For AL, with love
This is an excerpt from a book I have red this autumn, "Hurra wir kapitulieren!", I think I made a short note on it back then here on the board. This chapter now was translated into English and published by Der Spiegel. Enjoy.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...462149,00.html
Quote:
In 1972, more than three decades ago, Danish lawyer and part-time politician Mogens Glistrup had an idea that brought him instant fame. To save taxes, he proposed that the Danish army be disbanded and an answering machine be set up in the defense ministry that would play the following message: "We capitulate!" Not only would it save money, Glistrup argued, but it would also save lives in an emergency. On the strength of this "program," Glistrup's Progress Party managed to become the second-most powerful political party in the Danish parliament in the 1973 elections.
Glistrup had the right idea, but he was a number of years premature. Now would be the right time to set up his answering machine.
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The author is an independent author and political observer, known for his sharp tongue and bad habit to mercilessly point finger on political flaws and deceptions. His bitter-black humour only hides the desperate love for Western culture that he sees going down the drain. Surprisingly he often is said to be a left. I always thought that he is beyond such categories.
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ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Broder