Government by Teargas in Greece

Hey Harlem dudes, watch out for that teargas in Greece, this could

be the shape and taste!!! of things to come.  More details have been

released of the brutal police repression operation of June 29, when the Greek Parliament

passed the EU-ECB-IMF Ceberus-drafted austerity plan. According

to the Greek daily {Katherimini}, the police used 20 times more

teargas and other chemical weapons than any previous

demonstration. The official figure is 2,860 chemical bombs, most

of which were manufactured in Israel and the United States. The

average number used during demonstrations in the past have been

no more than 150. This is because the anarchists who create havoc

during demonstrations are a very small minority, thus the

enormous number of 2,860 bombs confirms that the operation was

ordered from the top to repress the demonstrations and show the

"markets" and Greece's European Union masters that they have the

"courage" to "do what it takes" to save the euro.

Citizens' Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis has now

been dubbed "Chemical Chris."

The {Katherimini} commentator reported that the police

claimed that by monitoring cell phones they heard the phrase

"{Pame vouli}," or "let's storm the Parliament." In reality, it

was a hot summer day in Greece and what they really heard was

"{Pame voula}" meaning "let's go to the beach"!

The commentator heaps sarcasm on the government claims:

"That is why parties of handpicked troops swooped down on the

souvlaki shops of Monastiraki, which of course are nothing but

well-disguised fronts for terrorists pretending to be grilling

meat when they were in fact manufacturing Molotov cocktails

wrapped in pita bread. That is why they bombarded the Syntagma,

Acropolis, Panepistimio, and Monastiraki metro stations with

chemicals, to smoke out bands of conspirators. That is why they

mercilessly beat old men and women who pretended to be

representatives of the country's aged population when they were,

in fact, urban guerrillas in disguise.... That is why they

launched 2,860 units of chemicals."

{Katherimini} continues, that government has just spent

almost a EU1 million to replenish its supply of chemical weapons

"with imports from Israel, which has its own set of problems, we

tied up ships bound for Gaza with humanitarian aid so that we can

get them to knock the price down. After all, we don't want our

creditors to think that we won't try to haggle for a better

deal."