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Germany rattled by militant's release
Los Angeles Times ^ | March 26, 2007 | Jeffrey Fleishman

Posted on 03/26/2007 3:25:49 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

BERLIN — She was a young leftist with a machine gun and bizarre thoughts about changing the world, but that was 30 years ago, back when Brigitte Mohnhaupt helped lead a terrorist gang whose assassinations of politicians and industrialists mesmerized postwar Germany.

On Sunday, Mohnhaupt again rattled the public consciousness when she was released from prison as an unrepentant convicted murderer. Once a brazen and unrelenting mastermind for the anticapitalist Red Army Faction, or RAF, the 57-year-old inmate stepped back into a nation still agitated over a bygone era of bombings, fanatical screeds and urban guerrillas.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: brigittemohnhaupt; germany; liberals; mohnhaupt; radicals; raf; redarmy
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How open-minded and tolerant. (sarcasm)
1 posted on 03/26/2007 3:25:50 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
This woman should have been executed for her crimes. She is unrepentant and should never have been released in any case back into society.

How unabashadley insane to do so.

2 posted on 03/26/2007 3:28:08 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Jeff Head

She will kill again.


3 posted on 03/26/2007 3:36:18 PM PDT by Dog ( Residing somewhere in Eeyore's Gloomy Place...)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
This case stands alone as a great arguement for the death penalty. If the murderer is dead, he/she cannot be released.
4 posted on 03/26/2007 3:40:52 PM PDT by Albert Barr
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I was a High School Student in Heidelberg when she and her RAF partners killed four American Soldiers there in 1972


5 posted on 03/26/2007 3:40:55 PM PDT by Rogle
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

She will get her just desserts. Ishe marries a Muslim, German courts now say that Sharia will allow him to beat her senseless..possibly even kill her.


6 posted on 03/26/2007 3:42:26 PM PDT by ken5050 (The 2008 winning ticket: Rudy/Newtie, with Hunter for SecDef, Pete King at DHS, Bill Simon at Treas)
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To: Rogle

Has this story received any attention on the national TV news?


7 posted on 03/26/2007 3:43:29 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
No it has not, wish we could extradite her.
8 posted on 03/26/2007 3:52:40 PM PDT by Rogle
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan; Chieftain

Five life sentences????!!!!
No remorse? No apologies?
No cooperation with police to solve past RAF crimes?

"she won't kill anyoen." Yeah, right!

Germany and Europe has totally lost it.


9 posted on 03/26/2007 3:52:47 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
A court recently ruled that she was eligible for parole after serving a minimum of 24 years.

5 life sentences for multiple murders equals 24 years in Germany. What the sentence for the 'thought crime' of denying the Holocaust there? Just curious.
10 posted on 03/26/2007 4:19:12 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Anyone got a before and after picture of this collectivist gal? Dollars to donuts she was ugly then and is now grossly hideous.


11 posted on 03/26/2007 4:22:30 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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I saw a photo of her as a young woman. You wouldn't kick her out of bed.


12 posted on 03/26/2007 4:30:11 PM PDT by OldPossum
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I think the German public should also be "rattled" over the release of the terrorist Mohammed Ali Hamadi.


13 posted on 03/26/2007 6:27:34 PM PDT by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
How many people do you have to kill before they don't let you walk free?

As long as it's the right people, it doesn't matter. For those who rode this toxic wave to power, a Fischer, a Schroeder, the people the RAF killed were the right people. There are far more scars in Europe than those caused by WWII and some of them are still unhealed wounds.

14 posted on 03/26/2007 6:39:28 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Combat_Liberalism


15 posted on 03/26/2007 7:31:34 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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You wouldn't kick her out of bed

That is indeed true. Espechially since Sex was a fundamental issue of the German "68-Generation" where the RAF is part of. Andreas Baader i.e. had always simultaneous sexual relationships with several women inside the RAF. Lots of casual sex. Women that are not uptight (and I think that Mohnhaupt is not uptight because of her ideologic background) are usually better lovers than those with restraints.

The later Mohnhaupt pics that were used for tracing usually showed a ugly and fierce woman instead of the pretty and cheeky twen she once was. Gross pixeled photos that suggested the danger she emanated.

16 posted on 03/26/2007 11:09:07 PM PDT by Atlantic Bridge (De omnibus dubitandum!)
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Why are you talking sh**, rogle? IT HAS GOTTEN MUCH OF ATTENTION IN GERMANY! Even today, Europe´s largest newspaper (BILD) writes a commentary saying that it´s freakin´ unbelievable that people like Mohnhaupt may be happy in their lives again.


17 posted on 03/26/2007 11:47:17 PM PDT by Michael81Dus
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To: ken5050

How well informed of you! You don´t bother to learn that the judge who used the Koran was suspended for that and was pulled off that case??


18 posted on 03/26/2007 11:48:15 PM PDT by Michael81Dus
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back when Brigitte Mohnhaupt helped lead a terrorist gang whose assassinations of politicians and industrialists mesmerized postwar Germany.

Mesmerized? Terrorized is more like it.

The German legal system is a rude joke perpetrated on the civilized world.

Homeschoolers who have harmed no one have their children ripped away by gun-toting government thugs and unrepentant mass murderers walk out of prison.

It's the textbook definition of insanity.

L

19 posted on 03/27/2007 12:03:31 AM PDT by Lurker (Calling islam a religion is like calling a car a submarine.)
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To: Michael81Dus

suspended yes..impeached (removed) NO


20 posted on 03/27/2007 4:10:31 AM PDT by ken5050 (The 2008 winning ticket: Rudy/Newtie, with Hunter for SecDef, Pete King at DHS, Bill Simon at Treas)
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