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Germans All Set for Dhimmitude?
Hot Air 10 May 2011
By J.E. Dyer
Everyone knows at this point about the German judge who filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Angela Merkel for her remark that she was glad Osama bin Laden was dead. A great deal has been made of what she said and whether it’s appropriate to be "glad” that bin Laden was killed. But what concerns me is that a German judge thought what she did was criminal.
The situation here is actually worse than it looks. It would be bad enough if the problem were only that a bunch of Germans through it was inappropriate to cheer over bin Laden’s death. That’s the least of our worries. I had the same thought myself; but I don’t propose doing anything about it other than expressing my opinion.
The real problem is that the German judge’s complaint against Merkel, while calling it "tacky and undignified” for her to be "glad” about bin Laden’s death, invoked Germany’s criminal code specifically by claiming that Merkel was "rewarding and approving of a crime” in her statement about it.
Rewarding a crime is one thing – although it is first necessary for a competent authority to determine that a crime has occurred. No such determination has been made in the case of the slaying of bin Laden. Rewarding a crime in a material sense may, however, be sensibly deemed criminal. (...)
Posted May 10th, 2011 by pk
Germans All Set for Dhimmitude?
Hot Air 10 May 2011
By J.E. Dyer
Everyone knows at this point about the German judge who filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Angela Merkel for her remark that she was glad Osama bin Laden was dead. A great deal has been made of what she said and whether it’s appropriate to be "glad” that bin Laden was killed. But what concerns me is that a German judge thought what she did was criminal.
The situation here is actually worse than it looks. It would be bad enough if the problem were only that a bunch of Germans through it was inappropriate to cheer over bin Laden’s death. That’s the least of our worries. I had the same thought myself; but I don’t propose doing anything about it other than expressing my opinion.
The real problem is that the German judge’s complaint against Merkel, while calling it "tacky and undignified” for her to be "glad” about bin Laden’s death, invoked Germany’s criminal code specifically by claiming that Merkel was "rewarding and approving of a crime” in her statement about it.
Rewarding a crime is one thing – although it is first necessary for a competent authority to determine that a crime has occurred. No such determination has been made in the case of the slaying of bin Laden. Rewarding a crime in a material sense may, however, be sensibly deemed criminal. (...)
Posted May 10th, 2011 by pk
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