GER politics thread

[Jimbuna]

The investigation into a deadly gun attack in Hanau is focusing on whether others knew about or helped organise it, Germany's federal prosecutor says.

The suspect shot dead nine people "of migrant background" at two shisha bars on Wednesday evening. He and his mother were later found dead in his flat.

Peter Frank said material the suspect Tobias R had posted online showed a "deeply racist mindset".

He had also been influenced by conspiracy theories, Mr Frank said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51577196

[Skybird]

They want to make this a right-winbg extremist crime, Nazi terror, ands at quite any cost they want to make it so. I say the guy was most likely a psychopath. I give it a 9:1 probability. He shoudk have been locked away in the closed high security wing of an asylum. Psychopathic personality structures cannot be cured, you can only protect the public - by locking the madman away in a specilaised hospital from where there is no escape. Psychopathy plus paranoia, signs of schizophrenia, both maybe episodic, god-syndrome and megalomania.

[Skybird]

Today this article was released, by a neuro-psychologist, psychiatrist and neurologist (yes, that are three diffrent branches). He concludes the same like I did. To be clear, neither me nor him try to excuse or minimise the deed. We just see the context of the generla behaviour and symptoms the man showed and that indicate clearly that this was not what the media make it appear as: a purely Nazi-motivated crime like the assassinations by the NSU.


https://www.achgut.com/artikel/der_t..._eine_diagnose



Its quite alienating how often and easily the media describe unwanted opinions and views as psychologically derranged, and in other cases, when it is opportune, almost hide the background of a mental illness or deranged personality structure just to focus exclusively on apparent ideological motivations and political convictions.

It makes no sense to describe this crime as a political terror act. When you suffer from mental delusions, hear voices and show symptoms of schizophrenia and paranoia combined with a psychopathic personality structure, then it makes no sense to reduce your crime to a deed of merely poltical terror.

[Skybird]

No comment.

A month ago, a letter from the Hanau assassin to the Attorney General was classified as non-racist, yesterday it was "deeply racist". German authorities, this is not obvious for just the first time, are one thing not: independent.

On Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. I read on BR24: »According to Attorney General Peter Frank, the gunman had a" deeply racist outlook ". This emerges from the video messages and "a kind of manifest" on the man's homepage. «

Today, on February 21st, 2020 at 12:09 pm I read on t-online.de: »The alleged terrorist from Hanau addressed a letter to the Federal Attorney General months ago. It is largely identical to his letter of confession. Now the authority confirms receipt ... But the letter contained no right-wing extremist or racist statements and no investigation was started because of the letter. «

https://www.tichyseinblick.de/daili-...t-rassistisch/


No shame at all there. If it serves the propaganda and ideological agenda: anything goes.

[Skybird]

Federal state elections in Hamburg. The current "honest" voting result that also calculates non-voters into the score:

Historical low for CDU, FDP still not sure whether they made it over the 5%-hurdle. AfD is out. Green and red socialist with overwhelming majority.

It becomes more and more obvious how completely eroded the CDU is being left behind by Merkel. She has consumed everything that was in it, and now it is just a hollow corpus. Not Angela but Vampirella Merkel would be a fitting name.

Two weeks ago there were bids for the first time ever that Merkel must run for a fifth term. I do not believe it will get this far, but that this was raised by CDU members shows how desperate they are due to their infinite supply with zeroes for their top chairs. Their candidates for the chancellor's office are only jokes on legs, nothing more.

[Skybird]

The jubilations for the AFD missing the 5% hurlde, were premature. Now with the counting ended, the have 5.3% and in to9tla hgave not oost votes. That they are slioghtoly weaker than last time is only becasue while keeping their totla numbers, the overall turnout was slightly higher. FDP also is in.


Does not change that there is a knocking-out majority for Red-Green. There even is a one-seat majority for a SPD-SED coaltion, though that is not comfortable.

[Jimbuna]

A car has been driven into a crowd at a carnival parade in the western German town of Volkmarsen.

Police said about 30 people, including children, were injured, some seriously.

A 29-year-old German citizen was arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide. Officials said a motive was currently unclear.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51619353

Doesn't appear to be terrorism related.

[Skybird]

Last thing I heard was that the driver was drunk. How well I know this kind of dirt bags.



Recently a racer was sentenced over here - for MURDER
Same should be applied to drunk drivers. I am absolutely unforgiving on this, for personal reasons. A man fully responsible for how much he drinks. And for whether or not he took precautionary measures. No excuses accepted.

[Jimbuna]

^ On that we are both in full agreement. I have seen the resulting carnage on more occasions than I care to remember.

