Long time for anything to be written in this blog. Mostly cuz of my real life is taking advantage of me! Too much work but i really couldn’t stop myself from writing something about all the shit happening past 3 days and 4 nights at Greece. As many might know already, since situation at Greece is first news in many countries at the moment, everything started at Saturday night when a 15 y old boy was shot and killed in cold blood by a police officer for no reason at all. News (with the help of internet too to be honest) were spread asap all over country and the reaction was imediate. Gatherings and protests were organized , take overs of university and other government buildings happened.
As you can see by yourselves, situation at the moment resembles of a country in a state of war. This is not far from the truth, but what is in most simple people’s mind is whether this is an unorganized break out from the people – and mostly teenagers or it is a well organized plan that has as a target to unstabilize even more Greece and take citizen’s minds away of the scandals that were being revealed past months. Scandals involving political and church major personas, with money and state exchanges. The so called scandal of Vatopedi, which is one of the biggest monasteries, which had to do with claims of the monastery to own big parts of land showing contracts that were signed from the age of 1500-1700 while Greece was under Turk’s authority. During past months we were witnesses of huge amounts of money and lands exchange between official church and past 15 years governments when in the same moment youth at Greece has to manage their lives with the basic wage of 700 euros and with 1/5 of the citizens under the limit of poverty.
If added all the rest scandals of past 1 year and the recent world wide economical crisis it is easily understandable that political games can be played on the backs of citizens or even created just so they can be manipulated easier. After all when at more than 40 major cities at Greece, riots, burnings of banks/shops/government buildings and constant conflicts between protesters and police happen in every day basis, fear is the major feeling that takes over mass crowd. Fear is the ultimate weapon of manipulation, resulting to making Greeks a tool to the hands of the masterminds that rule this country for many years now. Last but not least past days’ happenings is the main excuse for a lot of nazi parties to show up and blame the foreigners for everything, since in all this chaos that exists mob finds the perfect “working place” to focus on their every day (or night?) business which is the looting of a lot of shops and merchantizes that worth hundreds of thousands of euros.
I am not really sure how all this situation will evolve. Best guess i can make is that people will forget after a point, will forget that after the military government of 1967-1974 ended, they are ruled from the same people past 35 years almost. 2 political parties, 3 big political “familias”. Political corruption, unemployment, bad education system, almost no health/insurance policy with a guaranteed future, unfair taxing system are the problems that Greek citizens demand a solution. And i am afraid that as long as people will keep on giving their trust in same people and political parties that rob them and make them more poor every year, increasing the gap with rest EU (from which we ninjaed a lot of money past years without managing to make something on time and on accurate cost), situations like the ones we live past days will continue to happen. It’s time for everyone to act like a thinking person and not like a puppet so rich can become more rich. We talk about our lives and our future and we don’t need 70 year old fuckers to tell us how we should act and what we should do.
You can find more photos of the past days events here :
