Die Ehrung von Terroristen in Deutschland
Während der Iraq im Chaos versinkt und Afghanistan zu einem zweiten Somalia verkommt, werden in Deutschland Pax Christi Kirche in Essen Palestinensische Terroristen geehrt, wie der Spiegel-Online http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,318818,00.html berichtet.
Die Gemeinde ehrt alle Jahre wieder Menschen, die bei einem Gewaltakt ums Leben gekommen sind und alle 5 Jahre werden neue Opfer hinzugenommen. Dabei unterscheiden diese Christen jedoch nicht zwischen Täter und Opfer, sondern schmeißen alle Menschen in einen Topf.
Dabei werden eben neben dem Enthauptungsopfer-Nick-Berg auch noch Terroristenchefs der Hamas gewürdigt.
Dagegen haben jetzt Bürger aus Essen einen Unterlassungsbescheid eingereicht.
Pfarrer Steprath meint jedoch, dass es sich dabei nicht um eine Ehrung handele, sondern nur um einen Hinweis auf die Gewaltakte der Menschen. Da selbst diese Täter Menschen waren, so wäre es anti-menschlich sie auszunehmen. (Aber sind sie wirklich Menschen, oder eher Unmenschen?)
Steprath sagt, dass man damit das Böse nicht verhamlose, sondern eben das wahre Böse, die Gewalt anprangere.
Doch, das ist doch nur eine schwache Ausrede. Die Gewalt existiert ja nicht als eigene Entität, sondern wird erst durch einen Initiator ausgeführt, weshalb die Schuld nicht bei der abstrakten Gewalt, sondern beim ausführenden Element liegt.
Doch auch dort windet sich Steprath mit einem Satz, der die wirkliche Gefährlichkeit des absoluten Christentums und des unbeschränkten Altruismus erkennen lässt. Es ist eine neue Form des Appeasments, die oft unterschätzt wird.
"Letztlich steht ein Urteil allein dem zu, der am Ende gerecht richten
wird", sagt Steprath.
Damit gibt er die Verantwortung für moralische Entscheidungen an eine höhere Instanz ab, deren Existenz nur in seinem kleinen Kreis von Menschen ohne Hinterfragung existiert. Gleichzeitig liefert er sich selbst allem Bösen, als wehrloser Mensch ohne Selbsterhaltungstrieb aus.
Wie schlecht und unwahr diese Einstellung ist, lässt sich durch ein einfaches Beispiel erklären. Niemand würde sich, so er nicht ein Psychologisches Problem mit Depressionen hat (Suicide-Gefahr), von jemandem anderen einfach so töten lassen, ohne sich zu verteidigen. In diesem Moment, der Initiation der Verteidigung, hat das Individuum für sich beschlossen den Gegenüber als Gefahr einzuschätzen und somit ein moralisches Urteil zu fällen. Da jeder Mensch so handelt, aus reinem Instinkt, kann Herr Steprath nicht seine Behauptung aufrechterhalten, er würde anders handeln.
Es ist unmenschlich anders zu handeln und er besteht doch so sehr darauf ein Mensch zu sein.
Urteilen ist menschlich und es ist notwendig, sonst kann das "Unmenschliche" frei herrschen.
Es geht hier also nicht um eine blose Ehrung von Terroristen, sondern um die Abstinenz von Moral, der Egalisierung von Gut und Böse und dem Befürworten von gewissenlosem Handeln.
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
Monday, September 20, 2004
60-Jahre Zyklus in Deutschland
Wie schnell Menschen die Vergangenheit vergessen können und zu alten Irrtümern zurück finden, hat sich dieses Wochenende wieder einmal in Ost-Deutschland gezeigt.
Nach den Landtagswahlen in Sachsen und Brandenburg sind Links-, wie auch Rechts-Extreme Parteien im Parteitag vertreten.
Nicht in einem kleinen Kontingent sondern als 2. bzw. 3. stärkste Partei, also mit significantem Machtanteil.
Die PDS hat in Brandenburg und Sachsen jeweils 28 % bzw. 23 % der Stimmen erhalten, was sie jeweils auf den Platz der zweit-stärksten Partei katapultiert. Natürlich ist die PDS nichts weiteres als die Nachfolgepartei der kommunistischen SED und auch wenn sie öffentlich gemäßigt auftreten, so weis man doch nicht ob sie sich wirklich zu einem limitierten Rechtsstaat bekennen würden, hätten sie die Macht.
