City Under Siege

Fortunately I was wrong, it wasn't the National Library they burnt, but the Law School Library. Of course that is almost as bad....

Five days later and Athens is still at war. Today they even closed down two of the central underground stations. The train doesn't stop, but just goes through non-stop. It's scary to think of. Obviously buses have long since stopped going to the centre.

Things have completely got out of hand.

The state of things in Greece and the present government often makes me so mad I want to bomb the Parliament or something similar, so I can sympathise with the rioters to a point. Sometimes you are so damn angry you have to break something. However there is a line and it has been crossed. I'm ok with breaking banks and burning police stations. I can even deal with a couple of broken shop windows and destroyed cars. But when you start burning public libraries, blocks of flats with people in (!!), fire-trucks and national health offices you have definitely crossed over into gratuitous, senseless and indefensible destruction.
But I'm not so much angry with the rioters as disappointed and frustrated. My real anger is reserved for the government and the police. The police are busy drowning the centre of the city under gallons of tear gas, beating up kids from the protest marches organised by schools and pulling guns during the funeral procession of the dead boy. Worse than that I suspect the fact that they are condoning the fact our very own neo-nazis (the Golden Dawn) have taken to the streets amongst the general mayhem to attack anarchists and immigrants.
As for the government and the politicians in general, they are too busy playing their power games to give a damn about what is actually happening. All they care about is whether the current government will fall or not and whether the opposition party will be able to take advantage of the situation and seize the power. If any of the rioters and reading this blog, can I make a request? Could you please attack the Parliament while it's in session (otherwise there'd be no point)?
Maybe I shouldn't be too greedy, one of my requests has already been granted. Thankfully they burnt the hideous Christmas Tree that has been defacing Syntagma Square for the past couple of years. (Thank you rioters!)