"The image of a cowering group of powerful politicians hiding behind phalanxes of armed police as chanting citizens roar outside is indicative of the increasing gap between the ruling elites, their policies and the people they rule."
Unable to shake an historical reputation for draconian behavior, Germany's government is calling for the "preventative detention" of anti-globalism campaigners as the Group of Eight summit approaches. The G8 conclave is planned for June 6-8 in Heiligendamm, a resort town on the Baltic Sea near Rostock, a former East German city that is a hotbed of nationalist activism. The G8 meetings generally deal with plans to globalize the world economy and set an agenda to make uniform economic and social changes across the developed world.
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that his officials may make use of a law that allows the government to jail anyone deemed politically incorrect for up to two weeks without charges. "Regional police authorities are considering taking recourse to so-called preventive detention," Schaeuble said.
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"In economic life there is extreme inequality and exploitation. Although colonialism no longer exists openly in the political and economic sphere, still it persists indirectly, and this should not be tolerated... In this respect you should remember that in economic life, we will have to guarantee the minimum requirements of life to one and all... There cannot be any sort of adjustment as far as this point is concerned. The minimum purchasing requirement must be guaranteed to all. Today these fundamental essentialities are not being guaranteed. Rather, people are being guided by deceptive economic ideas like outdated Marxism, which has proven ineffective in practical life and has not been successfully implemented in any corner of the world. Why do people still believe in such a theory, which has never been proved successful? The time has come for people to make a proper assessment of whether they are being misguided or not." |
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"Human beings have still not been able to form a human society, and have still not learned to move with the spirit of a pilgrim. Although many small groups, motivated by self-interest, work together in particular situations, not even a small fraction of their work is done with a broader social motive. By strict definition, shall we have to declare that each small family unit is a society in itself? If going ahead in mutual adjustment only out of narrow self-interest or momentary self-seeking is called society, then in such a society, no provision can be made for the disabled, the diseased or the helpless, because in most cases nobody can benefit from them in any way... in that case there always remains the possibility of some people getting isolated from the collective. All human beings must attach themselves to others by the common bond of love and march forward hand in hand; then only will I proclaim it a society." |