Less than a week before the election, I mean.
Germany’s Green party is under renewed pressure to defend its stance on paedophilia in the 1980s.
In a newspaper article, the historian Franz Walter had accused the Green’s co-leader, Jürgen Trittin, of signing off a 1981 pamphlet calling to abolish the decriminalisation of sexual acts between adults and children “that occur without the use or threat of force”. In response to the revelation, politicians from the Bavarian Christian Social Union have asked Trittin to withdraw his candidacy from the upcoming election.
Trittin is quoted in the article admitting that his party had failed to block a proposal by the activist group Homosexual Campaign Göttingen for such a measure to be included in the pamphlet. He told the paper that this was “also my mistake, which I regret”.
“Die Grünen sollten darüber nachdenken, ob sie mit dieser Besetzung weiter den Wahlkampf in der letzten Woche fortsetzen.”
Observing Hermann 
The historian doesn’t “accuse” Trittin – he just reports what he has found out. (The study he is working on was in fact commissioned by the Green party themselves to do just this: find out what ‘mistakes’ they made in the past!) Mr. Walter also mentions that they would have been accused of withholding facts if they’d issued the statement after the election…
The funny thing though is – why do CSU politicians suddenly think that something written in an election pamphlet has anything to do with what you really think. Or intend to do.
All true. And what wonderful mistakes they have made – and continue to make, which is more important. But that’s not what interests me. I’ve never liked this guy’s smirk. It’s that simple. And can you imagine for one moment what Jürgen Trittin would be doing right now with uncontrollable, Schadenfreude-smirking glee if a CSU or CDU or FDP politician had been caught in a similar position? A resignation would be the absolute minimum he would be demanding and we all know it. And you know what? He would be right to do so.
He regrets nothing, upholds a green cartel of silence and it´s high time to go!
https://www.facebook.com/Trittab?fref=ts