Greek anarchists running Monkey marathon

In the world before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order, but the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven all worked upon a certain rock, old as creation. It became magically fertile. The first egg was named “Thought”. Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, “With our thoughts, we make the world”. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it came a stone monkey…

The nature of Monkey was… irrepressible!

Persistent anarchist attacks in Greece force new police attention
[AP]
International Herald Tribune
January 22, 2007

ATHENS, Greece: Greek law enforcement leaders, alarmed by renewed [sic] outbreaks of anarchist violence, met Monday seeking ways to end increasingly frequent firebombings and vandalism in the country’s two largest cities.

The country’s police chief met with the head of the Supreme Court after a prosecutor last Friday ordered an investigation into the violence and why police had failed to make any arrests.

The meeting followed further attacks in Thessaloniki, with assailants early Monday throwing firebombs at a bank and outside a university building. Nobody was hurt…

[Such attacks have been an almost daily occurrence in Greece for f’n years: January 3, 2006: a diplomatic car is set on fire in Mets, Athens; branches of governing party ND in Kipseli, Athens, set on fire; two cars owned by the Mayor of Therisos Canon, Crete, are set on fire; January 4: branch offices of Apsis Bank in Athens are set on fire; branches of ND in Exarchia, Athens, molotoved; police CCTV box in Zogafrou, Athens set on fire; January 9: branch offices of National Bank in Varkiza, Athens, set on fire; January 14: branch offices of National Bank are again set on fire, this time in Thessaloniki; January 26: Branch offices of PASOK set on fire in N. Smirni, Athens… etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Source: @ News, No.34, January–June 2006.]

The sight of youths on foot, their faces obscured by masks, prowling the streets in unruly packs and wreaking nightly havoc is menacing but also familiar. Stylish anarchists have been around in Athens and Thessaloniki for more than 20 years and now have reappeared with a vengeance.

Thanos Veremis, head of the national council for education, an advisory body, said these individuals were taking advantage of anti-government protests to cause trouble.

“(It’s) a predictable reaction of the minority that would rather not see any changes,” he said in an interview.

The extremists “have nothing to do with university, but fall in with the demonstrations and usually make the entire affair more dramatic, at the expense of shopkeepers and policemen.”

Two anarchists [Tarasio Zadorozni and Gerasimos Kiriakopulos] awaiting trial in prison near Athens have been on hunger strike for more than a month over allegedly forced police confessions last May. Last fall, a Cypriot student in Thessaloniki was hospitalized after a police beating that was shown on national television…

Ooops.

About @ndy

I live in Melbourne, Australia. I like anarchy. I don't like nazis. I enjoy eating pizza and drinking beer. I barrack for the greatest football team on Earth: Collingwood Magpies. The 2024 premiership's a cakewalk for the good old Collingwood.
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2 Responses to Greek anarchists running Monkey marathon

  1. Funny how the newspeak knows no national boundaries. The description used by Greek authorities could have just as easily been something Howard had said. Scary isn’t it?

  2. @ndy says:

    “That’s a predictable reaction of the minority that would rather not see any changes,” I’d say in an interview if asked for my view on your opinion, Miss P.

    Face it: you’re a stick-in-the-mud.

    And that’s doubleplusungood.

    Heil HoWARd!

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