Germany's Left are taking it to the street

[pscot]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,631435,00.html

in recent weeks, the trend of combustable law breaking -- whether pseudo-political or not -- has reached new heights. Every morning brings news of fresh attacks on luxury cars or other vehicles, long a popular form of political expression among leftist militants in Berlin.

On Wednesday, arsonists attacked 10 vehicles belonging to a firm which delivers meals to old people's homes and children's day care centers. The company was attacked because it belonged to the "Globalplayer Sodexo ... which profits internationally by providing prisons and surveillance equipment," the Berliner Morgenpost daily reported, citing a blog posted after the attack. A day later, a Volkswagen and a BMW were left smoldering outside the home of the Christian Democrat politician Robbin Juhnke. Responsibility was later claimed by a militant leftist Web site which labeled Juhnke "a CDU hardliner" who "baited leftists and immigrants." Other four-wheeled targets belonged to the express mail company DHL, which is disliked by leftist militants because it provides logistics support for the German military in Afghanistan.

In total 165 cars have been set on fire in Berlin since the start of the year, police say, far higher than the total for all of last year. And the number of arson attacks has hit record levels since the start of June. Left-wing militants are suspected to be behind the haphazard nocturnal trail of destruction, which includes torched cars, stones and paint bomb attacks on banks and job centers. There are many police investigations but rarely do they detain suspects -- largely because there are rarely witnesses. Most crimes are registered in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg neighborhood, long fertile ground for counter-culture. But the attacks on cars are now spreading across the city, to districts previously unaffected.

This is Der Spiegel, so there's lot's more.

[bighughdiehl]

1. Fight Club

I certainly don't shed any tears for that particular form of property damage.
Screw the rich pricks.

[whathehell]

2. But...but...There's an entire thread in GD telling us how GREAT the Germans have it!

and how they think we are "insane" and all...:freak:

[reggie the dog]

4. germans do have it great, because they are unionized at a high rate

and take to the streets.

[OldEurope]

3. Not news.

This article is from 2009.
Things have changed.:hippie:

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Article is from June 2009. Two years old.

Just noting that. The title is misleading.