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As Parliament prepared for a crucial vote on additional austerity measures — including the most drastic cuts and reforms so far — renewed violence broke out on the streets of Athens. Without the vote, the Papandreou government would not have received the next installment of its EU/IMF bailout package and would have gone bankrupt next month.
In anticipation of the vote, a 48-hour strike brought the country to a complete standstill, while the single largest demonstration since the fall of the military junta sent hundreds of thousands of people into Syntagma Square and surrounding streets. For the first time, the communist party and union, KKE and PAME, joined the protests by blocking off Parliament so MPs would not be able to enter for the vote.
Carrying red flag sticks and wearing helmets, the unionists formed a human chain around Parliament. In the process, however, they ended up defending the state from the angry mob outside. Rather than turning their anger at the politicians, they protected them. Riot police were therefore happy to sit back and let the two sides fight each other. Dozens of people were injured in the clashes. One older man suffered a heart attack after being hit with a stone in the head. He died in hospital.
According to some rumors, police actually infiltrated the protests — either on the communist side or on the anarchist side, depending on whom you ask — to instigate the Leftist infighting. The truth, however, is that the Stalinist Left and the anti-authoritarian Left in Greece have a long history of antagonism. While this mutual distrust is understandable, the division itself remains a highly regrettable impediment to the creation of a united revolutionary front. Now, more than ever, we need to become and stay united.
Towards the end of the second video below, Stalinist union members can clearly be seen talking to police and telling them to attack anarchist protesters. There was a nauseating degree of collaboration between communists and police — a collaborative attempt to defend the last vestiges of the Greek state — that protesters were right to be angry about. But hurling stones and petrol bombs at fellow protesters? Following the death of three people in a bank arson last year and now the death of a communist union member, the time has come for the anarchists to revisit the use of escalating violence as a protest strategy.
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[A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that calling for someone to kill the President of the United States cannot be classified as a threat because standing law does not prohibit "predictions or exhortations" to violence."]
[In a 2-1 decision, judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California resident Walter E. Bagdasarian was engaging in free speech when he wrote that Obama "will have a 50 cal in the head soon," then called on someone to "shoot the nig."]
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/20/court-appeal-to-assassinate-obama-is-protected-speech/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/walter-bagdasarian-convic_n_904481.html
WHOA !!! Well, can this mean anything less than an appeals court is O.K.ing a Civil War, beginning with a call to assassinate the President of the United States?
Exhortation is defined online as: "An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something." If someones asks their lover to murder their spouse, are they, or are they not culpable for some degree of murder or manslaughter? Does this mean it's o.k. to ask someone to murder another, as long as we don't provide a tangible incentive? Isn't hiring a murderer still illegal.
Per this appeals court decision, it is perfectly O.K. for us to plead with any patriotic person who cares about his country, his job, his children's future, the legitimacy of his vote, his healthcare, his social security, his medicare, and so much more, to shoot, stab, run over, poison, or whatever is required to kill dead all of the traitors who have committed, or continue to commit, treason against us all!
This means there could be an open call on all patriots to murder the following:
Both Bushes
All Republican legislators, eg. Boehner, Santorum, McConnell, ...
John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Anthony Scalia
All Republican Governors
The executives of every corporation, bank, and Wall Street firm
The board of directors of every corporation, bank, and Wall Street firm
Every lobbyist in Washington
Every executive member of the Federal Reserve
Every so called Democrat who steadily votes Republican
Oil company executives around the world
And numerous others!
Now that the courts have declared it to be legal to call for the deaths of those whom we disapprove of, all sides will be calling for the death of every opponent they have, on nearly every issue. It's a free for all blood feud! It's kill them, or they'll kill us
