German Ambassador to the Court of St. Barack
Hey, if Bill Ayers can get rehabilitated, why not this guy?
The German government claim that they can’t find a good reason to keep Christian Klar behind bars, so they plan to parole him. Klar led the Red Army Faction, otherwise known as the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, a radical Marxist militant gang that killed at least 30 people during its period of terror.
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In 1982, Klar was found personally guilty for nine murders and 11 attempted murders. That gives him less than three years each for just the murders, with the attempts ignored altogether.
When people say they mistrust a law-enforcement approach to terrorism, this is exactly what they mean. Terrorists of any political stripe represent more than just murderers. They attack the foundations of democracy itself by attempting to impose policy on the vast majority of citizens who reject it. They use murder as an end to political means, which attempts to both kill human life and the democratic community as a whole.
I’d normally say that this makes them more dangerous than ordinary murderers, but Klar actually qualifies as something more than that as well. His nine murders make him a serial killer, and the multiple homicides make Baader-Meinhof a mass-murdering group as well. Would Germany release a known serial killer on parole? Just on that basis, how can they justify releasing Klar?
I’m serious about the Ambassador thing. Can’t you just see Klar, Ayers, Wright, Pfleger, and the Prez sitting in front of a roaring West Wing fire, Cuban cigars (or Pall Malls for Obama) wedged between the first two fingers of their left hands, snifters of Courvoisier XO Imperial cognac cradled in their right, talking politics?
The heated discussion over bombing (championed by Ayers) versus automatic weapons (preferred by Klar) would be worth the CIA bugging the room (not that they haven’t already).
Carol said,
November 24, 2008 @ 6:46 pm
I am reading a collection of Theodore Dalrymple essays and it’s clear from them that British courts don’t take prison sentences very seriously. And this makes it clear that German courts don’t. We all know that Europe hates us for our death penalty; do they also hate us for our REAL life sentences - the special kind where the criminals actually die in prison?