New Age Of Rebellion And Riot Stalks Europe

Demonstrators in Reykjavik on Tuesday.
Photo: AFP (Photo from the Sydney Morning Herald)

From Times Online:

Iceland has no army, no navy and no air force - but it does have riot police.

On Tuesday night the black-uniformed troopers came out to quell the latest riots in Reykjavik, which erupted in front of parliament. The building was splattered with paint and yoghurt, the crowd yelled and banged pans, shot fireworks and flares at the windows and lit a fire in front of the main door.

Yesterday the protesters gathered again, hurling eggs at the car of Geir Haarde, the Prime Minister, and banging cans on its roof.

The transformation of the placid island into a community of seething anger - there have been half a dozen riots in recent weeks - is more than a regional oddity.

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Update: Economic collapse fuels bitter protests in Iceland -- Sydney Morning Herald

My Comment: Europe's Governments have completely failed in providing a stable economy to its citizens. High taxes, regulations that stifle business development and growth, heavy debt obligations that will take generations to pay off .... these factors are creating a great deal of resentment and anger among many .... especially the young.

The breaking point will happen when riots start to break out in countries like Great Britain, Germany, Canada (maybe), the U.S., and the United States. With the exception of Canada, many of these countries are in the same predicament as the smaller European countries .... but the problems are the same.