German Press Is At It Again

[Annie]

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19291_Muslim_Protesters-_God_Bless_Hitler#comments

Muslim Protesters: "God Bless Hitler"

At Germany’s n-tv.de, a photo from an Islamic rally in Pakistan. (Hat tip: hans ze beeman.)

(It’s not a Photoshop job.)

UPDATE at 2/18/06 10:03:51 am:

The caption at n-tv.de reads:

Was genau sie mit dem Plakat sagen wollen, bleibt unklar.
​

Translated to English:

What these women want to say with the sign is unclear.​

http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2006/02/der_spiegel_ame.html

SPIEGEL: "America's Disgrace: Torture in the Name of Freedom"

(By Ray D.)

Just when you thought you were safe. SPIEGEL has just released another one of its famous hate-America covers. They really can't help themselves. There is an enormous demand for anti-American innuendo in Germany that is simply too lucrative to pass up. The latest edition is a cynical masterpiece:

"America's Disgrace: Torture in the Name of Freedom"

Torture in the name of freedom? Since when has America advocated torture as a means of promoting freedom? When someone is tortured or abused in a German jail in violation of established standards, does that mean the German government is torturing in the name of democracy as well? When illegal immigrants suffocate or commit suicide in German custody is that also in the name of democracy? It is as if the United States had never addressed the issue. It is as if the McCain bill torture ban had never been passed by Congress and signed by the President.

This is a dangerously cynical equation of two concepts. Particularly in a Europe where the general public is already so jaded that many no longer believe in the concept of freedom. Why? Because instead of reporting on the systematic violation of human rights in nations like North Korea and Iran the German media finds it necessary to exploit two year old photos of Abu Ghraib for profit (again and again). Never mind that Saddam's Abu Ghraib was a thousand times worse or that hundreds of thousands are starving to death in Kim Jong Il's gulags. There is no need for context in the world of asymmetric journalism.

Germany's Disgrace: Standing By While Dictators Murder Millions

Germany opposed toppling Saddam and his regime of mass graves. It was not Germany or the UN but the United States that ended the killing in the Balkans. And while SPIEGEL lectures us on "America's Disgrace," the German government is out actively promoting business ties and trade fairs with the Sudanese government as the slaughter in Darfur continues. Ex-Chancellor Schroeder favored lifting the EU arms embargo on China, perhaps the world's most prolific violator of human rights. German efforts to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions have proven to be more of the same impotent diplomatic dupery that too many Europeans support at all costs. In the meantime the Iranians have taken advantage of the stalling to advance their insane ambitions to destroy Israel and threaten the world.

The most disgraceful aspect is that Germany has repeatedly coddled, condoned and even assisted regimes of dictatorship and mass murder despite its own disgraceful national history. And then, in an effort to relativize its own shameful history and diplomatic impotency, German media publications like SPIEGEL pump the numb, jaded audience full of the vile America hate to which so many have become emotionally addicted. The irony of it all is that publications like SPIEGEL would not even have the freedom to print this exploitative trash had it not been for the massive sacrifice in lives, blood and toil of American soldiers to liberate Germany from Fascism and defend it from Communism.

No context. No differentiation. Shock value. Manipulation. Emotionalism. Sensationalism. And then the same publication dares lecture us on the dangers of anti-Americanism.

For that there can be but one word: H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y

 

[manu1959]

german guilt....the two greatest wars in the last 100 years....

both germany' fault......

have they ever won a war? both them and france suck at war...must be why they try and take the piss on the civilized world

 

[Annie]

And here I was trying to be PC and all, blaming the Press, thought I'd give the people and the new lady a break!

 

[archangel]

lest we forget that Germany went to bed with Islam and the "Ottoman Empire" (reborn) during WWII...Germany has never changed with the World domination theory...they continue down the same old road!

 

[Hobbit]

german guilt....the two greatest wars in the last 100 years....

both germany' fault......

have they ever won a war? both them and france suck at war...must be why they try and take the piss on the civilized world

The Angles and the Saxons, both Germanic tribes, conquored Britannia in about the 4th century, which is why southern Britannia is now called England, which is an evolution of "Angle Land." It's also why the English are called "Anglo-Saxons."

Germanic tribes were also the only part of Europe that managed to fend off the Romans.

The Franks were also a Germanic tribe, thus beginning the tradition of the Germans beating France.

The Holy Roman Empire also managed to stand for a thousand years before being divided up and eventually reconquered by General Bismark, forming the Second Reich (why Nazi Germany was the Third Reich).

Germany has always been good at fighting. They just always bite off a little more than they could chew (they could have conquered Europe twice if it weren't for the U.S. and a couple of pivotal blunders). Their problem now is that they can't have a sizable military as a condition of their surrender.