Noch schlimmer ist jedoch, dass die NSDAP-Nachfolgeparteien DVU/NPD jeweils 9 bzw. 6 % der Stimmen erhalten haben und damit in die Landesparlamente einziehen konnten. In dem Land, das vor 60 Jahren noch den Schrecken des Nationalsozialismus exportierte und versuchte sich selbst zu befreien, scheint nichts daraus gelernt zu haben.
Dies liegt nicht allein an Rache-Wählern, wie die schrecklich hohe Anzahl an Jungwählern, bei NPD und DVU zeigt. Wären die Städte Dresden oder Leipzig nicht gegeben, wäre die NPD sogar noch vor die SPD gerutscht.
Doch woraus resultiert dieser Rutsch zu den Extremen? Er ist wieder einmal ein typisch deutsches Produkt. In Zeiten der Globalisierung und des Engagements des Individuums, versuchen verlorene Seelen sich von starken Symbolen und Persönlichkeiten ( in diesem Falle eines autoritären Staates) leiten zu lassen. Solche Symbolen und einfachen Haltestrukturen versprechen eben NPD oder PDS. Sie stehen für das Sinnbild des autoritären Vaterstaates nach sozialistischem und (im Falle der NPD) national-deutschem Vorbild.
Es ist nicht der Ablehnung einer Regierung, welche versucht die Deutschen mit Steuern auszubeuten. Wäre es jene Reaktion, dann hätten doch die Bürger logischerweise eine Partei gewählt, die einen freiheitlichen und anti-autoritären Staat bevorzugt, also die Grünen oder die Liberalen.
Da dies jedoch nicht geschehen ist, oder nur im Kleinen, wollen die Deutschen entweder etwas anderes, oder sie haben nicht verstanden wofür jene Parteien stehen.
Ich hoffe die Deutschen sind einfach nur verwirrt, wenn nicht sehe ich schwarz für Deutschland, Schwarz-weiß-rot und nicht Bundesdeutsch...
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
Wie schnell Menschen die Vergangenheit vergessen können und zu alten Irrtümern zurück finden, hat sich dieses Wochenende wieder einmal in Ost-Deutschland gezeigt.
Nach den Landtagswahlen in Sachsen und Brandenburg sind Links-, wie auch Rechts-Extreme Parteien im Parteitag vertreten.
Nicht in einem kleinen Kontingent sondern als 2. bzw. 3. stärkste Partei, also mit significantem Machtanteil.
Die PDS hat in Brandenburg und Sachsen jeweils 28 % bzw. 23 % der Stimmen erhalten, was sie jeweils auf den Platz der zweit-stärksten Partei katapultiert. Natürlich ist die PDS nichts weiteres als die Nachfolgepartei der kommunistischen SED und auch wenn sie öffentlich gemäßigt auftreten, so weis man doch nicht ob sie sich wirklich zu einem limitierten Rechtsstaat bekennen würden, hätten sie die Macht.
Noch schlimmer ist jedoch, dass die NSDAP-Nachfolgeparteien DVU/NPD jeweils 9 bzw. 6 % der Stimmen erhalten haben und damit in die Landesparlamente einziehen konnten. In dem Land, das vor 60 Jahren noch den Schrecken des Nationalsozialismus exportierte und versuchte sich selbst zu befreien, scheint nichts daraus gelernt zu haben.
Dies liegt nicht allein an Rache-Wählern, wie die schrecklich hohe Anzahl an Jungwählern, bei NPD und DVU zeigt. Wären die Städte Dresden oder Leipzig nicht gegeben, wäre die NPD sogar noch vor die SPD gerutscht.
Doch woraus resultiert dieser Rutsch zu den Extremen? Er ist wieder einmal ein typisch deutsches Produkt. In Zeiten der Globalisierung und des Engagements des Individuums, versuchen verlorene Seelen sich von starken Symbolen und Persönlichkeiten ( in diesem Falle eines autoritären Staates) leiten zu lassen. Solche Symbolen und einfachen Haltestrukturen versprechen eben NPD oder PDS. Sie stehen für das Sinnbild des autoritären Vaterstaates nach sozialistischem und (im Falle der NPD) national-deutschem Vorbild.
