And he has resigned. Honestly I am glad that it happened like this. The risk of cooperation with the AfD was always there, but because it happened so early and it was a Liberal nobody who tried, the political establishment including his own party stomped that cockroach pretty swiftly. Itâs a good thing that we have that precedent before such a cooperation becomes useful to someone genuinely powerful.
Unlike the US, where a major party decided to back a orange impeached glob of shite just to get more power.
Federal prosecutors are treating the case as terrorism. Turkey says at least five of the dead were Turkish citizens.
The 43-year-old suspect killed himself, police say. He was found dead at his home along with the body of his mother.
To succeed in their claims against the state, the Hohenzollerns must prove that they had not given substantial support to the National Socialist or Communist regimes. This has led to increasingly strained arguments.
Wilhelmâs subsequent endorsement of Hitlerâs candidacy is seen by [Wolfram] Pyta, [the historian hired to press the Hohenzollern claim] as a shrewd maneuver to undermine the Nazis, since the âcrown princeâ believed that, given his own unpopularity among the working class, his public support for the Nazi Party would cost Hitler votes. This claim is both outlandish and entirely unfounded. In a similar way, Pyta explains Wilhelmâs lobbying for the lifting of the ban on the SA and SS as another cunning ploy to harm Hitler, because the reintroduction of the paramilitaries would have bankrupted the party. This, too, seems far-fetched. In fact, when the ban was eventually lifted, there were no major negative financial repercussions. The SA had its own fund-raising activites, including selling uniforms and its own brand of cigarettes; in addition, SA members had to join the Nazi Party, which benefited from collecting their membership fees.
After she got on her knees, Walper adds that the officers then âpushed the individual down to the groundâ and put her into handcuffs.
As a result of being pushed to the ground, the employee had a bloodied nose. Neither Whalen nor Walper could confirm if she had suffered any other injuries. The employee could be heard crying out on the video and there were blood stains on the concrete.
According to Whalen, it took an extra few moments for the employee to get down because of the costume itself.
âShe kept yelling at them that she couldnât kneel down because, in that stormtrooper costume, you canât even sit down in it, like itâs impossible to sit down. She kept telling them that she couldnât get down is what she explained to me after we talked to her.â
âIt wasnât a matter of her not wanting to cooperate,â Whalen continued. âShe dropped the gun when they told her to and just forcing her, making her get down on the ground after they determined that she wasnât a risk and that the gun wasnât even a real gun, it was a plastic Star Wars blaster.â
So, you roll up to âCoco Vanilla Galactic Cantinaâ, plastered with Marvel and Star Wars logos, see someone in a stormtrooper uniform, and⌠this is the result? Yeesh.
Just an excuse to beat someone up I guess.
I hate to over-generalize on something so recent, but it sounds like the violence was caused by right-wing groups who had come to London to âdefend monuments.â
From what Iâve read in a few places, at least some there to âprotectâ a statue of Churchill⌠while tossing Nazi salutes. (One example source, out of many ) Oh, and shouting that the Police are Antifa.
This timeline is so #$&%$# confusing.
a minister named Patel referring to antifascists as âthugsâ is icing on the cake.
edit: hereâs a counter-narrative: