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German Warmongers Are Going to Kill Us All
On both sides of the Atlantic, so-called “Leftists” are leading us down the Neocon path to global destruction.
I spent most of the 1980’s and half the 1990’s living in Germany. I have always known the Germans to be a peace-loving people, and the Germans I know — most of whom are in their 50’s and 60’s — are painfully aware of their past. They have always adopted a left-leaning attitude towards most matters, but especially war.
When the Green Party (Die Grünen) appeared on the German political scene in 1983, they ran on a popular platform. They were 100% against NATO, against nukes, and against war. In fact, the first time that Die Grünen were elected to parliament, it was thanks to the massive anti-war and anti-NATO demonstrations that had rocked Germany in response to America’s Pershing II missile deployment.
Their leader and cofounder was a radical anti-war activist named Petra Kelly (whose father was a US Army officer). I remember when Petra and her fellow Greens caused a stir by knitting sweaters while sitting in the Bundestag.
Today, I am a member of the US Green Party, and when I first joined the party, I was thinking of those sweater-knitting peaceniks in Germany.
