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February 4, 2012
Politicians renew calls for NPD ban
Published: 1 Feb 10 09:14 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20100201-24945.html
Seven years after Germany’s high court refused to ban the neo-Nazi NPD party, a growing number of politicians are advocating a renewed attempt to end their legitimacy.
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“The NPD follows clearly anti-constitutional goals and must disappear from the political landscape,” Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) told the paper. “I am working on a new case for an NPD ban.”
To strengthen his case, Herrmann encouraged the country’s domestic intelligence agency to disengage its top spies in surveillance of NPD leadership. The 2003 ban request reportedly failed because the constitutional court believed that domestic intelligence agents from the Verfassungsschutz could have influenced the actions of the neo-Nazis under their watch.
“For a successful ban we don’t need the information from (them),” Herrmann told the paper. “There is enough material that proves the NPD is an enemy of the constitution.”
SPD member and Berlin Interior Minister Ehrhart Körting agreed.
"According to my estimation the NPD is an anti-constitutional party that should be banned," he told the paper. "This is open to see. For this I don’t need any (Verfassungsschutz) people."
Meanwhile Interior Minister for the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Lorenz Caffier (CDU) told the paper that existing evidence shows the right-wing extremist party to be aggressively attempting to attack Germany democracy and replace it with Nazi ideology.
SPD interior expert Sebastian Edathy also supported the disengagement of intelligence agents to further the case against the neo-Nazi party.
DDP/The Local (news@thelocal.de)
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Because rouge goes so well with earrings and shaven heads no doubt...
Please allow me to assist, I'll give you THE WORD to describe his comment: "correct"! ;-)
This is a different situation. You're comparing apples with sweetcorn.
The "troubles" in Ireland (mostly) came about when an oppressed culture - the original inhabitants - rebelled against the oppression and unfair treatment they had suffered at the hands of us .. the British (although any non-English would probably complain) and the resulting backlash from the pro-British population. I am not condoning what any of the groups did, I am just explaining why it came about.
The Nazi doctrine has nothing to do with defending yourself against oppression and everything to do with generating hate. Not the same at all.
I agree, though, that banning them would force them underground and .... effectively "glamourise" them. If they are given the chance to put forward their views, the rest of the population will quickly see how odious these views actually are. This will actually be more effective than any ban.
and while the CDJews and the SPDicks are at it they may as well ban Germans from having children,
open the flood gates to Turks and Africans,
earmark 100% of foreign aid to Holocaust vicims,
cut all social programs except those assisting illegal aliens,
place the German military under Israeli control,
and then rename Germany something more in tune with the times..,
(i.e.; the "Federal Republic of Mongrellia" or how about;
"Israeli Dependency of Rothschildia")
Frankly, I also think Bald people and shaven headed people should be sentenced under section 130 of the criminal code and thrown into a Mannheim prison for no less than 5 years.
To start with, Germany has no German dictated Constitution. It is under a temporary Allied enforced document that should have been replaced years ago.
But even then, Article 5 of the Allied Constitution states : "Everyone has the right to freely express and disseminate their opinions orally, in writing or visually and to obtain information from generally accessible sources without hindrance,"
Ofcourse, there is a big loophole that says your freedoms can be ignored if we find what you say offensive. Therin lies the true test of free speech. Grow up Germany. Find your backbone again.