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AntEater · 05-11-07, 04:11 PM

Right now, politics and some mainstream media (mostly Spiegel online) have gotten into a fever pitch, not over muslim extremists. They would be a credible but low level threat. I suppose german islamists have recognized that the demographic bomb is far more effective than the high explosive one.
Instead, the good old leftist terror is being dusted off.
I mean there are some left-wing punks in Berlin and Hamburg who do the occasional arson attack on a police car or the car of a CEO once in a while.
They are on the same level as neo nazi violence right now. Present, but no threat to t the state and usually not killing people.
On Monday, the federal attourney had the police conduct a series of raids on leftist clubs and objects in Berlin and Hamburg and SPIEGEL and other media were babbling like the RAF had risen from the ashes and was threatening invade the forbidden city on the Baltic coast and to blow our beauty queen Chancellor, Dubya, soo to be ex-Tony, Vlad and the rest of the gang to kingdom come.
It turned out to be just a "rounding up of the usual suspects" with no concrete evindence of anything terroristic being planned.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like those "autonomous leftist" punks one bit.
Problem is, the way those raids were conducted was so contra legem that I seriously ask myself why we actually bother with laws. The legal "justification" of that raid would have made the police of Beijing proud.
Even if the targeted group might have been a bunch of pseudo-communist punks, I defintely do not like the federal government circumventing the constitution and ignoring all principles of german criminal procedure law.
It seems Germany is now in for its very own Patriot act.

05-11-07, 04:11 PM	#6
AntEater Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 936 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Right now, politics and some mainstream media (mostly Spiegel online) have gotten into a fever pitch, not over muslim extremists. They would be a credible but low level threat. I suppose german islamists have recognized that the demographic bomb is far more effective than the high explosive one. Instead, the good old leftist terror is being dusted off. I mean there are some left-wing punks in Berlin and Hamburg who do the occasional arson attack on a police car or the car of a CEO once in a while. They are on the same level as neo nazi violence right now. Present, but no threat to t the state and usually not killing people. On Monday, the federal attourney had the police conduct a series of raids on leftist clubs and objects in Berlin and Hamburg and SPIEGEL and other media were babbling like the RAF had risen from the ashes and was threatening invade the forbidden city on the Baltic coast and to blow our beauty queen Chancellor, Dubya, soo to be ex-Tony, Vlad and the rest of the gang to kingdom come. It turned out to be just a "rounding up of the usual suspects" with no concrete evindence of anything terroristic being planned. Don't get me wrong, I don't like those "autonomous leftist" punks one bit. Problem is, the way those raids were conducted was so contra legem that I seriously ask myself why we actually bother with laws. The legal "justification" of that raid would have made the police of Beijing proud. Even if the targeted group might have been a bunch of pseudo-communist punks, I defintely do not like the federal government circumventing the constitution and ignoring all principles of german criminal procedure law. It seems Germany is now in for its very own Patriot act. __________________