Cut-up Germany

I shall start by declaring myself an agent and lackey of the United States of America in order to spare others the effort of throwing these accusations. By others, I refer to Pan-Arabists, Nationalists and Islamists who use the above to describe anyone who expresses an equitable, objective opinion or rational thought which suggests that we are all on the same boat, that any violent tendencies would sink us all.

Hussein al-Zeyadi on Friends of Democracy

Joschka Fischer looks out over the lake. “In that direction,” he says, “not far from here, I invented the Road Map. It came to me while jogging.”

- Der Spiegel, August 22, 2005

A Dubious Achievement: Joschka Fischer, the Road Map, and the Gaza Pullout
Matthias Küntzel

"I could understand everything about it. That they [the workers] were unlucky with their fortune, cursing at destiny which had often stricken them so heavily; that they hated the entrepreneurs who occured to them as heartless executors of their fate; that they railed against the authorities that seemed to have no understanding of their situation; that they were demonstrating against the food prices and gathering in the streets - all of this one could understand regardless of reason. But what had to remain incomprehensible was the boundless hatred they bore towards their own nation, how they dispraised its grandeur, how they contaminated its history and how they dragged Great Men in the mud.

This struggle against the own kind, the own nest, the own homeland, was as senseless as inapprehensible. It was unnatural."

Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf, 1936:64

"Germans want to be world export champions, but without globalization. Rich, but without financial markets. Embedded in wealth, but without the market. Employed for life, but without entrepreneurs."

Ulrich Fittner ("Die Rückkehr des Proletariats"), German magazine Der Spiegel, May 28, 2005

A text by Susanne Urban - http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-32.htm

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