Hi, Germany 🇩🇪 here again.
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In the 1970's West Germany suffered from severe series domestic terrorism.
The Rote Armee Fraktion.
Their attackes on capitalism, such as Bankers, Politicians, Embassies. To finance, they are committing robbery, killing police. /1

@HouseJudiciary October 20, 1977, former chancellor Helmut Schmidt held a speech on the responsibility of the democracy to protect his citizens, as outlined by the Supreme Court.
He said :
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@HouseJudiciary "The Federal Constitutional Court did in the early Morning hours of October 16 on behalf of ours People recognized for right: Articles 1 and 2 of ours Of the Basic Law oblige the state to to protect life. This duty to protect is full.
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@HouseJudiciary She commands the state to protect itself and to put it in front of this life in a promoting way; this means above all, it also protects against unlawful attacks by Preserving the pages of others.
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@HouseJudiciary Have at this commandment all state organs, depending on their particular Tasks, align.
All state organs!
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@HouseJudiciary The Constitutional Court added: The Basic Law establishes a Duty to protect not only towards the individual, but also towards the entirety of all citizens.
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@HouseJudiciary The exercise of this double duty set anticipate that the state organs take their action the diversity of the respective concrete situation without Adjusting to a specific behavior can."
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@HouseJudiciary Looking at my German history, I must say to my friends overseas:
The 45 th President of the United States of America incited domestic terrorism which even attacked the democratic institutions itself.
He must be hold fully accountable.

We must protect OUR democracy.
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@HouseJudiciary @threadreaderapp please unroll. TY for being here for us. 💗

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