Citizen Arrested For Calling Pangalos A "Jack@ss"

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There is no freedom of speech in Greece anymore, or at least this is the society that former PASOK minister Theodore Pangalos helped to build. Arrogant as he is, he believes he should be worshipped for all the years of service (and/or betrayal take your pick) that he gave to this country and whenever someone has a difference of opinion, well then he orders that they be arrested. Or at last this is what happened while Pangalos was taking a routine swim at the Vouliagmeni Lake in southern Athens.Seeing him at the premises Pangalos heard the citizen call him a donkey, and he was apparently extremely offended.So he contacted authorities and ordered them to arrest him.


Hmmm...

Pangalos of course forgets that he riled public opinion at the start of the crisis in 2010, when he suggested that all Greeks shared equal responsibility for the country’s plight by using the phrase “we ate the money together.”

No Mr. Pangalos, we did not eat the money together because today you own about 50 homes (or at least this is what reports say) and a third of the population is either homeless or eating out of a garbage can.

We are offended.

Offended for being lied to about how the flag fell off from the islet of Imia in 1996.

Offended for betraying us and allowing Abdulah Ocalan to be arrested.

And offended for supporting George Papandreou and the Memorandums of shame, and having the audacity to tell us that they were a "blessing" for Greece.

Thank Heavens the man was released by authorities who did not really take the former minister's complaints very seriously, nonetheless Pangalos filed a lawsuit.

Article in Greek - makeleio