German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has always set anti-German priorities. This irresponsible behaviour is now once again becoming apparent.

For while Germany has cared for more than 200 foreign Corona patients free of charge (i.e. to the detriment of the German taxpayer), the Foreign Minister is playing the tough guy with the sick Germans who are abroad.

The Social Democratic comrade has now announced that the federal government will not transport back corona-infected vacationers to Germany this summer. “In any case, anyone who becomes infected on vacation cannot assume that we will bring them back to Germany”, Maas told the newspaper “Bild am Sonntag”. He continued: “Of course, in acute emergencies our foreign missions are always ready to provide consular support. But: “The Federal Government will not be able to send planes again this summer to bring German tourists home.” On Wednesday, Maas announced a gradual lifting of the travel warnings. In an interview with the newspaper “Bild am Sonntag”, Maas said that the travel warnings would be limited to EU countries.

They want to be sure “that our citizens, when they travel, are as safe as possible with regard to the spread of the virus”. The Foreign Minister has not specified when the travel warning will also be lifted for countries outside the EU, such as Turkey. “There are talks with the Turkish government. We will not maintain the travel warning permanently”, said Maas. However, when the time will come will depend on how the pandemic develops.Maas warned that he will issue new travel warnings against these holiday destinations very quickly if corona protection measures are violated: “The distance and hygiene rules also apply to the hotspots. If they are not observed, travel warnings can turn into travel warnings again.”

In this context it is also noteworthy that more than 15,000 migrants have entered Germany by plane to date. The expenses do not matter, they are not Germans after all.

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New York City authorities have hit upon a brilliant strategy, one that Neville Chamberlain would certainly approve of.

Give the rioters and protesters everything they want while looking the other way as they trash the city. Appeasing mobs and dictators doesn’t work out very well for the appeasers. But those who are being appeased make out like bandits — literally.

The Manhattan District Attorney didn’t exactly get on his knees and grovel to the mob. But his stomach-turning statement on why he wasn’t going to prosecute curfew violators should make decent, law-abiding people turn away in disgust.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. today announced the D.A.’s Office’s policy regarding arrests on charges of Unlawful Assembly and Disorderly Conduct during ongoing demonstrations against the use of excessive force and killing of George Floyd. Previously, the D.A.’s Office’s policy was to offer individuals charged with these low-level offenses an Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal, meaning their cases would be dismissed within six months. Under the new policy, the D.A.’s Office declines to prosecute these arrests in the interest of justice. The Office will also continue to evaluate and decline to prosecute other protest-related charges where appropriate.

“The prosecution of protestors charged with these low-level offenses undermines critical bonds between law enforcement and the communities we serve. Days after the killing of George Floyd, our nation and our city are at a crossroads in our continuing endeavor to confront racism and systemic injustice wherever it exists. Our office has a moral imperative to enact public policies which assure all New Yorkers that in our justice system and our society, black lives matter and police violence is a crime. We commend the thousands of our fellow New Yorkers who have peacefully assembled to demand these achievable aims, and our door is open to any New Yorker who wishes to be heard.”

I get an image of Neville Chamberlain waving a piece of paper in the air and proclaiming “peace in our time.”

Not prosecuting curfew scofflaws and disorderly protesters will lead to more of the same. And if the district attorney won’t stand up and enforce the law, who will?

A curfew is not a suggestion — like when your parents used to tell you to be home by midnight. It’s the law. It’s critical in order to keep the city from going up in flames that protesters understand that actions have consequences — even minor actions like breaking a curfew.

But Vance defeats the entire purpose of imposing a curfew in the first place.

The D.A.’s Office’s policy is designed to minimize unnecessary interactions with the criminal justice system, reduce racial disparities and collateral consequences in low-level offense prosecutions, and enable the Office and court system to preserve resources for the prosecution of serious crimes. If evidence emerges that any individuals personally participated in violence against police officers, destruction, or looting, such individuals will be charged with appropriate crimes.

In this case, it’s vitally necessary to give the curfew violators a “necessary interaction” with the criminal justice system. It’s called a deterrent. Police are a deterrent to violence. An armored car is usually a wonderful deterrent to violence.

