German city declares "Nazi emergency"
Source: CBS News
A city in eastern Germany has declared a "Nazi emergency" to tackle the rise of the far-right. Dresden is the capital of Saxony, which is considered a stronghold of the far-right movement.
"'Nazinotstand' means - similar to the climate emergency - that we have a serious problem. The open democratic society is threatened," local councilor Max Aschenbach, who tabled the motion, told BBC News.
Dresden's city council approved a resolution Wednesday night to 39 votes to 29 to pass the motion that declared "anti-democratic, anti-pluralist, misanthropic and right-wing-extremist attitudes and actions, including violence in Dresden, are occurring with increasing frequency."
The motion was opposed by Germany's governing Christian Democrats (CDU), who said it was "primarily an intended provocation."
"'State of emergency' means the collapse or a serious threat to public order," Jan Donhauser, chairman of the CDU City Council Group, told BBC News. "That is not given rudimentarily. Furthermore, the focus on 'right-wing extremism' does not do justice to what we need. We are the guardians of the liberal-democratic basic order and no violence, no matter from which extremist side it comes, is compatible with it."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dresden-nazi-emergency-declared-in-city-in-saxony-germany-haven-for-far-right-movement/
Posting, due to the US having to fight Nazis in Germany once before.
Sadly, it's an open question as to whether there are more Nazis in Germany or the US at this point....
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)calimary
(81,194 posts)appalachiablue
(41,118 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)common cause of facism
certainot
(9,090 posts)they have an irrational need to avoid uncertainty. it makes things scarier so it drives to to control and impose order, to simplify and make binary, reduce degrees of value to absolutes, and so on. authoritarianism is sometimes measured with the uncertainty avoidance index, or UAI.
wilhelm reich in his 1933 paper thought the fascism he was seeing in nazi youth was caused by sexual repression, particularly masturbation associated with religion, guilt, violence, punishment, paternalism.
iain mcgilchrist in his book about the divided brain observes that the left hemisphere of the brain, connected to the right hand, wants certainty at the expense of truth.
sex on the wrong brain -book- explains the connection - we've been learning sex with the wrong hand. impatient satisfaction-demanding reproductive impulses are interfering with brain functions like math and logic that need patience and objectivity. such as sex and quuantification/numbers = greed and unregulated capitalism. sex and logic = need for finality, premature conclusion, certainty. and it goes back hundreds of thousands of years and explains it is why most humans are right handed - the extra greed, fear, suspicion, competition etc had survival value in times of conflict.
and the anatomy involved makes it worse in males, contributing to misogyny and sexual violence
JudyM
(29,225 posts)Seems plausible to the extent I understand what youre saying. Thanks for the explanation.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)That explains a lot.
certainot
(9,090 posts)more easily, at least because of the motions involved, they have less sowb in general....
bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)MAGAzi emergency.
progree
(10,901 posts)The Neo-Nazi Murder Haunting Germany
The assassination of a local politician is waking up the country to the threat of the radical right.
https://www.thenation.com/article/neo-nazi-germany/
After discussing the above ...
There has also been a disturbing wave of violence against local officials. There was Henriette Reker, who was seriously wounded in a knife attack during her successful 2015 campaign for mayor of Cologne. There was a small-town mayor in eastern Germany, Markus Nierth, who resigned in 2015 after a neo-Nazi demonstration outside his house. Papa, Im afraid of the Nazis, his young son told him. There was a Social Democratic leader in the town of Bocholt, Thomas Purwin, who stepped down in December 2016 after threats to his family. There was another small-town mayor, Andreas Hollstein, who was stabbed in November 2017 by a man shouting about refugees.
This list could continue: The Association of German Cities says 40 percent of city council members and 20 percent of mayors in Germany reported having received threats. In 2018 more than 1,200 crimes were recorded against local officials.
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All of this news is bad, but it gets worse, because for the first time since 1945, there is now a strong right-wing party in German politics, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). It has the third-largest caucus in the federal Bundestag and is represented in all 16 state parliaments. And in recent state elections in eastern Germany, it made further inroads. The AfD thus achieved something that its postwar extremist precursors never did: It has brought the far right back into everyday political life.
PatSeg
(47,370 posts)Thanks for posting.
Kid Berwyn
(14,863 posts)Be on the lookout for these morons and cretins...armed and dangerous...call themselves good people...
dware
(12,355 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)... a meme, not entirely serious.
AND wellcome to DU! Keep on truckin' !
dware
(12,355 posts)Thank you for the warm welcome!
Kid Berwyn
(14,863 posts)Dont know about anybody else, but I hate NAZIs.
dware
(12,355 posts)shame them to hell.
Reminds me of the scene in the Blues Brothers movie.
rockfordfile
(8,701 posts)Response to rockfordfile (Reply #17)
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dware
(12,355 posts)tblue37
(65,290 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,863 posts)Naming people what they are, like in the classification of things, is a necessary step in doing something about them.
Many people have no idea that the NAZIs drew much from the wealthy eugenicists and racists from the USA.
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1796
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)Finally, the Western radical right is attractive to the Kremlin not only because it provides a pool of recruitsoften angry young white menfor stirring up social protests, but also because it serves as a backdoor for establishing ties with far-right political parties and anti-establishment politicians. The Kremlin views such politicianslike Frances Marine Le Pen, Germanys Frauke Petry, and Italys Matteo Salvinias battering rams that can be used to demolish democratic institutions and to challenge the political establishments support for NATO, the EU, and transatlantic ties. Although the Kremlins effort to co-opt Western politicians is beyond the scope of this article, it is a key reason why Russia invests resources in cultivating fringe radicals in the West.
For obvious reasons, however, the Kremlin tries to hide its support for far-right groups, both in Russia and elsewhere. A BBC documentary on Russian neo-Nazi soccer hooligans secretly recorded the leader of Moscows Spartak ultras explaining that his army of followers served as Putins foot soldiers. Shortly after the documentary aired, Russian police issued a call for all those who had been interviewed in the film to report immediately to local stations across Russia and sign forms saying they had been coerced into lying by the BBC.