Germany to bulldoze Checkpoint Charlie museum on 4th of July

Davids Medienkritik ^ | 6-26-2005 | ray D.

[americanbychoice2]

I have visited Checkpoint Charlie museum many times back when Berlin was still divide. It was awesome. I guess, it is very social to just forget the atrocities comitted, it will make everyone feel so much better? Sarcasm

[bad company]

Typical.

[bboop]

Must get rid of history. Must only look forward. History/ reality can be such a bummer.

[Oblongata]

I like the car they have, where the woman was smuggled out sewn inside the passenger seat.

[americanbychoice2]

I know, it was impressive.
Of course, the 4th of July is just a coincidence?

[bad company]

Must get rid of history. Must only look forward. History/ reality can be such a bummer.

With socialists, only the future is certain, the past is not.

[EdHallick]

Well they want to get rid of it so people forget and it can happen again. Just like democrats here. Let`s make pretend Saddam is not another Hitler so this way he can detroy Israel and have another holocaust. That saying that says "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it" should be changed. It should now say "Those who are liberal weiners want to forget the past so it has a chance to repeat."

[MilspecRob]

Put it up on Ebay?

[NewRomeTacitus]

So when are the French going to "free up" that land in Normandy...where all those white crosses disturb France's delicate psyche?

Seriously, if Germany does this they prove yet again that they can accept the consequences of their own history - let alone learn from it.

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[taxesareforever]

Germany= Germ many.

[Camel Joe]

There can be no place for memorializing feats of bravery and Freedom in the socialist "New World Order"! Something like this could give people ideas, we would much prefer the Holocaust memorial as it doesn't glorify acts of subversion against the state. Enough talk of this comrades, off to work with you, the state is depending on the collective efforts of you all. Do not fill your heads with thoughts such as this, or we will remove them for you!! TO WORK... MACHT SCHNELL... SCHNELL!!

[americanbychoice2]

I love that site. Apparently you do too?

[longtermmemmory]

July 4th must be intentional and symbolic for buldozing.

This is so orwellian as to be beyond irony.

[EdHallick]

To justify their decision, both members of the SPD and PDS have described the Checkpoint Charlie monument as an eye-sore or as something that trivializes the Cold War by turning the city into a Disneyland-style theme park.

Wow, sure looks like Disneyland to me. I guess this is the Mickey Mouse haunted graveyeard ride??

[lexington minuteman 1775]

You can bulldoze history. But that will not make it go away. I hope the German people speak out against this event. But knowing Europe, I doubt that will happen. You don't suppose the Clinton's would love to bulldoze a bunch of stuff?

[Cindy]

My husband's friend was shot and killed by a sniper at Checkpoint Charlie.

[Dr.Hilarious]

They're bulldozing Checkpoint Charlie in Germany; meanwhile, we have Holocaust memorials in the US.

Americans build memorials to crimes we didn't even commit, while some want to brush their past under the rug.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Third time lucky, mien Fuhrer !