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In Greece, austerity kindles deep discontent


Athens — Already struggling to avoid a debt default that could seal Greece’s fate as a financial pariah, this Mediterranean nation is also scrambling to contain another threat — a breakdown in the rule of law.

Thousands have joined an “I Won’t Pay” movement, refusing to cover highway tolls, bus fares, even fees at public hospitals. To block a landfill project, an entire town south of Athens has risen up against the government, burning earth-moving equipment and destroying part of a main access road.

 Stray dogs — tagged, treated and monitored by city authorities in Athens — survive on handouts, lay at the doorsteps of high end shops and hotels and generally receive pets from tourists and locals alike.

The protests are an emblem of social discontent spreading across Europe in response to a new age of austerity. At a time when the United States is just beginning to consider deep spending cuts, countries such as Greece are coping with a fallout that has extended well beyond ordinary civil disobedience.

Perhaps most alarming, analysts here say, has been the resurgence of an anarchist movement, one with a long history in Europe. While militants have been disrupting life in Greece for years, authorities say that anger against the government has now given rise to dozens of new “amateur anarchist” groups, whose tactics include planting of gas canisters in mailboxes and destroying bank ATMs...............>>>>...................>>>>........................http://www.washingtonpost.com/...../AFUQGy2G_story.html

it's easy to break the 'rule of law'....we are human ANIMALS....if you make me unemployed by the system and I cant afford my down pillow that the government promised
via 'the elected' then you betcha the 'rule of law'(by the elected) will reap what it sows...

MORONS