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12/15/08(Mon)09:13:03 No.2446212>>2446143
With
these grievances in mind, young people (who would not normally see
themselves as revolutionaries and are a far-cry from the 'extremists'
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis says are behind the disturbances) have
begun stockpiling stones, rocks and crushed marble slabs from Salonika
in the north to the resort islands of Corfu and Crete in the south.
They
have also started selling them on - at three stones a euro - to other
protesters whose parents may live in Hollywood-style opulence, or
indeed on the breadline, but who are bonded by a common desire to hurl
them at that hated symbol of authority: the police.
...
Within
an hour of the boy's death thousands of protesters had gathered in
Exarchia's lawless central square screaming, 'cops, pigs, murderers,'
and wanting revenge. At first, it is true, the assortment of
self-styled anarchists who have long colonised Exarchia piggy-backed on
the tragedy, seeing it as the perfect opportunity to live out their
nihilistic goals of wreaking havoc. But then middle-class kids -
children had got good degrees at universities in Britain but back in
Greece were unable to find work in a system that thrives on graft,
cronyism and nepotism - joined the protests and very quickly it became
glaringly clear that this was their moment, too. Theirs was a
frustration not only born of pent-up anger but outrage at the way
ministers in the scandal-tainted conservative government have also
enriched themselves in their five short years in power.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/14/greece-riots-youth-poverty-comment
Anarchy my ass. |