Authorities are not dealing with rational, logical thinking. They are dealing with a mob, with mob psychology that is the closest humans get to exhibiting basic animal instincts. Without deterrence, you have chaos. With chaos comes destruction and death.

If authorities want to pull the police back and allow the protesters and rioters to have their way, New York will be a smoking ruin in 48 hours. So the terrified mayor allows the police to try and keep order but then criticizes them for doing so. And the prosecutor decries “police violence” and releases lawbreakers without a by-your-leave from the police.

Cops can’t arrest people if they’re not going to be prosecuted. What’s the point? It’s a wasted effort unless those who break the law and threaten the peace are given a reason not to do so.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/06/06/manhattan-da-wont-prosecute-curfew-violators-urges-more-protests-n502259

The conversation between someone who had to work in the area and security personnel went like this:

“a woman dropped off a relative for a first aid course at the Main Train Station in Düsseldorf:

‘We got there a little earlier to check out the scene in front of the main entrance. Lo and behold, the brick fairy had been there. We took pictures of the nice pile of bricks from the conveniently timed “construction”.I asked the First Aid instructor what security measures he would be taking for the demonstration today. He responded with,What demonstration?’. He was uniformed and disinterested. His response was,‘Let them demonstrate’.I asked the barista at Starbucks if he knew about the BLM demonstration at 2pm? Nope.I went up to a police officer. He was the only one that knew about it. I saw several police patrolling already at 8:30 in the morning.My conversation with the police officer was interesting. I told him [my young relative] was taking a First Aid course today until 4pm. I asked if he knew when the demonstration would be over and what area would be blocked off.He said he wasn’t psychic and it all depended on the demonstrators.I asked him about whether the demonstration was registered and if there wasn’t a specific time period for demonstration to end.Same answer.I told him my [spouse] would be picking my [young relative] up and asked if he could tell me which street would be blocked off.He couldn’t (wouldn’t) tell me and suggested my [relative] take the public transport home or that we pick them up somewhere else in the city.I asked if the demonstration will only take place in front of the train station.He said that depended on the demonstrators.I asked if the police wouldn’t make sure they don’t leave the area.He said that the police wouldn’t contain them because that might provoke a violent reaction.I mentioned the pile of bricks.He said the police assume that it will be a “peaceful” demonstration.I retorted with, ‘like in the U.S.? Eleven people died.’He repeated, ‘We assume it will be peaceful.’I asked, “If it isn’t, will the police stop it?”He said, “Then there will be ugly pictures on the news tonight.”

https://vladtepesblog.com/

President Trump is right to reduce the U.S. military force strength in Germany. But he should now redeploy some of those forces to establish a permanent base in Poland.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump’s order will reduce the total U.S. deployed strength in Germany from 34,500 to 25,000 personnel. It would also cap the total number of personnel in Germany at 25,000.

This is welcome news. Berlin remains an American ally, but it is one that is unwilling to shoulder its fair defense burden under NATO. The alliance, which remains a critical mechanism of Western security and prosperity (including American interests), expects all member states to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense each year. But in 2019, Germany only spent 1.36% of GDP on defense and less than the 20%-of-total-defense-budget target for equipment spending.

While Germany is increasing defense spending, it is doing so far too slowly. An earlier commitment to meet the 2% target by 2024 has been squashed, with Berlin now saying that it won’t meet that target until 2031 at the earliest.

This is ridiculous for four reasons.

First, it undermines the core NATO principle that allies will share the burden of defending their common interests. Second, Germany is the de facto leader of the European Union and thus should be setting an example in defending Europe’s security. Third, Germany has Europe’s largest economy and can easily afford to meet its 2% target. Fourth, the German military is in desperate need of funding.

But Germany’s record is even worse than this.

Not only does Chancellor Angela Merkel refuse to invest in the armed forces, but she rarely allows the military to deter the alliance’s primary threat actor, Russia. While a German warship is currently involved in a NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea, that’s a rare exception to the rule. From the Barents Sea to the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, it is often America and Britain alone leading NATO’s defense. That solitary expression of the alliance’s security interests is incompatible with Russia’s rising threat to NATO’s southern flank.

