On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:55:25 -0700 (PDT), xxarag@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>On 17 Apr, 10:46, Eli Grubman <eli.grub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:42:59 +0000 (UTC), Its all a bit strange
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>> <strangethinghap...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >"Heinrich" <Heinr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> >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 pu****ng 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.
>>
>> >> 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.
>>
>> >Oh look, yet another undo***ented, unattributed cut and paste job from
the
>> >dutch pelc.
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>> Shut up, ****.
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