Es ist nicht der Ablehnung einer Regierung, welche versucht die Deutschen mit Steuern auszubeuten. Wäre es jene Reaktion, dann hätten doch die Bürger logischerweise eine Partei gewählt, die einen freiheitlichen und anti-autoritären Staat bevorzugt, also die Grünen oder die Liberalen.
Da dies jedoch nicht geschehen ist, oder nur im Kleinen, wollen die Deutschen entweder etwas anderes, oder sie haben nicht verstanden wofür jene Parteien stehen.
Ich hoffe die Deutschen sind einfach nur verwirrt, wenn nicht sehe ich schwarz für Deutschland, Schwarz-weiß-rot und nicht Bundesdeutsch...
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Music for the aspiring Men
I didn't think I would post lyrics here. But I had run over this song by Hooverphonic and it is, the tunes aside, one hell of a song.
Inhale the joy
Inhale the fun
Now it’s time for me to get on top
Of the world
Inhale the music and the warmth
The crowd is ready to bring me to the top
Of the world
(chorus)
Cause the world is mine
I won’t stop this time
Cause the world is mine
And I’m feeling so divine
I’m part of this illusive show
Time for me to get on stage
Lights fade
Tomorrow you’ll be at my feet
Saturated senses set me free
It’s all I need
The world the world is mine
And I’m feeling so divine
Despite being sung from a musicians point of view, it has some major values in it.
The rhythm and melodie drive the whole track and give it the serene and hymnical ambiente. The text itself depicts an individuum free to persue its own interest to joy and happiness.
It shows in the first lines that the individum is in need of joy and fun. It wants to inhale it, because she/he missed something in his life.
"Now, it's time to get on top", shows that something has ended and the person is ready to take his own life in his hands and rise to live it. More so, it seems that she sees himself with what she got (a good show and a fullfilling career as musician) as divine. Therefore Hooverphonic describes humans that persue their own interest as Gods, as divine creatures.
It's the feeling you get as a reward for being independent and selfish.
All in all, this song has a positive vibe about mankind and more so about the individuum and its liberty to do what it wants.
There is only one thing to say: "The World is Mine and I don't stop this time!"
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
I didn't think I would post lyrics here. But I had run over this song by Hooverphonic and it is, the tunes aside, one hell of a song.
Inhale the joy
Inhale the fun
Now it’s time for me to get on top
Of the world
Inhale the music and the warmth
The crowd is ready to bring me to the top
Of the world
(chorus)
Cause the world is mine
I won’t stop this time
Cause the world is mine
And I’m feeling so divine
I’m part of this illusive show
Time for me to get on stage
Lights fade
Tomorrow you’ll be at my feet
Saturated senses set me free
It’s all I need
The world the world is mine
And I’m feeling so divine
Despite being sung from a musicians point of view, it has some major values in it.
The rhythm and melodie drive the whole track and give it the serene and hymnical ambiente. The text itself depicts an individuum free to persue its own interest to joy and happiness.
It shows in the first lines that the individum is in need of joy and fun. It wants to inhale it, because she/he missed something in his life.
"Now, it's time to get on top", shows that something has ended and the person is ready to take his own life in his hands and rise to live it. More so, it seems that she sees himself with what she got (a good show and a fullfilling career as musician) as divine. Therefore Hooverphonic describes humans that persue their own interest as Gods, as divine creatures.
It's the feeling you get as a reward for being independent and selfish.
All in all, this song has a positive vibe about mankind and more so about the individuum and its liberty to do what it wants.
There is only one thing to say: "The World is Mine and I don't stop this time!"
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
Monday, June 28, 2004
It's been a while...
I have been absent due to some private issues, but I hope to put forth some more small essays in the next days before my vacation starts.
There is one particular topic, I'd like to cover, because I think it rather interesting and important. Many Liberals in the United States of America talk about a so-called "War on Drugs", drawing a colorful picture of the evils inherent in state police work. They want a more liberal and free evaluation of drugs and thereby a free access and the right to spread drugs.
I have to concur, because I live next to a country that promotes this very ideas. The result is pain-staking to say the least. Children who have no idea about drugs, get hold of ecstasy/heroin and coca even in the seventh grade. This is a time in school, you can't hope that those students (all of them kids of about 11-12) all have the brains to distinguish the danger.
A rise in alcoholism, drug consume and "socialising" of Cannabis are the end product. You can't compare this new "Super Skunk" to the relatively harmless products during the 60s. The Hippie Cannabis had only 2 % THC, the actual neurotoxic, while the new ones have up to 10 %.
