Debate Over Release Of German Raf Assassin

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DEBATE OVER RELEASE OF GERMAN RAF ASSASSIN
Possible Parole for Unapologetic Terrorist
Brigitte Mohnhaupt, serving five life sentences for her part in a deadly 1970s terrorism campaign, may be released on parole in March after 24 years in jail. Prosecutors say it's time to show mercy because she no longer poses a danger to society. Victims' relatives want her to show remorse first.


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Wanted photo of former RAF terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt.
A German terrorist serving five life sentences plus 15 years for her involvement in a campaign of murder and kidnapping that traumatized West Germany in the 1970s may be released in March after federal prosecutors backed her appeal for parole this week.

Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57, who was a senior member of the Red Army Faction (RAF), has spent more than 24 years in jail for her part in the murders of three top members of Germany's establishment -- a banker, a prosecutor, and the president of the employers' federation.

The federal prosecutor's office supported her appeal for parole after a psychological report concluded that she no longer poses a danger to society. The senior regional court in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany, is due to decide on the request in early February.

Meanwhile German President Horst Köhler is due to review an appeal for parole made by RAF terrorist Christian Klar, who has also served 24 years for murder.

News of Mohnhaupt's possible release has provoked a debate about whether the state should show mercy or continue punishing terrorists who have not apologized for their deeds. It has also revived memories of the terrorist campaign that killed 34 people and shook the West German state to its foundations. Twenty-seven members of the RAF also died.

"These people don't deserve mercy," Waltrude Schleyer, the widow of murdered employer federation chief Hanns-Martin Schleyer, told Bild newspaper. "To this day neither Klar nor Mohnhaupt have shown any sign of remorse or apologized."

Klaus Kinkel, a former foreign and justice minister who pushed for an amnesty of several jailed RAF terrorists in the 1990s, told Süddeutsche Zeitung: "I think people who have been behind bars for so long must be given the chance to find their way back into society."

The RAF, also called the "Baader-Meinhof gang" after its founding members, emerged from the 1968 student protest movement. It saw itself as a communist urban guerrilla group waging an armed struggle against capitalist imperialism and against a West German establishment it believed was infested with former Nazis.

Founded by journalist Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader, it graduated from arson attacks on department stores and bank robberies to bomb attacks on government buildings and US military sites, kidnappings and assassinations.

The 1970s campaign culminated in 1977 with a series of murders and a plane hijacking as the RAF and allied Palestinian terrorists tried to force the government to release Baader and two other RAF members from jail. They committed suicide when the government failed to give in.

West Germany's response to the attacks was on a similar scale to the US crackdown on civil liberties in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks almost a quarter of a century later. New anti-terrorism laws were enacted to boost police powers in the hunt for suspects and jailed terrorists were in some case denied contact with lawyers.

Armored vehicles patrolled the streets of Bonn, the West German capital, and a new specially reinforced jailhouse was built to accommodate RAF gang members.

Mohnhaupt is regarded as one of the hardliners among the four RAF members still in jail. She and Klar, in addition to being involved in the Schleyer murder, killed banker Jürgen Ponto in July 1977. They walked up to the front door of the Dresdner Bank chief executive carrying a bunch of flowers. When Ponto opened, Klar pulled a pistol. "You must be crazy!" Ponto shouted, pushing the pistol away. Then Mohnhaupt pulled a gun. Five shots were fired at him at point blank range. They escaped as he lay dying on his doorstep.

Unlike other jailed RAF members, Mohnhaupt has refused to cooperate with justice authorities, and her stance has made her possible release more controversial than other cases.

Norbert Geis, legal export for the conservative Christian Social Union, said: "I have the greatest misgivings regarding the release of Christian Klar and Brigitte Mohnhaupt. Fighting terrorism is one of the biggest tasks we have at present and even if today's terrorism has nothing to do with the terrorism of the 1970s, it's not right if we now release people who don't even say today that they acted wrongly all those years ago. The time isn't right yet for an early release. There must be no release until Klar and Mohnhaupt credibly and seriously distance themselves from their deeds," said Geis.

Nevertheless, Kinkel's stance of pushing for parole for former RAF members while he was justice minister is credited by some as having prevented the emergence of a new RAF generation. The group disbanded voluntarily in 1998.

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,461645,00.html

[Björn]

Well let's look at things in this light. If the blue team and the red team are at war and the blue team captures one of the red teams units but the red tream wins... Wouldn't it make sense that the red team would let their own captured units out of prison?

[ZOGsoldier]

Communist murderers should get the same treatment they gave the people they murdered and maimed. She and all the Black Panthers and Weathermen that have been released in the US should have been shot and then fed to dogs.

[Rakhmetov]

I supported RAF in its resistance against the illegitimate West German regime and the immoral U.S. military occupation. Those RAF comrades that are locked away should be considered political prisoners. They should unconditionally be freed and issued reparations for the harm inflicted by the neo-fascist state. The West German regime picked up where the Third Reich left off. Unlike in the German Democratic Republic, former Nazis were largely rehabiliated.

