by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
The Federation of German Criminal Investigators and the Minister of the Interior of Lower-Saxony demands that German military be used as additional police force in Germany itself. The need is claimed to rise from the threat of terror – here we have the fake terror again – and the lack of police officers and the deficit in the security budgets. Thus, it is claimed, the military must be put into action to aid the executive of the country.
This is, so far, the most ominous development in Germany, next to the demand by the CDU to curb the freedoms of the press, that points to a re-militarization of policing and of oppression by the state.
This very much smacks of an era that we all hoped to have been consigned to the dustbin of history never to rear its ugly head again, in Germany especially, and in other countries but, alas, it would appear that the very people charged with protecting the country are now wanting to have it go back to such times.
The Federation of German Criminal Investigators demands, as said, that the Bundeswehr, the German army, be deployed as a support unit – yes, the German army was thus during the times of the Nazi terror as well as before under the Weimar Republic and even before that.
Because of the fact that the police defined state of emergency resultant of the danger of terror will continue far into the next year, the government should permit the use of the military to assist the executive powers of its own country, said Klaus Jansen, the president of the Federation, and he especially wants the use of the Feldjäger, the military police of the army, because they are trained in police matters.
While for the moment the federal government and the commander-in-chief of the German army speak out against such use of the military we can but hope – and maybe even pray – that they do not change their minds or that there is no change in leadership that is resisting this for some time to come.
The current terror alert in Germany – and elsewhere – must not be allowed to become a reason for the use of the military, not even in the role of an auxiliary police. The German military is neither suited nor permitted – under the Constitution – to be used as a Deputy Sheriff but then again, under the Constitution it was also never allowed to be used abroad and they changed that quickly in the German parliament.
Let us hope, and pray, as I have said already, that this is not going to be done in this case as well.
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