ATHENS (Reuters) - A cash-strapped Greek pensioner shot and killed himself outside parliament in Athens on Wednesday saying he refused to scrounge for food in the rubbish, touching a nerve among ordinary Greeks feeling the brunt of the country's economic crisis.
Picture courtesy of Teacher Dude & BBQ.
He played
their game to their rules, he worked hard, got a “decent” job, he
was a pharmacist, and brought up his family within the rules of their
game, and in his old age, callously they threw him into deprivation.
What more could he have done - nothing -. to the financial markets he
is worth nothing, a disposable unit, of no consequence. To those who
knew him, he was a dignified man, to his family, a loving member, to
the general public, a decent human being destroyed by a system that
is immoral, unjust and inhumane. The media may focus on this betrayed
and destroyed elderly man, but across this continent millions are
rapidly dropping to his level of despair, fear and deprivation, for
what? To save the bankers from losing their wealth, to keep an unjust
immoral and inhumane system functioning. How many more will be driven
to take such action as this elderly retired pharmacist? When will we
turn on the perpetrators of this hideous crime and bring them to
justice?
Picture courtesy of AE TV.
When do we take control of our lives and build a society
that sees to the needs of all our people. It is possible, there is an
alternative to this parasite breeding, greed infested repressive
system. Capitalism is not some plan of the Gods, it is a man made
economic system the fails the majority of the people. Before many
more of our people are driven to the depth of despair, to the end of
their tether, let's dismantle this cruel killer of an economic system
and replace it with one built on mutual aid, co-operation,
sustainability and humanity.
