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| The so-called City Indians at a Party Meeting of the Green's in Saarbrucken (1980): The Greens have to come to terms with their past. Photo: picture-alliance/Sven Simon |
GÖTTINGEN. The Goettingen Institute for the Study of Democracy has submitted an interim report about the entanglement of the Greens with pedophile circles. The Institute was commissioned to do so by the party. For the Greens it was "entirely unavoidable to recall, even though it may be painful and, 'electorally detrimental '" is the conclusion the 118 page study drew. "The participants were to know exactly what they had actually debated and decided upon and which boundary lines have been left vague or had been consciously exceeded."
Indeed, the Greens were "neither the first nor have they been the only point of contact for pedophile activists", but due to their cultural claims and their organizational structure that the party offered "a special sounding board for the concerns of minorities and marginalized groups". "Pro-Pedophile forces" had been thus been capable for several years, "to feed their views and demands in the decision-making process of the country".
Paedophilia was never made it "ever in any way to the core of the party or party identity development", but "it turned up at least until the mid-1990s in the debate here and there once more in the party." The Greens can not, therefore, rely "on a particular zeitgeist, to only a few strays and marginal sectarians in their own ranks." The authors cautioned the participants against an "apologetic trivialization of their contributions." Such are guild before the "victims of sexual abuse". (FA)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com..
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