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Title: Activists riot against G-20 summit for 3rd night in Hamburg
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URL Source: https://townhall.com/news/politics- ... -3rd-night-in-hamburg-n2352386
Published: Jul 9, 2017
Author: AP News
Post Date: 2017-07-09 14:59:31 by BTP Holdings
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Activists riot against G-20 summit for 3rd night in Hamburg AP News | Posted: Jul 09, 2017 9:10 AM HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Anti-globalization activists rioted for a third consecutive night in Hamburg early Sunday even after Group of 20 leaders had already left the port city in northern Germany. Police again used water cannon trucks against rioters attacking them with iron rods and pavement stones. They arrested 186 protesters and temporarily detained another 225 people. Officials say 476 officers have been injured in the violence since Thursday. The number of injured protesters wasn't clear. Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel condemned the violence, saying "Germany's reputation is severely affected internationally by the events in Hamburg." Gabriel told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that a Europe-wide investigative team should search for suspects. Hamburg's police president Ralf Meyer told reporters at a news conference that while he was proud of the 20,000 police officers who managed to provide security for the many international leaders and their delegations, it was deplorable that so many of them were injured and that the violent riots couldn't be prevented. The city's interior minister said they hadn't expected this kind of brutality by leftist extremists. "We had to deal — detached from the actual events at the summit — with ruthless acts of violence by criminals," Andy Grote said. The city's officials reiterated that those who suffered from the destruction would quickly receive financial support from the government. Cars were torched, stores looted, bikes burned in street barricades and windows smashed during the three-day violence. The overwhelming majority of the tens of thousands who took to the streets protested peacefully against the G-20 summit, demanding quicker action against global warming and more help for refugees. The summit, which took place on Friday and Saturday, was hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Guests included President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and many other international leaders who held talks on contentious issues like climate, trade, terrorism and migration. Poster Comment: How quickly the Germans forget their history. During the rise of the Third Reich it was Communists that opposed the Nazis fervently. And there is no reason why the left wingers today cannot be equated to the Communists of yesteryear.
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Ghost of Herr Adolf: "Do you miss me yet?" Cars were torched, stores looted, bikes burned in street barricades and windows smashed during the three-day violence.
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: X-15 (#1)
Ghost of Herr Adolf: "Do you miss me yet?" It all sounds more like anarchy than anything else. ;) Kant[edit] The German philosopher Immanuel Kant treated anarchy in his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View as consisting of "Law and Freedom without Force". Thus, for Kant, anarchy falls short of being a true civil state because the law is only an "empty recommendation" if force is not included to make this law efficacious ("legitimation", etymologically fancifully from "lex timere" = "fearing the law"[3]). For there to be such a state, force must be included while law and freedom are maintained, a state which Kant calls a republic.[4][5] Kant identified four kinds of government: 1. law and freedom without force (anarchy) 2. law and force without freedom (despotism) 3. force without freedom and law (barbarism) 4. force with freedom and law (republic) Cars were torched, stores looted, bikes burned in street barricades and windows smashed during the three-day violence.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#3. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Do you think that maybe some of the rioters were protesting the invasion? Can't tell by this report. The overwhelming majority of the tens of thousands who took to the streets protested peacefully against the G-20 summit, demanding quicker action against global warming and more help for refugees.
#4. To: BTP Holdings (#2)
As we see, a republic or a democracy can both be despotic. In fact majority rule is usually despotic as the majority has no mind and is led by information control. The USSR was a federation of constitutional republics with a federal (central) constitution. The form of government is less important than the political philosophy. Where a society is on the range totalitarian-authoritarian-libertarian has more to do with cultural beliefs than government structure. This is not absolute, as the Jews knew when they destroyed the Christian monarchies to gain the liberty (free speech and property rights for non-Christians) to then destroy the cultural beliefs. At which point (today) they are able to increasingly ramp up authoritarianism and soon totalitarianism with their culture in control.
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