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2003-07-24 Europe

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Posted by Eat Me Europe 2003-07-24 10:42:52 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wonder how many of these are Ossis (East Germans)?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-7-24 10:51:43 AM|| 2003-7-24 10:51:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Conspiracy theories flourish in environments where the credibility of the social institutions has been destroyed - and in this case the destruction was aided and abetted by their own Govt in a craven gamble for a few more years on the public tit.

Posted by PD 2003-7-24 11:13:51 AM|| 2003-7-24 11:13:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I recall from my childhood that Little Hanzel and Gretel were also bit slow comprehending that Gramma didn't look or sound quite right when they visited her that last time either...
PS My grandmother would read me the German version of this story involving the woodsman and his "Big Ass Ax", not that sanitized piece of crap many kids got!

Posted by Capsu78 2003-7-24 11:19:30 AM|| 2003-7-24 11:19:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 repost from yesterday

Posted by Frank G 2003-7-24 11:31:51 AM|| 2003-7-24 11:31:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep, After the CIA bombed Pan Am flight whatever and that didn't work. They went after the USS Cole. That didn't work so CIA went after our african embassies. Still no action on world domination. So while Bill Clinton fought off an angry congress US secreat service personel began recruiting disaffected muslims dupes with a promise of everlasting...

Posted by Lucky 2003-7-24 12:15:54 PM|| 2003-7-24 12:15:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Zhang Fei - and I wonder how many were Islamic

Posted by mhw 2003-7-24 12:53:11 PM|| 2003-7-24 12:53:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 mhw: I wonder how many were Islamic

Most Muslims in Germany probably believe this theory. However the percentage of Muslims in Germany is in the low single digits, so they're not even close to being half of the count. Nope - it's Germans who are the bulk of the conspiracy theorists.

Germany has a population of about 80m. About 20m are from what was East Germany - not enough to add up to 1/3 of the population, meaning that some left-wing West Germans were also credulous enough to believe this hypothesis.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-7-24 2:10:52 PM|| 2003-7-24 2:10:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm in Germany, but haven't heard anything like this crap. I guess they just surveyed the Universities. Most college students are like those of ours from Planet Bezerkley.

As for the muslim population, I wouldn't say it's small, seeing as there are many Turkish families that settled here after WWII. They basically came to do the crap work that was "beneath" the average German to do. (Pride is such a wonderful thing.) It's quite interesting as the German-Turk situation here is just like the Black-White one in the states. (No violence, but the prejudice is there on both sides.) Happy Shining People!

I read back in '98 that there was 1 non-German to every 8 Germans in the country. At that time it was an "alarming" trend. Then again, Germans don't tend to have large families. They along with Japan have actually experienced negative birth rates towards the end of the 90's.

Don't worry though, a German co-worker told me a while back that a cleric in Colonge or Koln has already advocated the overthrow of the German government for the creation of....(wait for it)...an islamic state. Even if it means...violence. (Brought to you by the religon of peace. Like Hitler, they only want peace, a piece of this country and a piece of that country, and a ...oh the hell with it WE WANT IT ALL!!!!!

Posted by Paul 2003-7-24 4:47:24 PM|| 2003-7-24 4:47:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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