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A LOOK AT Greece?s version of the Tea Party. Scarily different. ?Seeing people working at a branch?

By Glenn Reynolds

A LOOK AT Greece’s version of the Tea Party. Scarily different. “Seeing people working at a branch of the Marfin Bank, young men hurled Molotov cocktails inside and tossed gasoline on top of the flames, barring the exit. Most of the Marfin Bank?s employees escaped from the roof, but the fire killed three workers, including a young woman four months pregnant. As they died, Greeks in the streets screamed at them that it served them right, for having the audacity to work. The events took place in full view of the Greek police, and yet the police made no arrests.”

UPDATE: Reader Alan Kellogg objects: “Calling those thugs tea partiers is like calling the Nazis a Jewish sect.”

Well, I said it was scarily different. . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).