A lesson in lawlessness

The traditionally pro-government newspaper I Kathimerini criticises the tactics of the Greek police, who beat protesters and journalists at a demonstration in Athens last week. "The biggest problem in this country is the wholescale lawlessness. No one respects the law, and the worst thing is that no one even cares. ... The problem with recent events is not only the lawless behaviour of those who have sworn to abide by the law, but that their acts teach the young generation a lesson in lawlessness. Young people don't understand how fragile the political equilibrium can be (for example that after a longer period of inaction the government has decided to show a harder face). And so they turn against the democratic regime and its organs ... and start chanting fascist slogans like: 'Police, you pigs, you murderers'."

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