INSOLENT
I have blogged several times about Roma issues and about the appalling situation of housing and evictions in Patras (European City of Culture 2006). I wonder what on earth this is all about and how it will it play out? Is this an attempt to stop those pesky liberals and humanitarians from trying to secure basic human rights for the Roma community . I will be watching this one with interest. Especially since useless objects are being thrown in the river! From Greek Helsinki Monitor (definition in brackets from dictionary dot com) Legal investigations are under way against the Chair of the Greek Helsinki Monitor, Panayote Dimitras, by the Head of the Appeals Prosecutor's Office of Patras, Anastassios Kanellopoulos. Panayote Dimitras and the Greek Helsinki Monitor are accused of encouraging Roma of the Makrigianni settlement to "believe that they enjoy a sui generis (a special case, a category of their own) immunity and to have thus grown insolent, as they believe they will not be punished and that they have hence reached a point of throwing useless objects into the River Glafkos".
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posted by deviousdiva @ 2/02/2006 10:54:00 PM
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So are people who throw their litter onto the pavement or into my front yard, good or bad citizens?
There must be a hell of a lot of those Turkish secret agents on the loose around my house then. Seriously though, the blame game is just so ridiculous. I wish we would take responsibilty for our own actions. There I go again with my "why can't we all just be nice and get along". But sometimes the simple ideas are the best.
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