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Droht Gefahr von dummen Artikel?

Eine Antwort auf den Artikel von Jochen Bittner bei “Die Zeit”.

Wahrscheinlich meint es der “Die Zeit” Journalist Jochen Bittner einfach sarkastisch, wenn er meint, dass man dem Verfassungsschutz vorgeworfen hat “das Undenkbare nicht gedacht zu haben”. 

Vielleicht entsteht aus lauter Ignoranz die Behauptung, dass Politik auf den Straßen zu brennenden Mittelklassewagen führt. Wahrscheinlich mag er es reaktionär, wenn er es so verwerflich findet “den Herrschenden ihre ökonomischen Machtgrundlage zu entreißen”.

Aber was, wenn dahinter einfach mehr steckt? Oder genauer gesagt, weniger? Was, wenn der Artikel einfach nur dumm ist?

Es ist ja nicht gerade undenkbar, illegale, neonazistische Gruppierungen wären Gewaltbereit. Der Vorwurf lautete, wo es doch so offensichtlich war, wieso der Verfassungsschutz so lange nicht agierte.

Parlamentarismus ist auch nicht mit Demokratie gleichzusetzen. Es kann Demokratie ohne Parlamentarismus geben, aber wichtiger: Parlamentarismus kann auch ohne Demokratie existieren. Und in der Tat, mit ein bisschen Recherche hätte der Herr Bittner herausgefunden, dass die Parlamente, Kongresse, Kammern und dergleichen, sehr, sehr selten (um nicht NIE zu sagen) die Zusammensetzung des Volkes wiederspiegeln. Kein Wunder, dass Leute unser System nicht immer als echt demokratisch sehen. Kein Wunder, dass viele einen Systemwechsel fordern. Das macht sie nicht zu Antidemokraten, schon gar nicht zu Verfassungsschändern.

Aber bitte, zumindest von Überwachung kann jedenfalls nicht die Rede sein. Denn der Verfassungsschutz tut ja nicht mehr als jede Zeitungsredaktion machen könnte. Nur einen Haken hat es trotzdem: Sie sind keine Zeitung, sondern ein Organ des Staates.

Blöde Artikel können auf vielerlei Humus wachsen. Auch auf “Der Zeit”.

http://www.zeit.de/2012/05/Beobachtung-Linkspartei-Pro?commentstart=9#comments

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"This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day finds our nation rightly united in honoring the man who challenged America to live up to the promise that all men are created equal. But it’s also worth remembering that it was not always this way. King was widely reviled in his lifetime, attacked as a troublemaker, a liar, a con man and a communist. These smears are part of his legacy as well. They remind us that even American icons were once demonized and derided. And when we whitewash history into simplicity, we lose a sense of the real struggle that can inspire endurance today." →

John Avlon for The Daily Beast

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[A year ago,] "Obama, who’d just lost to Hillary Clinton in an upset, delivered his “Yes We Can” speech. It made literally no mention of George W. Bush or Dick Cheney, literally no mention of those seeking the GOP nomination, and it referenced Republicans only twice — each time to highlight the fact that Obama was prepared to work with anyone, regardless of party. In the same speech, then-candidate Obama looked at his competitors and said, “All of the candidates in this race have good ideas and all are patriots who serve this country honorably.” He also shared a vision, which included ending the war in Iraq and reforming the nation’s health care system. Romney, with the benefit of a teleprompter, delivered a very different kind of speech last night. Within seconds of thanking his supporters, Romney began a lengthy condemnation of the president, who, along with “some desperate Republicans,” wants to “put free enterprise on trial.” →

- The Washington Monthly on yesterday’s speech from Mitt Romney and how it compared to the speech delivered by Barack Obama in the same State four years ago.

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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high order. Is it not, intellectually regarded, a very easy subject compared with the higher branches of philosophy or pure science? An easy subject, at which very few excel! The paradox finds its explanation, perhaps, in that the master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher -in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man’s nature or his intuitions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artists, vet sometimes as near the earth as a politician.

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John Maynard Keynes

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Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul…
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