Credit for this one goes to Abnews, a news abstract service provided by <seattleplatypus@worldnet.att.net> For those who are seriously into the larger political landscape, this is a service worth trying out.
Dr. James Sanchez, who heads Abnews, prefaced the following with this little paragraph:
I am attaching this article I just abstracted because it is really quite interesting. While some people have criticized me for including EIR abstracts because the LaRoucheites have limited credibility, I remain commited to reading everyone, especially my political opponents. Always read the opposition, because you never know what they might have come up with.
Read on....
====== Apel, Rainier. "Neo-Nazi Witch-Hunt Implodes in Germany", in Executive Intelligence Review, December 15, 2000. p. 74-75.
"A sovereign nation needs an elite that is, first of all, sovereign in its views and actions. This requires that the elite, the political establishment, deal with real problems, especially economic and social ones. But, the elite of Germany is doing almost the exact opposite, it is constructing virtual ones with which it can 'deal', and thereby deflect from the ugly reality of the economic depression."
While the German elite has been faced with the problem of replacing the disasterous economic policies of the Social Democratic Party-Green coalition [the "Red-Green" coalition], the Red-Green response has been to launch a witch hunt against "right-wing-extremist violence" in the hope that the mass hysteria which the government could orchestrate would divert attention from the growing economic crisis in Germany. There is now a daily media propaganda offensive against the "alleged 'Neo-Nazi threat'", even as the Sebnitz Affair crumbled into debacle in November.
While little reported outside Germany, the startling Sebnitz Affair condemns the current political climate in Germany. An accusation in the city of Sebnitz by a women who stated that neo-Nazis had drowned her six year old son in June 1997 was picked up by Bildzeitung, with the 11/23/2000 headline: "Neo-Nazis Drown Child". The mass media concluded that since the child has a German mother and an Iraqi father, that race hatred was the motive in the child's murder. Joining the hysteria, the Criminological Institute of Lower Saxony reopened the case (which had been closed in 1998 due to the absence of wrongdoing), quickly issued a report concluding the child's death was the result of murder, and "witnesses" quickly identified three Sebnitz youths as the murderers. Media accounts quickly escalated, out-bidding each other with increasingly horrific and improbable details, accusing the youths of torturing the child with electric-shocks and "death drugs". [sic?]
For four days, 11/23-26/2000, the mass media was gripped with anti-Nazi hysteria, which even enraptured Chancellor Gerhard Schroder himself. He would receive the mother at party headquarters in Berlin to express his anti-Nazi solidarity with her.
Only hours later, the "charade" collapsed. Lower Saxony police released all suspects because:
(1) the "eyewitnesses" who identified the suspects by name could not identify them in person;
(2) none of the three youths had any ties to Neo-Nazis; and
(3) one of the "eyewitnesses" changed his story and admitted he had lied in the testimony report.
The Criminological Institute of Lower Saxony immediately withdrew its report on the alleged murder, with director Christian Pfeiffer hastily stating, rather incredibly:
(1) the report was not and had never been official;
(2) he had nothing to do with the report; and
(3) the report had been copiled without authorization by a staff member "as a private initiative to help a crying mother".
The collapse of this third in a recent series of three media anti-Nazi hysteria campaigns has led Suddeutsche Zeitung editor, Hans Werner Kilz, to confess his newspaper was blinded by its involvement in the accelerating hysteria.
Like the Sebnitz anti-Nazi hysteria, the anti-Nazi hysterias that followed the bombing of six Jewish immigrants in Dusseldorf and a minor arson incident at a Dusseldorf synagogue have been based on mere supposition: in none of the three cases is there any evidence that Neo-Nazis have played any role in the matters, except as victims of the hysterias.
Many see Chancellor Schroder, who has orchestrated the hysterias, even going so far as to proclaim the nationwide "Uprising of Decent Citizens" against the threat of "neo-Nazi violence", as discredited by his cynical manipulation of mass-media-induced public hysteria.
Therefore, next time you hear about a "hate crime" - or, worse, a "Neo-Nazi crime" - THINK TWICE! Decide who has a vested interest!
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Thought for the Day:
"We quickly get used to things the way they are. We soon forget how things used to be. That is why this country's neurotic attitude to race no longer seems, as it has actually become, extremely odd; in my adult lifetime, we have moved astonishingly fast from a time when we were all innocent of racism until proved guilty, to a time when we are all assumed guilty, whether we acknowledge it or not."
(Minette Marrin in "The obsession and hysteria that a single word ignites", today's Daily Telegraph, London)
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