{"id":638,"date":"2013-08-13T12:32:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T18:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=638"},"modified":"2013-08-13T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T18:35:33","slug":"more-ghosts-from-the-progressive-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/more-ghosts-from-the-progressive-past-638.htm","title":{"rendered":"More Ghosts from the Progressive Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpFirst\" align=\"left\"><span>Not only the Nazi past haunts Germany. The generation of 1968 said and did things that they wish people would forget. Sexual liberation was total \u2013 and included children.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>Daniel Cohn-Bendit has been squirming a long time, but seems not to have suffered any consequences because of his advocacy (and he claimed at one time) practice of pedophilia.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/schnellmann.org\/EU_politican_Daniel_Cohn-Bendit_The_Pedopile2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><em>Danny Boy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\">Another politician has bitten the dust. (Main article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/politik\/inland\/paedophilievorwuerfe-kein-mann-keine-frau-nur-ein-kind-12515094.html\">FAZ<\/a>).<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>The Green party, to its credit, commissioned an academic study of the political advocates of pedophilia. To the regret of many, the commission is releasing many ghosts from the past.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/xa.yimg.com\/kq\/groups\/25070939\/sn\/845627447\/name\/P%C3%A4dophilie+Heute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>Dagmar D\u00f6ring, a FDP candidate (a member of Merkel\u2019s coalition) , wrote an essay <\/span><span>\u201eSoviel Liebe und Z\u00e4rtlichkeit \u2013 eine Frau liebt Kinder\u201c <\/span><span>(\u201cSo much love and tenderness\u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0a woman loves children\u201d) \u00a0in a 1980 book called <\/span><span>\u201eP\u00e4dophilie Heute: Berichte, Meinungen und Interviews zur sexuellen Befreiung des Kindes\u201c (<\/span><em><span>Pedophilia Today: Reports, Opinions, and Interviews about the Sexual Liberation of Children<\/span><\/em><span>), a book still found in many university libraries. D\u00f6ring, then 19 years old, described her relationship with a 9-year-old girl:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><em><span>\u201eSie setzte sich schlie\u00dflich selbst auf meinen <\/span><\/em><em><span lang=\"DE\">Scho\u00df, sprach ganz lieb und brachte auch ihre sexuellen W\u00fcnsche zum Ausdruck. Ich war wie bet\u00e4ubt von ihr, so verliebt in ihre Art, ihr Aussehen, ihre Gef\u00fchlswelt.\u201c<\/span><\/em><em><span lang=\"DE\"> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><em><span>She sat on my lap, spoke lovingly and expressed her sexual wishes. I was enchanted by her, so lovely in her behavior, her appearance, her emotional world<\/span><\/em><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpLast\" align=\"left\"><span lang=\"DE\">D\u00f6ring continued:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span lang=\"DE\">Wir begegneten uns auf der Stra\u00dfe, sahen uns an, und wir merkten, es l\u00e4uft etwas zwischen uns\u201c (&#8230;) \u201eNachdem ich nun eine l\u00e4ngere, auch sexuell intensivere Beziehung zu einem M\u00e4dchen habe, erlebe ich, da\u00df kein Mann und keine Frau, sondern nur ein Kind, insbesondere ein M\u00e4dchen, meine W\u00fcnsche und Bed\u00fcrfnisse (&#8230;) befriedigen kann. <\/span><\/em><em><span>Jetzt erfahre ich so viel Liebe, Z\u00e4rtlichkeit, Ausgelassenheit, Wildheit\u2005&#8230;\u201c<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>We encountered each other on the street, looked at each other, and realized that something was going on between us\u2026 Since I now have had a long and sexually more intensive relationship with a young girl, I realize that no man and no women, but only a child, especially a girl, can satisfy my desires and needs. I experience so much love, tenderness, boisterousness, wildness\u2026<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>When Doring was 17, her 27-year-old teacher was prosecuted for abusing a boy. She was horrified &#8211; not by the abuse, but by the prosecution:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span lang=\"DE\">\u201eHeute habe ich Angst vor den Gesetzen, die Liebe zwischen Erwachsenen und Kindern immer noch bestraft, wie ich es bei meinem Freund erlebt habe, dessen tiefe Beziehung zu einem 13-j\u00e4hrigen Jungen durch Zufall entdeckt und dann gewaltsam, brutal zerschlagen wurde. Davor habe ich Angst, ich verstehe es auch nicht, daher will ich, und hoffentlich nicht nur ich, alles tun, damit sich jene Gesetze \u00e4ndern.\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>Today I have dread about laws that punish love between adults and children, as I experienced in the case of my friend, whose relationship with a 13-year-old boy was discovered by accident and then powerfully, brutally crushed. Therefore I have dread, I do not understand it, and hopefully not only I will do everything to change such laws.