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German President Booed, Attacked; Claims "The People Are The Problem, Not The Elites"
ZeroHedge ^ | 8/13/2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 08/14/2016 8:24:30 AM PDT by RightGeek

Revolution is closer than you think...

Following Angela Merkel's earlier calls for German CEOs to hire refugees, and as Martin Armstrong notes, Germany has raided its healthcare funds to support the refugee crisis...

The government passed a law that allows them to take 1.5 billion euros from the liquidity reserve of the public health care fund (10 billion euros in total, paid by all members and additionally by the taxpayer) and to give that money to refugees / asylum seekers.

 

What would you call this? Insane?

We thought a reminder of the tensions that are bubbling under the surface in Germany.  

As VoxDay noted appropriately, Germany's elite is going to get a well-deserved one soon as German President Joachim Gauck was booed and attacked in the streets of Sebnitz, Saxony after he blurted out the following unbelievbable statement:

“The elites are not the problem, the people are the problem.”

Official German State TV and State Radio reported that "a handful of right wing extremists" have attacked the president and disturbed the otherwise peaceful and welcoming reception of the President. This is simply not the case, as seen in the video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd5TPWXgOFQ

The people repeatedly shouted "Traitor!", "Get out!", "We don't want STASI Pigs" and "We are the people!".

One man, carrying his young son on his shoulders, appears to have spit on him whilst exclaiming insults. Other citizens were heard saying "You killed our children" and "What have you done to us?". They were blocked by police in riot gear, to whom they said "You are protecting warmongers, shame on you!"

The situation escalated and the riot police was forced to use pepper spray.

Heiko Maas, the German Justice Minister, called the attackers "cowards who insult the president because of their personal frustration". He himself was booed off the stage as a traitor by hundreds of Germans at the annual Labor Day celebration on the 1st of May. He said that they will be persecuted immediately, as "it cannot be allowed that such a tiny minority has influence on the political climate in Germany".

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan explained perfectly...

The larger point is that this is something we are seeing all over, the top detaching itself from the bottom, feeling little loyalty to it or affiliation with it.

 

It is a theme I see working its way throughout the West’s power centers.

 

At its heart it is not only a detachment from, but a lack of interest in, the lives of your countrymen, of those who are not at the table, and who understand that they’ve been abandoned by their leaders’ selfishness and mad virtue-signalling.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elites; germany
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1 posted on 08/14/2016 8:24:30 AM PDT by RightGeek
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Elections coming up. State and federal. Merkel and her gang are going to bleed…
2 posted on 08/14/2016 8:30:25 AM PDT by cartan
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Merkel may go down in history as the 2nd worst German leader ever. Absent repatriation of the Muslim hoard she has imported, Germany will not survive.


3 posted on 08/14/2016 8:32:19 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: RightGeek

I say sue England. I want reparations for this ecological vandalism. LibertyTreeLivesMatters.


4 posted on 08/14/2016 8:32:35 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Tagline space for rent . . . cheap.)
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https://youtu.be/bzaZTEc0p7Q

German police training film.


5 posted on 08/14/2016 8:34:54 AM PDT by Mercat
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The government passed a law that allows them to take 1.5 billion euros from the liquidity reserve of the public health care fund (10 billion euros in total, paid by all members and additionally by the taxpayer) and to give that money to refugees / asylum seekers.L

If Pimp Hillary is elected she'll do the same over here... raid our taxes to support 'mercenary voters'... Beware these folks are playing for keeps.

6 posted on 08/14/2016 8:35:09 AM PDT by GOPJ (Chicago and Detroit aren't accidental hellholes -they're DEMOCRAT CITIES RUN BY DEMOCRAT VALUES.)
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Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, john McStain etc being prime examples here. As well as the President and most of both houses of Congress.


7 posted on 08/14/2016 8:35:39 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Every thing Merkel is doing to the Germany and the German people Barack Obama has already done to America and Americans.

The one difference seems to be that Merkle has the cooperation and formal approval of the Bundestag.

The actions she takes are actually legal and/or laws while Barack Obama basically does whatever he wants.

Obama bypasses our congress, makes unilateral dictates, takes unilateral action and rules like Joe Stalin and Mao Tse-tung.


8 posted on 08/14/2016 8:36:41 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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“The elites are not the problem, the people are the problem.”

Different Germany

9 posted on 08/14/2016 8:44:08 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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There's no more effective remedy for what ails us than Trials and Hangings.

Preferably on the Capitol Steps.

10 posted on 08/14/2016 8:46:07 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Truly LOL. In a similar vein - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozJTenNzUKM


11 posted on 08/14/2016 8:48:33 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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“The elites are not the problem, the people are the problem.”

It doesn't get any clearer than that.

12 posted on 08/14/2016 8:49:05 AM PDT by gogeo (I am a proud Trumpublican.)
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“The elites are not the problem, the people are the problem.”

Wow...just...Wow!


13 posted on 08/14/2016 8:49:46 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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There are many lamp posts in germany all they need is rope


14 posted on 08/14/2016 8:54:53 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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"...What would you call this? Insane? ..."

Nah, standard operating procedure in the US.

15 posted on 08/14/2016 8:57:50 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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The German leader believing that the People are simply to blindly obey no matter how much it harms them. Germany being Germany.

We are seeing this across Europe and in the United States. The People will take back their rightful authority, by election or otherwise.

16 posted on 08/14/2016 8:58:00 AM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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There are many lamp posts in germany all they need is rope

And the will to use it.

17 posted on 08/14/2016 8:58:02 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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If the German people realized that their leaders are with the enemy and they are under attack, they will rise up and fight. Unless someone calls them Nazis. Then they’ll just bend over.


18 posted on 08/14/2016 9:02:26 AM PDT by uncitizen (Americanism NOT Globalism! - Trump)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Absolute raw arrogance on display.


19 posted on 08/14/2016 9:07:59 AM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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The money used for the muslim immigrants is for funding an army. People don’t want to face the truth, it is for a literal army not a metaphorical army - the elites will use these immigrants as their army against the native people. These immigrants will be allowed to have their armories in their mosques and they will have uniforms. And the elites will be leaders of this flesh and blood and uniformed army aka national police force.


20 posted on 08/14/2016 9:12:29 AM PDT by Duke of Milan
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