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反G8 (독일) #3


Especially the German bourgeois media is writing about the - in fact - senselessness of the G8 Summit. Actually it's just a show event of the "leaders" of the "leading" industry countries (plus Russia) - without any result. Except, according to a guest comment in yesterday's Der Spiegel (THE German "leading" bourgeois magazine), that the G8 will try to strengthen the front against the "developing 'power' China" ("The western industry nations are seeing China's boom as an attack against their own supremacy and fearing a World War about/for prosperity - what they only can lose", so today's Berliner Zeitung).


Of course another result will be the increasing repression against the anti-capitalist movement, especially in the days before and during the summit. And last but not least the excessive increasing of security measures and together with it the massive waste of public finances (the money of the "ordinary" tax payers).



Alone the "security fence/wall" around the Heiligendamm costs 12 million Euro (about 15 billion Won). The entire "security measures", incl. 17,000 cops, 1,100 heavy armed soldiers, US Navy war ships etc.. will cost at least 100 million Euro (around 125,000,000,000 Won^^) - for only a three-day "event"!!

 

 

Preparation for a "civil war"?


Anyway.. About the latest developments Der Spiegel published in the last two days following:


Security Tightens as G-8 Summit Approaches


With just a week left before the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm in northern Germany, authorities are ratcheting up security precautions. On Wednesday, the razor-wire fence surrounding the venue was closed. But criticism of German authorities for their draconian security measure remains intense.


Even as foreign ministers from G-8 countries are meeting in Potsdam with their counterparts from Afghanistan and Pakistan on Wednesday, security along the Baltic Sea coast continues to get tighter. At 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning, police officially closed off public access to the seaside resort of Heiligendamm where the G-8 meeting of leaders from eight of the world's most economically powerful countries is to take place next week from June 6-8.


The early lockdown is part of an elaborate security strategy being pursued by the Germans to ensure that protests against the G-8 summit -- to be attended by Britain, Germany, Italy, the United States, Russia, France, Japan, and Canada -- don't get out of hand as they have in the past. Authorities have built a 12-kilometer long, 2.5 meter tall, razor-wire fence around the resort at a cost of some €12.5 million ($17 million) and only residents and those on official business will be allowed inside starting Wednesday.



Additionally, the coast in front of the resort will be patrolled by warships and all other boats are banned from the area.


 


German officials have been heavily criticized for their security strategy ahead of the summit meeting. Not only have demonstrations been banned near the site of the meeting, but police have been making headlines recently for a number of seemingly invasive tactics. Earlier this month it was revealed that the police were collecting odor samples (more...) from anti-globalization activists so that dogs could identify them more easily at demonstrations. Last week, it came out that investigators were opening mail addressed to anti-G-8 groups in Hamburg.


On Wednesday, the mass-circulation tabloid Bild reported that German politicians were considering confiscating the driver's licenses of protesters should they participate in violence. "I have nothing against peaceful demonstrations," conservative Christian Social Union politician Renate Blank told Bild. "But if it becomes violent, then courts have to also be able to ban people from driving."


A number of pre-G-8 protests have already descended into violence. On Monday evening in Hamburg, a 5,000-person-strong protest against the ASEM summit of Asian and European foreign ministers got out of hand as police cars were destroyed and barricades had to be erected in the streets. Earlier this month, another protest in Hamburg likewise turned ugly following police raids on the offices and apartments of violence-prone left-wing activists...


http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,485609,00.html

 

 


 

Related:

Anxious Locals Proving Good Neighbors as Activists Move In (Der Spiegel)

A Protest Culture Attempts to Reawaken Itself

ABC-Waffen sollen G-8-Demos verhindern ("interview"^^, Die Welt)

An Interactive Map of the Summit Site: World Leaders Fenced In


For latest news/informations:

G8 Protests Timeline (indymedia Germany)

 

 

 

BTW.. if you don't know so far: It's absolute possible (^^) to make "good business" (aka maximum profit) in the name of "Another World (is Possible)":

 

"Bionade - The Official Drink of a Better World" (German commercial)

^^ With the "alternative" (the brand new) capitalism against the "old-school"

and the new (aka neoliberalism) capitalism!!^^

 

*****

 

 

 

 

 

 

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