My OperaFocus (Not) On Fire
Monday, March 12, 2007 9:27:25 PM
I'm not a reporter and my writings are not a professional recount of what's happening. So, I'll just try to give a rough description of what's been going in Greece for the past few days.
A HUGE STUDENT FIGHT AGAINST YET ANOTHER NEOLIBERAL EDUCATIONAL REFORMATION.
That's the big picture to me and certainly that's the big picture to thousands of students, teachers and professors that took part in a HUGE march against the law last Thirsday.
It was like a huge concert. Great music. Way too many people. Rythm and vibe all over the place. Peaceful but powerful. And somewhere in the crowd a man was showing his middle finger. And once cameras discovered him he was all over the giant screens. And then police stormed in and hell's gates opened. And then there were more like this man. And few of them lit fires and those fires were now on every screen and no screen was showing police brutality against people that showed no finger and no screen showed police arresting people that lit no fire. And then one of the angry men burned the flag of a sacred rock band (say Led Zeppelin) and screens all over the world were showing this and no screen was showing the tear-gas that had drown all the other concert watchers nor the filthy cells where the arrested innocents were thrown in...
And no fucking TV screen bothered to notice that at the backstage, left all alone -like leprants- only the edge majority of the party that's on power -with closed windows to keep away the tear gas that they released- were voting the law.
But all fucking TV screens were showing again and again the idiot(?) who was burning a sacred place.
Screens had their fireworks and were able to concurrently justify the law, hide the police violence and forget about the student movement.
Meanwhile, the macho minister of law and order, like cowboy was yelling that he would "get down on the street and kick the asses of anarchist hooligans". Law and order is his trademark. But it was mostly (if not only) students whom their asses were kicked. No hooligans. But either way he had to maintain law and order. So, a CRS-like police force were constantly present on the edge of a historic city territory renowned for it's extreme left habitué's. (They, as I learn by reading their broadsheets, are overly pissed off because comrades of them are being held in prison against the law and some of them are on hunger strike. (Strange but even an apathetic like me would be pissed off with this shit.)
I'd passed through that vigilant point some months ago (btw, great bars with sensible prices are located in the area) and looked at the policemen on duty then. I'm not anything of an extremist but nevertheless I feel a certain amount of fear when seeing 12 policemen with helmets and all. Yet, I'd swear that I saw some fear in the eyes of their leader. Something like the fear of a man used as a bait.
And I forgot about it until yesterday when I heard the news about a team of 50 anarchists who assaulted the policemen on duty at that point and lead one of them in hospital with serious injuries. It seems like Law and Order feeds on young men these days.
I don't really understand Mr Law and Order and his government anymore and I doubt if they understand their selves. What the fuck do they think they do and where is all that shit leading? Some say that they used anarchists anger to provide a justification for hitting educational movement. Others claim that they just try to control the whole thing according to their conservative ethics (i.e. police, police, police). Meanwhile violence escalates and media attempt to hide the big issue (i.e. the educational reformation) is futile. Students seem to resist better than ever and people KNOW that that's the big issue and not flaming a sacred place...
...After all, stupid media, a place is sacred because of what symbolizes and what symbolizes lies in people's hearts and no one (except maybe for you - fucking media) is able to burn down peoples' hearts.
CU
PS 1: Btw, I'm using my favorite word -fuck- too much to be member of the week so let me at least rejoice it as much as I want. FUCKING STUPID MEDIA SCREENS.
PS 2: No, I don't belong anywhere politically. I'm just trying to maintain my sanity.
PS 3: FUCKING STUPID MEDIA SCREENS.
PS 4: I, like others, need a reasonable honest explanation as to why young men and women (policemen included) have to see the internals of hospitals and prisons for a law that addresses none of the problems in education but will only allow bussiness to grep a pie of educational market. But I'm asking too much, ain't I?
