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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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 87 Comments
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.
HandyBill commented:
Coming soon to an American city near you.
This is a preview of what is going to happen in the US once the well has run dry and those who mooch off of the producers begin their temper tantrum.
Stuart commented:
Handy Bill#21
Given everything I have read about the economy; given everything I have seen the Obama administration screw up, given the deliberate attempt by said administration to reduce this country to banana republic status, I suspect that all of this will be coming to a theatre near you within the next two years. Just in time for the 2012 elections… How coincidental.
Valerie commented:
Liberals in the US don’t do this, either.
Alinsky, Dohrn, Ayers and Wright are all proud to be called “radical” because Liberals believe in persuasion to get their points across. Liberals believe violence is counterproductive because it poisons the discussion. Liberals believe that Conservatives belong at the table to help shape the legislation.
Liberals, and Conservatives and Moderates in the US right now need to take the country back from the radicals who think bombs are an acceptable way to make a political statement.
To mix some metaphors, that pig, Ayers does not belong in the White House. Unfortunately, birds of a feather flock together, so when BO associates with Ayers and Dohrn, he gets pig sh!t on his feathers.
Don Rodrigo commented:
Gee . . . . maybe the Greeks should bring back the dreaded colonels who ruled Greece in the 70′s. They seem incapable of governing themselves.
Valerie commented:
I see the speculation above, and I just want to ask: what makes any of you think that the bomb-throwers in Greece are even Greek? Do you honestly think that any responsible adult working for the government wants to see his workplace destroyed?
Let’s not be fooled. Remember the Cartoon riots in Afghanistan? The clerics noticed that somebody of ill will had turned their planned peaceful protest into an opportunity for violence, and they shut the demonstrations down immediately.
There’s no reason to believe that the murderers are even from that country.
chuck in st paul commented:
damn those teabaggers, enough with the racist protests against Obamacare; shame on El Rushbo for inciting this violence; Glenn Beck should be arrested as a co-conspirator
[oh, this was NOT in America..?? Never mind, we'll blame it on Boooosh then.]
(/sarc)
Saint commented:
“There’s no reason to believe that the murderers are even from that country.”
In Afghanistan, there’s a war going on; its not surprising that somebody would try to use a protest for their own gain.
Who would gain from inciting violence in Greece?
gus commented:
Valerie, liberals are violent alll the time.
Chippy commented:
I wonder when the socialist democrats are going to get a socialist boy wonder lawyer team together to help free their new found lovable Time Square Bomber? Alan Dershowitz would be perfect! Then they could get Danny Glover and Sean Penn together with the other socialists clowns in Hollywood and make a “Tug at your Heart” movie blaming America. Hell, you can get Michael Moore and Oliver Stone to direct it. Get George Soros to finance it. You could probably get the Dixie Chicks to compose and sing the title song.
pm commented:
Seems to me that those who fall prey to the promises of the Socialists and Communists are those who didn’t do what Christ did when Satan came around with his promises.
I see little difference between the two. Just look at the fruit it’s produced. When your master is evil, expect to receive nothing less from him.
Nahanni commented:
As so many have pointed out this will soon be happening here in the US.
Europe has it’s PIIGS, we have our CINN’s-California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey. (Michigan is an extra special basketcase.)
We already are seeing the beginnings of this in New Jersey where the people finally elected a sane governor who is trying to keep the ship from sinking only to get death threats from the union pigs because he is going to take their trough away. It will be especially bad in Illinois and California where the lethal combination of decades of leftist Corruptocrat and union thug rule have so overburdened these states with parasites that makes it almost impossible to cure.
On another note…
Those of you with 401k’s best be prepared to move your money into the “safest” parts of your plan before the end of the week if you want to have any of it left. If you have the ability to take a loan out against it do so now. Europe will drag us under.
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Valerie, if the rioters aren’t from that country, then where are they coming from? The Planet Tralfamador?
Why would large groups of people travel to Greece in order to riot, just to make Greece look bad? What would be their motive for doing this? What could they hope to gain from it? Why should they care about Greece’s financial problems? And, if they are foreign, wouldn’t they stick out in the Greek crowd? Wouldn’t there be lots of reports about how they’re all speaking a different language from Greek, dressed like foreigners, etc.?
I mean, come on. . .
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
And, by the way, I don’t believe for two seconds that the Afghanistani clerics ever planned a “peaceful protest” over the Mohammed cartoons.
Opaobie commented:
Any of the cops on fire not firing at these attackers eligible for the new U.N. “Courageous Restraint” Award?
Alana commented:
As others have said, this will happen here.
And the libtards will cheer it on, just as they cheer on protestors who want amnesty for illegal immigrants, including those who do violence in the cause.
In fact, the libtards will be the first rioting for what they consider “theirs,” and if they don’t get it, they will take it from their neighbors – us.
Richard Romano commented:
Note the difference between the tea partiers and these left-wing thugs. Then they say that conservatives are violent?
Projectionists, heal yourselves!
anna k commented:
This is so sad. The idea that the media would compare these thugs to Tea Partiers is ridiculous. The barbarians that carried out these murderous attacks that burned three people alive were anarchists. It is the anarchists that make up the violent wing of the Democratic party in this country. It is the anarchist-leftists that planned on perpetrating acts of violence at the Republican Convention in Minnesota in ’08, but were stopped at the last minute by a tip from an insider. We will see this garbage in this country, and we already are seeing glimpses of it. Look at the illegal immigrant rallies. They are aligned with the violent left. The illegal aliens are parasites that feel they are entitled to live off of the hard work of the American tax payer. Like the Greeks, they want hand outs, and freebies, and will kick and scream should anyone take them away.
Marsh commented:
My Greek ancestors have been turned into 3rd world savages by leftist socialism. How shameful.
John Gargano commented:
We have begun to see this exact thing in Berkley where they raised the tuition because they had to in order to survive. The students demonstrated and expressed their vehement anger at having to actually pay a fee for something that was proportional to its cost.
Again, the arrogant, defiant illegals in the US have been intimidating people for years. They have well organized political machines (like La Raza) that are well versed in circumventing the law in this country and they have been thwarting the law for years.
Now with the talk of amnesty, they are saying people will have to learn English – does anyone believe this bold-faced lie? We all know they will create all sorts of diversions and look the other way at every level because their isn’t any way the illegals are going to learn English.
We are fueling the fire of this exact same type of violence we are seeing in Greece – right here, right now.
A_Nonny_Mouse commented:
Those “civil servants” aren’t really acting all that “civil” just now, are they?
If we ever get our country back, let’s amend the Constitution to prohibit unions or any form of collective bargaining by government employees, both state and local.