Some say that it’s unfair to criticize Germany in this manner. They point to Berlin’s significant aid and diplomatic activity in support of the liberal international order. But while those activities are positive, they miss two exigent points.

First, a significant reason Germany is so reluctant to invest in its own defense is that its leaders fear aggravating Russia. This is largely down to Germany’s willful energy dependence on Moscow — a dynamic that reflects the extraordinary shortsightedness of successive German governments, empowering Russian President Vladimir Putin’s energy blackmail of the European periphery. In addition, the we-support-NATO-with-diplomacy argument would have a lot more viability if German aid convoys could obstruct Russian tank and airborne offensives. But they can’t. NATO needs capabilities that can stop invading forces and penetrate area denial strongholds.

That brings us to Poland. While Germany skimps on defense, Poland does quite the opposite. Though far less wealthy than Germany and many other NATO members, Poland meets both the 2% GDP defense spending target and the 20% equipment share target. Warsaw has also shown repeated willingness to deploy its forces on combat operations alongside American units. Deeply pro-American and resolute in the face of Russian intimidation, Poland is an ally to celebrate.

Moreover, Warsaw is desperate for a permanent American military presence on its soil, even offering to pay a significant part of the establishment and operational costs that would be entailed.

Trump can now offer that presence with some of the forces being pulled from Germany. Doing so would put American forces in a better position to defend the Baltics and Poland in the event of a Russian invasion. But it would also show that America values friends that are willing to stand alongside us rather than behind us.

Trump’s undermining of the alliance’s Article 5 mutual defense stipulations is highly ill-judged. Still, he deserves credit for pushing NATO to increase spending. Moving forces from Germany to Poland would send a valuable message to Moscow — and a valuable message to our NATO allies.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trump-rightly-cuts-germany-troop-levels-but-should-redeploy-some-forces-to-poland

In the early morning of Shrove Monday a 42-man, of Iraqi origin, is said to have killed his wife (30 years old) in Dortmund.

When his wife was discovered by the police in an apartment in downtown Dortmund, the officers soon assumed that she had been killed. The husband was arrested on the spot. Now terrifying further information about the suspected perpetrator’s past became known.

The autopsy of the woman’s body already revealed in February that the “30-year-old Iraqi woman died due to massive violence against her neck. At the scene of the crime, the husband, in response to a question from investigators, said his wife had tried to take his children away. Since then, however, the 42-year-old has remained silent on the case, reports the newspaper “WAZ”.

The couple had married in Iraq in 2011 and had given birth to four children there. In 2017 the family moved to Stolberg near Aachen. They lived in Germany with a temporary residence permit until the end.The 42-year-old had already become violent towards his wife in the past. She and her children first fled to a women’s shelter. They then moved into the apartment on the street Viktoriastraße in Dortmund. According to “WAZ”, the 30-year-old voluntarily hosted her husband again only a few weeks before the crime.

In the meantime, it has become known that the Iraqi has apparently already committed another murder. The mother of four was his second wife. He is said to have killed his first wife in the Netherlands. There he was even in prison before he married the second wife.

Since his arrest, the man is now in custody. He is represented by a lawyer. There is no date set for the trial yet.

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The domestic intelligence agency for the city-state of Hamburg in Germany announced on Friday that there are 50 Hezbollah members in Hamburg and roughly 30 Hezbollah-affiliated associations spread across Germany, JPostreported.

The number of Hezbollah members increased from 30 in Hamburg in 2018 to 50 in 2019 said the new 313-page intelligence report that covers a wide range of threats to Hamburg’s democracy and constitutional system.

The intelligence officials said that “the reason for the clear increase [of Hezbollah operatives] in comparison to last year is the intensive intelligence of the domestic intelligence service, especially in the internet.”

The report noted that “in Hamburg there are roughly 50 Hezbollah supporters who consort… at the Islamic Center Hamburg as well at the Imam Ali Mosque.”

Both the Islamic Center and the Imam Ali Mosque are owned by Iran’s regime and serve as the long arm of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Khamenei.