This and the increasing in drug caused problems in mental hospitals have led to a disblief regarding the Netherlandish "liberal" approach to drugs.
Albeit I am also opposing the Swedish "hard-core" state regulatorism, because it doesn't serve anything. Instead this way only shifts the problem from the illegal to the legal drugs like pills, amphetamins, morphium, alcohol and smoking.
And even in this "War on Drug"-countries the amount of drug-users is rising and it is doing no good.
I don't have a solution to the whole problem, but I can say that liberalizing of drug access will not make it better, only faster.
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
I have been absent due to some private issues, but I hope to put forth some more small essays in the next days before my vacation starts.
There is one particular topic, I'd like to cover, because I think it rather interesting and important. Many Liberals in the United States of America talk about a so-called "War on Drugs", drawing a colorful picture of the evils inherent in state police work. They want a more liberal and free evaluation of drugs and thereby a free access and the right to spread drugs.
I have to concur, because I live next to a country that promotes this very ideas. The result is pain-staking to say the least. Children who have no idea about drugs, get hold of ecstasy/heroin and coca even in the seventh grade. This is a time in school, you can't hope that those students (all of them kids of about 11-12) all have the brains to distinguish the danger.
A rise in alcoholism, drug consume and "socialising" of Cannabis are the end product. You can't compare this new "Super Skunk" to the relatively harmless products during the 60s. The Hippie Cannabis had only 2 % THC, the actual neurotoxic, while the new ones have up to 10 %.
This and the increasing in drug caused problems in mental hospitals have led to a disblief regarding the Netherlandish "liberal" approach to drugs.
Albeit I am also opposing the Swedish "hard-core" state regulatorism, because it doesn't serve anything. Instead this way only shifts the problem from the illegal to the legal drugs like pills, amphetamins, morphium, alcohol and smoking.
And even in this "War on Drug"-countries the amount of drug-users is rising and it is doing no good.
I don't have a solution to the whole problem, but I can say that liberalizing of drug access will not make it better, only faster.
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Europe and the USA are close than you thought!
If you ever believed there is a big gap between Europe and US politics, than you are completely mistaken.
Just read this little piece by Chris Matthew Sciabarra:
Kush and Berry
It clearly shows the similarity in acting, ideology and reasoning between the two opponents in the forthcoming election in Novemeber. But this is not only a problem of the United States, Europe and in particular Germany, are facing the same merging of perspectives. Instead the whole election is based around the personalities and not the program of the both competitors.
Would anyone dare to read the programs of socialist and conservative party (SPD and CDU) and then compare it with the program of the FDP (the liberals), they see that it has been copied from the FDP principal program and they would think that the FDP would exactly support the point of view they all advocated. But people don't read the stuff behind the obvious, instead they believe the few radio talkshows or the politic propaganda events like Sabine Christiansen.
So, we are facing the same problem as the US, a generalization of the election and the opponents. They are expandable by each other without a significant change in politics.
Most horrible is that many people don't even try to know anything about the party they vote. There is no other explanation, why a party like the Greens could get 11% votes for showing a program that is a simplified version of the communist parties credo...
Cherio, Germany.. We are better Americans than we thought.
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
If you ever believed there is a big gap between Europe and US politics, than you are completely mistaken.
Just read this little piece by Chris Matthew Sciabarra:
Kush and Berry
It clearly shows the similarity in acting, ideology and reasoning between the two opponents in the forthcoming election in Novemeber. But this is not only a problem of the United States, Europe and in particular Germany, are facing the same merging of perspectives. Instead the whole election is based around the personalities and not the program of the both competitors.
Would anyone dare to read the programs of socialist and conservative party (SPD and CDU) and then compare it with the program of the FDP (the liberals), they see that it has been copied from the FDP principal program and they would think that the FDP would exactly support the point of view they all advocated. But people don't read the stuff behind the obvious, instead they believe the few radio talkshows or the politic propaganda events like Sabine Christiansen.
So, we are facing the same problem as the US, a generalization of the election and the opponents. They are expandable by each other without a significant change in politics.
Most horrible is that many people don't even try to know anything about the party they vote. There is no other explanation, why a party like the Greens could get 11% votes for showing a program that is a simplified version of the communist parties credo...
Cherio, Germany.. We are better Americans than we thought.
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
When languages come from ghettos...
