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2011-05-07 Europe
Judge Files Complaint against Merkel over Bin Laden Comments
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Posted by Steve White 2011-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1  Not just any complaint, but a 'criminal complaint!'. An article linked by the original quoted a German saying But it was only a small number of Americans who demonstrated their feelings so openly [after OBL's death], just as in 2001 it was only a few Muslims who were happy about the thousands who were killed in the terror attacks
German popular opinion is barely in touch with reality on so many levels. Never tell Germans that old Texas proverb about 'some people need killin', or else Deutsche Köpfe könnten explodieren. I suppose there are places where opinion is even farther from reality, as mentioned by Blackfive: When I was in Iraq, there was a widely held belief that VBIEDs were manufactured on our US military base in Ramadi, and that the guys with beards (like me) were actually Israeli agents driving in HMMVs with the Star of David on the door.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-07 00:15||   2011-05-07 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 PUBLISHED German popular opinion is barely in touch with reality
Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-07 00:25||   2011-05-07 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Where can the unpublished stuff be found? Is mentioning it a criminal offense in Germany?
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-07 00:59||   2011-05-07 00:59|| Front Page Top

#4 What's with the daughter of a pastor argument. Germany is home of the 30yrs war. Luther would have never held his children to the standard these guys want. Hell... Luther would have said the same or worse then Merkel.

Proof was King of Sweden and the Pope's armies dis-engaging so that Vienna could be defended from the Turks.
Posted by Water Modem 2011-05-07 01:13||   2011-05-07 01:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Chancellor Angela Merkel is the only real good thing Germans have done yet in this century. If you have a long history memory - Germany started with that A-hole profiteer off of the oil for food scam with UN guy and that other mess with their "contractors" selling equipment.

Germany is going downhill fast and forgetting that "they ain't all that" and a bag o chips.

Two world wars they have brought us and I am not counting the previous periods of being stupid but brutal Hunns, with Saxtons and the rest.

Your people better get Judges like this under control (FIRED) and educate your populace profusely because I do not like what I see.

This chump OBL was personally involved with killing your Citizens. Heck, yesterday - the 74th anniversary of the Hindenberg disaster, you had to run 256 of them off of a train for this very guy your "Justice" protects.

Any triumph of good over evil is cause celebre'.
Polly vou happy?
Sprecken zie Justice?
Dast is good, no? Ja, Ja!
Posted by newc 2011-05-07 01:37||   2011-05-07 01:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps we pacified the Germans just a bit too much after WWII?

Just sidle to one and whisper Israel, and you'll see how peaceful they are.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-05-07 02:52||   2011-05-07 02:52|| Front Page Top

#7 The German's have never forgiven the American's for losing them 2 world wars.
Posted by phil_b 2011-05-07 04:58||   2011-05-07 04:58|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder if had Germany had been attackeded on the same scale as the U.S. On 9/11, the judgess might have viewed OBL's death and Ms. Merkel's statement differently?
Posted by Delphi 2011-05-07 08:28||   2011-05-07 08:28|| Front Page Top

#9 PUBLISHED German popular opinion is barely in touch with reality

Much like in America, then?

The Speigel journalist is mistaken about Schadenfreude, though. Schadenfreude is a small emotion, for private relationships. Triumph over a self-declared enemy of the nation is something else altogether... and it's sadly typical that a journalist would attempt to conflate the two.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-07 08:42||   2011-05-07 08:42|| Front Page Top

#10 
Posted by  de Medici3489 2011-05-07 09:51||   2011-05-07 09:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Miau?
Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-05-07 10:59||   2011-05-07 10:59|| Front Page Top

#12 German law can be bizarre. Remember how Gerhard Schröder successfully sued several newspapers for libel because they published that he dyed his hair?

(N.B.: I have long been suspicious that Reagan suffered from lead poisoning after years of using Grecian Formula, which has lead acetate as its active ingredient. Canada and Europe previously banned the product because of its use of lead. However the formula has now been changed to use bismuth citrate for those countries.)
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-05-07 11:43||   2011-05-07 11:43|| Front Page Top

#13 These people would have rallied to make sure Bin Laden got three nice hots, a cot and a life time supply of Qurans if Bin Laden had been taken alive. Forget all the murder and mahem he is responsible for.
Posted by Lionel Snager1307 2011-05-07 16:12||   2011-05-07 16:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Maybe Merkel should propose a new German holiday for May 1st; it should sell a lot of beer in the U.S.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-05-07 16:20||   2011-05-07 16:20|| Front Page Top

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