What's Good About Greece, nowadays

A good and rare thing about living in Greece nowadays is immunity; another is impunity. Both, are privileges open to some segments of the population.
Anyone working as a journalist and equipped with a media's card, for example.
Impunity.

People expressing their just -- or not so just -- opposition to you-name-it, en masse.
Impunity.

Now, of course, this impunity is selective, i.e. does not apply to everything nor does it apply in the same way to everyone enjoying it.
I.e., "journalists" are not really allowed to break shop-windows; liberation hooligans are not really allowed to park their Jeeps wherever they like, or break into homes at will.

Neither is allowed to kill anyone; only politicians can do that -- and it's not recommended even for them.

This selective liberal immunity vs. strictly prohibited acts is a bit like buying prescription drugs at a Greek pharmacy: all you have to do is ask for them. You don't really need a prescription. Since most medication in Greece officially requires a prescription, it is easy to realise that, either MDs would have to spend their time prescribing aspirin (prescritpion drug until recently) or pharmacists would sell nothing. Drugs, however, (Xanax, for example) are distributed under prescription only, and no amount of cajoling will get you anything at any pharmacy in Greece without it.


But for those who use and abuse it, this selective immunity is a good thing to have. The other day, the police had cleared an Athenian street of its rogue parked cars -- all except for a Renault sporting an "ERT" sign. No doubt, a world-renown journalist breaking the story of the century!
Stay tuned...