Posted on 10/16/2017 7:30:33 PM PDT by MtnClimber
A very revealing letter from one former East German to another, and in a sense, one icon to another. Very revealing of the psychology and feeling behind PEGIDA, and why the revolt against Merkel took shape in the East....
(The singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann recently accused East German AfD voters of not valuing democracy and freedom. This is Angelika Barbe’s reply.)
Dear Wolf,
We have known each other since 1990, in the common hunger strike with Bärbel Bohley and other civil rights activists in the East Berlin Stasi Central. I had already admired you before that, because of your songs, which I typed out and distributed. At the time, I was the only member of the SPD who joined the strike for the opening of the Stasi files, and for that, I was defamed by Wolfgang Thierse. You know that I am no coward. And the majority of East Germans know it too.
It is too bad that you had no opportunity to speak with the many citizens I have come to know in Dresden in the past years. Of over 500 letters we received from citizens in the Saxony state headquarters, more than 90% complain that they never received an answer from mayors, representatives, district commissioners or other agents of the establishment to their petitions, letters and inquiries. They felt they were unwelcome, mocked and on top of that, decried as racists.
Merkel has lost contact with the citizens
Chancellor Angela Merkel lands in Heidenau (see n. 7) in a helicopter, wafts away an hour later and has solved not one problem. She advises a cleaning lady to invest her pittance in a Riester pension fund, thus demonstrating that she knows nothing about the living conditions of citizens.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatesofvienna.net ...
Our dear leader 0bama has also placed the raving jihadis among us too.
Hillary will be blaming this woman for her presidential defeat
in 5 . 4 . 3 . 2 . 1
From Britain it would only make sense to take Hillary’s Lame Excuses Finger-Pointing Tour on a jog through continental Europe next!
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