February 9, 2010
Published: 17 Sep 09 16:55 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090917-21985.html
An 18-year-old went on a rampage with an axe and Molotov cocktails at a school in Ansbach in southern Germany on Thursday, injuring nine of his fellow students.
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My girlfriends sister went to this Gymnasium.
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Amokläufe in Deutschland (1964 to 2003)
And Germany still holds the candle for probably the most horrible amok run ever, in an elementary school in '64, with a former Wehrmacht soldier firing a home-built flamethrower at 28 children and gutting two teachers with a lance before swallowing some E605 superfiring all his synapses until terminal collapse.
Kudos!
wobegone days before the 90´s when poor kids went to school to get an education and a good job afterwards.
Even drop outs could make it. Former minister of forreign affairs Josef Fischer will testify to that-whacking a ¦quot;pig-cop¦quot; over the head didn´t stop him profiling his career.
Things started to muck up after this actor had his speech of ¦quot;Tear down this wall-
not that I had a liking for that wall in the first place.
The border patrol- vopo-goons -tried to make up for it by acting silly (snooping inside the boot of your car and confiscating some trash-punk record planted there beforehand)
After the triumph of capitalism being the only game in town, profit over people neo-liberalism was canonized .Now you turn on the news
and every other day somebody is running amok, human predators are out preying among the weakest while poncy-banksters are making a killing in the city-
unbridled Capitalism,run as a system of legalised robbery by its very nature, is a prolific breeder of crime.Who said that. Karl, or that supersized American with the cap on..-one has to call a spade a spade.
Anyway, what exactly do you propose they do to "not let these contaminants in"? What do you even mean by "contaminants"? 19-year-old citizens who never made trouble before and suddenly lose it at their own Gymnasium? How do you not "let him in?"
I'm really not getting your point.