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Demonstrators clash with police downtown Athens
Today there was a nation-wide strike for public and private sector employees. Demonstrations were scheduled for Athens, despite the rain prospects, and over 80.000 people went to demonstrate their opposition to new measures of cutting wages and the changing work laws in favor of the employer.
Police used excessive amounts of tear gas and quite a bit of violence, provoking the people in many instances. People who found a member of the parliament, and ex-minister, in a road in the center of Athens, chased him, cursed at him and (I havent seen how) they seem to have beat him because he had blood on his face. The general sentiment of the protesters is that all parliament members, ex ministers etc are thieves who deserve to be crushed or hanged.
Once again the media are on strike, which means that the whole planet can see whats going on in Athens on their TV, except Greeks. Its part of the "media blackout" operation in order to downplay and extinguish peoples reaction as non-existent.
Check some of the action here.
December 17th Update: I was watching the national news all day long (as I told you there was a strike for the media on the 15th) on how they would portray the events of the 15th. Well, they didnt disappoint: Once more they did not focus at all on the >100.000 demonstrators, reduced their numbers to 15-20.000 and the whole news were dominated by the politicians that was beaten up instead of the demonstrations. From an importance point of view, 4 things happened on the
a) A general strike
b) A 100.000+ people march / demonstration
c) The less than 100 vandals who initiated some violence and allowed the police to break up the march so that it never gets to the parliament - and the excessive response from the police which awaited the vandals actions in order to break up the march.
d) The politician who was beaten.
The news were thus almost exclusively focused on (d) and (c). There was no mention on how the police used excessive force (ramming people with motorbikes, excessive chemical use, illegal arrests) nor how there was provocateurs who initiated the whole thing.
Everyone is now starting to understand how the police works. They desire to have some provocateurs who initiate some damages in order to use them as a reason to crush the massive demonstration. All who participated in the march of the 15th are convinced that police had orders to break the march so that they do not reach the parliament - and thus attacked them to break them up before too much people arrive there and start violence against the politicians or chanting outside the parliament that politicians are thieves and traitors etc. In a sense, it was a pre-emptive strike with "provocateur" help. As a side note, people observed that those engaged in violence were walking besides the cops who did nothing while they could be arrested easily. Instead police hit ordinary people, thus reinforcing the scenario of hired provocateurs.
Demonstrators clash with police downtown Athens
Police used excessive amounts of tear gas and quite a bit of violence, provoking the people in many instances. People who found a member of the parliament, and ex-minister, in a road in the center of Athens, chased him, cursed at him and (I havent seen how) they seem to have beat him because he had blood on his face. The general sentiment of the protesters is that all parliament members, ex ministers etc are thieves who deserve to be crushed or hanged.
Once again the media are on strike, which means that the whole planet can see whats going on in Athens on their TV, except Greeks. Its part of the "media blackout" operation in order to downplay and extinguish peoples reaction as non-existent.
Check some of the action here.
December 17th Update: I was watching the national news all day long (as I told you there was a strike for the media on the 15th) on how they would portray the events of the 15th. Well, they didnt disappoint: Once more they did not focus at all on the >100.000 demonstrators, reduced their numbers to 15-20.000 and the whole news were dominated by the politicians that was beaten up instead of the demonstrations. From an importance point of view, 4 things happened on the
a) A general strike
b) A 100.000+ people march / demonstration
c) The less than 100 vandals who initiated some violence and allowed the police to break up the march so that it never gets to the parliament - and the excessive response from the police which awaited the vandals actions in order to break up the march.
d) The politician who was beaten.
The news were thus almost exclusively focused on (d) and (c). There was no mention on how the police used excessive force (ramming people with motorbikes, excessive chemical use, illegal arrests) nor how there was provocateurs who initiated the whole thing.
Everyone is now starting to understand how the police works. They desire to have some provocateurs who initiate some damages in order to use them as a reason to crush the massive demonstration. All who participated in the march of the 15th are convinced that police had orders to break the march so that they do not reach the parliament - and thus attacked them to break them up before too much people arrive there and start violence against the politicians or chanting outside the parliament that politicians are thieves and traitors etc. In a sense, it was a pre-emptive strike with "provocateur" help. As a side note, people observed that those engaged in violence were walking besides the cops who did nothing while they could be arrested easily. Instead police hit ordinary people, thus reinforcing the scenario of hired provocateurs.