'We will come to Athens and burn them': political protest returns to Greece

[Little Tich]

Source: The Guardian

Troubled country faces further hardship as public and private sectors take to the streets to protest against impact of austerity

Farmers’ roadblocks, ferries immobilised in ports, pensioners taking to the streets: protest has returned to Greece in what many fear could be the beginning of the crisis-plagued country’s most confrontational winter yet.

From the Greek-Bulgarian frontier to the southern island of Crete, farmers are up in arms over the spectre of more internationally mandated austerity.

“It’s war,” says Dimitris Vergos, a corn grower speaking from the northern town of Naoussa. “If they [politicians] go on pushing us to the edge, if they want to dehumanise us further, we will come to Athens and burn them all.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/we-will-come-to-athens-and-burn-them-political-protest-returns-to-greece

[FLPanhandle]

1. They might find they hate the alternative solution more.

Default, leave the Euro, and devalue their new currency.

[Hotler]

2. That is the kind of fighting spirit that we need...

in this country. We can get 50-60 thousand people to fill football stadiums across this country every Sunday, but we can't get 50-60 thousand people in the streets in the same towns to protest the fucking the PTB are handing us. Spare me the lame responses/ excuses, I heard them all before here on DU.

[knightmaar]

3. Just finished reading "The Hot Gates"

... a dramatization novel about the battle of Thermopylae.

So I'm picturing this a bit differently from the images in the Guardian ...