Protest at the Parliement building - protest january 20 2009 iceland part 1

Today ,the 20th january 2009,the Icelandic parliement members came back to parliement building after christmass vacation.
At the building where lot of people protesting the economic crisis,and demandig the resignation of the goverment and the central bank CEO.
People went aroudn the parliement and into the garden ,and police tried to get them out of the garden.
People had pots and pans and everything to make as much noise as possible,to distrubt the work at the Parliement.
Then riot Police came and used pepperspray and arrested protesters.

Parliemet was to start at 13:00 ( local ) but had to postpone the meeting

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• parliement
• building
• protest
• iceland
• 20
• january
• 2009
• ísland
• reykjavík
• mótmæli
• alþingi
• riot
• police

[climberchad]

coming soon.... to the US of A

[astichter]

Good job. You serve an example for the world who is soon to follow your country

[septiemakkoord]

Iceland refuses to pay back the Icesave victims because they don' t consider themselves responsible for the bancrupcy. But where was the voice of the Icelanders during all those years their banks made big profits ?

[pt1200]

lamest riot ever. next time try to do without the digital cameras

[christophor2005]

This will happen in the US soon, atleast we have GUNS!!!!!

[Jenkisen]

So you mean that the greek protesters just was a big fake and that the police in greek just wasted all there tear gas for fun and only so you know Obama is just a pussy and people has always had the balls do go out and demonstrat!

[SarahSoulFood]

Where do I send care packages?

[Im1man]

The cops used tear gas one the crowd...something which thery havent used since way back in 1949

[suspendmeassholes]

That's why there will be 20,000 marines brought back from Iraq to 'protect in the event of civil unrest or another terrorist attack.'

[HighTensionWire]

i think its good that afew people in places have the balls to join together, sure now everyone wants change, like you didnt have the balls to do anything about it befor obama came around.

[grovernors]

It would really suck to get that clear face mask dirty with grease or paint. I wonder if they use tear off visors for ease of cleaning.

[ellitho]

Yikes, I don't envy those protesters. To think that nice decent people have to turn to this in order to be hear in a democratic society.