The Hezbollah supporters participate in religious services on Friday and other religious events at the Islamic Center Hamburg and the Imam Ali Mosque, according to the Hamburg report.

The German Interior Ministry last month issued a federal order outlawing Hezbollah in Germany, and also took enforcement measures under the provisions of the order.

The order prohibits any contact with members of the organization and does not differentiate between its various arms – military, political or social. According to the order, any use of the organization’s symbols and the organization’s assets in Germany, if any, would be banned.

Israel’s Kan 11 News later reported that Germany received intelligence informationfrom Israel that helped formulate the declaration that Hezbollah will be outlawed.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah condemned Germany’s ban on his group, calling the German decision a “political decision that reflects Germany’s submission to America’s will and to pleasing Israel.”

In 2013, the European Union blacklisted Hezbollah’s “military wing” as a terrorist organization, while failing to blacklist the group’s political arm.

In March of 2019, the British government designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Earlier this year, Britain’s finance ministry added the entire Hezbollah organization to its list of terrorist groups subject to asset freezing.

There are an estimated 1,050 Hezbollah members in Germany, according to German intelligence. The Hezbollah operatives raise funds, recruit new members, promote the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel, and spread jihadi ideology.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/281413

President of Minneapolis Police Officers Federation Bob Kroll says that people should remember George Floyd’s “violent criminal history”, including a home invasion that involved pointing a gun at a woman which resulted in five-year prison sentence. Kroll called protests over Floyd’s death the work of a terrorist movement.

“What is not being told is the violent criminal history of George Floyd. The media will not air this,” Kroll wrote in a letter addressed to his members that was published on Twitter on Monday.

George Floyd was sentenced to five years in prison in 2009 for an assault and robbery committed two years earlier. He was convicted after pleading guilty to entering a woman’s home and jabbing a gun in her stomach while searching for money and drugs, according to court documents.

According to the court report, the victim said the largest member of the group, who she identified as Floyd, “forced his way inside the residence, placed a pistol against the complainant’s abdomen, and forced her into the living room area of the residence.”

“This large suspect then proceeded to search the residence while another armed suspect guarded the complainant, who was struck in the head and sides by this second armed suspect with his pistol while she screamed for help.”

Floyd, who was accompanied by five other men, never found any money or drugs, but took jewelry and the victim’s cell phone. A neighbor who observed the robbery occur wrote down the license plate number of the perpetrators.

Even before that, he had been convicted of a range of charges from armed robbery to drug possession, the Daily Mail reported.

“This terrorist movement that is currently occurring was a long time build up which dates back years,” Kroll said in his letter.

According to him, some of the city’s issues exist because Minneapolis leaders “have been minimizing the size of our police force and diverting funds to community activists with an anti-police agenda.”

“Our chief requested 400 more officers and was flatly denied. This is what led to this record-breaking riot,” he added.

“I’ve worked with the four defense attorneys that are representing each of our four terminated individuals under criminal investigation, in addition with our labor attorneys to fight for their jobs. They were terminated without due process,” Kroll wrote.

In his letter, he also explained why the police department was not more vocal in the press. According to him, it would have a negative impact on the work and safety of police officers.

“I’ve been a visible target from the groups conducting this riot, politicians on the left allowing it and encouraging it, and liberal media. My visibility during this time would only increase your danger. I’ve received countless death threats throughout this.“

“We see the heroic work being done. We acknowledge it and commend you for it,” he said, telling his co-workers to stay safe.

Many have pointed to the massive loss in black lives directly due to riots and looting and have asked why David Dorn, the elderly black man and retired St. Louis police captain who was shot and killed on videowhile protecting his friend’s pawn shop during the riots, has not received nearly the same media attention and support from the Black Lives Matter movement.

Other black males, such as 53-year-old Federal Protective Services officer Dave Patrick Underwood, a federal law enforcement officer who shot and killed while on duty during riots last Friday in Oakland, have also received little attention in comparison to Floyd.

Floyd’s death last week sparked widespread violent protests across the United States, from New York City to Los Angeles. He died of asphyxiation after a policeman kneeled on him for nearly nine minutes, which was caught on video.

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