Thursday 26 May 2011

Greeks Rise Against the Parliamentary Junta. The first step?

Consider the following wisdom snippets:
There's a 1st for everything,
Better late than never;

Well, Greeks finally got together to remonstrate and demonstrate against the parliamentary junta and the censorship, both of which have been tightened in the past 18 months.

For the first time since the tightening of the screw and the control over media by Greece's socialist government, over 120.000 persons gathered at Syntagma square, outside the house of parliament (Boule) at the centre of Athens -- likewise in other cities -- to express their discontent with widespread corruption, mismanagement & misappropriation of public funds, and control of the media, all of which helped lead the country, literally, beyond the brink of bankruptcy.

Also for the first time, the gatherings were organised in a very novel manner: quite simply through facebook.

The slogans were less original:
"Thieves", "cronies", "traitors", "criminals", "journalists, snitches, liars", "pathetic oafs", and other similarly descriptive expletives.

None of this reached the air in Greece's major channels.But then, who needs television when we've got the internet.
Right?

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