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Zonie63 -> RE: Germany sets to deport KKK chappie (12/2/2011 5:24:34 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
Something that was mentioned, tweak.
Germany has struggled recently with a resurgence of nationalist groups, some which have been tied to violence against minorities and immigrants. Several days before Duke's arrest, German prosecutors announced a new investigation into a neo-Nazi gang tied to 10 murders, including the killing of a policewoman. The group, which had escaped detection for over a decade, is also suspected in attacks in Cologne and Duesseldorf that injured more than 30 people, mostly immigrants and minorities.
"We all have a responsibility to ensure that extreme-right, nationalistic and anti-Semitic groups and networks are not able to again come together,"]Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the German justice minister, said in a statement, according to the Associated Press.
Was their decision based upon fear? I can understand why.
I can understand why they would do it, but I'm not convinced that it actually works in the long run. My understanding is that the far-right nationalist groups are larger, more powerful, more disciplined and better organized than their U.S. counterparts, which is somewhat ironic, considering that hate speech and Holocaust denial are legal in the U.S., while illegal in many European countries.
Germany tried to ban the Nazi party in the 1920s, but it didn't work then either.
As a citizen and a member of the general public, I sometimes feel as if my right to know is being violated whenever I'm denied access to read or see something that the government is trying to protect me from. It's as if they're trying to say that I'm too weak-minded, that I would be suddenly entranced by propaganda and automatically turned into some kind of zombie.
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