Zo het verhaal is uit. Mijn eindconclusie is dat de RAF een terroristische groepering is die grotendeels los stond van het studentenprotest. <BLOCKQUOTE><font size=1 face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica>quote:</font><HR>Though the student protest movement and the terrorist groups are inexorably linked, it is a little unfair to say that the terror groups were directly transformed from the student groups. If you look at the makeup of the BMG you'll see a diverse group of people: Baader never completed high school, Meinhof was out of school for 10 years, Ensign was sometimes a student, and then there were a bunch of followers who were more often than not NOT students. Their attraction to the Group was probably equal parts sexual intrigue, a desire to defy social norms, a desire to party, and a vague commitment to radical causes. Benno Ohnesorg's death was quite simply the catalyst of the terrorist movement. It was as important as the Kent State massacre, but with more insidious effects. You could actually tie the entire terrorist movement to that fateful night on June 2, 1967, when the Berlin police decided that the Shah of Iran didn't need to see German kids protest his presence. A young German girl, Gudrun Ensslin, witnessed the killing. She wandered into the SDS (a German student union unrelated to the American SDS) headquarters the following night. She screamed that the people who killed Ohnesorg-her parents' generation-"were the Auschwitz generation! You cannot argue with them! Violence must be met with violence!" It was Gudrun's passion that would later inspire a talented German journalist named Ulrike Meinhof to give up the bourgeois trappings that she felt so guilty about and become a terrorist (Meinhof was out shopping for furniture for her fashionable Hamburg home while Ohnesorg was lying in a street, blood pooled around his head). It was Gudrun's passion that would prompt the big-talking Andreas Baader to actually turn his talk into action; it was either put up or shut up[/quote]Door een gematigde aanpak werd de BMG wel gesteund door de studenten, maar toen het geweld losbarste keerde het gros zich tegen de BMG/RAF. De linkse ideeen van de studenten en het Marxisme waarop de studenten leunden werden niet of nauwelijks gedeeld door de RAF.
Ik kan persoonlijk de ideeen van de RAF NIET delen, de ideeen(veelal echte idealen) van de studenten echter wel.
De Duitse regering heeft meerdere malen discutabele beslissingen genomen, waaronder de aanpassing van het rechtssysteem. <BLOCKQUOTE><font size=1 face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica>quote:</font><HR>Chapter 16 — Lex Baader-Meinhof
December 1974 - January 1975, 8 pages — This chapter will detail the extreme measures that the German government is willing to utilize to stamp out terrorism. The Bundestag rams through a series of amendments to the German Basic Law—their constitution—which are aimed squarely at the Baader-Meinhof Gang. The laws, which become known as Lex Baader-Meinhof, allow a judge to exclude a lawyer from defending a client merely if there is a suspicion that the lawyer has “formed a criminal association with a defendant” (one lawyer finds himself excluded for referring in a letter to his client as “comrade.”) The new laws also allow for trials to continue in the absence of a defendant if the reason for the defendants absence is of the defendants own doing, such as if they are ill from a hunger strike. An international outcry from civil rights activists, especially in America, is loudly felt. Four prominent American lawyers, including Chicago Seven defender William Kunstler, and former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, fly to Germany to officially protest the laws.[/quote]
let even op wie er kwamen protesteren, uit welk land kwamen die?
Ben echter benieuwd wanneer we wat gaan horen van de dochters van Ulrike Meinhof<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=1 face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica>quote:</font><HR>The virulently anticommunist Springer held a virtual monopoly on the press in Germany, controlling 40 percent of the daily newspaper circulation of West Germany and 80 percent of the Sunday circulation. Springer was the main bogeyman among German radicals, who believed that all of their troubles sprang from Springer. Unlike most other German businessmen during the Cold War, Springer did not flee Berlin. In fact Springer chose to build his headquarters, a 20-story gleaming glass monstrosity, 30 feet from the Berlin Wall as a demonstration of the superiority of Capitalism. [/quote] Waarom denk ik nu aan de Italiaanse televisie? Berlusconi? Is alleen geen 100% kapitalist, maar wat anders...
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