"A series of violent incidents related to anger at the German government's welfare reforms have some worried that widespread discontent among the populace could lead a surge in aggressive and illegal behavior.
During a recent trip by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to the eastern town of Wittenberge, his bodyguards had to suddenly scramble to protect the German leader from eggs thrown at him by demonstrators protesting his welfare reforms. "We want jobs," angry protestors yelled as the projectiles flew.
At a job center in Berlin this week, an enraged man who felt benefits were being unfairly withheld from him, attacked a secretary with a knife, wounding her in the arm before colleagues could restrain him.
While these and other similar events might be individual, even exceptional incidents, some experts say they are consequences of a population on the edge, upset at what is seen by many as the abandonment of long-held principles of social fairness and frightened of a possible future in poverty.
http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1430_A_1309566_1_A,00.htmlThe source, I quote, is a very questionable one. The chief of "Deutsche Welle" is a member of the neoliberal right-wing think-tank Mont Pèlerin Society. Being the most important source for news about Germany in english worldwide: they mix the news with their neoliberal right-wing aganda, if they cannot suppress it any longer.
But apart from this: are the protests in Germany against the destruction of the welfare state and what's left of our democracy after 6-years of Schröder covered in any way in the U.S. media?
The former communists, PDS, gain more votes in nearly every election in the former communist parts of Germany than Schröder and his gang. The Socialdemocrats, who have sold out to neoliberal capitalism, are at an all time low. Some polls seem to show that the SPD, who still builds our government along with the Greens (the german Greens are as corrupt as the SPD and are in no way comparable to the U.S. Greens) to even fall under the 10% mark during elections coming next month in parts of East-Germany.
I guess under every other condition, someone like Schröder would have resigned for long. Maybe even Bush would go, if the Republicans would get results as Schröder does (At least they would manipulate the results:-))
Is this covered in any way by the U.S. mainstream media?
I just started laughing, when this evening during one of our two mayor TV-News-Shows in Germany, a citizen of New York was quoted about the protests in New York against the RNC: "There are two parties in the USA, who represent corporate interests, but noone, who represents us."
This is fucking little stupid Germany at it's best: I still wait for a german, being quoted telling the truth about our 1-Party-system....
Hello from Germany,
Dirk