May 21, 2012
Published: 6 Feb 10 13:43 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100206-25077.html
The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party will be allowed to distribute CDs outside schools with interviews and music by party members because authorities have no legal grounds to stop them, a report said Saturday.
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If these type of activities made any sense then countries around the world have done something similar already ages ago and would not wait for us to to become pioneers in stupidity.
What a fraud, the guy points to a banner with family sprawled across it, while his organization proposes circumventing the child parent relationship, which is essential to the family, by spreading their propaganda directly to children as they come to and go from school.
The biggest thing that sets me on fire is that they and the media claim that they a far right. They are far from it. But, I guess that depends on your view of the political yardstick, or meterstick, for me tyranny to the left end and anarchy to the right end. Look at their platform, not that different from the other parties. All the parties will trample your individual liberties, some will just do fast and hard and the others will do it gradually with a smile.
Also, let people produce as much garbage as they want, eventually it will be to much for any one person to absorb and most will be ignored. Kind of like leaflets placed on your car, who read them?
I'd say tyrrany can be found at both ends of the spectrum, and if you'd like to upend and append the modern definitions of 'right' and 'left' in the context of politics (as you have attempted), so be it, just realize that on the right you have a set of shared values as you do on the left and most of the rest of the world classifies political movements/beliefs/parties based on which values they share most relative to the political context. For instance, the NPD is no further to the right than the Tea partiers in the U.S. if you look at the NPDs rhetoric, it's not nearly as strong as any single neo-nazi group's rhetoric. Certainly though, in both the NPD and Tea Party you have numerous connections and ideological agreements when it comes to things like immigrants, racial and sexual equality, and the rights of workers to collectivize. That being said, in Germanythe FDP and CDU are classified as rightest, but only in relation to the leftists in germany, they are harder on immigration and things of that sort (but they certainly have no connections to the neo-nazis), if you were to transplant the FDP and CDU to the U.S. they would there be considered more akin to democrats than republicans (as would most normal rightist parties in the U.S).
If I had to classify Germany and the U.S. together it would look like this,
Die Linke, Grün, SPD, CDU/CSU, FDP, Democrats, Republicans, NPD (left corresponds to left, and right to right.
Whether it is anti-immigrant-fixes, religeous-fixes or chemically-induced-fixes the sooner children realise that the general idea of a quick-fix is the problem - and, not some specific measure - the less likely they are of doing harm to themselves and others discovering this fact the hard way.
To me, the issue is not withholding information from children but ensuring that the information they have fed to them is balanced. Children have an incredible capacity for sorting through crap information as long as they are enough points of view.
To say that neo-nazis parties, or even neo-nazis light parties have common connections to American tea parties is extremely misguided and off the mark. When have the tea partiers advocated anything but racial and sexual equality, or immigrants rights, tread carefully here do not confuse legal with illegal. They do advocate the worker¦#39;s choice to unionize, or not; they do not advocate force unionization, forced paying of dues to union boss who may or may not have the workers¦#39; interest at heart, unwanted strikes leading to loss of wages. NPD¦#39;s advocacies for family and traditional values are superficially and fraudulently; see my comment above. It is a smoke screen, just like green movement¦#39;s environmental polices; they are more about power, control, and curtailing individual liberties than anything else. The ideological connection between them and the tea parties does not exist on any level.
In the United States, tea parties and conservatives are classical liberals; liberal, yet another word that has been misused for over a century. They support a small, both in purse and power, representative government, a constitution of negative liberties, defining what the government can not do to or for the people, and personal property, which the foundation of all liberties.
I rejected the left and right for the poodles they are, I registered Libertarian and will make up my own mind on issues, without the benfit of the left or the right's brainwashing.
German's should do the same.
By the way Ramstein's great. "Were all living in Amerika, Amerika, Amerika- Coca-Cola Wunderba!" Very funny.
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Tollerman, did you run away from some trials that went on after world war II, the more and more I read from you the more you sound like this guy who despised the left in Germany from 33-45.
Wend, degenerate arts eh, 'entertete kunst' is what the nazis called the exact same thing.