Flash brief from the #greekrevolution | 130 comments (123 topical, 7 editorial, 0 hidden)

Like barbarian hordes... (4.00 / 7)

The Dias squads, Hells Angels with badges and puny bikes, rampage through Mitropoleos street, near Monastiraki, where people are eating and drinking coffee among them scores of tourists, ~1km away from Syntagma. The scorn directed at them and the hatred from everyone around, including shopowners (they tear-gas one shop around 1:30) is audible. You here the word "hounda" (junta) a lot... The blasts at the end are stun grenades around the entrance of Monastiraki Metro station...

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Wed Jun 29th, 2011 at 05:26:20 PM EST

Re: Like barbarian hordes... (none / 0)

Not good. Not good at all. That raised my temperature by a lot.

by Upstate NY on Wed Jun 29th, 2011 at 06:18:05 PM EST
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Did someone start shouting "Fascists" towards the end of the clip?

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Wed Jun 29th, 2011 at 06:21:49 PM EST
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Yes. And a lot of other things as well.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Wed Jun 29th, 2011 at 07:44:00 PM EST
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There is an awkward cut in the video around 0'50"... one second the street is packed and the next the police are running down an empty street followed by motorcycles.

Economics is politics by other means

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 30th, 2011 at 02:42:14 AM EST
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