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48. Germany is a different situation

There is a difference in Germany between the Grünen/B'90 and Die Linken. Sarah Wagenknecht will not be a Ministerpresidentin any time soon. As long as some of the people who celebrated the murders at the Wall during the DDR are part of that party, it will never be mainstream.

The German "Justiz" IS a problem, and that extends to an attitude toward Eastern Europeans that was there decades before the Syrians (etc.) showed up. About ten years ago, I helped catch the head of a band of Croatian thieves that had been plaguing Germany from Flensburg to Passau. We caught them in Hannover, and I helped ID their boss. Our security locked him in a room, and when we asked him for his identification, he said "nix verstehn." He had a German passport on him saying he was "Herr Becker" born in Essen. A primitive photo of him had been inserted where the original photo had been. The real Herr Becker had been in Croatia, and got his passport stolen, where it quickly landed in the hands of organized crime. When the Kripo showed up, I gave them the names of Kommissars in both München and Berlin that were looking for this guy, and they took him away. Three days later, he was brought before a judge in Hannover, who said, "es ist nur ein Passdelikt (just a minor passport violation)," and released the guy as if he had been jaywalking. We were furious, but could do nothing about it. Try entering and traveling around with a faked passport in the USA, and you can count on a three year vacation at best if you're caught.

France is not much different. I know a guy who attacked in his shop by a Bulgarian he slightly knew. The Bulgarian gained his confidence to the point where my friend invited him into the back to share coffee during slow periods. One fine day, when in the back, the Bulgarian pulled out a hammer and started bashing my friend over the head with it, trying to get at his cash register. With blood streaming from his head, my friend (who was 70 at the time) managed to get the hammer out of the Bulgarian's hand and started hitting back. The gendarmes arrived, and arrested my friend for assault.

Another guy I know in France was raided by French customs at his shop. He buys and sells old documents and coins. He caught the head of the customs brigade trying to steal an American $20 gold coin, worth maybe $1000 at the time. When he made a stink, the customs guy said he merely planned to "inspect" it. When they tried to fine him for some imagined excuse, he brought charges for attempted theft in return. The customs thief came back to his shop to try to intimidate him into withdrawing the charges. My friend said he had a film of the incident on his security camera tapes. The customs guy said they didn't prove anything. My friend said he had sound along with it. The customs guy took off, and the next thing we had heard, although he had not been charged with anything, the customs guy was removed from his financial terror brigade and reassigned to the airport, where he now inspects cheese from Switzerland (or some such hazardous material). Lax justice plus unchecked corruption (I could write volumes on what I know about goings on in Belgium) means people look upon government as their enemy. If Trump allows corruption to become as pervasive as it now looks he will, the same will happen to us back home.