31 OCTOBER 2007, WEDNESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
The Technical University of Munich \u2013 like the Town of Muegeln, Finding Itself Not Guilty? \u2013 1<\/p>\n
\u201cModerator: Was it a surprise \u2013 the things that happened in the town of Muegeln, in Saxony, over the weekend? Was it a surprise that around fifty Germans threatened, hunted down, and finally beat up a few men from India? Was it a surprise that passers-by just looked on and did nothing to help? No, not at all. And this absence of surprise is almost as bad as the events themselves. For a long time we\u2019ve considered it a sort of normal abnormality, simply the moral \u2013 or rather, immoral \u2013 norms of a small town that a mob should suddenly go after foreigners. Of course that kind of thing can happen anywhere in Germany, but it happens especially in the eastern part of the country. Only a fifth of the German population lives in eastern Germany, but it is home to half of the 40,000 German neo-Nazis. Our reporters Steffen Judzikowski, Wolfgang Kramer, and Joe Sperling visited Muegeln.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n (First Report – to be continued)<\/p>\n Sources: First Report – Steffen Judzikowski, Wolfgang Kramer, Joe Sperling, \u201eMuegeln unter Verdacht \u2013 Deutsche jagen Auslaender,\u201c ZDF, Frontal 21, Broadcast of 21 August 2007. Second Report – Guener Balci und Reinhard Laska, Gefaehrliche Zivilcourage – Kein Schutz fuer mutige Buerger, ZDF, Frontal 21, Broadcast of 4 September 2007. Third Report \u2013 Caroline Walter und Alexander Kobylinski, \u201eMuegeln \u2013 eine Stadt waescht sich rein,\u201c Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg, Kontraste, Broadcast of 20 September 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like someone who has been attacked and injured by a group of thugs. You forgive the thugs, but at the same time you have to warn other people about them.\u201d \u2013 George Sand<\/p>\n \u201cI love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.\u201d – James Baldwin<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n 31 OKTOBER 2007, MITTWOCH, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen \u2013 wie M\u00fcgeln, w\u00e4scht sie sich rein? \u2013 1<\/p>\n \u201eAnmoderation: Hat es uns \u00fcberrascht, was da am Wochenende im s\u00e4chsischen M\u00fcgeln passiert ist? Hat es uns \u00fcberrascht, dass ein halbes Hundert Deutsche einige Inder bedroht, gejagt und verpr\u00fcgelt hat, dass Passanten nur zugeschaut und nicht geholfen haben? Nein hat es nicht. Und das ist fast so schlimm wie das Geschehen selbst. L\u00e4ngst halten wir es f\u00fcr normale Un-Normalit\u00e4t, f\u00fcr das Sitten-oder genauer Un-Sittengem\u00e4lde einer Kleinstadt, in der ein Mob pl\u00f6tzlich Jagd auf Ausl\u00e4nder macht. Nat\u00fcrlich sind solche Ausschreitungen ein gesamtdeutsches Ph\u00e4nomen, aber den Osten betrifft und trifft es ganz besonders. Im Osten lebt nur ein F\u00fcnftel der Bev\u00f6lkerung, aber die H\u00e4lfte aller 40.000 deutschen Rechtsextremen. Steffen Judzikowski, Wolfgang Kramer und Joe Sperling waren in M\u00fcgeln und Umgebung.\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n (Erster Bericht – Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n Quellen: Erster Bericht – Steffen Judzikowski, Wolfgang Kramer, Joe Sperling, \u201eM\u00fcgeln unter Verdacht \u2013 Deutsche jagen Ausl\u00e4nder,\u201c ZDF, Frontal 21, Sendung vom 21. August 2007. Zweiter Bericht – G\u00fcner Balci und Reinhard Laska, Gef\u00e4hrliche Zivilcourage – Kein Schutz f\u00fcr mutige B\u00fcrger, ZDF, Frontal 21, Sendung vom 4. September 2007. Dritter Bericht \u2013 Caroline Walter und Alexander Kobylinski, \u201eM\u00fcgeln \u2013 eine Stadt w\u00e4scht sich rein,\u201c Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg, Kontraste-Sendung vom 20.September 2007.<\/p>\n \u201eIch f\u00fchle mich wie eine Person, die von einer Gruppe Schl\u00e4ger angegriffen und verletzt wird. Man vergibt die Schl\u00e4ger, aber man muss andere Menschen vor ihnen warnen.\u201c \u2013 George Sand<\/p>\n \u201eIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/<\/p>\n ===========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 31 OCTOBER 2007, WEDNESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich \u2013 like the Town of Muegeln, Finding Itself Not Guilty? \u2013 1 \u201cModerator: Was it a surprise \u2013 the things that happened in the town of Muegeln, in Saxony, over the weekend? 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