A Report from Athens

Why are Europe's media ignoring the outrage underway in Greece?

A writer who has been in Athens over the past few weeks provides a view on the protests, which is linked from here and includes this telling passage:

However, the majority of those who I have spoken to agree that Greeks are to blame for their problems, and that a dismantling of the “rousfeti” economy seeped in bureaucracy and socialist dogma is necessary in order to improve the competitiveness of the country. This is encouraging, and equally encouraging is the recognition by this same majority that just because we are responsible for the situation that we now find ourselves in does not mean that we have the obligation, the responsibility and even the right to sell our country to a group of predator banks and multination corporations that worked alongside a generation of corrupt politicians to create a debt so large that it could never be repaid. Many Greeks are not responsible for even a penny of this debt, but even if they were, no Greek alive today has a right to sell that which is not his. Who told these parliamentarians and foreign dignitaries that they have the right to sign away this land to private corporations? What would our forefathers, who fought and bled for our right to even have a country of our own and a functioning parliament, say in response to this treason?

Almost every country now within the EU, could take that last sentence and ask it of their own treacherous leaders, who through their silence over Greece, will eventually see the same steamrollering of their own citizens as is now taking place in Greece:

What would our forefathers, who fought and bled for our right to even have a country of our own and a functioning parliament, say in response to this treason?