Posted on 10/03/2016 8:00:21 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Bürgerfest for German unity
Merkel calls on citizens to rise against the right wing
Dresden. While on 26th anniversary of German unification Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for opposing right-wing populists, the celebrations have started in Dresden with a street festival. Three quarters of a million visitors are expected by Monday. It has prompted the highest level of security for the police.
Given the increasing polarization of society, Federal President Stanislaw Tillich (CDU) urged further efforts to realize internal unity. That people lived in the East and West for over forty years in two different systems is now strongly felt as hasn’t been during the period since 1990, said the Saxon Prime Minister to the German Press Agency.
“We are celebrating something that is not self-evident in the story: A peaceful revolution that ended in the reunification of the nation,” said Tillich. This is at the same time a reminder “to continue to work on our internal unity”.
Dresden Mayor Dirk Hilbert (FDP) stressed that his city with its historic center would not only provide a stage for a look at history. “Also the present and future of our region become clear in these days,” he said at the opening of the festival.
Merkel: All are the people
Meanwhile, at the 26th anniversary of German unification the Chancellor called for the defense of the central freedom of the East German civil rights movement against right-wing populists. One must intervene when people with a right-wing background proclaim “We are the people” [Wir sind das Volk], said Merkel on Saturday in a video message. This slogan was “very liberating” during the peaceful revolution in the GDR.
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Merkel longs for the old freedoms as a Stasi informer in the old East Germany. Freedom lovers must be destroyed.
Keep pushing your citizens, Angie, and they’ll start pushing back.
Desperation!!!
She’s pushing for her Ceacescu Protocol moment for sure.
One hopes she gets it.
I wonder if she will be just as bold against the jihadi horde.
Hillaryous.
She dances like Lena Dunham. Built like her, too.
This is the world leader Trump admires the most?
She sounds a lot like Hillary.
Please tell that’s not really Merkel dancing there.
“Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!”
The “Volk” won’t be around for many more generations if Angela has her way.
Wir sind das Volk!
muslime raus!!!!!
German people should hang this bitch
You can take a girl out of the STASI, but you can’t take the STASI out of the girl
Merkel will crush the East.. ‘Hillary will crush the West.
The West is crushing themselves.
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