http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0eZMPVp144&feature=dir
For those who doesn't know, in the last few days Greece has been burning. Huge forest areas have been burned to a crisp. Dozens of families saw their properties consumed by flames. When I last checked, 63 people lost their lives. I'll never forget this image: a lump of ashes, a mother cradling her 4 children. Burned alive. Pictures of terror beyond imagination. The state is at a loss. About 80% of the greek ground had areas on fire.
Usually, fires are set on purpose every summer, so that the burned areas can be tyrned into landpieces. This has been a humiliation to Greece for many years.
This year, it was worse. Many forests had been burned until a couple of weeks ago. The the government announces elections on September 16th. A few days after that, the whole country is set on fire.
Every fire was set on purpose, that is for sure. The question is by whom?
There are rumors about this. The government speaks about terrorists. How convenient.
Some people say openly that the fires were set for political issues. The elections are coming closer, after all.
The government has announced a series of measures and ways to help those who were struck by those sorrowful events. A nice political manipulation of a grave situation. The other political factions rushed to use the recent events to supplement their speeches, too.
SHAME.
The government has set a bounty on infomation concerning the firestarters... as if this would restore anything, or heklp in any way. At the time when people where conflagrated, some bastards started even more fires.
The Kronios hill was burned, a monument of the Olympic games, a monument of civilization. The Olympic museum was saved by a miracle.
Shame to all of us.
Shame to us, because we voted for those bastards we call a government.
Shame to us, because we are going to vote for them once again.
Shame to us, anyway.
And about those beasts that started the fires... they destroyed hundreds of lives. Their hands are soaked with boiling, ashy blood. If there is a God, I beg Him to condemn them to an eternity of flames, like the ones that took the homes and lives of their compatriots.
In general, I'm a pacifist. I do not like violence. I'm receiving university education, if this does mean anything about my mental level (although my english sucks, really). I'm not strickly religious, but I am still an Orthodox Christian.
But I would gladly torture these demons who call themselves people. I would rip the flesh fromtheir bones, I would flay them alive. And then I would burn them alive, as they did to so many people.
Big words, but I really feel this way.
Greece is not a big country, but it has an exceptionally long and glorious history and civilization. We are proud of it, but we are doing nothing to preserve it. Our deeds condemn us to mediocrity.
I'm proud of the past my country has.
I wish I could feel the same pride for its present, but all I can feel is shame and bitterness.
For those who doesn't know, in the last few days Greece has been burning. Huge forest areas have been burned to a crisp. Dozens of families saw their properties consumed by flames. When I last checked, 63 people lost their lives. I'll never forget this image: a lump of ashes, a mother cradling her 4 children. Burned alive. Pictures of terror beyond imagination. The state is at a loss. About 80% of the greek ground had areas on fire.
Usually, fires are set on purpose every summer, so that the burned areas can be tyrned into landpieces. This has been a humiliation to Greece for many years.
This year, it was worse. Many forests had been burned until a couple of weeks ago. The the government announces elections on September 16th. A few days after that, the whole country is set on fire.
Every fire was set on purpose, that is for sure. The question is by whom?
There are rumors about this. The government speaks about terrorists. How convenient.
Some people say openly that the fires were set for political issues. The elections are coming closer, after all.
The government has announced a series of measures and ways to help those who were struck by those sorrowful events. A nice political manipulation of a grave situation. The other political factions rushed to use the recent events to supplement their speeches, too.
SHAME.
The government has set a bounty on infomation concerning the firestarters... as if this would restore anything, or heklp in any way. At the time when people where conflagrated, some bastards started even more fires.
The Kronios hill was burned, a monument of the Olympic games, a monument of civilization. The Olympic museum was saved by a miracle.
Shame to all of us.
Shame to us, because we voted for those bastards we call a government.
Shame to us, because we are going to vote for them once again.
Shame to us, anyway.
And about those beasts that started the fires... they destroyed hundreds of lives. Their hands are soaked with boiling, ashy blood. If there is a God, I beg Him to condemn them to an eternity of flames, like the ones that took the homes and lives of their compatriots.
In general, I'm a pacifist. I do not like violence. I'm receiving university education, if this does mean anything about my mental level (although my english sucks, really). I'm not strickly religious, but I am still an Orthodox Christian.
But I would gladly torture these demons who call themselves people. I would rip the flesh fromtheir bones, I would flay them alive. And then I would burn them alive, as they did to so many people.
Big words, but I really feel this way.
Greece is not a big country, but it has an exceptionally long and glorious history and civilization. We are proud of it, but we are doing nothing to preserve it. Our deeds condemn us to mediocrity.
I'm proud of the past my country has.
I wish I could feel the same pride for its present, but all I can feel is shame and bitterness.