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>She accompanied this pedophile to Berlin. <\/span><span lang=\"DE\">There for several years she was active in\u00a0 the \u201eDeutschen Studien- und Arbeitsgemeinschaft P\u00e4dophilie.\u201c <\/span><span>This was a homosexual group that campaigned to legalize adult-child sex.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.zeit.de\/politik\/deutschland\/2013-08\/dagmar-doering\/dagmar-doering-540x304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The former candidate and mother of three<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>D\u00f6ring has withdrawn her candidacy, but she still refuses to accept responsibility. She claims she had <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">forgotten all about this essay, and that in any case it was imaginary:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>In a statement on her website over the weekend, D\u00f6ring said: &#8220;My attitudes and political activities in certain organizations are from today&#8217;s viewpoint completely unacceptable and were a grave mistake. I distance myself in all clarity from all texts and political activities of this early chapter of my life.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She added that she was not politically active at the time, and said: &#8220;As a married woman and mother of three children, my then immature thoughts are today unbelievably embarrassing &#8211; most of all with regards to my family and my current colleagues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She told the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper she wanted to contribute to a general coming to terms with what she called a &#8220;really dark time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But she stressed she had not actually done anything reprehensible, rather that she was withdrawing her candidacy for a Wiesbaden constituency in order to protect her family and party.<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>She whined to FAZ:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span lang=\"DE\">Was wiegen 33 Jahre eines respektablen Lebens gegen eine kurze Zeitspanne? Ich war 19 und es waren diese Zeiten, in denen wir verblendet wie wir waren, f\u00fcr eine solche Liberalisierung des Strafrechts eintraten.\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>What does 33 years of a respectable life weigh against a short time span? I was 19 and it was the time in which we were blinded to speak up for such a liberalization of legal punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>The Green Party suffers from a similar amnesia.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"DE\">Der Gr\u00fcnen-Abgeordnete Volker Beck etwa behauptet, es habe nie einen Beschluss<br \/>\ngegeben, der Kindersex straffrei stellen sollte.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Green member of parliament Volker Beck maintained that it has never passed a resolution that sex with children should be free of\u00a0punishment.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>But Dr. Stephen Klecha, co-author of the study the Green Party itself commissioned, says:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span lang=\"DE\">\u201eHier hat Beck eindeutig unrecht. Es gab f\u00fcnf Beschl\u00fcsse der Gr\u00fcnen zu Bundes- und Landtagswahlen, in denen sie eine Abschaffung der entsprechenden Strafrechts-Paragrafen forderten&#8230;. Beim Thema Sex mit Kindern scheint das kollektive Ged\u00e4chtnis der Gr\u00fcnen nicht gut zu funktionieren.\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>Beck is here definitely wrong. There were five resolutions of the Greens in Federal and provincial elections, in which they demanded an abolition of the relevant paragraph about punishment\u2026.It seems when it comes to the matter of sex the collective memory of the Greens does not function.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\" align=\"left\"><span>(PS. the publisher of <em>Pedophilie Heute<\/em> now specializes in homosexual pornography \u2013 an improvement of sorts.)<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-638\" data-postid=\"638\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-638 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only the Nazi past haunts Germany. The generation of 1968 said and did things that they wish people would forget. Sexual liberation was total \u2013 and included children. Daniel Cohn-Bendit has been squirming a long time, but seems not to have suffered any consequences because of his advocacy (and he claimed at one time) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,28],"tags":[750,749,748,394,32],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-sexual-abuse","tag-dagmar-doring","tag-fdp","tag-german","tag-green-party","tag-pedophilia","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}