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04/29/2008: "Alleged 'Heil Hitler' comment lands German lawyer in court"

Michel Friedman, 52, whose past posts include deputy chairman of Germany's national Jewish body, was hired by a magazine to interview Horst Mahler, 72, who started out as a communist extremist in the 1970s as a founder of the Red Army Faction terrorist group.

During previous prosecutions, Mahler has been unrepentant about his praise of Nazi rule and use of the stiff-armed Heil Hitler salute. Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany. In 2006 he arrived at jail to serve a sentence and did the salute at the gate.

[ Why do all the English football hooligans not get prosecuted when they taunt Germans by doing such salutes in Germany? They seem to pick and choose who to apply the law to. ]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/978657.html

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on Tuesday, April 29th, Dental Plan said

English football hooligans are a much lower form of life and therefore probably exempt from political persecution. The fact that they're trying to make Germans feel more ashamed of themselves than they already are is probably a big plus.