Similarly to last year - there had been talk of about 3,000
"ready-for-violence chaotics" that wanted to "de-glass" Munich -, the
"poison kitchen" of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior is bubbling hot
again. Minister Guenter Beckstein, "Wadlbeisser" (calf biter) by the grace
of state prime minister Stoiber, is, according to news magazine Focus,
hallucinating of "downright excesses of violence" this coming weekend. "On
the basis of calls distributed also by internet, according to our present
insight, some hundreds of ready-for-violence extremists from Germany and
the neighbouring states want to come here", the ministry's press
communication is sounding off, reminiscent of last year's soundtrack. False
reports by Bavarian "slouch hats" do not gain in credibility by being
warmed up year after year! "The massive riots on occasion of the Davos
World Economic Forum that were cause by about 1,000 Swiss 'autonomous ones'
(howyousay in Engl: Anarchists, Black Blockers or something similarly
evil... - transl.) on 25th of January, 2003, in Bern" are supposed to
document the considerable danger potential for the "security conference" in
Munich, and to justify the use of about 3,500 police officers (false
parkers beware!). "Every militant extremist should be aware that the
officers will act with a low threshold of engagement. They will not wait
and look on when legal restraints of the demonstration are massively
violated, passers-by are afflicted, or window panes broken", thusly
Beckstein was spitting "poison and gall". - With respect, Mr. Beckstein,
the only ones you will terrify with your verbal acrobatics are Munich
shopkeepers who, like last year, will barricade themselves in and then
complain about reduced turnover in their winter sales. Even the Munich
police board is distancing itself from Beckstein. "At this point there are
no indications of riots. In all the internet communications of the 72
groups that are rallying for the protest this weekend in Munich, there are
no calls for violence. Also, from the side of the German
Verfassungsschutzaemter ("offices for the protection of the constitution",
i.e. the interior secret service), there are currently no indications that
violent trouble makers are forming up for a demonstration in Munich", so
the Munich police directorate, according to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung
newspaper of 4th February 2003. Why this attempt to heat up the public
mood? - Already last week, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung ran the headline
"Police preparing for riots", now Beckstein is pouring more oil on the fire
in order to prepare already in the run-up the grounds for a public opinion
to be sympathetic to a tough clampdown by the police force. Parallels to
last year are showing up in the "Bavarian way" of dealing with protests:
Excessive controls and searche on all the main roads and trains to Munich,
probably to be extended to the entire country. - Say hi to the police
state, leave your basic rights at the Bavarian state border! Intimidate,
diffamate, arrest, and beat'em up, the Bavarian metropolis is showing its
dark heart. For the warlords there'll be Champagne, the demonstrators will
be greeted by Bavarian water cannons, that is their idea of democracy. He
is in the right who has the power to impose injustice, is what they
believe. - We'll teach them differently, our protest and resistance will be
so big (10,000 +) and loud this year, that even their lordships in the
Bayrischer Hof (where the conf takes place, -transl.) won't be able to
ignore them. See you in Munich, on the Marienplatz Friday, 7th February,
5pm - demonstration against the official reception by the city Saturday,
8th February, 12 noon - international demonstration against the NATO
"security" conference. variety pre-programme from 10 am.
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