Posted on 09/08/2017 11:25:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
When the German Chancellor was confronted by whistles and catcalls during an election event in east German town of Torgau on Wednesday, she attempted to turn the boos to her advantage.
People in other countries “would be delighted if they could demonstrate in this way,” Angela Merkel said, as more than 100 far-right protests attempted to drown out her speech with boos, whistles and cries of “traitor.”
“That’s why we should be happy that we have democracy in Germany and that we can vote freely. Other people can only dream of that,” the Chancellor said, according to Die Welt.
Then, addressing her own voters, she said “you can feel it here on this market square that it rests on you to go and vote on September 24th.” […]
At a speech in Heidelberg in southern Germany on Tuesday, demonstrators threw tomatoes at the Chancellor, with one hitting her on the hip. Meanwhile, protesters have disrupted entire speeches in the eastern states of Brandenburg and Saxony, where the far-right are particularly strong, with calls of “traitor”, “liar” and “fraud.” …
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Unhappy people don’t like hearing anything happy.
Merkel must be a direct descendant of Hans Schultz.
this chick is a female German FDR — d@mn I feel sorry for the Germans!
....she’s lucky that’s all that greeted her
Surprised she didn’t have them arrested under germany’s hate speech laws.
maybe next election.
Only a matter of time, I suspect. Won’t be pretty. Seems the subjects are pretty upset.
Oh yeah? What happens if you hold up a sign saying mohamhead diddled a 9 year old? In Germany you go to jail.
Was ist los Gnädige Frau?
A suicide bent democracy.
Well if the people of Germany wish to turn the tide, mere booing of Merkel won’t cut it. A movement must arise with saner ideals. One which, unlike the Nazi movement of old, won’t sell out to raw power.
One might as well go for the jugular as try to deal paper cuts.
“We don’t want your ‘Allah’!”
Gnarly?
Free speech? Isn’t that one of those countries that arrests you for speaking ill of Islam?
clever campaigning
Merkel is deliberately going to small towns which are hotbeds of support for the AfD to get pelted and booed.
She’ll boost her national vote by 2-3% because middle middle Germans are terrified of political ‘extremism’
brilliant
I wonder if Hillary called...
Spin, propaganda, smoke and mirrors... it is all the same thing
“Merkel is deliberately going to small towns which are hotbeds of support for the AfD to get pelted and booed”
Historians point out that the [wiki] “The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (German: About this sound Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei , abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party” used a very similar campaign strategy during their rise to power. The NSDAP literally campaigned in small villages for 4 years to acquire a number of seats in the German government, which allowed them an eventual majority in the voting chambers.
Letting Merkel lead Germany is about as stupid as letting Hitler lead Germany.
Aufwachen, Deutsche!
Wacht auf!
They are. What they cannot seem to see is that Merkel is an extremist.
In trying to avoid the horrors of the past, the Germans are headed right back into them. It's like you can't escape your fate.
Je mehr sie versuchen, die Schrecken der Vergangenheit zu vermeiden, desto mehr verurteilen sie sich, sie zu wiederholen.
“Lots of people who don’t belong to the booers and whistlers need to be given encouragement to show civil courage in the face of hatred.”
Really convenient when you dismiss your opposition as “hatred” rather than grant disagreement in a political discourse. Her stands are, of course, the default position reflecting Divine Will and any opposition to her is opposition to Divinity.
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