April 2012
66 posts
“The Tsolakoglou government has annihilated all traces for my survival, which was based on a very dignified pension that I alone paid for 35 years with no help from the state. And since my advanced age does not allow me a way of dynamically reacting (although if a fellow Greek were to grab a Kalashnikov, I would be right behind him), I see no other solution than this dignified end to my life, so I don’t find myself fishing through garbage cans for my sustenance. I believe that young people with no future, will one day take up arms and hang the traitors of this country at Syntagma Square, just like the Italians did to Mussolini in 1945.”
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Suicide note left by Dimitris Christoulas, a 77-year-old pensioner who today shot himself outside the Greek parliament at Syntagma square. (read more)
Grim times. Grim measures for grim economics.
(via citizenalien)
What George Zimmerman's charge, second degree murder, means under Florida law →
thinkprogress.org
“[T]he unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual.”
Zimmerman faces life in prison.
