The Greek Riots: Some Basic Facts (Part One)

This video is an attempt to explain the origins of the 2008 riots in Greece, as they are rooted in Greek history and politics, and especially in the everyday life of Greek people.

www.jonas-kyratzes.net

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Greece
• Greek
• riots
• socialism
• anarchism
• capitalism
• politics
• protest
• PASOK
• Nea Dimokratia
• history
• Greek junta
• EU
• Simitis
• Alexandros Grigoropoulos

[wutru]

Why do you keep showing Bush in the video? How was he connected? Or are you just showing him because everyone hates him? Might as well use Hitler for your propaganda.

[JonasKyratzes]

@wutru Keep showing? He appears for a few seconds here and there. And I do believe the subservience of the Greek government to the Bush administration was a relevant fact. The video also shows the leaders of other countries.

[jordache2006]

The greek socialist mobs MURDERED 3 innocent workers........ FUCK THEM!!!!!

[JonasKyratzes]

@jordache2006 The whole mobs? Really? And did you even read up on the details of the event? Not that what happened was OK, or that the violence is justified, but these generalizations are completely inappropriate. (Also, this video is about the riots two years ago.)

[LUNCHBOXkitsos]

So what?The banks loot us every day

[none3000]

THE ARMY? wtf? are you a fascist or a nazi? the army is made from young people, conscripts who would deny to obey any order.....i hoped to see the army cause the soldier would take their guns and overthrow the government,

[wutru]

Respond to this video... Don't get me wrong. I like this video, and i found it because i wanted to find out how the riots started in the first place. You just discredit it in some ways with the typical propaganda stuff. Anyway, have a good day.

[wutru]

@JonasKyratzes That's exactly my point. You didn't state how the Greek government is subservient. You tried showing it without commentary using imagery of Bush as "evil". It's the same tactic used over and over again when people have an agenda.

[BaumerPaulGefreiter]

@jordache2006 The attack was directed against a bank. Banks are not innocent here. Therefore, every single bank employee is guilty to some extent. In todays world banks amount to terrorist organizations.

[petrus4]

@icecreamtrepan America isn't the sole source of the problem; it exists on both sides of the Atlantic. You don't want solidarity just from them; ideally you want Greece to be its' own country entirely.

That is why I will not call myself a Communist. Libertarian Communism calls itself that, but then talks about a global federalist mess of its' own. The calls for *global* unity need to stop; they are never anything but a trap. Countries need to rule themselves.

[fentagin1917]

@JonasKyratzes the murderers were police provocateurs who went out from a police bus...and were disguised as anarchists and murdered those innocent people...the whole thing was fixed because government had great problem with over one million workers who were striked.

so with this move tried to terrorize people to stay at home!

[8rylos4ever]

@gunsofbrixton1975 what you've just said is stupid. 3 people have died, you don't even know them, what they believed or their character and you are calling them thieves. come on now! the death of everyone is a tragedy, with some exceptions of course. BUT those people were innocent, the crimers in that incident are the ones who threw the bomb. these people deserve to day. they killed 3 people who didn't do them anything. SHAME ON THEM AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT THEM

[gre6401]

People and the power of people is what governments are afraid off. Greeks are the only ones in the world that do not leave governments(or we at least try) to control our lives. Yes it might be better, but only when it started. "BC". When you have US and Jews combining themselves to FUCK US , WELL THEN OXI BRE MALAKA i will not sit and leave you control my life. read some facts i will not state anything on this post. but when you loose your family member because he is standing up for