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Germany’s racial tensions spill on to the streets of Chemnitz
FT ^ | 8/31/18 | Guy Chazan

Posted on 08/31/2018 10:39:08 PM PDT by aquila48

Michael Kretschmer, prime minister of the German state of Saxony, knew he was entering the lion’s den. But even he looked unprepared for the boos, whistles and catcalls that greeted him in Chemnitz, a city boiling over with rage and hurt. 

Addressing a town-hall meeting of locals reeling from the murder of a 35-year-old man in the city last weekend, Mr Kretschmer insisted they should have distanced themselves from the rightwing extremists who hijacked their peaceful protest over the killing, which authorities suspect was carried out by a Syrian and an Iraqi.

“It’s not a good thing to be in a demonstration where people are giving the Hitler salute,” he said. “Then it is time to say: ‘We will have nothing to do with those people.’”

The reaction was furious. “You are making out that the worst thing that happened was the Nazi salute,” one man retorted. “The worst thing was that a bloke got killed.” 

Chemnitz, Saxony’s third-biggest city, has become a symbol of the relentless rise of the hard right in Germany. At a series of demonstrations this week, young men in black hoodies chanted “Germany for the Germans” and “Foreigners Out”.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; chemnitz; damascus; europe; europeanunion; germany; hijrah; jaberalbakr; koranimals; nato; nazianimalsalso; syria
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The Germans are waking up!
1 posted on 08/31/2018 10:39:08 PM PDT by aquila48
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Germans dressed as Crusaders in a parade (32 seconds):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CRQf_EcZ1Y


2 posted on 08/31/2018 10:46:09 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: aquila48

One of the most underreported stories in U.S. media, thanks to both Aretha Franklin & John McCain passing at roughly the same time.

MSM have turned the McCain funeral into “The Neverending Story.” At least, until Saturday, when hopefully that’ll be it.


3 posted on 08/31/2018 10:57:18 PM PDT by Sam_Damon
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To: aquila48

Irregular war is coming...


4 posted on 08/31/2018 11:28:18 PM PDT by steel_resolve (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: aquila48
Odd that anyone in Germany that questions Merkel and her policy of open borders for rapists and killers is a "hard right neo-nazi".

Sorta like leftists, here...

5 posted on 08/31/2018 11:30:46 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Sam_Damon

The burial of McCain will NOT be the end of the Saga—then they will release the video he made demanding Trump resign for his Russian contacts. He will spout and sputter on his Trump hate that will be parroted all over by the MSM. St. McCain will not end his rage at the grave. He is the ultimate October surprise to...A) Get Republicans to Not Vote in November & B) Get the Blue wave—Then impeach Trump (or tie him up so he will be a failed president they can unseat for an Obama puppet). Their plan will not work.


6 posted on 08/31/2018 11:51:49 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: aquila48

The NAZI salutes are not helping their cause. Oh would Germany return to its Christian roots and rally behind that banner, and not pay lip-service to it.


7 posted on 09/01/2018 12:29:34 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: aquila48

This is the curse God put on the German people for killing 6 million of His people, and many million more of those grafted onto His vine. They have hardened their hearts to God, and now God has sent locusts among them in the form of Muslims.


8 posted on 09/01/2018 12:59:07 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (GOP- 65 House and 12 Senate seat pickups in November)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I can’t stomach the McCain funeral. It’s pure soviet propaganda. Like when Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko died


9 posted on 09/01/2018 1:29:36 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: aquila48

I was watching a news banner go around about this and I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw something like “and there will also be protesters against right-wing violence.”

Then I remembered I was across the street from ABC.


10 posted on 09/01/2018 1:37:06 AM PDT by firebrand
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Re: “Like when Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko died”

More like when Lady Diana died.

Except Lady Diana did not actively try to subvert her country’s political system, which is what McCain did for his last 14 years in the U.S. Senate.


11 posted on 09/01/2018 1:55:08 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: aquila48
John McCain is still dead.


12 posted on 09/01/2018 2:34:48 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (All Democrats have to offer is violence, intolerance, divisiveness and hatred.)
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Yes, and it won’t be pretty, but I don”t care.

I hope that evil *itch Merkel winds up getting strung up.


13 posted on 09/01/2018 4:38:14 AM PDT by ZULU (MAGA)
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I turn off FOX everytime that cover that worm’s funeral.


14 posted on 09/01/2018 4:40:27 AM PDT by ZULU (MAGA)
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Not racial tensions. Innocent people sick of rapes, burnings and murders. Won’t do any good. The iron fist of modern-day nazism under merkel will keep them from accomplishing anything.


15 posted on 09/01/2018 5:41:10 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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When it became part of East Germany, Chemnitz was renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt (Karl Marx City). It reverted to Chemnitz following reunification.


16 posted on 09/01/2018 5:53:36 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Hmmm..... German bloke?

They have Australian diversity?


17 posted on 09/01/2018 5:58:39 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: Sam_Damon

“...........both Aretha Franklin & John McCain passing at roughly the same time.”...…

Oh, did those two pass away recently? Nothing in the news (SARC)


18 posted on 09/01/2018 6:05:59 AM PDT by DaveA37
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Oh, did those two pass away recently? Nothing in the news (SARC)

Yeah, you're right.

Here's the larger story, though. The illegal immigration problems in the US have an analog with the whole migration crisis in Europe. (In part caused by Mutti.)

What makes things in Germany downright crazy is what used to be East Germany. Their leaders taught them for years they were superior socialists, and the untermenschen from the decadent West had no business running things. For example, the NVA kept as many of the Prussian military traditions as the Soviets felt comfortable with. The State went on its own language binge, determined to keep Western influences out of German.

Perhaps the largest concern the German government needs to address in the former East Germany are the memories the people have of their government lying to them. Remember, the GDR really was supposed to be the "Socialist Workers Paradise." Instead, the New Class cheerfully wreaked environmental disasters, exploited the workers, and kept comfy estates for themselves. All of this helped to bring down the Communists circa 1990. Many Ossis today have those memories, and do not trust Berlin to do what's right.

One last thing. Socialism as a type of government needs to go into the trash can of history, sooner rather than later. Even Germans cannot make it work.

19 posted on 09/01/2018 6:59:07 AM PDT by Sam_Damon
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"John McCain passing..."

Like my morning Mitt...

20 posted on 09/01/2018 7:22:32 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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