An anything-goes democracy

However justified some people's claims may be, no democracy can function properly without some limits. These limits were abolished in Greece some time ago and this is extremely dangerous, especially for democracy itself.

We have developed a protest culture inspired by the French model in which anything goes and everything is permissible. This is not some left-wing or right-wing philosophy - it is almost universal. In places like Keratea and Halkidiki, the usual troublemakers teamed up with priests who blessed their Molotov cocktails. Soccer problems, the anti-austerity riots, the rallies against the Prespes name deal and the school pupils (and even some teachers) throwing rocks at police stations in 2008 are all pieces of a big picture that should be troubling us intensely.

It's hard to criticize the phenomenon because you will inevitably come up against a vicious...