Another heroic urban guerilla group was the Japanese Red Army which collaborated with PLO and PFLP in resisting Zionist hegemony of the Middle East.

a banker, a prosecutor, and the president of the employers' federation.

This is nothing to lament over. These components of society all serve the bourgeoisie in oppressing workers.

[WFHermans]

If Brigitte Mohnhaupt hadn't killed a banker but just a Joe Schmuck she would have been released after 12 years.

[Autoreduction]

If Brigitte Mohnhaupt hadn't killed a banker but just a Joe Schmuck she would have been released after 12 years.
Truly so. But this was political violence against the upper classes. A violent political stance against the capitalist system. of course they ahd to retaliate severly. Oh if it's the bankerjewthing you're hinting at, shouldn't the RAF, being communists, also have been controlled by the jews? ;)

[Empress Cheesatine]

I supported RAF in its resistance against the illegitimate West German regime and the immoral U.S. military occupation. Those RAF comrades that are locked away should be considered political prisoners. They should unconditionally be freed and issued reparations for the harm inflicted by the neo-fascist state. The West German regime picked up where the Third Reich left off. Unlike in the German Democratic Republic, former Nazis were largely rehabiliated.

But if these guys were Communists then they were in agreement with, rather than against, the Soviet military occupation of East Germany, which means they never really were anti-imperialist.

I don't know how you can say the FRG picked up where the Third Reich left off, that is just wild to me. West Germans have been propagandized extensively for 60 years against nationalism, love of ones own folk and culture, and for the love of the migrant and the Jew (regardless of his cultural hostility toward every Gentile nation he encounters). How is giving Jews citizenship, property, welfare benefits, control of German media outlets, personal audiences with German government officials at near whim and the Jewish version of war history in school books picking up where the Third Reich left off?

The FRG's intelligence service to this day is joined at the hip with the CIA. If anything, the FRG picked up the American elite's dollarism, and was in fact used as a big human shield against the USSR. The FRG was and is an illegitimate regime, a product of a hostile military occupation - but so was the DDR.

Let this bitch keep rotting in jail where she belongs. She should try learning that folk is more important than pissant fights over money and bullshit internationalist struggles that service the Jewish ethnic agenda.

"Nazis" don't hobnob with Jews that tell them to enact more censorship laws against German folks:

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[Arrow Cross]

Assassin or not, she was a gorgeous girl back then.

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Yet another life ruined by terrorist bastards.

The West German regime picked up where the Third Reich left off. Unlike in the German Democratic Republic, former Nazis were largely rehabiliated.
If by rehabilitating you mean not sending them all to Siberian work camps for decades, then you are certainly right.

[Daniel Shays]

But if these guys were Communists then they were in agreement with, rather than against, the Soviet military occupation of East Germany, which means they never really were anti-imperialist. How was the Soviet presence imperialist? Soviets had to beat German imperialism from their own country back into Germany and then comradely assist East Germans in preparing to counter a US-NATO attack. It was a Waffen-Bruderschaft that deterred American/Zionist/BRD subversion. The DDR ceased reparations to the USSR after a few years while the BRD - to this day - is extorted by Israel via American muscle into continuing the flow of billions of dollars to the Zionist entity.
I don't know how you can say the FRG picked up where the Third Reich left off, that is just wild to me. Hitler's capitalist cronies ditched his legacy after the war and took up exactly where he left off with their anti-communism.
West Germans have been propagandized extensively for 60 years against nationalism, love of ones own folk and culture, and for the love of the migrant and the Jew (regardless of his cultural hostility toward every Gentile nation he encounters). How is giving Jews citizenship, property, welfare benefits, control of German media outlets, personal audiences with German government officials at near whim and the Jewish version of war history in school books picking up where the Third Reich left off? The West German government pandered to petty-nationalism by disputing its borders and some movements even demanded the invasion of Poland and Kaliningrad.
The FRG's intelligence service to this day is joined at the hip with the CIA. If anything, the FRG picked up the American elite's dollarism, and was in fact used as a big human shield against the USSR. The FRG was and is an illegitimate regime, a product of a hostile military occupation - but so was the DDR. The difference is that Stalin tried to unify a neutral Germany and then withdraw all troops but America and proto-West Germany refused. They declared themselves a separate state long before the East did.
"Nazis" don't hobnob with Jews that tell them to enact more censorship laws against German folks This scumbag had no problem going from the NSDAP to the CDU.

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Adenauer's intelligence service was headed by the former Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen who helped many Nazis escape in the ODESSA network. This page is a Who's Who (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Nazis#West_Germany) of Nazis who joined the liberal capitalist parties after the war. Hardly "Werwolfs". :rofl:

[Rakhmetov]

She should try learning that folk is more important than pissant fights over money and bullshit internationalist struggles that service the Jewish ethnic agenda.

Is this satire? Members of RAF trained in PLO camps.