[Skybird]

They now say the driver was not at all under influene of alcohol. Motive is unclear, but he is already known to the police, though more for violent behaviour, not for ideological extremism.



Drugs involved, maybe...?

[Skybird]

Want to do some sightseeing in Germany? These videos are very good. The auhtor doe slike i do on bicycle, just that he walks. Various cities and towns in Southern germany, severla places, at pedestrian'S speed. I recommend to increase Yutuube playing speed to 2x in options, it works very well with these films.



https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...f7JGqzdJ5S-7AR

[Moonlight]

Just a couple of things I'd like to suggest, first, they really need a Foam Windscreen for that microphone and second, in England that path he went up would be classed as dangerous.
Me thinks any murderers will have found the perfect spot to do their nasty deed, their defence would be no witnesses and they tripped and fell over the edge of the hillside. The perfect alibi I'd say, on that note, would any of you chaps like to go for a walk and take in that lovely scenery, I'll pay for your travel back home, that's if you survive it.

[Skybird]

What looms ahead for Germany. Not nice.

http://translate.google.com/translat..._11762875.html

[Catfish]

Germany bans far-right group, raids leaders' homes (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g...-idUSKBN21616Q

[Skybird]

https://peymani.de/deutsche-grenzsch...tsvorsitzende/

They watched for a long time. The members of the central committee clung to power. They feared too much for the loss of their posts and privileges that they would have dared to refuse to obey the President of the State Council. Those who did so were chilled or swore never to go against the Central Committee's statements again. But now the ZK members have lost their patience. Unlike in 1989, this time it was not the fear of their own population that forced them to act, but the fear of a virus threatening to get out of control. Angela Merkel is disempowered - that's clear since Sunday at the latest. She was submerged for weeks, and even at the press meeting of the chairman of the prime ministerial conference, Markus Söder, she only served as a staffage. She had nothing more to say, in the proverbial sense. Until recently, Merkel had blocked the closure of the German borders. In her delusion that she had to go down in history as an "open border hero", she persistently refused to acknowledge the realities that were created across Europe. Everywhere you brave the corona pandemic, everywhere governments act with the greatest determination - only Germany has stuck to its dangerous lurching course until now, which has now completely unsettled citizens. Merkel's policy of sitting out is at an end. The GDR politician, who does not take her own line and prefers to wait and see what the published opinion dictates, faces the shards of her opportunistic work.

For the first time, the wealthy, neglected "snowflake generation" learns that there are real dangers in addition to their imagined ones.

The Corona crisis will change the country forever. A lot will be put to the test in the coming months. This is both an opportunity and a risk. In addition to better preparation for future epedemics, the question of equipment and remuneration in the health sector will not only be raised anew in Germany, but especially in other European countries. Likewise, the risk of disease introduction will affect political decisions even after the pandemic has been overcome. And not only that: people who have lived through the experience of an existential threat are likely to be a little more skeptical about the decadent self-employment of the political and media caste and its constructed horror scenarios. And for the first time in their lives, the neglected "Generation Snowflake" is directly confronted with the fact that there are real dangers in addition to their imagined ones. There is hope that those who have learned about real threats are less susceptible to doomsday prophets. On the other hand, calls for a European state will become louder. The Brussels power apparatus will make every effort to use the pandemic so that the individual member states have less to say. In addition, the economic consequences will exceed those of the financial crisis. A recession can no longer be avoided, since most economies were already faced with a profound downturn before the outbreak. Many financial assets will be revalued and bubbles will burst.

Merkel & Co. could only live out their fetish because they surfed on an artificially generated wave of growth at the expense of future generations.

The huge government aid packages that are now being tied up everywhere are of course not without consequences for taxpayers. Distribution struggles that reach into the middle class, as well as the rebellion of the decreasing number of those who are mainly used to finance government deficits, are mapped out. What this means for an already deeply divided society does not need to be explained further. For the army of welcome fanatics, troubled times begin: How do you want to convey to a population that you will continue to take people into a sinking boat? Where should solidarity with strangers come from when more and more citizens stand up to the water themselves? Merkel & Co. could only live out their fetish because they were surfing on an artificial growth wave that had been created at the expense of future generations. This wave suddenly subsides. The crisis clearly shows one thing: The regime of the politically correct world savers, who undermined an overripe democracy and who increasingly shamelessly exploited the privileges of the party state created in the course of the reconstruction after the Second World War, has failed. They have led powerful states into the economic abyss and destabilized strong societies. The corona pandemic mercilessly discloses this.


However, it should not obscure our view that every crisis has an opportunity. Where the traditional is no longer suitable, new ideas arise. Or, to say it with Friedrich Hölderlin: "But where there is danger, the saving also grows." Stay healthy!