[Olog-hai]

After creating the “beneficial crisis” of millions of “refugees”, the solution they always want to impose is more centralization, larger central police forces and soldiers on the streets. Sounds like something right out of the past.

[pepsionice]

If ‘adult-leadership’ out of Berlin had been exercised in 2013 to today, then de Maiziere’s comments wouldn’t be required.

I have my doubts that the sixteen states will agree on this topic. There’s no guarantee that the national and centralized security apparatus would not be run by some incompetent idiot, and make matters worse.

If you bring up this idea of bringing Bundeswehr soldiers onto some kind of street duty...most Germans don’t have a problem with a short-term order and a focused effort. If you said that you were sending out 25,000 of such troops for a 90-day duty, then the public would be asking questions and probably not so accepting of the idea.

One could probably write a book over the thousand-odd mistakes made in Germany since this all started.

[goldstategop]

The last Communist government in de Maziere’s East Germany wanted to reform the Stasi into an office for constitutional protection.

After a public outcry, it was quickly scrapped.

Germans are dubious the authorities need more tools to fight extremism. They are just not using the resources they already have well enough.

[Jack Hammer]

Germany’s domestic security couldn’t possibly be simpler and requires no “special” understanding - round up Merkel’s Syrians and ship them home.

End of problem.