(By Ray D.)
Despite Germany’s Fascist past, despite the fact that
Germany wants to export weapons to Communist China, despite the fact that
Germany has turned a blind eye to atrocities in Chechnya, despite the fact that
Germany openly allows housing discrimination, despite the fact that German
police openly and legally racially profile, despite the fact that Germany has virtually no minority representatives in its national government, despite the fact that Germany has
been dependent on the US since World War II for its defense and reunification,
despite the fact that Germany has a massive, chronic unemployment problem…over
five million out of work and climbing, despite a hopelessly complicated tax
system, a declining educational system, despite the fact that Germany has a
national ID card and a national registration system far more intrusive on
private rights than anything in the Patriot Act, despite the fact that German
state television continues to present the situation in Iraq twice as negatively as it was under Saddam
Hussein’s dictatorship and barely draws a distinction between democracy and
dictatorship, despite the fact that Germany continues to trade with the world’s
most vicious dictators…
Despite those facts…
Now this: Extreme right-wing parties have won election to
two state parliaments and are growing in numbers by the day. Life has become so
“wonderful” under the Socialist-Green German government that hundreds of
Germans are turning to neo-Fascist, neo-Nazi parties for answers. Neo-Nazi and
hard right parties are experiencing a rebirth and all that the “mainstream”
parties can do about it is argue and hold symbolic marches. How about they put
their brains together and do something real to solve Germany’s problems? How
about the German media stop bashing America and the liberation of 50 million
oppressed Muslims so much and focus a little bit more on Germany’s problems?
That’s right, focus more on your own country, what a novel idea!
Carnival Float in Mainz, Germany Two Weeks Before the President’s Visit There
CDU Opposition leader Angela Merkel is Shown Climbing a Ladder into Bush’s (…) above which hangs a sign “Re-Opening.” A Text Accompanies the Float:
“Angela is Glowing in the End / George Bush Remains President / She Feels Like in a Honeymoon / We Wish Her Good After-Noon.”
What Profoundly Good German Taste…
Duesseldorfer Float: Anti-Americanism in Germany? What Anti-Americanism…?
Historic Note: Seventy years ago, a different group was often the target of German carnival “humor.”
BUT guess WHAT America! It doesn’t matter how bad things get
in Germany! It doesn’t matter if the neo-Nazis are on the march. Despite all of
that, Germans and the German media are morally superior to the United States
and the evil, religious fanatic cowboy George W. Bush. Never forget:
Germany is a moderate, tolerant and open-minded society you cowboy morons! That is why
George W. Bush’s approval ratings here are about as low as the Führer’s
approval ratings were high! It is a proud German tradition, when we love you,
we really love you and when we hate you, we really hate you…and your media
image is always the key! So wake up! It’s not Germany that has the problem, it
is America. Why can’t America just be more like Germany?…
UPDATE: HEY USA! This is what the city of Mainz, Germany (the city that will host President Bush in two weeks) thinks of you. CLICK HERE.
Should Bush Visit Mainz? Davids Medienkritik encourages all Americans to email, call and write their elected representatives with a link or reference to this article: http://www.medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2005/02/america_you_jus.html
Also be sure to check out our article: Welcome to Mainz Mr. President!
If you would like to contact the city of Mainz, Germany with your opinion, email the Mainz Office for Public Relations at: mainz.online@stadt.mainz.de
NEW UPDATE: It turns out that the Mayor of Mainz, Jens Beutel of the SPD (Gerhard Schroeder’s party), approved the float despite numerous complaints in the city. Mayor Beutel said of the float: “The President is certain to take it with humor.”
