On 17 Apr, 10:46, Eli Grubman <eli.grub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:42:59 +0000 (UTC), Its all a bit strange
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> <strangethinghap...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >"Heinrich" <Heinr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >news:66og5jF2lpk2jU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Germany's main Jewish lobby group has urged politicians considering a
> >> bid to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) to "wake up"
to
> >> the threat to German democracy.
> >> The Central Council of Jews says the growing respectability of the
NPD
> >> is fuelling right-wing radicalism more than 60 years after World War
Two
> >> and the Holocaust.
> >> "Politicians must wake up at last," Stephan Kramer, general-secretary
of
> >> the council, told Reuters.
> >> "We need a signal to make clear the NPD is trying to destroy Germany
and
> >> its democratic principles."
> >> Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution says the NPD
is
> >> racist, anti-Semitic and revisionist and that its statements prove
its
> >> inspiration comes from the Nazis.
> >> The NPD has about 7,000 members and has seats in two regional state
> >> parliaments, both in the former communist East.
> >> NPD officials have praised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for
> >> saying Israel should be wiped off the map. Last year NPD leader Udo
> >> Voigt said Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, who died in 1987, should get
the
> >> Nobel Peace Prize.
> >> At a three-day meeting in Bad Saarow, starting on Wednesday, Interior
> >> Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and ministers from Germany's 16 states
will
> >> discuss a possible second attempt to outlaw the NPD after a first bid
> >> failed in 2003.
> >> The Social Democrats (SPD), who share power with Chancellor Angela
> >> Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), have been pushing for a ban, but
> >> many CDU lawmakers say there is insufficient proof of illegal
activity.
> >> "Banning the party is not as easy as the SPD thinks. The hurdles are
> >> very high," Schaeuble said this month.
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> >> Last year, state ministers agreed to try to cut off funding for
> >> far-right organisations. As a legitimate political party, the NPD
gets
> >> over $1.6 million in public funding per year.
> >> The government has also boosted funding for education and social
> >> projects to tackle the roots of right-wing radicalism.
> >> The previous attempt to ban the NPD failed as prosecution witnesses
had
> >> worked as informants for intelligence agencies.
> >> But advocates of a ban say the NPD's public statements prove it is
> >> hostile to democracy and give sufficient legal grounds.
> >> The party has described the German constitution as a "diktat of the
> >> victorious Western powers".
> >> In January, NPD General-Secretary Peter Marx said Germany should
remain
> >> the land of Germans so future generations were not squeezed into
> >> reservations by immigration, as Native Americans have been.
> >> Kramer argues the NPD is the "tip of the iceberg" of a right-wing
> >> movement including perpetrators of racist crimes.
> >> "The fact that the NPD is a legal party that has been voted into
> >> parliaments gives legitimacy to its beliefs and respectability to its
> >> prejudices," said Kramer.
> >> A series of racist and anti-Semitic crimes - including an attack on
> >> eight Indians that grabbed headlines around the world last year -
have
> >> heightened worries about Germany's far right.
> >> Latest figures show far-right crime rose 15 percent in 2006.
> >> Opponents of a ban say it would not solve the underlying problem and
> >> that most young neo-Nazis are not
> >> in the NPD anyway.
> >> The NPD says it is being treated unfairly, and is planning to protest
in
> >> Bad Saarow against the attempt to ban it.
> >> "The NPD is excluded from the media. Members are hounded and banned
from
> >> hotels and their bank accounts are terminated. There is a consensus
on
> >> the discriminatory treatment of the NPD," it said in a statement.
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> >Oh look, yet another undocumented, unattributed cut and paste job from
the
> >dutch pelc.
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> Shut up, cunt.
STILL LOOKING TO SUCK MY DICK? I AM HERE!
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