Rioting Protesters Kill Three Bank Workers in Greece (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 6:21 AM
Riotors in Greece killed three bank workers today. The protesting civil servant workers trapped the bank employees in a burning building. Three bodies were found inside the torched bank in the Greek capital.
The AP reported:
Deadly riots over new austerity measures engulfed the streets of Athens on Wednesday, and three people were killed as angry protesters tried to storm parliament, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and torched buildings.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets as part of nationwide strikes to protest new taxes and government spending cuts demanded by the International Monetary Fund and other European nations before heavily indebted Greece gets a euro110 billion ($141 billion) bailout package of loans to keep it from defaulting.
Three people died after being trapped in a burning bank along the main demonstration route in central Athens—the first deaths during a protest in Greece since 1991, when four people trapped in a burning office building were killed. Another five were rescued.
“A demonstration is one thing and murder is quite another,” Prime Minister George Papandreou thundered in Parliament during a session to discuss the spending cuts he announced Sunday. Lawmakers held a minute of silence for the dead.
A riot policeman falls after being ihit with molotov cocktail near the Greek parliament in Athens during a nationwide strike in Greece, May 5, 2010. Greece braced for a day of demonstrations during a nationwide strike by civil servants protesting the announcement of draconian austeristy measures. (REUTERS/John Kolesidis)
The Greek civil servant leaders announced today that they will strike again next week to protest against austerity measures.
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NeoKong commented:
Prediction:
Tonight this will be on CBS and they will effortlessly go right on to Tea Partiers and have some expert to compare them.
BO Bama commented:
Cinco de Quatro!
Jayne on the left coast commented:
This is just horrible. Murder indeed. Just sickening. GOD Bless their Souls. These are true leftist doing what they do best.
gus commented:
Coming to a border state near you soon.
Conservatives do not behave this way.
Liberals do.
olm commented:
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this exactly the situation being created here?
Promise people totally unsustainable entitlements then take them away.
God help us, we sure need it. After Greece of course.
Saint commented:
“Prediction:
Tonight this will be on CBS and they will effortlessly go right on to Tea Partiers and have some expert to compare them.”
Actually NeoKong, I think the left is going to want to keep this as quite as possible. Remember, the Greeks are protesting because their politicians promised them infinite free money, but the wells dry.
The funny thing is that its so self-defeating, since no one is going to invest in a country where the response to a rotten economy is to go on strike and burn buildings.
Insufficiently Sensitive commented:
Thank God those Greek Socialists and Communists were good-thinking anti-war protesters simply demanding their entitlements at taxpayer expense. As Contessa Brewer would say, if they’d been Tea Party operatives, the deaths would be beyond counting.
olm commented:
It is totally self defeating.
Kind of like the left fanning the racism charge about the AZ law. There are not alot of mental heavyweights on the left.
Bob commented:
Maybe Obama needs to go over and help them.
Kevin P commented:
olm #5 – you are sooo right!
I was thinking that this morning – this is the EXACT reason we want limited government. It seems people get more upset taking away what isn’t theirs than they do when taking away what they rightfully earned.
gus commented:
We are in worse shape here. We have at least 12 million people in our country ILLEGALLY. We have LIBRARDS who have no concept of what is coming down the road. The LEFT wants them here. The LEFT wants them voting. The LEFT wants to give them entitlements. LIBTARDS………NEVER…….fix a problem. They throw YOUR money at it.
We ARE going to have violence here.
Texmom commented:
Murderers of the world unite!
Simon Owens commented:
It’d be nice if you updated your post making the inaccurate claim that the Times Square suspected bomber is a Democrat with a correction.
It’d also be nice if in all your coverage pointing out that the suspect is a Muslim, you also point out that the street vendor who reported him was a Muslim.
Thanks!
Kevin P commented:
gus #12 – thanks for the pep talk
JKB commented:
Obviously, Germany must pay to bail Greece out. They should, however, make any payment contingent on Germany leaving the EU and the Euro.
But rioting (or hunger strike as in Berkley) for money when the well is dry, strikes me as the quintessential community organizer stunt.
Derak commented:
Simon Owens:
Why don’t you just disprove Jim’s claims ( and thus prove yours) by linking evidence for your assertions? We’d love to see your sources.
logprof commented:
Greece is at the point where the parasite has overwhelmed the host, like the wasp larva that has eaten its way out from the inside of the paralysed spider.
pm commented:
As a person of faith, it looks to me like this is where those of no or little faith (or responsibility for self) find themselves when they “run out of other people’s money.”
This is the evil they’re attempting to impose on us: they demean and deny the Source of all our blessings. Pray that, however belatedly, our countrymen learn to seek God, should it come to this for us, rather than turn on their fellow man.
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