(Angie; 01-06; p.2)
Potemkin and the German Kathrinka
Following a private invitation by A. Merkel,
Mr Bush visits her constituency "Town of Stralsund – District
North Western-Pomerania – District Rugen". Although not mandatory,
chancellor Merkel holds a directly elected seat in the German
parliament, the Bundestag: she has been elected by a 41 % majority
of voters which equals 29 % of the constituency's electorate.
That a US-politician does not only know by eyesight
big cities in the former American occupied zone, but also a more
rural region of former GDR, is not to denounce. That he will get
a real picture, is probably impossible, given the current US foreign
policy. Bottom line will be that a population-cleansed open-air
museum will be presented, similar to the Potemkin villages of
tsar Catherine's II. age. Mr Bush, however, is not unaccustomed
to that: he experienced another Katrina and knows about media-efficient
presentations ...
Why the meeting is concerning
If it was only a befriended president or a foreign
politician, the meeting would be of little interest. Former US-president
W F Clinton being guest at the final of the football world championships,
has not been a headline, anyway.
Heightened vigilance concerning this meeting
is compulsory, since it is the German chancellor meeting a man
who authorises hostage-taking and lets do so, even in regard to
Germans. As the provisional
report of D Marty, Swiss member of the European Council, shows,
the ongoings are neither unintentional nor committed by individual
mistakes. By all means, we are confronted with a cunningly planned
system of taking hostages, arresting them, treating them in a
humiliating manner or even exposing them to torture without ever
accusing them of a stipulated crime or filing a case.
Allthesame, this procedure is in no way new,
it has been applied in the Socialdemocrat-led government tenure,
already. Then minister of the chancellery, now turned foreign
minister F Steinmeier, and in his first position highest superior
of German spies, did not and does not know of anything connected
to that. – Apparently, this is usual professional not-knowing
in such circles. In case, evidence is found, objects like hard-disks
disappear in police-stations and car accidents happen ...
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