As I have recently read, there is the theory of imposing ebonics on children in classrooms. So, instead of teaching them proper English, they would learn to write their slang-english, because it would then become a real language, beside standard-english.
Ebonics is an equivalent to Cockney in London. It is a language designed to represent the "lower-class" slang in a written form. (A perfect example is Rita in Educating Rita)
Now, this reminds me of the German socialist teachings in the mid-80s, when they tried to teach immigrants an easier version of German.
Later, this changed to no-German teaching at all and resulted in the slang "turkisch-Deutsch", which means a slang mostly seen being spoken by children of turkish immigrants.
They never learned to speak German correctly and at home, they only spoke turkish. In the end, most of these children of immigrants had no chance to attend a normal school. And soon teachers had to work with these new grammatics and language structures. Today, the teachers in some immigrant regions (like Frankfurt am Main, Berlin or Hamburg) have to deal with the remains of this stupid immigrant handling. They not even had to attend to VHS-courses (Volkshochschul-courses), but could obtain a German passport without any requirements.
Now, some freaks could think about adopting an ebonic-way in Germany. It'd scare me to death, but it is very likely to happen with today's no-value politics.
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
As I have recently read, there is the theory of imposing ebonics on children in classrooms. So, instead of teaching them proper English, they would learn to write their slang-english, because it would then become a real language, beside standard-english.
Ebonics is an equivalent to Cockney in London. It is a language designed to represent the "lower-class" slang in a written form. (A perfect example is Rita in Educating Rita)
Now, this reminds me of the German socialist teachings in the mid-80s, when they tried to teach immigrants an easier version of German.
Later, this changed to no-German teaching at all and resulted in the slang "turkisch-Deutsch", which means a slang mostly seen being spoken by children of turkish immigrants.
They never learned to speak German correctly and at home, they only spoke turkish. In the end, most of these children of immigrants had no chance to attend a normal school. And soon teachers had to work with these new grammatics and language structures. Today, the teachers in some immigrant regions (like Frankfurt am Main, Berlin or Hamburg) have to deal with the remains of this stupid immigrant handling. They not even had to attend to VHS-courses (Volkshochschul-courses), but could obtain a German passport without any requirements.
Now, some freaks could think about adopting an ebonic-way in Germany. It'd scare me to death, but it is very likely to happen with today's no-value politics.
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
Monday, May 24, 2004
So more people think like me
I have recently compared the United States and Europe to George Orwell's book, 1984 and said that the news is more and more about "newspeak". Well, finally, other people in the media have taken it up.
You just need to watch the latest Episode of Simpsons (Serie 15, Episode 21).
This episode is about Patriotism and the oversized nationalism, that has brought so much despair on many liberal people. It is about Bart, the son of the Simpson family, showing his ass in front of the US flag (he couldn't know the flag got unfolded for the anthem, cause he was deaf at the moment). This incident gets exaggerated by the local newspapers and the Simpsons known as unpatriotic. They had to live a life as outlaws, until Lisa mentions the principles of free speech as written in the Consitution's Bill of Rights. This only gets them in bigger trouble, ending up in the Regan Reeducation Facility for political free-thinkers. This all reminds me of the US after 9/11 and more so of 1984, where liberal thinkers (against the party) were either brain-washed or vaporized.
It seems that even the mainstream media has got a hang on the dangers of too much patriotism. Let's hope it influences the climate in the US. Sadly, there is nothing comparable to it for Europe...
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
I have recently compared the United States and Europe to George Orwell's book, 1984 and said that the news is more and more about "newspeak". Well, finally, other people in the media have taken it up.
You just need to watch the latest Episode of Simpsons (Serie 15, Episode 21).
This episode is about Patriotism and the oversized nationalism, that has brought so much despair on many liberal people. It is about Bart, the son of the Simpson family, showing his ass in front of the US flag (he couldn't know the flag got unfolded for the anthem, cause he was deaf at the moment). This incident gets exaggerated by the local newspapers and the Simpsons known as unpatriotic. They had to live a life as outlaws, until Lisa mentions the principles of free speech as written in the Consitution's Bill of Rights. This only gets them in bigger trouble, ending up in the Regan Reeducation Facility for political free-thinkers. This all reminds me of the US after 9/11 and more so of 1984, where liberal thinkers (against the party) were either brain-washed or vaporized.
