Merkel: Fischer knows what to do - and when will she learn what she has to do? Namely, just keep her mouth shut? This inflated moral posturing of the Union is simply ridiculous. When has a Union minister ever resigned due to their own misconduct? I mean without the public prosecutor already at the door. None come to mind spontaneously. At most, those who were ousted due to internal Union leadership squabbles - which doesn't really count. This absurd hopping around as if the Union suddenly had a monopoly on morality is simply absurd.
It is particularly absurd when you look at the hounding by Koch in the S.-H. election. That is simply disgusting. With such inflammatory speeches and such a ridiculous understanding of democracy, voters are driven into the arms of the right - after all, they are hardly distinguishable from a Union under people like Koch and his like-minded colleagues ...
One does not gain moral authority by simply claiming it. One might gain it if one refrains from transferring 20 million in black money abroad under the guise of donations from Jewish war victims and then, as compensation, merely ousts a few older politicians who were only in the way of one's own career ...
And Biedenkopf supports Clement against the municipalities - what do you want to bet that this will quickly be swept under the carpet in the discussion again? Biedenkopf will simply be brought back into line and then it's back to bashing the government. Because apart from verbal attacks, they can't do anything else.
Only one question remains: what about the people? Everyone complains about the politicians and the abuse of the municipalities and the money - but who cares about the people who are now stuck between a rock and a hard place through no fault of their own?
Neither the government nor the opposition make any statements about the people (except for Biedenkopf in a parenthesis). That's all these people are worth to them - a parenthesis and that's it. They are no longer able to work - just a line item in the cost accounting that the municipalities want to offload and the federal government doesn't want.
They are people, you penny-pinchers!
Red-Green outraged over Söder statements - and rightly so. Söder repeatedly stands out because his statements have little to do with reality (e.g., when claiming that the SPD is to blame for the emerging Nazis), but in this case, he has added an extra layer of stupidity. If left to his own devices, he would probably demand the death penalty...
Every legal system unfortunately either has holes like a sieve or degenerates into a police state (those who think differently: keyword Gödel, just inform yourself). The attempt to mediate between these two extremes is the task of the legislative power of the state - which lies with the Bundestag. The Union does not have to make constructive proposals for change known through foaming-at-the-mouth hatemongers in the press, but should bring them forward there. Söder's remarks are pure populism and are definitely not intended to solve any existing problem or even define it more closely.
It is horrifying when a child is killed, and every child killed is one child too many - this is undisputed and not up for discussion. However, one cannot instrumentalize the death of a child to push through one's ideas - because reducing child abuse and sexual offenses against children to this one case ignores the much larger number of cases in which the perpetrators had absolutely not been previously convicted or noticed in any way. Where the perpetrators are not some known offenders, but someone from the child's immediate family environment.
Söder's outburst is not only far beyond the mark and absolutely devoid of understanding, it is also a dangerous simplification of the problem.
