Austerity Police - Greece, Oakland CA, more to come

Greek blogs are filled with unconfirmed reports that the so-called European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) has deployed to Greece to assist Greek police operations against demonstrators. While Athens has officially denied this, it does not mean that it is not true in some form or another. The EGF was created in 2006, under a treaty among five EU countries that have "a police force with a military status that has full police powers": France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal; since then, Romania, Poland, and Lithuania have joined. The force is overseen by a committee of relevant ministers from six participating countries. It is not part of the EU structures, so it has no oversight from the European Commission or the European Parliament. According to its statutes, it is, above all, at the service of the EU, to be deployed in crisis-management-type situations within, or outside of, Europe. If it receives a mandate from the EU, then it is directed by the European Council. 

Its most likely deployment would be in the context of the invoking of the Lisbon Treaty's "Solidarity Clause," which is invoked in case of a terror attack, or natural and man-made disasters. But this clause is so ambiguous that it has been invoked to back the Greek bailout and therefore to override the no-bailout clause of the EU Treaty. So, the question that has to be asked, is whether invoking the clause has also activated a security dimension to the Greek bailout. 

Or, are the leaders at the EU summits on the Greek crisis, all of which which are secret, also discussing operational aspects of Greece's domestic security situation, considering the general strikes, labor unrest, etc? It has now been reported that Horst Reichenbach, the head of the European Commission's task force for Greece, was in Athens on October 26th. This is the task force referred to last week as a possible vehicle to become a colonial administration in Greece, with hundreds of "advisors" being deployed into all the Greek government ministries, thereby making Reichenbach the effective "Reichsprotektor" for Greece, like the Reichsprotektor who held all executive power in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, established in 1938. The two Athens ministers whom Reichenbach met were Citizen Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis, and Environment, Energy and Climate Change Minister Yiorgos Papakonstantinou. The Citizen Protection Ministry is responsible for police, security, and intelligence services. Papoutsis said that the aim of the meeting was Reichenbach's briefing on the ministry's actions and cooperation to enable any actions to be promoted, supported, and strengthened at the local level, and European level as well. Does this "cooperation" include supervising mass attacks on peaceful Greek demonstrators, such as what occurred June 29 and was repeated on October 19 and 20th?