It seems that even the mainstream media has got a hang on the dangers of too much patriotism. Let's hope it influences the climate in the US. Sadly, there is nothing comparable to it for Europe...
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
I always thought so..
look at this (German): Quo VadISS - The failure of constructing an International Space Station
It was planned, by government funds, to be the Space Station to support future space exploration. Now, after years of continuously wasting tax-payers dollars/euro, we are farther away from the goal than ever before. Of course, they blame the USA and their new Space Defense programs for the failure, instead of the true reason: Government spending is not working, because there is no urge to compete. The project, which was initiated 1983 by Ronald Reagon, was estimated to cost around 100 billion dollars and even Germany is pouring 100 millions into the project each year.
Now, with the fall of the space shuttles February last year, they put a stop to the whole project and hopefully they bury it, until they get some private company to run the thing.
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
look at this (German): Quo VadISS - The failure of constructing an International Space Station
It was planned, by government funds, to be the Space Station to support future space exploration. Now, after years of continuously wasting tax-payers dollars/euro, we are farther away from the goal than ever before. Of course, they blame the USA and their new Space Defense programs for the failure, instead of the true reason: Government spending is not working, because there is no urge to compete. The project, which was initiated 1983 by Ronald Reagon, was estimated to cost around 100 billion dollars and even Germany is pouring 100 millions into the project each year.
Now, with the fall of the space shuttles February last year, they put a stop to the whole project and hopefully they bury it, until they get some private company to run the thing.
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
Why Germany may not have unrestricted immigration...
There is a major difference between the USA and Germany in respect to immigration. The United States of America are a country built upon the principles of liberty, individualism and self-caring. This is totally opposite to contemporary Germany ideologic stand.
The United States of America can easily open their borders and should so, because everyone entering the country is on his own and everything he does is in his responisbility. This is not the case in modern social-democratic Germany.
You think this is not true? Well, simple example, immigration. Our parties are arguing about a law to open Germany's immigration principles at the moment and they do it in the interest of all Germans! In Germany, immigrants are not responsible for their own life, instead they are nurtured by the state from the beginning. When you become a German, you have a "right" on social insurances and welfare, which is exactly the reason, why I am opposed to unrestricted immigration. Those people get tax-payer-money without having done anything. They are fed by the state, thus they are parasites in the first month. I am not against immigration, but I am against unequal immigration in this circumstances.
They don't contribute to their own life, but live on welfare and thereby ruin the few we have left of our social welfare system.
So, there are two possible solutions, either abolish social welfare (which I'd recommend) or put a stop to immigration (latter would be a disgrace and slap in the face of individualism). But there is no way, both will work in the long run.
P.S.: I am not a racist, although some might interpret it that way. And I don't say that immigrants are generally lazy welfare-parasites, it just happenes that with the "self-interested" immigrants, there come the parasites...
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
There is a major difference between the USA and Germany in respect to immigration. The United States of America are a country built upon the principles of liberty, individualism and self-caring. This is totally opposite to contemporary Germany ideologic stand.
The United States of America can easily open their borders and should so, because everyone entering the country is on his own and everything he does is in his responisbility. This is not the case in modern social-democratic Germany.
You think this is not true? Well, simple example, immigration. Our parties are arguing about a law to open Germany's immigration principles at the moment and they do it in the interest of all Germans! In Germany, immigrants are not responsible for their own life, instead they are nurtured by the state from the beginning. When you become a German, you have a "right" on social insurances and welfare, which is exactly the reason, why I am opposed to unrestricted immigration. Those people get tax-payer-money without having done anything. They are fed by the state, thus they are parasites in the first month. I am not against immigration, but I am against unequal immigration in this circumstances.
They don't contribute to their own life, but live on welfare and thereby ruin the few we have left of our social welfare system.
So, there are two possible solutions, either abolish social welfare (which I'd recommend) or put a stop to immigration (latter would be a disgrace and slap in the face of individualism). But there is no way, both will work in the long run.
P.S.: I am not a racist, although some might interpret it that way. And I don't say that immigrants are generally lazy welfare-parasites, it just happenes that with the "self-interested" immigrants, there come the parasites...
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
The Misunderstanding about Che Guevara
I have seen very strong comments against the pushing of Che Guevara and more so I am amazed about the unusual fame he gets lately, so I tried to dig a bit about this role-model of a rebel.
It seems that we have all misunderstood "Che Guevara"-ism, as I tend to call it. Most of todays admirers of this "heroe" believe in him, in an innocent, but sometimes dangerous way. Che Guevara is not a follower of communism (like Castro, his fellow mate in the liberation of Cuba), but is clearly a Marxist. This means that he is an enemy of the strict totalitarian states like Cuba. He was once asked, whether he believed that there would be a free country (while he was on Cuba). "What? In Cuba?", he said laughing. So, Cuba wasn't a role-modle for a socialist country in his opinion.
However, this is merely history stuff and most "kids" of todays Hype are not using Che as either Communist or terribly misguided Marxist.
Today, Che Guevara is seen as the Spirit of rebellion, which means a movement against the status quo. As much as I mistrust the roots of this believe, I still like that children don't accept the state as an unquestionable object and I also think that the Hype around Che is more about fashion, than morality or ideology. Most children don't even know much about Che Guevara, except that he was a rebel and somehow cool. So, they don't get in touch with his misguided ideals. This might be troubling on the one side, because it shows the lack of knowledge nowadays, but it also decreases the actual danger of Che Guevara.
Thereby, I see no danger in having a new wave of Che Guevara fashion, if he is used as a motif of rebellion against state, rather than a supporter of Marxism.
On another side note, the Commandante Che Guevara wasn't an easy figure and you couldn't easily put him on the moral evil side, because he acted very human during the war. He was harsh and deadly against any kind of disobeying orders and other war crimes (oftened excercising death penalty), but on the other side he showed mercy and human reason towards POW (Prisoners of War). He disarmed his POWs and sent them back home, if they hadn't commited any crimes against the public (literally).
In contrast to this noble field behaviour stands his time as a leader of a prison, where he had 500 executions observed and ordered. Che even showed personal interest in the torturing and interrogation of some of these (mostly) "political convicts", which had commited crimes of thought (traditional Marxist/Communist crimes, implying that the intention is equal to the deed).
So, it is yours to judge the whole case. I dislike the historical figure, but I can live with the role-model of a rebel against the establishment, questioning that what others accepted as a truth.
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
I have seen very strong comments against the pushing of Che Guevara and more so I am amazed about the unusual fame he gets lately, so I tried to dig a bit about this role-model of a rebel.
It seems that we have all misunderstood "Che Guevara"-ism, as I tend to call it. Most of todays admirers of this "heroe" believe in him, in an innocent, but sometimes dangerous way. Che Guevara is not a follower of communism (like Castro, his fellow mate in the liberation of Cuba), but is clearly a Marxist. This means that he is an enemy of the strict totalitarian states like Cuba. He was once asked, whether he believed that there would be a free country (while he was on Cuba). "What? In Cuba?", he said laughing. So, Cuba wasn't a role-modle for a socialist country in his opinion.
However, this is merely history stuff and most "kids" of todays Hype are not using Che as either Communist or terribly misguided Marxist.
Today, Che Guevara is seen as the Spirit of rebellion, which means a movement against the status quo. As much as I mistrust the roots of this believe, I still like that children don't accept the state as an unquestionable object and I also think that the Hype around Che is more about fashion, than morality or ideology. Most children don't even know much about Che Guevara, except that he was a rebel and somehow cool. So, they don't get in touch with his misguided ideals. This might be troubling on the one side, because it shows the lack of knowledge nowadays, but it also decreases the actual danger of Che Guevara.
Thereby, I see no danger in having a new wave of Che Guevara fashion, if he is used as a motif of rebellion against state, rather than a supporter of Marxism.
On another side note, the Commandante Che Guevara wasn't an easy figure and you couldn't easily put him on the moral evil side, because he acted very human during the war. He was harsh and deadly against any kind of disobeying orders and other war crimes (oftened excercising death penalty), but on the other side he showed mercy and human reason towards POW (Prisoners of War). He disarmed his POWs and sent them back home, if they hadn't commited any crimes against the public (literally).
In contrast to this noble field behaviour stands his time as a leader of a prison, where he had 500 executions observed and ordered. Che even showed personal interest in the torturing and interrogation of some of these (mostly) "political convicts", which had commited crimes of thought (traditional Marxist/Communist crimes, implying that the intention is equal to the deed).
So, it is yours to judge the whole case. I dislike the historical figure, but I can live with the role-model of a rebel against the establishment, questioning that what others accepted as a truth.
Commentary: smg.max@gmx.net
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