Greek unrest after pensioner suicide beside parliament

[Lars77]

Source: BBC

Protesters have clashed with riot police in the Greek capital, Athens, hours after a pensioner shot himself dead outside parliament.

The 77-year-old man killed himself in the city's busy Syntagma Square on Wednesday morning.

Greek media reported he had left a suicide note accusing the government of cutting his pension to nothing.

Flowers have been laid at the spot where he died and tributes have been paid online.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17620421

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The suicide rate in Greece has skyrocketed since this austerity business began.

[Cali_Democrat]

1. And Republicans want to bring extreme austerity to the United States via the Romney/Ryan plan

This is what they want.

[Lars77]

2. Republicans are beginning to remind me of Zorg from Fifth Element

"By creating a little destruction - i am in fact encouraging life!"

[fasttense]

3. This is what the 1%, our ruling oligarchy, wants for everyone but themselves.

Greece is a test. They are testing out their starve the masses plan. The less they give out of the pensions you saved for, the more they can have themselves.

"He was said to be a retired chemist, with a wife and a daughter, who had sold his pharmacy in 1994."

"In the alleged suicide note, found by police and reported by Athens News, he said: "The government has annihilated all traces for my survival, which was based on a very dignified pension that I alone paid for 35 years with no help from the state."

"And since my advanced age does not allow me a way of dynamically reacting... I see no other solution than this dignified end to my life, so I don't find myself fishing through garbage cans for my sustenance."

This is the RepubliCON plan for us all, except the 1%. Die, and die quickly.