Related: What are the Greek riots really about?
"More mayhem in Greece after teen's funeral; Clashes, riots rock capital for fourth night" by Nicholas Paphitis and Elena Becatoros, Associated Press | December 10, 2008
ATHENS - Masked youths and looters marauded through Greek cities for a fourth night yesterday, in an explosion of rage triggered by the police shooting of a teenager that has unleashed the most violent riots in a quarter century.
The nightly scenes of burning street barricades, looted stores, and overturned cars have threatened to topple the country's increasingly unpopular conservative government, which faces mounting calls for Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to resign.
Police fired tear gas at protesters following the funeral of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos, who was laid to rest in an Athens burial attended by about 6,000 people. Violence calmed before dawn today, but police were braced for more trouble later in the day when labor unions planned rallies during a nationwide strike called to protest the government's economic policies.
This isn't about the death of some kid, so why is the American MSM shoveling that angle? The kid's murder may have been a trigger, but WTF?
The rioting, which has engulfed cities from Thessaloniki in the north to the holiday island of Corfu and Crete in the south, threatens the 52-year-old Karamanlis, who already faced growing dissatisfaction over financial and social reforms at a time of deep anxiety over growing economic gloom....
Protesters... though they have not voiced any particular policy goals, say they want Karamanlis out.
"It's very simple - we want the government to fall. This boy's death was the last straw for us," Petros Constantinou, an organizer with the Socialist Workers Party, said in Athens. "This government wants the poor to pay for all the country's problems - never the rich - and they keep those who protest in line using police oppression."
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Greece was torn by years of civil war between communists and right-wing nationalists in the wake of World War II, and was ruled by a military dictatorship from 1967 to 1974.
Though a student uprising succeeded in ending military rule in 1974, it also left a legacy of activism and simmering tensions between the security establishment and a phalanx of deeply entrenched leftist groups that often protest against globalization and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Related: Operation Gladio
The groups have now evolved into various mainly youth factions that claim to fight trends ranging from globalization to police surveillance cameras. Their impact is usually limited to graffiti and late-night firebomb attacks on targets such as stores and cash machines.
Those are also known as AGENT PROVOCATEURS!
REAL PROTESTERS do NOT use VIOLENCE!! Only OPPRESSORS DO!!!
But the latest riots have moved far beyond the small antiestablishment groups to become a siege of Karamanlis' government. Teenagers and university students have joined self-styled anarchists in much of the rioting and destruction....
Translation: the PEOPLE are behind the PROTESTS -- as with so much of the world today.
So when are you sad sacks of shit Amurkns going to get off your asses?!!!
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