Things are not well
As I'm writing this I often look at my tv watching videos of my neighborhood in Athens becoming a battle zone, my family and some close friends are still living there and it all adds to my ever increasing concern that started as soon as these riots begun. It's nothing new, I grew up seeing street battles like that but for the first time the police isn't that violent barrier between an angry crowd and the state but they are the face of the enemy and since the murder of that teenage boy last saturday they keep showing their ineptitude with each passing minute.
I'm enraged to an extent I haven't been in a long time and my feelings towards law enforcement are shifting even more towards hate from the distrust I've had from growing up in Athens, Istanbul and the last decade random cities in Italy.
In every place I seem to move many things change except that the protectors of these societies are jaded, fascistic, power hungry and ignorant individuals who abuse a uniform that should rapresent security and peace for their own personal, in a lack of a better word, perversion. I'm sick of it, really. I'm sick of going to places where both junkie thugs and police forces co-exist hoping that if something has to go wrong it will be with a junkie that will just rob me. I'm sick of hearing about these protectors not able to do a simple thing like patroling without tragicaly fucking up everything. I'm sick of those individuals that act like cowards putting down innocent and unarmed citizens and running away from dangerous mobs or powerful figures.
Since the riots have started I expected these monsters would at least behave instead photos and videos keep coming of them taunting, pointing lethal weapons and shooting randomly, not towards hooligans but against students and teachers protesting this violence. Bravo pigs! And when the angry hooligans come? Let them burn everything so people will be more pissed off towards them rather than the police force. Awesome plan that is! I definitely don't endorse those hooligans, I would if instead of burning shops and cars they'd assault police stations, but whatever those stupid kids do it will never be as severe as the actions of those supposedly trained and responsible officers. What saddens me the more is that the same things going on back home could happen here too if people were more hot headed, something that thankfully doesn't happen. Just a year ago a similar situation occured here where a cop shot a soccer fan for no good reason in the middle of a highway, just because he wanted to try out his handgun. Thankfully people didn't rush on the streets in anger, not because such reaction would be wrong but because it never resolves anything, as soon as the dust settles a few useless heads roll and it's all back to business till next time. But seriously wherever I go cops are the same, even in their wonderful excuse "With the low salary I get what do you expect?". What the fuck of an excuse is that? Even I take 400 euros to drive around some people, would that justify me driving recklessly a dangerous vehicle and putting someone in danger? If you think this job is too dangerous for the money, get the fuck out! There are many less dangerous jobs out there! But hey, becoming a street cleaner doesn't give you a uniform that allows you to pick up hookers for free blowjobs under the threat of handcuffs or bullying teenagers for the fun of it. In all of these countries I lived I have similar stories of pointless and scary encounters with cops and I'm afraid that if I'll ever have a child he'll end up having similar stories to tell as soon as he becomes old enough to be branded as a thug in case something goes wrong during a bullying session.
I think I'll stop now and just hope my family and friend will be ok, what else can I hope for? Nothing will change.
As I'm writing this I often look at my tv watching videos of my neighborhood in Athens becoming a battle zone, my family and some close friends are still living there and it all adds to my ever increasing concern that started as soon as these riots begun. It's nothing new, I grew up seeing street battles like that but for the first time the police isn't that violent barrier between an angry crowd and the state but they are the face of the enemy and since the murder of that teenage boy last saturday they keep showing their ineptitude with each passing minute.
I'm enraged to an extent I haven't been in a long time and my feelings towards law enforcement are shifting even more towards hate from the distrust I've had from growing up in Athens, Istanbul and the last decade random cities in Italy.
In every place I seem to move many things change except that the protectors of these societies are jaded, fascistic, power hungry and ignorant individuals who abuse a uniform that should rapresent security and peace for their own personal, in a lack of a better word, perversion. I'm sick of it, really. I'm sick of going to places where both junkie thugs and police forces co-exist hoping that if something has to go wrong it will be with a junkie that will just rob me. I'm sick of hearing about these protectors not able to do a simple thing like patroling without tragicaly fucking up everything. I'm sick of those individuals that act like cowards putting down innocent and unarmed citizens and running away from dangerous mobs or powerful figures.
Since the riots have started I expected these monsters would at least behave instead photos and videos keep coming of them taunting, pointing lethal weapons and shooting randomly, not towards hooligans but against students and teachers protesting this violence. Bravo pigs! And when the angry hooligans come? Let them burn everything so people will be more pissed off towards them rather than the police force. Awesome plan that is! I definitely don't endorse those hooligans, I would if instead of burning shops and cars they'd assault police stations, but whatever those stupid kids do it will never be as severe as the actions of those supposedly trained and responsible officers. What saddens me the more is that the same things going on back home could happen here too if people were more hot headed, something that thankfully doesn't happen. Just a year ago a similar situation occured here where a cop shot a soccer fan for no good reason in the middle of a highway, just because he wanted to try out his handgun. Thankfully people didn't rush on the streets in anger, not because such reaction would be wrong but because it never resolves anything, as soon as the dust settles a few useless heads roll and it's all back to business till next time. But seriously wherever I go cops are the same, even in their wonderful excuse "With the low salary I get what do you expect?". What the fuck of an excuse is that? Even I take 400 euros to drive around some people, would that justify me driving recklessly a dangerous vehicle and putting someone in danger? If you think this job is too dangerous for the money, get the fuck out! There are many less dangerous jobs out there! But hey, becoming a street cleaner doesn't give you a uniform that allows you to pick up hookers for free blowjobs under the threat of handcuffs or bullying teenagers for the fun of it. In all of these countries I lived I have similar stories of pointless and scary encounters with cops and I'm afraid that if I'll ever have a child he'll end up having similar stories to tell as soon as he becomes old enough to be branded as a thug in case something goes wrong during a bullying session.
I think I'll stop now and just hope my family and friend will be ok, what else can I hope for? Nothing will change.