…of prime time – 8 o’clock – news!” That was an unpleasant surprise for the Greek television channels broadcasting live from Omonia Square where Alexis Tsipras was speaking to several thousands SYRIZA supporters. During the main open elections rally of left-wing SYRIZA in Omonia Square in downtown Athens, Alexis Tsipras sent a sharp message to all pro-bailout television channels in Greece:
“Terrorize those who terrorize the citizens every evening at 8 o’clock news,” Tsipras said before a chanting crowd.
Independently from what Greeks vote, they have been permanently “terrorized” during the last two years with the Memorandum of Understanding praised as ‘the only alternative to Greece’s bankruptcy’ and the pro-bailout parties as the only ‘option to save Greece from a Euro exit and a return to Drachma’.
In Omonia, Tsipras reitarated that the electons dilemma is “pro-bailout government ND-PASOK or progressive anti-bailout government.”
Attacking the parties that governed Greece for more than three decades, Tsipras said about his party candidates “We are not on the lists of Christoforakos [SIEMENS scandal, representative in Greece who gave bribes], we were not and are not SIEMENS boarders. We have not equated the MoU with the Euro.
More from Tsipras’ speech here in Greek)
This only reinforces my confirms that Tspiras may be too lightheaded for the difficult job of a prime minister under these demanding conditions. “Terrorize the terrorists”, really? How can he reasonably say this when the news reports are showing an increasing right wing violence against everybody who doesn’t fit into their world view? Does he want to put oil into the flames? The answer to terrorism has to be the law and law enforcement. Both aren’t up to a high standard Greece, and a candidate for the most powerful poistion in the country woould be well adviced to tell the public what he intends to do to improve this. What he shouldn’t do, under any circumstances, is to further weaken law and order in his country and to encourage those who crazily bellieve that violent vigilantism can be a solution. Tsipras’ campaign statement is totally irresponsible.
Oops – scratch “confirms”, read “concerns”, pls. Damn, still too early in the morning for me, sorry.
It is not possible to much weaken Greek law after the mess that Pasok and ND have made of it. And I didn;t see the Troika insisting that the legal system needs radical overhaul and removal of corrupt and incompetent judges (the majority). I wonder why, since they do know: maybe they don’t care?
As far as Tsipras is concerned, he can be no worse than Frau Lard-Ass, Sarkozy, Cameron or the arch-buffoon himself, Papandreou and his side-kick Papademos. His ability to connect ideas and make logical arguments outclasses any of them, even though he is no intellectual.
Do you think the Troika should micro-manage every single problem that exists in Greece? Even though Greeks are against all foreign interference? What responsibility, if any, do you actually give the Greek goverment to care for Greek issues? According to you, everything is the fault of foreigners. D’oh.
I do not consider that identification of systemic corruption of the legal system or the tax offices is micromanagement. Yet we hear no comment from the Troika
On the other hand, Germans have been very keen to micromanage by suggesting that Greece should sell some islands; the Troika is insisting on privatisation of specific companies, deregulation of specific individual economic professions, etc,
So, clearly you have no idea of what you are talking about.
As far as responsibility of Greek governments is concerned, of course. The fault is theirs: and Frau Lard-Ass has always supported the crooks who damaged Greece, embezzled money, and then pretended that they could get Greece out of crisis. Germany’s interference in the Greek polity and economy has been to the detriment of accountability and legality and has promoted corruption and incompetence.
If you can’t do something properly, you should not do it at all. Leave it to people who know better.
I don’t like the expression Frau Lard-A… as I am not fats diet. So please….
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.”
FDR, 1936 reelection speech
The fact that our leaders of recent years are inept cowards shouldn’t make us forget that one of their roles is to tell it like it is, and rally the people.
Yes, we are in some sort of time-warp where we have to relive the 1930s — without apparently being able to learn from the mistakes of the 1930s. This is what makes me more angry than anything: all of this disaster is unnecessary, all of the economic policy mistakes are very basic errors, yet nobody seems able to act intelligently.
Tsipras is certainly right about one thing.
TV is pure hoax.
Switch off your TV.
Switch on your brain.
Terror for the followers of Tsipras is working a full eight hour day for eight hours pay, and retiring at the age of 65. Terror for the union people that support SYRIZA now that PAOSK’s empty promises have come to fruition is having to save their money for retirement the way the rest of the Europeans do. Terror for the Tsipras mob is having to actually be at work for the full day, and answer to the people they work for, the public, and be reprimanded if they fail to perform their duties. Terror for the civil servants of Greece is having to uphold the responsibilities that come with their jobs and having to answer for it when they don’t. Terror for them is responsibility.
Bullshit !
I don’t know where you live, but certainly not in Greece !
Terror for the greeks is to work (if you can find one !) more than any other european country, for such a low salary (450€ minimum wage, if you have a change that your employer pays you), with prices higher than the average prices in other european countries, with a pitiful health system with no medicine, pitiful schools and university system, pitiful transport grid (what, no highway to the third city of the country ? Really ?).
All this with puppets politics that only think to place their friends and get money, with so much criticism from all the other european countries (that will follow in the same way anyway) ?
Who do you think is voting for Tsipras? All of those people that have their jobs in the dimosio because of political contacts.
Oh, and I forgot the other element of society that thinks its a rebel because it owns a Che Guevara t-shirt, their voting SYRIZA too.
ok, you were joking !
i was afraid for few second !
I am not joking. Maybe you don’t understand what I am writing?
no point of putting links in Greek here StMan
It is not so much that you are joking, but that you yourself are a joke.
i didn’t believed that you could be so simple minded, with so basic black or white logic.
that’s why i’m saying you’re a syriza voter, trolling !!!