Shadow Goverment: Greece... "Martial Law Has To Be Imposed For These Measures To Be Implemented."

"Nothing functions. Nobody pays anybody any more and the state is not just crumbling but in complete stasis," said Giorgos Kyrtsos, a prominent political commentator. "These guys," he said of officials in the troika of European agencies negotiating the bailout, "should really lose their jobs. They've miscalculated everything. I understand on Friday the police trade union called for their arrests. Well, maybe they are right!"



Ferment on the street is back. The clashes during last week's second general strike are generally expected to be a prelude to something much more ominous. "There is going to be a huge social eruption," said Apostalia Kiroudi, an unemployed jeweller shouting herself hoarse in front of parliament. "Our politicians lied to us. They never told us the truth, and now they want to pass policies that they have no mandate to do. As that sign says over there," she said, pointing to a friend holding a placard, "We choose to be free. Keep your money." But that was one of the milder slogans.



Unlike two years ago, when the angry graffiti demanded that the "IMF go home" and "reject austerity" it now exhorts protesters to "murder bankers" and "rise in rebellion" and "never be slaves". The spirit of resistance shows no sign of abating. With support for the left, including the militant Communist party (KKE), growing by the day, opposition to any cost-cutting reforms is bound only to increase. "Martial law has to be imposed for these measures to be implemented," said Kyrtsos.

"In a democracy, they will never pass because people will resist them. The loan agreement may be voted through, just as our foreign lenders want, but it will be a hollow victory," he said, adding that after general elections, possibly as early as April, the entire political landscape will have changed. "Despair is growing. We are soon going to see incredible scenes with everyone taking to the streets if these measures are applied. Something has to give, and at this point it has to come from Europe."



More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/12/greece-cant-take-any-more

Found Through: http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2012/2/12/8913/17655

Found Through: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/whats-happening-in-greece-by.html