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May 17, 2012
Published: 16 Nov 09 12:25 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091116-23305.html
In an embarrassing situation for Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, one of its paid informants in the neo-Nazi scene went on trial Monday for running a radio station that called for the nuclear destruction of Israel, daily Tagesspiegel reported.
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Of course their own infiltrators could be "out of control" and sympathetic to the DVU or were simply looking for much bigger fish in the wider intelligence gathering.
If they had been ignoring the radio station as a small fish when they were angleling for something bigger, ignoring Sandra F's activities might have been a price worth paying. However, we shall never know.
Nothing is ever clear cut and neatly packed in the intelligence world.
Thats what i call devotionate undercover work. :-D Who would have suspected him? *lol*
Seriously, such things happened before.
There was once a young soldier who looked for a job after the end of ww1.
He became an informant for the bavarian police and infiltrated a small political party from the radical ultra-right for them.
That party's name was DAP , Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. (German Labour Party)
The name of that young informant was Adolf Hitler. He soon turned from a police spy into a passionate follower of the party and quickly became their greatest speaker.
It was also him who later suggested to add that "National Socialist" to he party's name and agenda turning it into the NSDAP commenly known as the Nazi party.
you are the confused one here. the police "waste time and money" hunting illegal immigrants?..what part of illegal dont you get? that means its against the law to be one! can you dig that?...and as far as "banning" groups ...thats just ignorant!...banning free speech and free thought is cool with you? its not cool to me!...obviously you are fairly left of center and prefer illegals roaming free and indiginous people gagged. real smart... smoke another joint hippy!
Where are you from? Do you have any concept of European politics? If by these groups existing in Germany makes them 'a disgrace to the entire western world', what do you call Austria where the ultra right took around 32% of the vote in the last election.
Grow up and educate yourself. Germany is quite vigilant about these groups.
And you must admit that Germany has done may things to move away from the past.
I'm not the only person who wants to see Germany evolve and grow. There are many of us out there. Surely we want Germany to be very successful. But we want to achieve prosperity under moral circustances.
I seek perfection. There is nothing wrong with that. In fact it should be the goal of everyone. How logical is it to give just 50 percent effort?
And I have come to realize that perfection can only be achieved through morality. There simply is no other way.