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| German official calls for pre-emptive internment of terrorists |
| 2007-07-10 |
| A call from Germany's Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble for legal powers to intern terrorists before they struck set off a storm of criticism Sunday. Suggesting that Germany might have to introduce a US-style criminal offence of conspiracy to commit a crime, he said: "Another question is whether one can treat such dangerous people as combatants and intern them." The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) official's remarks were to be published in the news magazine Der Spiegel on Monday. Schaeuble added on ZDF television Sunday: "You must take risks to defend liberty, but you can't just sit back and do nothing either." Social Democrats, who share power in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition, rejected the call. Kurt Beck, the Social Democrat leader, told ZDF Sunday: "We mustn't kill liberty in an effort to defend it." Sebastian Edathy, a senior Social Democrat, said: "One cannot defend the rule of law from terrorism by weakening principles of the rule of law." |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #10 What about pre-emptive interment? For Islam's clerical elite and the leaders of Muslim majority countries? By all means! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-10 20:32 |
| #9 Don't be an ass, Angeater Gonque9415. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-10 15:37 |
| #8 What about pre-emptive interment? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-07-10 14:36 |
| #7 Muzzies esp Arabs and white people, esp christians DO NOT MIX, dont they get it? |
| Posted by: Angeater Gonque9415 2007-07-10 12:05 |
| #6 Glenmore: How many muzzies lived in Germany or Eastern Europe in 1930-40? Zip. Only after WW2 did the Turkish, Moorish, et.al. invasion begin for the reconstruction, reindustrialization. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-07-10 10:16 |
| #5 Where would the world be today if 70 years ago the Germans had selected a different group of Semitic people for the Final Solution? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-07-10 07:25 |
| #4 I'm also rather curious about how the concept of "pre-emptive internment" is supposed to work. Ve quietly stop by ze internees home in ze vee hours of ze morning so zat ze streets are less crowded und provide zem an escort to ze railroad siding..." |
| Posted by: Wolfgang 2007-07-10 07:17 |
| #3 Hey, KT2328, I have long maintained that Europe's plan of action is to sit around and do nothing until things finally get so bad that they fall back upon their typical last resort of reopening the charnel house for business as usual. European denial is a thing of wonder. Like you said about a "diamond bladed chainsaw" ... |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-10 06:05 |
| #2 You couldn't cut this irony with a diamond bladed chainsaw. Let's see, wasn't it the Germans who used pre-emptive internment as a prelude to genocide? And aren't these same Germans now part of an EU which condemns America for having "secret prisons" and for operating a "gulag" at Guantanamo Bay? Now that the reality of the grave threat from enemies in their midst has finally sunk in, the same Euros who are loath to even utter the phrase "Islamic extremists" or to publicly link Muslims to terrorism are floating trial balloons about concentration camps. Well isn't that just lovely! |
| Posted by: Kofi Throluth2328 2007-07-10 03:49 |
| #1 When the Germans begin talking about "internment" their Muslims had better start listening very, very carefully. These are just the bare glimmerings of what awaits Europe's Muslim population. I'm also rather curious about how the concept of "pre-emptive internment" is supposed to work. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-10 01:38 |