Good points, Lance.
Surely, Justin you don't forget the repressive West German law of the
late 70's, the Berufsverbot, after the Hans-Martin Schleyer kidnapping by
the RAF?
<URL: http://www.google.com/search?Berufsverbot+RAF+SPD >
The social climber - A biographical sketch of German SPD leader ... ... and
politically intimidated through the "Berufsverbot," the repressive measures
against the RAF (Red Army ... propagandist ostracism of an SPD-led
government.". ... http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/may1998/spd-m8.shtml
<URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/feb2001/germ-f20.shtml >
"Germany: new law allows more extensive government monitoring of phone
calls and email
By Alexander Boulerian 20 February 2001
> ...Interior Minister Otto Schily long took over the leading role of
> strengthening and confirming this authority. According to Schily, it is
> no longer a question of protecting the individual from the state, but
> rather protecting him from organised crime. This is also how Schily
> explained his point of view when he was merely a parliamentary deputy—a
> view that has clearly changed since the days when, as a lawyer, he
> defended members of the RAF (Red Army Fraction). (As did lawyer Gerhard
> Schroeder, then.)
Did not Judges in Italy who were members of the PCI come down hard of the Red Brigades? ATS-L Archives: Red Brigades: A Brief History And Introduction ... the revisionist PCI) all seemed to press toward the brink of ending bourgeois democracy. This did not happen in the expected way. The Red Brigades and other ... http://burn.ucsd.edu/archives/ats-l/1995.Feb/0049.htm
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