Comments | jordan179: Were the Athens Riots Planned Well in Advance?

jordan179

Were the Athens Riots Planned Well in Advance?

Dec 13, 2008 08:43

Ioannis Michaletos, in "Riots in Greece: The undercover news" at EuropeNews (http://europenews.dk/en/node/17226) puts forth this interesting theory. He says.

The riots were orchestrated since late summer 2008. There were reports within the Greek police that the riots would commence ( Read more... )

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madwriter December 14 2008, 23:23:55 UTC

>>Greece is also a country whose population early swallowed the notion that Israel was to blame for Muslim rage, and hence is pre-conditioned to accept stories of Western guilt for violence by the "disenfranchised" Third Worlders.<<

And meanwhile, I suppose it was Greece's own fault that they were occupied by Turkey for so long...

madwriter December 15 2008, 17:10:11 UTC

Time they bent the knee to Mecca again and learned something.

They'll thank the Turkish Empire for their enlightened rule after a taste of PURE Wahabi Islamic Republic.

Are Greek Anarhcists anything like the ones here in the States? anonymous December 15 2008, 17:12:35 UTC

Every "ANARCHY NOW!" type I've run into out here was a Rich Kid from an Exclusive Gated Community, the type whose Mommy & Daddy gave them their own five-figure new car/SUV on their 16th birthday. Whose definiton of Anarchy is "Then I Get To Do Anything I WANT! ANYTHING!"

Re: Are Greek Anarhcists anything like the ones here in the States? jordan179 December 15 2008, 18:02:54 UTC

European anarchists may be a tad more ideological, but essentially, yes, most of them would have come either from privileged backgrounds, or be opportunists from poor backgrounds latching on to the trust-fund kids in hopes of leeching off some of their money.

The main difference is that in America, these sort of people know that destructive rioting will be quickly clamped down on by the Law, while in Europe the establishment is less competent. So they can get away with more in Europe than in America, and act accordingly.

kallistos December 22 2008, 00:18:12 UTC

But then, the same thing would have almost been true had Europe gone Communist (those radical-leftists not in a lockstep with the Moscow line would have been sent to the gulags, as was the case when Stalin conquered Eastern Europe and was again true in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968).Yet Tito's Yugoslavia broke with Stalin in the 1940s and survived right up to the 1990s, despite maintaining that independence ( ... )