http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/world/europe/06germany.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Findex.jsonp
The "people" didn't do this just because the felling of the tress, they protest about the money being spent for a new high speed rail being built, while the old rail in bad disrepair was just left to rot some more.
This very same thing is occurring in the United States. Blowing money on something new while the rest of the infrastructure is in a shocking need for repair. American government to, wants to build a new high speed rail
The embarrassment suffer by the German government is the violent way in which they tried to repress the voice of her "people"
There were a thousand school children at this protest and many of them got hurt because of their governments need to squelch the opposition to their plans.
Hoping to cool down what has become a growing political problem and national embarrassment for Germany’s top leadership, officials said on Tuesday they would not cut down any more trees or demolish the remaining wing of a century-old train station, at least for now.
Though the remarks by officials did not represent a moratorium on construction of a new high-speed transit hub in the city of Stuttgart, it did mark the first time officials inched away from an aggressive insistence that construction move ahead on the Stuttgart 21 project, said leaders of the opposition movement in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Last week the police fired water cannons and pepper spray at thousands of protesters who tried to block the felling of about 25 trees, some centuries old. The next day tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets chanting, “Shame on you.”
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Merkel calls for calm as rail protest turns ugly
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.50cde88a891bb4f2c3adb2ce3e936445.861&show_article=1
Unfortunately this won't be the last that we hear of this kind of protest.
People around the world understand the debt their countries shoulder, and with the addition of this project (high speed rail) and no money offered up to fix the rail structure already in place the "people" of Germany are making their disgust known. While I back their right to peaceful protest,
I can't condone placing 1000 school children in harms way. Some one made a very bad error in judgement when they did so.
Chancellor Angela Merkel called for calm Friday after riot police used what critics called "Rambo" tactics to disperse thousands of opponents of a contentious rail project.
"I would hope that demonstrations like these would pass off peacefully," Merkel told public broadcaster SWR after the skirmishes in the southwestern city of Stuttgart on Thursday that raged on into the night.
"This must always be tried, and anything that leads to violence must be avoided."
Demonstrators said that more than 20,000 protestors, including more than 1,000 schoolchildren, were dispersed by close to 1,000 police in riot gear using water cannons, pepper spray, tear gas and batons.
More than 400 people including minors needed medical treatment, mostly because of the tear gas and pepper spray but also due to broken noses and wrists as well as cuts, demonstrators said.
"One man's eye was shot out after he was hit full in the face by water cannon," Axel Wieland, a spokesman for the demonstrators from the BUND green
Unfortunately this won't be the last that we hear of this kind of protest.
People around the world understand the debt their countries shoulder, and with the addition of this project (high speed rail) and no money offered up to fix the rail structure already in place the "people" of Germany are making their disgust known. While I back their right to peaceful protest,
I can't condone placing 1000 school children in harms way. Some one made a very bad error in judgement when they did so.
Chancellor Angela Merkel called for calm Friday after riot police used what critics called "Rambo" tactics to disperse thousands of opponents of a contentious rail project.
"I would hope that demonstrations like these would pass off peacefully," Merkel told public broadcaster SWR after the skirmishes in the southwestern city of Stuttgart on Thursday that raged on into the night.
"This must always be tried, and anything that leads to violence must be avoided."
Demonstrators said that more than 20,000 protestors, including more than 1,000 schoolchildren, were dispersed by close to 1,000 police in riot gear using water cannons, pepper spray, tear gas and batons.
More than 400 people including minors needed medical treatment, mostly because of the tear gas and pepper spray but also due to broken noses and wrists as well as cuts, demonstrators said.
"One man's eye was shot out after he was hit full in the face by water cannon," Axel Wieland, a spokesman for the demonstrators from the BUND green
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