Posted on 01/14/2016 8:40:19 AM PST by GonzoII
The retired president of a German state court has accused chancellor Merkel of acting unconstitutionally, and of moving to build her own personal power at the expense of German democracy.
Judge Michael Bertrams, former president of the constitutional court of North Rhine-Westphalia said Chancellor Merkel had "gone it alone" over the admission of "hundreds of thousands of refugees into the country". Judge Bertrams may have seen the worst excesses of this policy, as his court sat in the same German state which was rocked this month by the new year's migrant rape crisis, which was first reported in its largest city Cologne.
Chancellor Merkel's approach to migration is so far removed from the will of people people there are now questions over whether her actions are legitimate, questions the judge in an interview with Die Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.
German daily Die Welt reports the judge has referred to Mrs. Merkel as creating a "high-handed Chancellor-democracy", an obvious reference to the power-grabbing German Chancellor of 1933, Adolf Hitler.
Judge Bertrams wrote: "Quite apart from the actions of the Chancellor, it raises the constitutional issue of whether she was legitimately able to act alone at all. In our representative democracy all essential decisions - especially those with impact on the budget - are in the hands of elected MPs". The Judge wrote in his opinion is the Bundestag (German parliament) needed to be consulted on the deployment of a couple of hundred German troops to Mali for peacekeeping, "then it is certainly necessary whenit comes to receiving hundreds of thousands of refugees".
The Chancellor's decisions, he contends, are not only without democratic merit at home but are also unpopular with Germany's European allies, a fact that is "especially true after the events of Cologne".
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1. The Syrians who escape aren't the wealthy or educated. They are those who WOULD wash the dishes and clean the toilets. The wealthy ALWAYS have a PLAN B.
2. Lol. SO true. You know your teenagers.
3. The Germans are WILLKOMMEN IN AMERIKA!
I read once that 60% of Americans have SOME German heritage. I do myself.
HER choice. She didn't HAVE to be Chancellor.
Locust voters. Deutsche sind hier unerwunscht.
The quickly points out this is a retired judge. So the opinion is mere opinion and has no official imprimatur of office, so he carries no greater weight than say a blogger.
My opinion is far too often they retire out and earn extra income as political hatchet men.
Great...that’s what we need...hordes of more socialist hypochondriacs in the US. Question: Where did the notion that the government should pay your doctor bills come from?
Wish the judges in this country would hold such views.
“Being Constitutional is not her intention, murdering Europe is.”
She’s working for someone just like our politicians are. You don’t think we got the 1965 immigration act just because we needed more little brown people do you?
“... has accused chancellor Merkel of acting unconstitutionally, and of moving to build her own personal power at the expense of German democracy.”
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Genau, aber ganz Spat, Herr Richter.
“....Too late, the camel is already in the tent...”
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Not only its nose is in, but also its private parts.
With these muzzies inside the country, many German women will be subjected to the same treatment that their mothers were by Soviet troops at the end of WWII.
One of the smartest nations in Europe being led by one of the dumbest women.
“”Have fun dealing with your unemployable””
Someone on Megan Kelly’s or Sean’s show this week called them, “unemployable and shiftless.” Doesn’t appear that any of them had jobs they were reluctant to walk away from to take a long, long hike in the countryside.
“”Where did the notion that the government should pay your doctor bills come from?””
I’d guess with FDR but I really have no idea. I do know doctors were unheard of when I was growing up. Good old home remedies solved most everything - ear aches, leg aches, sore throats, colds, you name it. My father even treated a foot he sliced open with an axe in the woods with a compound used in the barn for the cows...Believe it or not that compound is still available and I’ve bought it myself for healing cuts and wounds.
When I started working in 1954, there was no such thing as insurance covering every ache and pain. Employers insurance covered major medical and that was it. It should have been left alone a long time ago...
Nice way to say she is the most destructive and self serving western leader.
My understanding is that Europe attracts a lower quality of Muslims than the US or Canada.I believe most immigrants here work for a living. Same can’t be said for the UK or Europe.
“”My understanding is that Europe attracts a lower quality of Muslims than the US or Canada””
The guest on FOX was speaking of the influx into Europe....
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