Not only are Germans good at exporting expensive weapon systems, they’re also top-notch torture instrument exporters.
Or at least that’s what Amnesty International thinks they are. Of course Amnesty International also thinks that cold spinach is a torture instrument. Having to eat it, I mean. Which I guess it is, come to think of it. But still.
Nur sieben europäische Länder halten sich dem Amnesty Bericht zufolge an ihre Verpflichtung, Exporte derartiger Gegenstände öffentlich zu machen.
A bomb of a business, a roaring trade, a gold mine. And the same procedure as every year.
“Germany Now World’s Third Largest Arms Exporter.” Now? Been that way for years, folks. Get used to it already.
Pacifists. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
“When it comes to arms exports, few will be surprised that the US tops the list.”
Correct me please if I misunderstood the German in this article here, you German speakers out there, but does it really say that Germany’s coalition government wants to forbid the playing of paintball because it “lowers the threshold for acts of violence” like the one which recently took place in Winnenden?
Why stop there? Why not forbid German kids (of all ages) from playing cowboys and Indians and cops and robbers? Not that a German kid would ever pretend to shoot an Indian or a robber or anything (the cop maybe), that was just like a figure of speech or something OK? I’m just trying to follow this line of reasoning through to its logical conclusion, so give me a break already.
Verstöße sollen mit einer Geldbuße von bis zu 5000 Euro geahndet werden.
Observing Hermann 