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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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To: cartan

“”it cannot be allowed that such a tiny minority has influence on the political climate in Germany””

Man - they ought to see what a tiny minority has been able to do in the United States....


21 posted on 08/14/2016 9:25:45 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: RightGeek

not wanting your daughter or wife to be raped = right wing extremist? Puke.


22 posted on 08/14/2016 9:28:06 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: RightGeek

I have to admire his honesty.


23 posted on 08/14/2016 9:43:33 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Mariner

Agreed. Lots of politicians need to be dangling from the business end of a rope.


24 posted on 08/14/2016 9:47:50 AM PDT by Newtoidaho (Sprinkles are for winners.)
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To: RightGeek

And from another article I read, it seems like the German people have too many liberties and they need to give up some freedom so these terror attacks stop happening. The left is clinically insane and power hungry.


25 posted on 08/14/2016 10:08:37 AM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: RightGeek

"A riot is an ungly ting...Unt, I tink it's about time zat vee had von!"

26 posted on 08/14/2016 10:16:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: RightGeek

Die Deutschen sind unser Unglück?

Don’t worry, our leaders feel the same way about us.


27 posted on 08/14/2016 10:22:33 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The polls can have a strong influence on the weak-minded)
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To: Mercat

https://youtu.be/bzaZTEc0p7Q

“German police training film.”

First chuckle of the day. Thank you.

In America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwHYRBNc9r8


28 posted on 08/14/2016 10:30:02 AM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: ronnie raygun
There are many lamp posts in germany all they need is rope

I thought the Germans liked to use piano wire.

29 posted on 08/14/2016 10:30:53 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oatka

I learned about this 21 feet in my CC class. The instructor gave me a plastic gun (I’m a 68 year old female) and got as far away as possible and started towards me yelling he was going to rip my head off. He had no knife and no gun. I just laughed at him and got chewed out for not shooting him. One of those moments I want back in my life. But he also taught how to disrupt a shooter at close range. Amazing class. He also showed us a video much like the one you just shared.


30 posted on 08/14/2016 10:41:53 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: dfwgator
There are many lamp posts in germany all they need is rope
I thought the Germans liked to use piano wire.

I thought it was Zyklon B.

31 posted on 08/14/2016 10:41:56 AM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: RightGeek
Merkel IS a stasi PIG.

Merkel threatens her people with more surveillance if they dare to stand up to her...

It's a side benefit of bringing thugs into a country - gives the government an excuse to shove citizens around in the NAME OF SECURITY.

Obama, Hillary and their thugs to the same... they WANT to uproar and horror in flyover - so THEY can step in with 'high control' and we beg for help.

THIS IS THE MODERN TOTALITARIAN STATE IN IT'S BIRTHING...

32 posted on 08/14/2016 11:01:36 AM PDT by GOPJ (Clintons pimp America out to the highest bidder - the press looks away and kisses Hillary's butt.)
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To: GOPJ

Merkel is Erdogan’s little bitch.


33 posted on 08/14/2016 11:02:07 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: RightGeek
Merkel IS a stasi PIG.

Merkel threatens her people with more surveillance if they dare to stand up to her...

It's a side benefit of bringing thugs into a country - gives the government an excuse to shove citizens around in the NAME OF SECURITY.

Obama, Hillary and their thugs do the same... they WANT the uproar and horror in flyover - so THEY can step in with 'high control' while we beg for help.

THESE ARE THE TACTICS OF THE MODERN TOTALITARIAN STATE IN IT'S BIRTHING...

34 posted on 08/14/2016 11:03:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (Clintons pimp America out to the highest bidder - the press looks away and kisses Hillary's butt.)
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To: RightGeek


35 posted on 08/14/2016 11:05:24 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: RightGeek

Germans need to nut up against their insane government.


36 posted on 08/14/2016 11:17:07 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: GOPJ

They are eyeing 401k’s for sure.


37 posted on 08/14/2016 11:31:25 AM PDT by chasio649 (Donald Trump is not the president we need, he is the president SJWs deserve)
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To: RightGeek
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.

Well, to be precise, the money is stolen from insurance payers to fund healthcare for the invaders. Not a cash handout, but the distinction doesn't matter all that much.

38 posted on 08/14/2016 11:37:45 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Rockitz


Blnk
39 posted on 08/14/2016 12:08:10 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: gogeo

“The elites are not the problem, the people are the problem.”
It doesn’t get any clearer than that”

Germany sure did learn their lesson the first time around with Hitler did they?


40 posted on 08/14/2016 12:34:52 PM PDT by kagnew (A)
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