Posted on 05/07/2011 2:29:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The world is officially nuts. I’m not sure how else you classify what follows. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany recently remarked on the death of mass murderer Osama bin Laden saying was “glad” he’d been killed. That prompted the following from a German judge:
But Hamburg judge Heinz Uthmann went even further. He alleges that the chancellor’s statement was nothing short of illegal, and filed a criminal complaint against Merkel midweek, the daily Hamburger Morgenpost reported Friday.
“I am a law-abiding citizen and as a judge, sworn to justice and law,” the 54-year-old told the paper, adding that Merkel’s words were “tacky and undignified.” In his two-page document, Uthmann, a judge for 21 years, cites section 140 of the German Criminal Code, which forbids the “rewarding and approving” of crimes. In this case, Merkel endorsed a “homicide,” Uthmann claimed. The violation is punishable by up to three years’ imprisonment or a fine.
“For the daughter of a Christian pastor, the comment is astonishing and at odds with the values of human dignity, charity and the rule of law,” Uthmann told the newspaper.
Of course the judge is assuming it’s a “homicide” (certainly no proof exists that’s the case) and thus a criminal act. In fact, the Geneva Conventions will clearly show otherwise. Obviously he files his complaint with nothing more than his opinion as a basis. So you say, it’s one extremist view, why get excited about it?
While the judge’s reaction may seem extreme, his sentiments are apparently shared by 64 percent of the German population. That was the proportion of Germans who said bin Laden’s death was “no reason to rejoice” in a poll published by broadcaster ARD on Friday.
Germany – never a bastion of human rights or individual freedoms – continues to live up to its past with a new extremist but pacifist twist. This is an example of absurdity masquerading as reason, extremism as normalcy and stupidity as compassion.
Everyone who loves freedom and hates mass murderers should be “glad” Osama bin Laden has been killed. He was a monster, just like one which once ruled the land this puffed up pratt Uthman lives in. As much as Germans claim to have been “disgusted” with the “jubilation” over OBL’s death, nonsense like this does them no favor. The disgust on this side of the Atlantic for a country that assaults free speech and protects the memory of a mass murderer by going after those who express satisfaction at his demise isn’t one that I or most anyone here would ever care to live in.
A crazy german???? Whodathunkit.
Liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.
Welcome to the control of the NWO. It is here and we have to stop it.
I’ll give a crap what Germany thinks once they prove they can go 100 years without tossing people in ovens.
I guess they can hit me with a criminal complaint as well. Anyone else in?
“For the daughter of a Christian pastor, the comment is astonishing and at odds with the values of human dignity, charity and the rule of law,” Uthmann told the newspaper.”
Wrong!
Liberalism is satanism under the guise of a mental disorder so as to make it more palatable to a sane public.
I love the German people, but if you get three of them alone in a room together, they start planning to take over the adjacent rooms.
I'm with you on that. The fact I'm glad he was killed doesn't mean I'm rejoicing over it. It means I see it as a fitting, best-case outcome. That's something to be glad about. Just in case someone here wants to take this Christian to task over this...
What, if I had a choice in Germany, I would gladly deport any judge who thinks this Chancellor is wrong to America, and see how long he would last without even whining once.
I am not excited about bin Laden’s demise, for some reason it just didn’t press my switch when my search for other parts of my life is plain out unresolved, and also when I was simply accepting for years now that he was already dead but we simply didn’t find the body to prove it, now our so-called president with a so-called “law degree” doesn’t want to release historical information, when during so much as my undergraduate education, my professors would grill me for a lack of decent sources or consistency in my story should I have presented it to them as the president presented the story to the press. Sometimes I feel as if the whole situation is a joke gone bad, I was already anticipating being annoyed with our president, but now he has to give excuses for not doing an academic task of reporting what happened. Ugh. As for Germany, they need to get off their blinders about what’s going on, because this whole incident makes them look bad.
It doesn't follow that they agreed with the judge. I don't "rejoice" either, but it's because I think bin Laden would have been a better intelligence prize alive, and because I think his death will have little impact on the long-term war with Islamofascism.
almost makes libs in the US look sane...
This “judge” needs to be kicked off the bench, tried for treason, and then punished however Germany punishes traitors.
Or at least barred from ever working in the German “justice” system ever again.
What a leftard...
Schadenfreud by Cab Merkel
I’ll be glad when you todt, you schweinhund, you!
I’ll be glad when you todt, you schweinhund, you!
When you todt in your grave,
No more dammen will you crave.
I’ll be glad when you todt, you schweinhund, you!
Encore Chancellor Merkel!
I wanted the to be the one that pulled tghe trigger on that p.....k. So I guess I am in too. ;>)
Good point.
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