Uncut Video Of Greek Riots: Fierce Street Battles Rage In Athens

Greece is at boiling point - with police firing tear gas at crowds of angry protesters. Thousands of demonstrators are trying to block access to the Parliament building, where the government is discussing MORE cutbacks to secure further rescue loans. The deal on the table suggests suffocating austerity measures, such as more taxes and a four-year privatisation programme. If Greeks fail to tighten their belts, they face being cut off from vital European aid worth hundreds of billions of euros.

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Greek police have fired tear gas at protestors attempting to block off access to the Parliament in Athens. Over 20 thousand angry demonstators were trying to prevent MPs from voting on new austerity measures needed to secure more bailout cash from the EU.

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NoDrama said:

In America, the citizens will show up with guns.

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newatit2010 said:

Looks like what the unions want to do to America.

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Ernst said:

Are you kidding not much?

Does anyone understand that the poor are expected to absorb the capital failures there?

It is and can happen in the USA as well..

Source PBS News Hour online for Thursday, June 16 2011

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"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
- Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1964

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