"people don't bow down, it's time again for revolution"

[marmar]

from the Guardian UK:



Greece erupts in violent protest as citizens face a future of harsh austerity
May Day clashes in Athens as belt-tightening policies are set to reverse rights won by workers over 30 years

Helena Smith in Athens
The Observer, Sunday 2 May 2010


Athens erupted into violence as traditional May Day festivities turned into a bitter protest against draconian austerity measures aimed at tackling Europe's worst debt crisis in decades.

For the tens of thousands of demonstrators who took to the streets in rallies that quickly descended into clashes with riot police, the show of force was just the beginning – a prelude of the storm that will rock Greece if its Socialist government "caves in" to the dictates of the IMF and enforces policies that have been likened to "the coming of Armageddon".

To make the point, scores of stone-throwing youths chanted "people don't bow down, it's time again for revolution" as a petrol bomb set fire to a police officer in the heart of Athens.

"They say the only way of salvaging our economy is more austerity, but that's a total lie," said Nicolaos Danizis, a 60-year-old shipyard worker participating in a Communist-led demonstration outside parliament. "These latest measures have been cooked up by outsiders and are totally outrageous. They are aimed not at the rich but at the poor. What we are saying here today is that they will pass only over our dead bodies." .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/02/greece-violence-bailout-imf-euro

[reggie the dog]

1. "over our dead bodies"

I love Europe, I really do. That is a 60 year old, plus you have the teens really involved since the cops killed an anarchist teen a year and a half ago, greece is going to have lots of riots

[deutsey]

2. In America, we shrug and change the channel.

:evilfrown:

[conspirator]

3. Kick. This is definitely more important than the bomb that didn't go off nt

[Greyhound]

4. I'm pretty sure getting the looting of Greece (other "poor" EU nations to follow) and the oil

disaster off the front pages, was the purpose.

[RandomThoughts]

5. I think we are taught not to bow to people, although we all, when not at our best,

Can in our imperfection still end up bowing to another person.

If a person believes something just because someone says it, not because they think and feel what it means, or if a person lies to gain favor, or falsly compliment a person, they bow to them. When a person gives their abilities to think and feel to another out of fear, they bow to them. Or when ever they do what they feel or think is wrong, for another person they bow. I think people should use the mind and heart gave to them to decide what they stand for.


So I agree people should not bow to any person. I believe we are taught to stand.

People are more good then bad, and bad has limited resources, so the more people that stand for truth, love, kindness, justice, and the better things that in my belief are part of the spirit of God, then the better the world is.

But also know that if a person strike for self gain, they are no different then those they strike against, if they do for what they believe is best based on truth love and justice for all people, then they fight for that ideal.

I think it is about systems, and who runs those systems and for what purpose. Since we all have flaws, any system will also have flaws, but transparency, and the ability to rotate who is in charge of those systems based on representative forms of governance, seems to have better outcomes then ideological systems where the people pick who is in the class that makes decisions on society.

Again, a song I love, with love, peace, and justice the world only gets better.

Dido Here With Me - Battlestar Gallactica - With Pegasus - the winged horse. (I think of horses as the symbol of heavenly angels, since horses are the servants to all mankind.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFKAeSGFBYo