Posted March 17, 2012
Dischord: It is not because of the judicial system in Germany itself, but because of the nature of the charges and the political climate in determining otherwise. If the Israeli's let him go, that said something. It is kind if like Eliot Ness testifying that you are not guilty of bootlegging!
The judicial system in Germany is pretty much corrupt these days. We had a former Bundestag member sentenced for the possession of child pornography a few years ago. He said he needed it for investigations, but the court said that the BKA (a law organisation that was trying to censor the internet at that time with wrong claims about child pornography (!)) would have been a trustworthy source for that kind of material indeed. They found him guilty of having personal reasons, although not sexual ones, to possess the material, as opposed to the reasons of him needing it for his work in the Bundestag. He used the material to get access to the child pornography scene to bring criminals to court because the BKA did not act in that regard whatsoever.
Witchhunt indeed!
By the way, the German law enforcement a few years ago said there was no terroristic background about the murder series of turkish / greece immigrants. In 2011 it was found to have been a terroristic act by neo-nazis. That was found after two of them committed suicide. Or maybe not so much suicide. Many open questions about that. Oh, and they had USB sticks in their home that survived a fire where their weapons melt.
And here's an interesting fact of who worked for the BND, i.e. who worked for the secret service in the Federal Republic of Germany:
Walter Rauff, main criminal of the holocaust (inventor of mobile gas chambers)
Franz Rademacher, planner and executor of the holocaust
Reinhard Gehlen, planner of Unternehmen Barbarossa. Later first president of the BND.
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For the Verfassungsschutz, i.e. the organisation against extremism:
Hans-Joachim Rechenberg, press referent of Joseph Goebbels. He financed the defense of Eichmann when he was indicted in Israel.
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Others.
Hans Globke, bureaucratic organisator of marking jews in the Third Reich. He became chief of the Bundeskanzleramt
And that is only the tip of the iceberg!
EDIT: Corrected, had BND and BKA confused earlier. I guess my beer was too good. :-)
Post edited March 18, 2012 by Protoss