Three people died in Greece yesterday when a bank in which they were working caught fire. This was during protests by workers against the IMF inspired austerity measures. Had the politicians and officials of the previous government been charged with falsifying accounts and sentenced to long terms in prison public fury would have been less but there is no attempt at holding anyone culpable for the present mess. Meanwhile in Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is determined to hang on to power as long as he can in the face of protests by Red Shirts who are supporters Thaksin who was deposed by an army coup. Mr. Abhisit sneaked in to the Prime Minister's post because the Constitutional Court would not allow Thaksin's party to hold power even though they had majority in parliament. Prime Minister Abhisit has proposed general elections in November which has been accepted by the Red Shirts but such is their mistrust of the government that they have vowed to continue occupying central Bangkok. In Kyrgyzstan the previous president Bekayev is on the run after protesters were killed on his orders. He was elected in a landslide when his predecessor escaped to Russia on being overthrown by street protests. Bekayev won elections promising clean up of corruption but turned out just as corrupt. In Venezuela the family of President Hugo Chavez has occupied large areas of land, own a bank and his mother goes round in expensive jewellery. All this in the name of ' democracy ' which infuriates people. Governments should be like China - just shoot anyone who protests. No hypocrisy, no lies, just a bullet.