Reply With QuoteI see nothing wrong with that...a couple of Panzers rolling through the streets of Berlin is not a problem...or is it?
[BREAKING] Germany: Constitutional Court allows domestic deployment of military
Just came in over DADP news ticker...
Germany's Constitutional Court has issued a landmark decision regarding the domestic deployment of the German military, declaring it "constitutional in principle". The nation's most supreme court's decision comes as a big surprise in a debate that has split the country since the G8 summit in Northern Germany five years ago where soldiers were called in to assist police forces in matters indirectly related to law enforcement. However, the judges said the domestic deployment of the military could only be constitutional if needed to respond to "imminent threats to the national security on an unprecedented scale".
Oh... this is going to be fun.
I see nothing wrong with that...a couple of Panzers rolling through the streets of Berlin is not a problem...or is it?
You do know that this information is from 2008...? Or so a quick Google-Fu tells me.
No, T-34's and IS-2's are.Originally Posted by Stormz_STA
I see nothing wrong with that...a couple of Panzers rolling through the streets of Berlin is not a problem...or is it?
^Yip, Storms, you should not worry. Poland is not domestic part of Germany
Wow, can we now expect a series of fatal heart-attacks among the usual suspects?
Tbh, I can't see what should be wrong with this ruling. We're talking about "imminent threats to the national security on an unprecedented scale" and not about a platoon of Marders mowing done those 1st May rioters
Thank God for that!^Yip, Storms, you should not worry. Poland is not domestic part of Germany
Does Germany have something similar to the Posse Comitatus Act?
I can't see what would be wrong with this. Its only logical.
We've had laws for pretty long now.
Not yet... not yet^Yip, Storms, you should not worry. Poland is not domestic part of Germany
More and more details come in over various German news outlets; the only exemption the judges upheld is the ban on using military forces against hijacked passenger planes.
As for those of you how wonder what's the fuss... well. Apart from the dark days of Nazism we also had the dark days Communism and saw tanks rolling against our own people on our streets. It is an extremely delicate issue.Nope... it isn't. The court issued the decision at 9:30 am GMT.The military was always allowed to render technical assistance to state and federal authorities particularly in the event of natural disasters, but we've also seen reconnaissance planes being used to search for a kidnapped child for example. It's been a legal limbo up to now.
However, military forces could have never taken over law enforcement duties unless in the event of all-out war and under state of emergency.
If the society works fine and is ruled and regulated to certain standards nothing is wrong with this decision. The fear is that a kind of unprecedented national threat can be created to use the military and overthrow the government or something like that.
The point is that if there are tendencies in the society and military to reach for power through a military coup, or use the armed forces as a suppression tool, they would do that regardless what the state of law is at the moment.
Such a law would just make it a dim easier to achieve that goal and help mask it for a short while. But it wouldn't enable nor avoid such a coup.
I've always been fascinated of how a country that only has been around since ~1871 can have such a 'colorful' history.
The world should lose the WW2 attitude.
Germany's been around since way before 1871, and that contributed greatly to many of our problems in the 20th century. New constitutions or changes in the system of government don't make a country cease to exist.
Anyways, the first regular news features are out now. Here's additional linkage in case the German speakers among you are interested: Link
Wow, the commentaries are "golden". Sometimes I wonder if all hope for Germany is already lost
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