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A metric ton of badassery is going down in Greece.
And they have pics to prove it.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/2008_greek_riots.html
On the night of Saturday, December 6th, two Special Guards of the Greek police clashed with a small group of young men. The exact details of what took place are still unclear, but it is known that one of the Guards fired three shots, and one of those bullets caused the death of 15-year-old Alexander Grigoropoulos - whether the injury was made by an accidental ricochet or deliberate shot remains to be determined. The two Guards are now in jail awaiting trial, the shooter charged with homicide. This incident sparked an immediate and widespread response in the form of angry demonstrations and riots in many Greek cities that have continued at varying levels to this day - though dimming in intensity recently. Alexander's death appears to have been a catalyst, unleashing widespread Greek anger towards many issues - police mistreatment of protesters, unwelcome education reforms, economic stagnation, government corruption and more.
If you browse any gallery on the webs today, make it this one.
A riot police officer on fire, a guy shooting the ground with his hands, green lasers pew pew. It's hard to top this. I give this riot a 10/10.
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It's actually not that cool. People dying and getting set on fire for the cause of anarchy is pretty stupid.
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On December 17 2008 14:23 Quesadilla wrote:
It's actually not that cool. People dying and getting set on fire for the cause of anarchy is pretty stupid.
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Holy Crap thats seriously out of control 10.5/10 for the scale of the riot damn, when are they just going to do the whole curfew thing?
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whats greece? i thought they were at a democracy stage, capitalism? idk.
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They are rioting because their economy is bad.
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Folca, are you retarded? I feel as though I should elaborate.
You are retarded. Democracy was founded in Greece, it was a less spread form however. It was in Athens where they had sort of a senate who decided things that happened, upper class people decided things instead of a king (I am not going to go into an entire history lesson, this is my brief summary)
Even today, they have a Democratic country, with an official elected by there parliament for a 5 year term. If you want to think that's not democratic because parliament elects him, then neither is America. Since popular vote doesn't actually elect people, its the electoral one.
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Physician
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- finally a thread about this subject, really hope some members that live in Greece leave their input : )
its a really odd set of events going on in Greece now
- anarchy flags everywhere o_Oa so old school, it almost looks like all of Greece blew into fight klub mode
- Jyvblamo is right, photos are almost out of Hollywood stuff
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some really great photos there.
it's too bad about all the people getting injured, though
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Well that's a thing or two we Venezuelans can learn from Greeks. They don't take shit, and if you dare to mess with them, they're going to use the gene's and heritage they were born with.
Natural born fighters. Props to them for defending their shit, and It's a sad thing that people has to come to "this" to make things happen.
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If the riots are because the economy I'm surprised riots haven't started here in the states. There is a huge class difference, the poor and the rich, here in the states and the majority are royally pissed off due to the bailout which banks used to buy other banks. Now the motor companies are using threats to get the money. Ticking time bomb maybe.
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I never understood rioting. Seems more popular in Europe though.
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cop shot a 15 year old and killed him.
Police system in Greece is rly corrupt.
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fucking people are piece of shits. this picture really got to me...
shes writing her license plate # on her burnt car.
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So, shit like that happens atlest once a year in America we just force them off the force and shame them for life no need to throw Molotov Cocktails burning everything.
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Physician
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On December 17 2008 14:46 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
If the riots are because the economy I am sure it helps but it's not that simple. The youth and general population in Greece have been building beef against the police methods for a while - and I am sure there is others capitalizing on the sentiment. I don't want to have to read a hour to figure it out myself - we need tl.net Greek input/feedback asap!
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Ye its all because of the way police treat the young community in greece. The shooting of the 15 year old just kinda was the icing on the cake.
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Isn't there a Greek player on the TL team?
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Izzy, it was apparently a trigger for a bunch of other things that were happening. Similar to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand before WW1 started. That issue in itself was not a huge deal, but triggered rest of the things that happened. This seems like a less extreme degree of that, where the death of the 15 year old triggered problems that were already going on.
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