Germany: Turning away from democratic basis?

[Hamlet]

We have a problem in Germany: "It's a minister in a wheelchair behaving like a Nazi tank in a blitzkrieg against democracy", a man from the street said to me tonight.

What has happened? (or... is happening...)
Today the German parliament said yes to new data retention laws. That's very bad, some people say. But what did our wheelchair minister say? Commenting announced constitutional complaints (german link) the minister said "We had the 'greatest commander of all times'(GröFaZ) [GröFaZ is an ironic German acronym for Greatest Commander of all Times - meaning Adolf Hitler] and now we have the greatest constitutional complaint of all times"
Comparing legal democratic steps against a controversial law with Adolf Hitler is the ugliest thing I have ever heard from a German politician. It has nothing to do with political style. In Germany we say "Wer Wind sät, wird Sturm ernten" (Who is seeding wind will be reaping storm). What ever could be added... ...is blowing in the wind...

In Germany newspapers decided to publish a completely blackened front page to protest against the ongoing mutilation of democratic basics last week - which was an exceptional way of protest...



...and many websites in Germany are blackened, quoting one of the German Grundrechte (basic rights, the "heart" of our constitution) about the secrecy of (tele)communication. It was murdered today, driven to death by a wheelchair.


(The secrecy of telecommunciation must not be violated, ..., SPD, CDU and CSU decided: it died on 8/11/07)

Keep an eye on us, friends.

http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.d...83/87/lang,en/
http://www.daten-speicherung.de/inde...-constitution/

who wants to join the protest?
http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.d...w/158/79/#code
http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.d...158/1/lang,en/

We call on every webmaster to cover their pages from the 8th November to grieve for the secrecy of communication.

[puggsley1980]

Excellent protest on behalf of the newspapers.

This man clearly is unaware of the tens of thousands of disabled people who were executed under Hitler’s regime during his attempts to "Improve the German Aryan Breed".

Below is an example of what went on. its estimated that 100,000's of disabled people, many of German origin, were killed during the Holocaust.


The Nuremberg Laws: Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health: The Attempt to Improve the German Aryan Breed, July 14, 1933Article I.(1.) Anyone who suffers from an inheritable disease may be surgically sterilized if, in the judgement of medical science, it could be expected that his descendants will suffer from serious inherited mental or physical defects.(2.) Anyone who suffers from one of the following is to be regarded as inheritably diseased within the meaning of this law: 1. Congenital feeble-mindedness2. Schizophrenia3. Manic-depression4. Congenital epilepsy5. Inheritable St. Vitas dance (Huntington's Chorea)6. Hereditary blindness7. Hereditary deafness8. Serious inheritable malformations(3.) In addition, anyone suffering from chronic alcoholism may also be sterilized.Article II. (1.) Anyone who requests sterilization is entitled to it. If he be incapacitated or under a guardian because of low state of mental health or not yet 18 years of age, his legal guardian is empowered to make the request. In other cases of limited capacity the request must receive the approval of the legal representative. If a person be of age and has a nurse, the latter's consent is required. (2.) The request must be accompanied by a certificate from a citizen who is accredited by the German Reich stating that the person to be sterilized has been informed about the nature and consequence of sterilization. (3.) The request for sterilization can be recalled. Article III. Sterilization may also be recommended by: (1.) the official physician (2.) the official in charge of a hospital, sanatorium, or prison. Article IV. The request for sterilization must be presented in writing to, or placed in writing by the office of the Health Inheritance Court. The statement concerning the request must be certified by a medical document or authenticated in some other way. The business office of the court must notify the official physician. Article VII. The proceedings of the Health Inheritance Court are secret. Article X. The Supreme Health Insurance Court retains final jurisdiction.