And the award for the most tenuous link to the topic at hand goes to…

faceless
Sure you have to have a laugh ! Because I sure as hell feel like crying most of the time. But I do think the way it is worded is very polite ,anything after that I think Germany have their hands full with neo nazi sympathisers… This is only my opinion , but I reckon we will be hearing a lot more of this in time to come.

@ Eileen : No, the Neo-Nazis are a nasty peste but are few in number in Germany. Like dissident paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. They will never find a large base of support. It is the extreme violent left wing groups that are more frightening in Germany.

Klaus
So the left are violent in Germany ? I believe you will find there are extreme violence in both right and left wing sides in Germany …..http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/right-vs-left-arson-and-stabbings-in-berlin-as-extremist-groups-clash-a-771329.html

Eileen : Yes, for sure there are extremists on both right and left sides. But the extremists on the left have more numbers and more support. This is a continuation if the RAF activities in the 1970s. These are hard left and a racists who say that violence and terrorism is acceptable as political tools. Maybe you see the left as the heroes, but in Germany the hard-left stand for oppression. It was only 1989 when the wall fell, and that was by the choice of the people. I was on the East side, communist Germany was no paradise.

Oh dear . this reminds me of an interview I heard on tv and the american guest was discussing republicanism in the US and tried to compare it to republicanism here and the two just do not equate !!!
I am certainly NOT a supporter of communism , I have no idea where you got that idea . But by the same token I believe our government here are gone too far right just as the labour party have done. In my opinion the government have forgotten about the people in their quest to appease multi- national corporations , banks and foreign governments.

The return to communism is the goal of the German hard-left. That is what they fight for. Ireland has no strong hard-left. This should make you happy. The Irish left are as Californian Buddhists. Tibetian and Nepalese Buddhists cut the throats of living goats as a sacrifice. I hope my comparison is clear. The Irish left do not make people disappear.

I am very aware of that , or we would not be able to have this discussion . Let us hope that the right here does not go so far either !

Neo-liberalism ( appease multinationals, business, banks ) is very different to the extreme right. Ireland does not have any extreme right. It is not a realistic fear. The extreme right do not use money as a weapon, they use might. Walk left a long way, you will be at the extreme right. Walk right a long way, you will be at the extreme left. They are both the same, they are both animals. Only the symbols change. I do not mean to attack you, but Ireland does not have these problems.

Spot on David