{"id":362235,"date":"2018-05-22T05:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T04:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/080-german-state-buildup-world-socialist-web-site\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T05:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T04:54:34","slug":"080-german-state-buildup-world-socialist-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/080-german-state-buildup-world-socialist-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"080 German state buildup &#8211; World Socialist Web Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>080 German state buildup<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Wolfgang Weber<br \/>\n    <br \/>22 May 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p> <strong> <\/strong> [ <strong> <\/strong> headline] <strong> <\/strong> Germany: Bavarian police law passed <strong> <\/strong> \u2014 <strong> <\/strong> a step toward a police state <strong> <\/strong> [\/headline] <strong> <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the votes of the ruling Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian state legislature adopted a new draconic police law (PAG) last week. The law eliminates the principle of the separation of the police and intelligence services and largely abolishes individual liberties such as the inviolability of the home, the right to self-determination concerning one\u2019s own data, the right to freedom of movement and establishment, and postal secrecy. In addition, the police are to be equipped with hand grenades and heavy-duty military weapons.<\/p>\n<p> Numerous demonstrations throughout Bavaria involving more than 70,000 participants have been held in recent weeks against this massive state attack on democratic rights. The largest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/05\/15\/muni-m15.html\">rally<\/a> , in Munich on May 10, attracted nearly 40,000 mostly young people.<\/p>\n<p>The CSU and police were surprised by the size of the protest and responded with hysterical attacks in the style of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). The Bavarian state interior minister and author of the new police law, Joachim Herrmann, attacked the protesters as \u201cna\u00efve people\u201d who had fallen for the \u201clying propaganda\u201d of left-wing extremists.<\/p>\n<p> A senior official and member of the Bavarian Police Works Council ( <em>Polizeirat<\/em> ) attacked Social Democratic Party (SPD) state legislator Florian Ritter, one of the organisers of the demonstration, on Facebook with the words, \u201cPeople like you should be put away,\u201d and threatened he would \u201cpunch him in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SPD, the Greens and the Left Party\u2014the Free Democratic Party (FDP) is not represented in the Bavarian state legislature\u2014had only supported the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/05\/22\/bava-m22.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 080 German state buildup By Wolfgang Weber 22 May 2018 [ headline] Germany: Bavarian police law passed \u2014 a step toward a police state [\/headline] With the votes of the ruling Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian state legislature adopted a new draconic police law (PAG) last week. The law eliminates the principle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}