Postalo Vleeptron / First Day Issue
Cullinary Treasures of the USA
Club Sandwich
$7.99 with cup of soup
for U.B.
for U.B.
THIS JUST IN via e-mail from Berlin: Yummy!
Agence-Vleeptron Presse's Mensch-on-the-Ground in Berlin, U.B., has been missing this popular food dish from the USA, so A-VP sends him one. A cup of soup (not shown) comes with it.
Meanwhile, he files this memoir of the Baader-Meinhof Gang / Red Army Faction, and some perspective:
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just read your text about the "Baader - Meinhof Bande" that what they were mostly called in Germany.
They called themself "Rote Armee Fraktion" as you write.
By the way that some of them get free is not an act of mercy it does not matter if they still feel guilty or regret what they did. It´s just the law. Usually the maximum sentence is 15 years which can be extended to 24 years of inprisonment when it is really a "lifetime sentence". After that prisoners can only be kept if the are a permanant danger for society.
Safety Inprisonment follows after the regular time is done. This happens from time to time to serial killers.
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Now to your questions.
At the height of the RAF times I was 16/17 Years old. And it scared me what I saw. Not only the the killings of the BMgang but also the news about peoples reaction. Right away calling for a death penalty and plenty of them. A lot of hatred still in them probably leftovers from the war at that time.
When Schleyer was killed it happened that whole cities were surrounded -- every road closed by police -- and everyone had to stop and was checked.
A strange feeling. That must have been what Argentines at that time felt daily. A strange fear that the agression turns back on us innocent people. The terrorists themselves must have lost ground totally. I don´t even think that their main motives were political.
More a perverted narcissm -- or why would one like one of them help to kill her own uncle.
The other thing I remember is that the so called terror did in the mind of the people only hit the upper class, so most people feared more the political consequences like a future police state. The death of M. Schleyer's driver was quickly forgotten.
Right now I can not remember more.
What I miss from Amerika...............hmm ...............oral pleasures none, except a good club sandwich, toasted, maybe.
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