Student Protests and koukulofori
Once again a clash between police forces and protesting students took place in downtown Athens yesterday.
This morning, there were the usual suspects on the morning talk shows flapping their gums about this or that. Everyone, just everyone, has an opinion about who's to blame and what should be done with education reform in this country.
The sad part is that the 100 or so "koukulofori," as they are called, once again committed their crimes and turned an otherwise peaceful demonstration into an angry clash of molotovs and teargas.
What's laughable is the fact that no or very few arrests were made and those that were will be back on the streets by tomorrow lunch time.
How pathetic is that?
On one talk show this morning, it was obvious that the students on air were positioning themselves for a possible seat in the parliament. They avoided issues, slandered others, digressed to name calling and empty threats in an ugly display of the so-called educated youth of today. No proposals were offered or put forth to end this stalemate.
The prevalent feeling among the grown ups of this country is one of a resigned resentment. Oh sure, if they stick a camera in your face you gotta say how you support the students blah, blah, blah - but they generation that actually sacrificed something during the junta years so that today's youth could have (and abuse) their 'asylum' and demonstrations in a watered-down, misguided romantic view of the past, have had just about enough of this nonsense.
The time to end the sit-ins have come and gone. Those who participate in the sit-ins won't even remember in a few years time why they were sitting in. The government needs to go ahead with the proposed reforms.
And then some.
Maybe then, we can get to work building a future together instead of glorying in a not so glorious past.
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Greekocity (n) = those things that pertain to Greece yet have nothing to do with Greece itself.
This morning, there were the usual suspects on the morning talk shows flapping their gums about this or that. Everyone, just everyone, has an opinion about who's to blame and what should be done with education reform in this country.
The sad part is that the 100 or so "koukulofori," as they are called, once again committed their crimes and turned an otherwise peaceful demonstration into an angry clash of molotovs and teargas.
What's laughable is the fact that no or very few arrests were made and those that were will be back on the streets by tomorrow lunch time.
How pathetic is that?
On one talk show this morning, it was obvious that the students on air were positioning themselves for a possible seat in the parliament. They avoided issues, slandered others, digressed to name calling and empty threats in an ugly display of the so-called educated youth of today. No proposals were offered or put forth to end this stalemate.
The prevalent feeling among the grown ups of this country is one of a resigned resentment. Oh sure, if they stick a camera in your face you gotta say how you support the students blah, blah, blah - but they generation that actually sacrificed something during the junta years so that today's youth could have (and abuse) their 'asylum' and demonstrations in a watered-down, misguided romantic view of the past, have had just about enough of this nonsense.
The time to end the sit-ins have come and gone. Those who participate in the sit-ins won't even remember in a few years time why they were sitting in. The government needs to go ahead with the proposed reforms.
And then some.
Maybe then, we can get to work building a future together instead of glorying in a not so glorious past.
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Greekocity (n) = those things that pertain to Greece yet have nothing to do with Greece itself.
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