Our friend the Mercedes dealer came from Germany in 1970 and would not go back; did so once, all has changed.
Would someone say a swing from the rightist Hitler to the leftist Schroder?
Eric Hoffer, author of The True Believer, would say the same psyche, the same retreat from freedom and hunger for orders.
Joseph Stalin's New Soviet Man and Orwell's projection of newthink in 1984 posit a state robot incapable of seeing the logic in the opposing argument.
In the case of Moussaoui, the German state has forfeited sovereignty, and conforms to the European Union diktat against the death penalty.
That this German state provided the engineers to design Saddam Hussein's bunker complex is lost on Germans.
That there continues to be a thriving German trade with terrorist states causes not a ripple, not a blink.
That the withholding of evidence in the Moussaoui case increases the likelihood that terror attacks will be successsful is not considered.
How closely this parallels the French defender of Moussaoui, the fiance of Carlos the Jackal.
The Tyranny of the Two-Year-Old: there shall be humanitarianism only when I say!
Let the consequences fall on their heads, from the sky, leaving them a moment of terrible enlightenment.