Cars,Travel and Military in Germany

Berlin (dpa) - German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has confirmed plans to seek a change to the constitution to allow the state secret access to the computers of private individuals, in an interview published Thursday.

“Under certain conditions it must be possible for the Federal Criminal Police Office to search computers in secret,” Schaeuble told the Handelsblatt newspaper. Schaeuble’s attempts to gain greater powers for police and other state authorities, including storing the fingerprints of all Germans, have run into opposition within the ruling broad-based coalition.  >>more

Here’s some interesting photos of Catholic priests in supprt of Hitler. I see photos like the ones below of the German Catholics supporting Hitler and it just makes me sick to my stomach.  Did Hitler make them do it ?  Did the Catholics put up with it out of fear, or simply because they also wanted to wipe out the Jewish people?

Here are some Catholic priests giving Hitler the a-okay salute during a Youth Rally in Berlin, Germany (August 1933)

As a chairman of the German bishop conference the Breslauer Cardinal Bertram plays a crucial role in shaping the attitude of the German bishops in relation to the National Socialist state.  THis is the funeral procession of Bishop Bares in Berlin (1935)

(Ablove) Cardinal Secretary of State, Eugenio Pacelli (later to become Pope Pius XII) signs the Concordat between Nazi Germany and the Vatican at a formal ceremony in Rome on 20 July 1933. Nazi Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen sits at the left, Pacelli in the middle, and the Rudolf Buttmann sits at the right.

The Concordat effectively legitimized Hitler and the Nazi government to the eyes of Catholicism, Christianity, and the world.

Catholic Bishops giving the Nazi salute in honor of Hitler.

I almost lost my mind today.  I have had a couple of house flies that have been acting sort of not like house flies at all.  More like Horse Flies.  I’d be sitting there quietly at my computer, and they would come right up to my face and buzz all around my head. Swat swat….I kept missing them.  Then he would go away for a few minutes, then sneak up behind me and buzz my ear (actually touching it) GOD is there anything more annoying?  bzzzzzt bzzztt.  It send chills up my spine thinking aobut it.

After about 3 hours of me jumping up with my paper trying to kill the little bastard, my dogs pretty much thought I was out of my mind.  It would be all quiet, dogs sleeping at my side, when I would get kamikaze bombed in the ear again.  I would yell out “GODDAMNED FLIES”  Then the dog would jump up and almost have a heart attack and look at me like I was out of my mind.  I finally gave up and decided to go to bed.  On the way up the stairs, the same awful fly attacked my ear again.  At that point I had to laugh.  I have honestly never seen anything like this….  I’ve never been attacked by house flies.  I am wondering if it is only the flies in Germany…….or if they got into something, or if they were just really hungry….

I was talking to a co-worker today who told me he had his wireless headphones confiscated by the German Police (Polizei). Apparently a neighbor a few doors down had called the police complaining that someone had a wireless device in the neighborhood which was interfering with her garage door opener. So the Police scanned the neighborhood with their little frequency finder thingy and found Mark with his headphones. They confiscated them! I asked him why he didn’t complain to the Polizei and tell them that her garage door opener was interfering with his headphones.

Two days ago I had $3000 taken out of my account by some German utilities company. What they do over here is figure out your bill based on the previous year’s power consumption. Then they just take it out of your account based on their calculations, and if you go don’t use that much they give a refund at the end of the year.

The problem in my case is that they took the money out of my account based on an old address I used to have. I don’t live there anymore (haven’t for two years) but they still have some piece of paper with my account info on it, so they just took the money!!!

I also just got a letter in the mail from my landlord telling me that if the chimney sweep guy couldn’t get in to the house, that the Polizei would break the door down. What could be so important? I never even got a notice. I wonder if they would shoot my dogs once the battered the door in. That would be perfectly legal in Germany. They would just say that the dogs were a threat to the chimney sweeper guy.

Oh yeah, and the cops here are allowed to beat you for any reason they want. Pretty sucky huh?

I wish I were in Italy or France sometimes. Being an American in this socialist society gets pretty nerve wracking at times. What did I learn from this about the German legal control system?

1. They can go into your account and take your money without any discussion or notice.

2. They can beat you if they feel like it. (legally!)

3. They can break your door in and kill your dog (Just to see if the chimney is dirty)

4. If a German neighbor doesn’t like your headphones, they will have them confiscated.

I did a little research, and there do appear to be some Nazi laws still on the books. Here’s an interesting article about the long arm of the (Nazi Law) in modern Germany

and here’s how they take control over your children if you are a Baptist

Posted for Joe by Pajagre