Posted on 08/26/2018 5:51:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Merkel defended democratic values in an interview following a contentious summer for her government. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer also said he doesn’t expect a repeat of the crisis that nearly upended Berlin.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel emphasized the importance of press freedom, protections for minorities and independent courts in an interview with public broadcaster ARD on Sunday. “Democracy is more than just somebody getting a majority,” Merkel said. “Democracy is protection for minorities, press freedom, the right to demonstrate — democracy is independent courts.” If the independence of those institutions is no longer safeguarded, “then democracy would no longer be complete,” she added.
Judges in Germany have recently been criticized by politicians, particularly over a state court ruling over the unlawful deportation of Sami A. — the alleged ex-bodyguard of Osama bin Laden. […]
The chancellor received the backing of Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, who appears to have established a fragile peace with the Merkel after threatening to leave his post earlier this summer. On Sunday, Seehofer told public broadcaster ZDF that he doesn’t expect there to be a repeat of the government’s showdown over migration policy. …
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Coming from the person that almost destroyed Europe ,LOL
Madame Dumba$$, why the hell are you letting in immigrants who have no respect for democracy, have no interest in democracy and have no desire to assimilate to Western Culture?
Thanks to the muslim horde you let in.
When government acts in direct contravention of the will of the people, isn’t THAT the erosion of democracy (”rule of the people”)? How can a government that supposedly exists only as an agent of The People and as their servant behave in a way that does not agree with their will?
What exactly does “democracy” mean to that miscreant?
Merkel was a STASI informer who has defied the will of her people and imported barbarians who have destroyed Europe.
It’s probably still in the context of the “German Democratic Republic” in her mind.
>>the unlawful deportation of Sami A. — the alleged ex-bodyguard of Osama bin Laden.
can you picture Hitler’ bodyguard seeking asylum in the West after the war?
you served a rotten war criminal’s inner circle
German tyrant hides behind democracy to further agenda. Wait, I saw this movie.....
She likes the Democratic Deutsche Republic alright
Merkel is destroying free speech by fining and imprisoning German people who criticize german Muslim immigration policy.
free speech is the foundation of democracy. Merkel is a libfascist piece of trash.
Frau Moikel need look no further than her few scraggly teeth encountering erosion...
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Merkel said. “Democracy is protection for minorities...”
Not for majorities? Why not for everyone?
This from a country that jails people trying to report outside a court house.
Democracy is not a good thing. Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. This is why we have a republic (sort of, for now).
Arseloche!
Fake German Merkel graduated from Karl Marx University and is a global Marxist-Communist.
Like other politicians have done elsewhere, Islam is one of the tools she has deployed to destabilize the nation she is sworn and paid to protect. Thus she broke the borders to bring in the invading hordes.
“[T]he first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the level of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.”Mistaking the real intent of the US Constitution, Principles said the following:
— Communist Manifesto, Chapter 2
“What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. […] Democracy would be wholly valueless to the proletariat if it were not immediately used as a means for putting through measures directed against private property and ensuring the livelihood of the proletariat.”
— The Principles of Communism
“In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the communists must make the common cause with the party which will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie and use it in the interests of the proletariat — that is, with the agrarian National Reformers.”Fact is that the Constitution was not “democratic”, so the radicals had to attack it with amendments that are democratic in nature, primarily the 16th and 17th Amendments, which established communistic taxation and centralized the Senate respectively. But this certainly reveals that the USA was a target of the commies back in the mid-1800s.
Be strange looking for an Islamic oriented Poster Girl.
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