Germany to release leader of Baader-Meinhof
A German court has approved the release from jail of a leader of a radical leftist group involved in high-profile killings in the 1970s and 1980s.There's a saying in the Jewish tradition: He who is merciful to the cruel ends up being cruel to the merciful.
Red Army Faction leader Christian Klar, aged 56, is serving five life terms but will have served the minimum required 26 years by January.
The court in Stuttgart said there were no grounds to keep him in custody.
Klar led the Marxist Red Army Faction of Germany, which murdered 30 people in the 70s and 80s. He was found guilty himself of nine of those in 1982. And they say there's no grounds on which to continue his incarceration?
Some "friends" the Germans are, if they cannot take a stern stand against evil, past, present or future.
Update: and that's exactly why I see little reason then to buy their products, cars included. Discovering that their auto industry is in dire straits, for example (via Hot Air Headlines), I'd say they're getting exactly what they deserve.
Labels: Europe, germany, political corruption, terrorism