Someone from Greece posted several videos on a thread this morning.
For the first time in the modern history of Greece, the President of Greece Karolos Papoulias is forced to leave from the military parade for the celebration of the national day of October 28th!
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Thessaloniki, where the celebrations took place, and shouted “TRAITOR, TRAITOR” at the first citizen of Greece. He was forced to leave, stating that a small group (!!!) ruined today’s celebrations.
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The role of the President, in Greece, is very limited. He is only required to sign the laws that the Parliament votes for. The true policy maker is the Prime Minister, now George Papandreou.
The world was shouting TRAITOR at him because he could had easily refused to sign all the laws who impoverished Greeks.
Photos here:
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The parade started normally, without any officials!!
Στρατιωτική Παρέλαση 28η Οκτωβρίου 2011 Θεσσαλονίκη ΣΣΑΣ
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The Greek Army and the various other non-military bodies were applauded by the hundreds of thousands of people!
For the first time a parade occurred without any officials!
Same thing in all over Greece today!!! More videos to follow!
The army is parading through the crowd in Thessaloniki! The world is applauding!
Ματαιώθηκε η Στρατιωτική Παρέλαση στην Θεσσαλονίκη
In Athens, the musical band of the Municipality of Athens, marched with black bracelets! Even their musical instrument wore black bracelets!
The Mayor of Athens, belonging to the ruling party of PASOK, threatened them that they would all be fired on Monday!
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The cops also pushed the crowd far behind, in Syntagma Sq.
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And started arresting people
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The man arrested shouts “FREEDOM OR DEATH”. The moto of the Greek Revolution against the Ottoman rule in 1821.
