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| Greek police teargas anarchists near EU summit |
| 2003-06-20 |
| Greek riot police fired clouds of teargas to disperse anarchists who threw stones and tried to evade police roadblocks protecting a European Union summit on Friday, witnesses said. Notice that if you protest against the EU, you are a anarchist. If you protest against the US, you are a "activist". The violence erupted as about 4,000 anti-capitalist protesters staged an anti-EU march in the village of Marmaras, about five km from the summit site at the beach resort of Porto Carras, southeast of the city of Thessaloniki. Helmeted police wearing gas masks drove a breakaway group of about 300 anarachists into brush and pine woods around Marmaras. The protests were smaller than expected by organisers. Of course they are smaller, it's the EU. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #13 Nah, Aris. I'm just ragging on ya. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-06-20 22:11:46 |
| #12 tu3031, so you see me as so very anti-EU that I'd ever be part of such protests? :-D |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2003-06-20 18:16:33 |
| #11 PD - or maybe their definition of capitalism is wider than yours, - IE system charecterized by private property and exchange relations, despite large scale govt regulations that charecterize the EU. Ever hear the phrase "mixed economy"? thats what EU's got, and the anarchists dont like. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-06-20 14:52:21 |
| #10 Aris, "Um, anarchists tend to proclaim themselves anarchists, and don't consider it an insult... Is this different in the US" In the States, self proclaimed "anarchists" are middle to upper-middle class kids who want an excuse to cut some classes, to annoy their parents or to appear "dangerous" and thus attractive to the opposite sex. They generally grow out of this when they have to start supporting themselves, instead of living off Mommy and Daddy. |
| Posted by: Hodadenon 2003-06-20 14:49:41 |
| #9 Wouldn't bother me. Shoot all you want. It is Greece, after all. There's lots of precedent. |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-06-20 14:34:05 |
| #8 "Notice that if you protest against the EU, you are a anarchist. If you protest against the US, you are a "activist". " Um, anarchists tend to proclaim themselves anarchists, and don't consider it an insult... Is this different in the US? "Greek riot police fired clouds of teargas to disperse anarchists who threw stones" Wanna bet that most people here wouldn't have considered stone-throwing an adequate excuse, if the police had shot and killed some of these anti-EU protesters? ;-) |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2003-06-20 14:15:44 |
| #7 They were prolly protesting that they want their Sony PlayStations and games back... Or, since they were both anti-capitalist AND anti-EU, they're just confused, cuz that's redundant. |
| Posted by: PD 2003-06-20 13:58:27 |
| #6 Anarachists? That's somebody who hates spiders, right?... |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-06-20 13:27:33 |
| #5 Doesn't everybody? This must be like a convention for them. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-06-20 11:25:05 |
| #4 It actually doesn't have to "move," Greece has its own anarchist element. |
| Posted by: Ernest Brown 2003-06-20 11:11:44 |
| #3 ...and the Freak Show moves on to Greece. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-06-20 10:44:25 |
| #2 Get some in your eyes, Aris? Burns, don't it... |
| Posted by: tu3031 6/20/2003 3:15:33 PM |
| #1 Mojo, no anarachist is guy that takes over the world during the Tribulation... /i've got nothing |
| Posted by: Not Tim Lahaye 6/20/2003 1:57:38 PM |