UPDATE - 20 March 2007:[/B]
There was another massive march today. Due to lack of molotov coctails, fires and the like you won't hear much on your TV but people report that it was HUGE
.
HYS (I do).
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A HUGE STUDENT FIGHT AGAINST YET ANOTHER NEOLIBERAL EDUCATIONAL REFORMATION.
That's the big picture to me and certainly that's the big picture to thousands of students, teachers and professors that took part in a HUGE march against the law last Thirsday.
It was like a huge concert. Great music. Way too many people. Rythm and vibe all over the place. Peaceful but powerful. And somewhere in the crowd a man was showing his middle finger. And once cameras discovered him he was all over the giant screens. And then police stormed in and hell's gates opened. And then there were more like this man. And few of them lit fires and those fires were now on every screen and no screen was showing police brutality against people that showed no finger and no screen showed police arresting people that lit no fire. And then one of the angry men burned the flag of a sacred rock band (say Led Zeppelin) and screens all over the world were showing this and no screen was showing the tear-gas that had drown all the other concert watchers nor the filthy cells where the arrested innocents were thrown in...
And no fucking TV screen bothered to notice that at the backstage, left all alone -like leprants- only the edge majority of the party that's on power -with closed windows to keep away the tear gas that they released- were voting the law.
But all fucking TV screens were showing again and again the idiot(?) who was burning a sacred place.
Screens had their fireworks and were able to concurrently justify the law, hide the police violence and forget about the student movement.
Meanwhile, the macho minister of law and order, like cowboy was yelling that he would "get down on the street and kick the asses of anarchist hooligans". Law and order is his trademark. But it was mostly (if not only) students whom their asses were kicked. No hooligans. But either way he had to maintain law and order. So, a CRS-like police force were constantly present on the edge of a historic city territory renowned for it's extreme left habitué's. (They, as I learn by reading their broadsheets, are overly pissed off because comrades of them are being held in prison against the law and some of them are on hunger strike. (Strange but even an apathetic like me would be pissed off with this shit.)
I'd passed through that vigilant point some months ago (btw, great bars with sensible prices are located in the area) and looked at the policemen on duty then. I'm not anything of an extremist but nevertheless I feel a certain amount of fear when seeing 12 policemen with helmets and all. Yet, I'd swear that I saw some fear in the eyes of their leader. Something like the fear of a man used as a bait.
And I forgot about it until yesterday when I heard the news about a team of 50 anarchists who assaulted the policemen on duty at that point and lead one of them in hospital with serious injuries. It seems like Law and Order feeds on young men these days.
I don't really understand Mr Law and Order and his government anymore and I doubt if they understand their selves. What the fuck do they think they do and where is all that shit leading? Some say that they used anarchists anger to provide a justification for hitting educational movement. Others claim that they just try to control the whole thing according to their conservative ethics (i.e. police, police, police). Meanwhile violence escalates and media attempt to hide the big issue (i.e. the educational reformation) is futile. Students seem to resist better than ever and people KNOW that that's the big issue and not flaming a sacred place...
...After all, stupid media, a place is sacred because of what symbolizes and what symbolizes lies in people's hearts and no one (except maybe for you - fucking media) is able to burn down peoples' hearts.
CU
PS 1: Btw, I'm using my favorite word -fuck- too much to be member of the week so let me at least rejoice it as much as I want. FUCKING STUPID MEDIA SCREENS.
PS 2: No, I don't belong anywhere politically. I'm just trying to maintain my sanity.
PS 3: FUCKING STUPID MEDIA SCREENS.
PS 4: I, like others, need a reasonable honest explanation as to why young men and women (policemen included) have to see the internals of hospitals and prisons for a law that addresses none of the problems in education but will only allow bussiness to grep a pie of educational market. But I'm asking too much, ain't I?
UPDATE - 20 March 2007:[/B]
There was another massive march today. Due to lack of molotov coctails, fires and the like you won't hear much on your TV but people report that it was HUGE
. HYS (I do).
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