Berlin and Hamburg attacks an anarchist ‘declaration of war’
04 December 2009 | The Local | Kristen Allen
Anarchists attacks on police stations and political offices in Berlin and Hamburg overnight were a “declaration of war” on the state, head of the German Police Union (DPoIG) told The Local on Friday.
Unknown perpetrators, assumed to be left-wing extremists, threw Molotov cocktails, paint bombs and cobblestones at Berlin’s Treptow district Federal Criminal Police (BKA) office overnight. Meanwhile local offices for the centre-left Social Democrats and the conservative Christian Democrats were also vandalised with anti-war graffiti.
Quote: “I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.” – Barack Obama Campaign Promise – October 27, 2007
The Last Tommy – Harry Patch fought in the battle of Passchendaele in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British troops died.
Gordon Brown and Prince Charles, amongst others, have used inflated words and nationalist sentiments in an attempt to associate themselves with Harry and his reputation for courage and honesty, but in reality they have nothing in common.
Harry Patch made his position quite clear, long before his death, when he said amongst other things: “War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.”
