Posted on 01/27/2003 1:56:46 PM PST by knighthawk
HAMBURG Horst Mahler, a former Marxist urban guerrilla and lawyer for the Red Army Faction, now represents the extreme right National Democratic Party.
But the virulence of his views has not diminished, and his outspoken comments on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States have landed him back where he was decades ago - in court.
Last week, Mahler went on trial here on charges of approving of crimes and inciting violence, and he could face three years in jail if convicted. A few weeks after the attacks in 2001, in a broadcast interview with Norddeutscher Rundfunk, the public network in North Germany, he deemed the terrorists' actions justified.
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Mahler, 66, who was once part of the extreme left violently seeking to oppose residual Nazi tendencies in Germany, is now known for anti-Semitic and anti-American rants.
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More evidence the extreme-left/Marxisism is not too far away from the nazis.
If people want on or off this list, please let me know.
Still, it is disturbing that in Germany you can be prosecuted for a mere expression of opinion. I don't think he was ever prosecuted when he was on the far left, was he?
Uh....Were not the NAZIs the violent left? Nationalist Socialists?
Guy sounds like an idiot.
The Evil: Saddam, Hitler, Stalin and others who committ atrocities.
The Right: People who try to stop the Evil.
The Left: People who try to protect the Evil from the Right.
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