Posted on 07/09/2007 2:48:04 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
GERMAN Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble caused a stir today after proposing a security policy that would allow the indefinite detention and "targeted killing" of terror suspects.
Peter Struck, parliamentary group leader of the Social Democrats, half of Chancellor Angela Merkel's left-right ruling coalition, expressed shock at Mr Schaeuble's remarks, which included a call to ban the use of the internet and mobile phones by suspect foreigners living in Germany.
"That has no place in a coalition," Mr Struck told the daily Frankfurter Rundschau. "(Schaeuble's) new proposals on banning cellular phones could only be implemented in a police state."
Mr Struck said Germany must draw lessons from its Nazi past and also dismissed a call made by Ms Merkel last week to allow the military to be deployed on German soil in the event of an imminent terrorist threat.
"This argumentation is wrong, among other things because it does not take into account the horrible experiences in German history," he said.
Mr Schaeuble made the comments in Monday's issue of the news weekly ,Der Spiegel when asked how Germany should deal with the threat of Islamist terrorism after the foiled bombings in Britain this month.
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Ah, distant sound of Jack Boots and Drmb Beats. I knew these guys couldn’t stay passive forever.
If Hitler and his Nazi terrorist were subjected to indefinite detention and "targeted killing" the world would have been spared much evil. Herr Struck draws the wrong conclusion; failure of men and women of good will to act and act resolutely only advances the evildoer's agenda.
It seems like the Germans are good at food and machines but they completely suck at everything else.
How do you ban cell phone and Internet usage by certain individuals? Thats just plain silly!
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