I know, like the rest of you, that politicians are all a backstabbing corrupt lot that you should never never trust, but some things are so big and so important, that you believe that even they can find enough common decency within themselves to do the right thing from time to time.
But no. Last night my country's parliament, yet again, sold off yet another piece of our liberty and our hard-earnered rights as workers and citizens as ransom to the IMF and World Bank. And for what? For a shitty little bailout that will not even cover the whole fucking debt, that can never ever be covered. No matter how much we sell off of our country, our rights, our dignity, our soul. And you know the fucking IMF will demand every last thing from us until they leave us broken and destitute. Isn't that what they did to Argentina? And Poland? And Russia?
They know exactly what the people want. Let's default, let's go bankrupt, let's go back to the drachma. Let's be poor and hungry, but on our own terms. With our rights, and our soul and our country intact. I would rather be poor and free, than poor and enslaved (to the banks, the "free market", the corporations). Damn it, I would rather be poor and free, that well off and enslaved.
So yeah, much as it pains me to say this, because I dearly love my dirty, dingy, ugly Athens, let it burn! I would rather we burn our cities down than let them believe we will take it lying down. If they want to do this, let them do in the old-fashioned way. With terror and torture and murder. Rather than pretend that this is for the good of the people, or that this is in any way democratic or acceptable.
And as I say this, I sincerely hope that our police force and our army eventually side with the people. It's a long shot. It never seems to happen. But one can only hope that this one time can prove to be the exception to the rule.
