19 NOVEMBER 2007, MONDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
The Technical University of Munich \u2013 like the Town of Muegeln, Finding Itself Not Guilty? \u2013 13<\/p>\n
\u201cAn overview of right-wing crimes in recent years in Torgau-Oschatz \u2013 the county where Muegeln is situated \u2013 indicates that such crimes have not decreased.<\/p>\n \u201cKerstin Koeditz of the Left Party, member of the Saxony state legislature: \u2018How often are such incidents described as a fight among young people or a kind of bar-room brawl? People simply play down the political, xenophobic, and racist elements in these events and say something like, \u201cWell, things like that happen when alcohol is involved, and we used to be like that too, when we were young.\u201d I don\u2019t think we should make it so easy for ourselves, because you can see a pattern here: local celebrations in the provinces are no-go areas for foreigners\u2019.\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 19 NOVEMBER 2007, MONTAG, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen \u2013 wie M\u00fcgeln, w\u00e4scht sie sich rein? \u2013 13<\/p>\n \u201eEine \u00dcbersicht \u00fcber rechtsextremistische Straftaten der letzten Jahre allein hier im Landkreis Torgau-Oschatz \u2013 der Landkreis, in dem M\u00fcgeln liegt. <\/p>\n O-Ton Kerstin K\u00f6ditz, Die Linke, MdL: Bei wie vielen anderen Vorf\u00e4llen sagt man: ist ne Streiterei unter Jugendlichen gewesen oder h\u00e4ufig dieses Wort eben \u2019Wirtshausschl\u00e4gerei\u2019. Man spielt den politischen, den fremdenfeindlichen, den rassistischen Hintergrund gerne einfach runter und sagt \u2013 na ja, der Alkohol, und so was passiert mal, wie waren wir denn fr\u00fcher. Ich glaube, so einfach d\u00fcrfen wir es uns nicht machen, weil man kann auch ein Konzept dahinter sehen, Volksfeste im l\u00e4ndlichen Raum \u2013 Nogo-Area f\u00fcr Fremde.\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":" 19 NOVEMBER 2007, MONDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich \u2013 like the Town of Muegeln, Finding Itself Not Guilty? \u2013 13 \u201cAn overview of right-wing crimes in recent years in Torgau-Oschatz \u2013 the county where Muegeln is situated \u2013 indicates that such crimes have not decreased. \u201cKerstin Koeditz of the Left Party, member […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-munich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}