Tag Archives: Political asylum

We May Be Outraged (as usual) But We Ain’t Stupid

November 4, 2013 By in Habeas Corpus, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Hideology, High Art, Home Cooking, Humor, Hurt Feelings, Hustle (Hoax), Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

Grant political asylum to a Straftäter (criminal offender)? Not even Germany can pull that one off. Angie & Co. just said nein to this indistinct possibility.

Snowden

It was nice for leading figures in the German Outrage Industry to pretend like they could for fifteen minutes or so, I guess, but sooner or later even the best/worst of them have to come back down to Planet Earth again.

Die Voraussetzungen für eine Aufnahme des Whistleblowers lägen nicht vor, sagte Regierungssprecher Steffen Seibert.

PS: But it ain’t over till it’s over, Amerika. Vice President of German Parliament (one of six – nice work if you can get it) Claudia Roth HERSELF is still planning to press criminal charges or something. Someone is suspected of having actually listened once to what she said on her little green cellphone – eavesdropping-wise, I mean. And I pity the fool who gets in her way (thanks A.K.).

Claudia Roth

“They can’t punish you for something that is right”

February 6, 2009 By in Hypocrisy Tags: 1 Comment

Nope, they can’t. But they can punish you for something that is wrong. I think we’re on the same sheet of music here, Specialist Schepherd.

 

 My European vacation rocks!

 

When you went AWOL here in Germany in April 2007 to avoid “an illigal conflict” in Iraq you walked smack dab into the middle of an illegal conflict of your own. And now Germany, despite all the peacenik rhetoric and national obsession with war legality (but only when it comes to wars they have no intention of taking part in = Afghanistan is legal, just barely), will have to go through the long and drawn out motions of pretending they might grant you, a United States citizen, political asylum. You know, like they used to do in the good old days over there on the wild side, in the GDR?

 

Hate to tell you, but the Germans won’t be able to help you. They’re going to let you down on this one. Germans are prepared to moan and groan along with you all you want, but when it comes to doing something like setting an extreme precedent and getting all tangled up in sticky legal and political implications by granting such an absurd request, it just ain’t gonna happen. The time’s just not right, you see (Bush bad, Obama good = no make problems just right yet).

 

So enjoy your stay in jolly old Germany as long as you can. I’d say you’ve got a good six months, at least.

 

He said he didn’t want to return to an illegal conflict.