The Germans are a fine people, but they remain prone, both as individuals and as a nation, to a lack of irony and self-awareness:-
“…One young woman 
from Bavaria said: “When you see Greek people make that Hitler greeting, it’s not good. It isn’t allowed in Germany and it shouldn’t be allowed in other countries. We are shocked. getting a lot of money from Germany so why don’t they like us?”
Of course the outstretched arm Seig Heil salute is not the only banned symbol of National Socialist Workers party Germany. The Swastika was also banned, though as has been pointed out by those unruly Mediterraneans, it has a new replacement. Who will make other countries free from these shocking symbols of oppression? Why Germany of course!
Probably as part of the terms of the next bail out to one of those idle, ungrateful Mediterranean spongers.
The Troika missed a trick when it simply let President Anastasiades, after having moved his 21 million Euro fortune to England just before commencing negotiations, decide how he wanted to rob best to manage his key electorate’s expectations. Of course democracy prevailed, the majority of Cypriots were protected and the foreigners would just have to go hang. No votes there to worry about after all. But, next time! The lessons have been learned and the EU’s social engineers will be there in force, seeking the constitutional insertion of German love bombs and the incarceration and property expropriation of the treacherous anti-EU opposition.
So, alongside loan conditions requiring control over national banking and securitising loan repayments, we are likely to see the levers being pulled to ensure the suppression of anti-German bigotry, by banning protests and the symbols of opposition. Indeed we may soon expect to see the introduction of a Europe wide “We love Germany” Day. This could replace May Day, which after all represents a now unfashionable, if not quite fully implemented political theory. And it would be a shame to waste an existing public holiday in these times of austerity, better by far to re-cycle it and put it to good use. Processions could take to the streets, wearing red and black Euro armbands and proclaiming undying love and loyalty for their new Fuhrein and German beneficence.
After their excoriation in the media, opposition and nationalist politicians, those fellow travelers in the short march against the new EU demagoguery democracy, will be dragged through the streets of the capitals of Europe’s new federal states to be publicly pilloried by the masses and then detained and medically treated for their own good and ours too.
Of course the young lady in Bavaria entirely misses the point. One cannot enforce freedom by limiting it and as a lender one cannot force your debtors to love you when you are enforcing penal terms on them for their latest loan. Do the owners and franchisees of Cash Converters seriously expect to be loved? Is that why they have those protective screens between them and their lenders?
In truth, no one has ever loved the slum landlord, his bailiff, or the council estate’s tally man. By seeing and presenting itself as Europe’s moral and fiscal saviour, Germany is re-awakening and fuelling deep and bitter historic prejudices and resentments elsewhere in Europe, as Golden Dawn in Greece, frighteningly, exemplifies.
What will unite Europe and lead to the overthrow of the European Union, is not a love of Germany but a growing loathing and widespread hatred for it.
Well said, that Kipper!
My ‘tablet’ poking its nose in again – should read ‘Ukipper’!
EC kindly advised me how to turn the automatic spell-checker off, I obviously didn’t follow his instructions correctly.
Ukip, Ukipper, Ukippling, Ukippled, Ukipped.
Nice one, Noa. To the point. “No beetling about the Bosh” as it were.
🙂
I have a theory about this Nexus 7…..
Nope. I thought that the keyboard input auto correct facility might be resetting itself when the device is physically switched off – but it’s ok.
Baffled of Brabant.
Click on the MP audio by Dr. Stephen Freeb at this link and you will hear an argument that Germany is the only beneficiary of the EURO and austerity, driving down the value of the currency in which Germany exports, and is in effect by these monetary means enslaving the other nations as a continuation of WW1 and WW2 by economic means. Once a leader of one of the enslaved cries “enough!” and takes his country out, the EURO zone is kaput.
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2013/4/3_Dr._Stephen_Leeb.html
In the USA the first of a long line of dominoes is about to topple …
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/judge-napolitano-slams-reprehensible-immoral-spending-habits-of-now-bankrupt-californian-city/
With it’s massive unfunded public sector pension liabilities can Europe be far behind?
I don’t know about your council Noa, but our council tax went up again this April. “Services” cut but with the wage bill of the local Kremlin apparatchiks remaining untouched. The increase in council tax was presumably to fund our index linked local govt pensioners.
EC
Tried your instructions again – this time it worked. Thanks a lot.
Btw – all this talk of pensions is making me nervous. 🙂
How seriously can we take this latest surge in German power? Surely this is the dragon making one last roar before it finally collapses … low naive birthrate, intake of hostile Islamic people to fill gaps, declining morals … who is Germany building this new empire for? The young Turks? Won’t most Germans be old by the time things really get going? I don’t deny them their pride and happiness but in a sense are they not living off the reputation earned by the hard work of previous generations? Many young Germans I meet seem very Americanised and not all that thorough.
Dean Street
You identify an interesting perspective. Why are they behaving like this then?
Is it just a reflex?
Noa – I suppose that like many Westerners they haven’t fully grasped the reality that their nation faces. They perhaps still imagine themselves as Wagnerian heroes but haven’t realised that they need to replicate more of themselves (twice as many in fact) in order to fully realise the dream.
It’s OK. I’m British. I watched our nation deliver its tacky and irrelevant Olympic opening ceremony and then award itself the prize of genius even though most of the world thought it was cringeworthy. I understand the tendency to ignore what is really going on. It’s denial.