Canadian Tourist arrested after giving the nazi salute
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Töte mich nicht, ich bin Kanadier!
That's not its purpose.
Canada i thought you were cool. :canada:
[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;28340597]Canada i thought you were cool. :canada:[/QUOTE]
He was from Quebec thats where all the asshole Canadians come from.
[QUOTE=Mister Cool;28340738]He was from Quebec thats where all the asshole Canadians come from.[/QUOTE]
He's right, we are assholes.
I knew the Austrians were a bit sensitive about that kind of public gesture. Who would have thought the Germans were that touchy?
I've heard of this german law before but I've never read of it being enforced... wow! Come on, Germany, all countries have skeletons in their closets (I'm looking at you, Spain) but that's a little too much; IMHO a hefty fine would have sufficed...
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;28341064](I'm looking at you, Spain)[/QUOTE]
Didn't expect that.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;28339820]They're deeply ashamed of what they did in the past.
They don't want people supporting it.[/QUOTE]
"We" didn't do anything. Its good its forbidden, nobody needs this kinda shit getting utilized again. (Although it was obviously not intended for cases like this) And honoring a mass murderer in public at the capitol? Try pissing on the Alamo in America, and see what happens.
What kind of "joke" is this anyway? Being uneducated doesn't mean you don't get in trouble for it.
But good thing he only got a fine and a warning. I wonder what case would get you jailtime.
I bet you a hundred bucks if it had been an American everyone would've been like "stupid american, he deserves it, blah blah".
But since it's a Canadian...
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;28339820]They're deeply ashamed of what they did in the past.
They don't want people supporting it.[/QUOTE]
I said this about the Aussie apology to the aboriginals, and I'll say it again.
People shouldn't be held responsible for what those who came before them did in the past.
Just because the Nazis did something a good 70 years ago, doesn't mean Germany today did.
[QUOTE=Devodiere;28340107]Well lets relate it to the origin of these gestures to differentiate them. Fondling your balls relates to public indecency, giving the Nazi salute relates to a forbidden political ideology. I'd think streaking isn't really the same as being a neo-nazi.
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They said he was probably just gonna get a fine and a warning. They understand it was just stupid like anyone else.[/QUOTE]
Youre begging the question, that sounds like something Adolf Hitler would say.
Now I want to go and do the same thing.
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Just fucking run to the spot, make the gesture, your friend's ready with a camera, snap, run like fucking hell.
[QUOTE=nikomo;28341283]Now I want to go and do the same thing.
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Just fucking run to the spot, make the gesture, your friend's ready with a camera, snap, run like fucking hell.[/QUOTE]
Camera phone. Snap and Send
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;28341064]I've heard of this german law before but I've never read of it being enforced... wow! Come on, Germany, all countries have skeletons in their closets (I'm looking at you, Spain) but that's a little too much; IMHO a hefty fine would have sufficed...[/QUOTE]
Agreed, I'm sure a hefty fine would have sufficed.
Is this really worth arresting someone over?
arrest people for nazi salute, yet allow thousands of people to say "nigga" and "nigger" every day
[QUOTE=c0nk3r;28341868]arrest people for nazi salute, yet allow thousands of people to say "nigga" and "nigger" every day[/QUOTE]
Oh, I thought this thread was about germany and not about american teens using slang to address each other.
[QUOTE=janky;28340389]I find that a pretty ironic law and it's not going to stop people from believing in what they want to.[/QUOTE]
The law is there to keep the the nostalgia-nazism down. People in Germany are deeply ashamed of what went on there in the past and I think it's quite decent of them to pass laws like these to really show that shit like nazism is simply not OK within the frames of Democracy. If anything, this is the opposite of just forgetting/pretending it never happened.
I don't think anyone has really been sentenced six months for doing the salute and probably never will either. Police in Germany don't go about arresting everyone raising their arm in a slightly suspicious manner, doing the nazi salute in this case just happened to be particularly offensive since it was done right infront of the Reichstag building just like Hitler did in front of his troops.
brb dressing up at hitler and going to germany
[QUOTE=koeniginator;28342009]brb dressing up at hitler and going to germany[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF1n2NkUcgE[/media]
So they arrested someone over some stupid joke?
Did u noe: Three times in the past ten years, Germany has attempted to ban the swastika throughout the European Union but most countries said no thanks
You'd think they'd be moving towards repealing it by now, not extending it.
This is ridiculous, it was a fucking joke.
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[QUOTE=Killuah;28340184]
It's like yelling "Allah Akbar" in front of the White House.[/QUOTE]
No it's not, no sane person would give a shit about that.
[i]"We are so ashamed of the old Nazi Germany, so let's arrest everyone that reminds us of it and pretend it never happened!"[/i]
Back when the wall had come down a few months ago in Berlin, my mums friends all did a Nazi salute on the Riechstag for lulz. Incredibly lucky there were no police around.
[QUOTE=FuzzyPoop;28343022]This is ridiculous, it was a fucking joke.
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No it's not, no sane person would give a shit about that.
"We are so ashamed of the old Nazi Germany, so let's arrest everyone that reminds us of it and [b]pretend it never happened![/b]"[/QUOTE]
Do you have any idea what you just said?
[QUOTE=Vasili;28344151][b]Back when the wall had come down a few months ago[/b] in Berlin, my mums friends all did a Nazi salute on the Riechstag for lulz. Incredibly lucky there were no police around.[/QUOTE]
what
[QUOTE=Explosions;28344602]what[/QUOTE]
He meant a few months after the fall of the Berlin wall
I agree that 6 months is overkill, but If there weren't any rules against it you couldn't filter the jokes from the serious ones, neo nazis could be sieg heiling all day if they wanted too. Also understand that Germany is different from the US in this case, joking with neo nazism is very offensive for most Germans.
Something I don't agree with however is that denying the holocaust is also strictly forbidden ( Poeple have been arrested for this in Germany and other EU countries. ) Altough I believe in the holocaust this is pure tought control. Stormfront posters also het arrested frequently... In terms of freedom of speech, most of the EU isn't as free as the US.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;28339858]
They actually did it to prevent neo-nazi political parties from forming. It's one of those well-intentioned laws that everyone has forgotten the purpose of.[/QUOTE]
No we all still remember.
We just still think it is fucking ridiculous.
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