations fail, they will have tough times, but maybe they will have learned a lesson. When it‘s California’s turn they also should be allowed to fail.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:30am

      Germany and Omama will give them more money so the welfare state can continue

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:32am

      .
      Good thing most kids over here are to F’in lazy to get out in the street. But the ones that do should be turned into speed bumps…..

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:37am

      Now, THIS is what cost cutting should be like.

      http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2011/06/15/the_money_hole/page/full/

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:43am

      Yes!! Get those Police State Thugs!

      DOWN WITH THE NEW WORLD ORDER!

      DOWN WITH THE POLICE STATE!

      DOWN WITH THE PRISON PLANET!

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    • butler180
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:46am

      Ahh, the spoiled brats will have to work for a living just like Daddy and Mommy or should I say Grandpa and Grandma.
      They see their free ride disappearing and they are throwing a tantrum just like all two year old brat does.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:49am

      The opposition to freedom in America is warning of Social Unrest Will Happen here in America and soon; so here from Greece we are able to see what it will look like, and how they will use it to make the case for cracking down upon the last liberties we now have…look and prepare for the next wave of the storm coming for it will be here soon, unless we who value freedom and liberty take the stand and draw the line.

      We still have time, not much, yet there is still time.

      Choose now where you will stand at.

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    • Texas Grasshopper
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:52am

      Dustyluv

      used to live in the middle of nowhere …moved down to Houston Area ( roughly ) Hope I can get back to the middle of nowhere soon …to many people here for me …

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:53am

      I want my free stuff. Waaaa!

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    • BuckOfama
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:53am

      When it starts here I am going to treat these “holes” like zombies…… Since I will probably never get real zombies, bummer…..

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:01am

      Sinista Mace, I hardly think this is an example of a police state. The police, in this case, are just trying to keep the “I want me free stuff” cry babies from overrunning the Parliament building while they’re trying to figure out a way to balance the state checkbook.

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    • Entropy
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:42am

      I heard that the protesters were shouting “we know you got the money tree in there, now get on it and pick us some money”. But, it was funny that the cops were clubbing them hard. That is exactly what commies need-one upside the head.

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:55am

      Anytime I see Nazis in riot gear against civilians, I have a Pavlovian response.

      I detest Nazis.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:26am

      Or govt. cronyism and human greed at it’s worst. I wouldn’t get to feeling too high and mighty over the Greeks. The U.S. (and arguably the world entire) aren’t going to escape this decade unscathed. When the cuts inevitably come here, you will see the same drama play out. Sure, it’s the unions and govt. employees who will lead the charge, but once Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security start to evaportate, every entitlement loving American will be ready to hurl words, rocks and Molotovs. This is like watching your neighbor’s home burn with a “better you than me attitude”… while your psychotic family plays with matches in your living room.
      I could be wrong, and as a parent of three teens, I pray to God I am, but any student of history can see the groundwork is being laid for one of those enumerated global conflicts that tends to result when peoples are fed up with their govts. and govts. start looking for an out. Throw in Islam, a dash of illegal immigration, resurgent nationalism, a smidgeon of govt. expansionism, and ideologies that can‘t play nice with each other and you’ve got the WWI era redux.
      Human beings tend to destroy things in their frustration. I have faith humanity will be true to its tribal nature. Then again, I’m generally a misanthrope and trust VERY few of you. My crazy rant may amount to naught in this decade, but the crush WILL come at some point.

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    • DTOM_Jericho (escaped PA)
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:31am

      @Sinista
      I believe we agree again. Though I detest socialist hippie leeches, pigs are worse. Disliking pigs does not make you a leftist, Beck. It’s actually one of the few things leftist get right. (no pun intended)

      Is there any doubt that it will not come to this here? Civil unrest is coming. When that happens pig sycophants (like Beck) will understand once again (like in Wisconsin and Pittsburgh G20 protest) where the pig loyalties really reside. Unconstitutional, jack-booted, union thugs… oh yeah, let’s support that.

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    • melmatmic
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:44am

      This is where public employee unions ultimately end up driving the country off the deep end. No one wants to take a cut. I understand that. But we just can’t continue the current rate of spending. Everything has to take a cut. Start with Welfare, food stamps, medicaid, medicare, and social security.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:44am

      Ugh… eveyone is anti-socialism… except when it comes to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and health care in general. I’m anti-socialist because of those programs and the mindset that the collective, not the individual, owns individual health. Nothing (save maybe some organized religions) brings out the ugly more in people than when an entity asserts that it must limit or withhold entitlements people believe they are owed and/or have earned. Any parents here? Renege to a child… and watch the drama unfold.
      I know a lot of ‘conservatives’ who readily defend Medicare and Social Security as untouchable rights. Even Medicaid is often lumped in as the third sacred cow, giving us the Holy Trinity of the Third Rail in Politics.
      I am stunned by the level of hubris that is asserting “better Greece then us.” I know some of you folks aren’t naive, but when some 60% of the Tea Party says the Holy Trinity is not to be addressed in cuts, you’ve lost me. You are clearly not serious about curtailing your own fall from on high.
      I expect to be told to shut up and go away; denial is an expected defense. Fine. I admit that thru some divine intervention, I could be wrong. But to assert that the system of govt. here in the U.S.and the general population is too savvy and responsive to not go the way of the Greeks is suicidally arrogant.
      Throw around labels, blame ‘-isms’… it’s all history repeating itself.

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    • Kansas Mom
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:47am

      NO US money for Greece!!!! Those lazy people have no sense of their reality. We have no money to send to these lazy, self-entitled people.

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    • Tayper
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:54am

      Looks like WI

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    • Entropy
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:38pm

      While I completely abhor and despise riot clad goons that protect criminal politicians, I completely loathe and want to extermninate leeches that believe that they are entitled to the earnings of others.

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    • tripl-e
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:16pm

      The core problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money. That hour has arrived.

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    • drphil69
      Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:06pm

      Coming soon to a city near you….

      BE PREPARED.

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    • Dont-hate-on-me-2
      Posted on June 16, 2011 at 3:52am

      protestirs goign crazy (reminds me of WI) the goverment in greece saying they may have to privatiz, did i read that right, wouldnt that mean if i read it right that they are embracing capitalism to get out of there socialist problems and uncontrolled spending and benifets.just proves how bad unions are, they did have a purpose, right up untill they got so greedy with the private sectors money in the form of tax.Want beetr education, get rid of the unions and teach real history real science, math english art music etc. Instead they keep no good workers who work half as hard as anyone in the private sector and make twice as much plus we pay for their retiement and heath care in most cases, then they throw a fit when you say they need to pay more. , dont people see that taxes are overly high do to these sweetheart unions and federal jobs and the theft from private sector in American…hmmm Im sure ill take heat from the soros junkies for this one, bring it i say. people with common sense can see the truth thru your lies anyways.

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