I don’t know where the hell the guys over at ¡No Pasarán! got this shot but I’m grabbing my Geiger counter and getting out of town pronto!
I’m sure it’s safer in Osaka.
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Observing Hermann 
Hier sind wir zu Hause?
Here we are at home?
Here´s how we handle the problem!
http://www.freakingnews.com/Godzilla-Rad-Badge-Pics-94002.asp
Damn, you’re quick!
HO,
Hey, I was reading some old blog entries from Eric T. Hansen’s Planet Germany when I came across an entry on what he calls “Angst Non-Fiction,” and thought of you. Here’s the opening to his entry “Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh, No!“:
Want to know why Europe has such a hard time getting up off its ass and doing something? I call Angst Non-Fiction. Europeans and especially Germans love to face the future shaking in their boots about all the horrible things that could happen, and they spend a lot of money and time on experts who specialize in thinking up new ways to confirm their fears. Angst Non-Fiction writers are like doomsayers, with the difference that while doomsayers in America traditionally stand on the street corner and bother you though you never asked them too, Angst Non-Fiction writers are well-paid, privileged, respected and sought out. More like soothsayers, they set up their shop with a crystal ball and people pay to come in and be told how horrible life is going to work out.
You and I both know that Gojira will bring forth a new round of fear-mongering best-sellers.
Hansen concludes:
German readers are so well-trained to be afraid of the future and anything new in general that they will gladly swallow anything said about the future as long as it’s expressed in negative terms. As soon as you say the future looks bright, German readers say: Hey, you can’t fool me.
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