Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, November 24, 2008 2:21:40 PM
The German government claim that they can’t find a good reason to keep Christian Klar behind bars, so they plan to parole him.
Klar led the Red Army Faction, otherwise known as the Baader-Meinhof
terrorist group, a radical Marxist militant gang that killed at least
30 people during its period of terror. Klar follows his
comrade-in-arms Brigitte Mohnhaupt, who also got paroled 21 months ago
No grounds, eh? How about the fact that Klar has served less than a
year in prison for every person his group murdered? In 1982, Klar was
found personally guilty for nine murders and 11 attempted murders.
That gives him less than three years each for just the murders, with
the attempts ignored altogether.
When people say they mistrust a law-enforcement approach to
terrorism, this is exactly what they mean. Terrorists of any political
stripe represent more than just murderers. They attack the foundations
of democracy itself by attempting to impose policy on the vast majority
of citizens who reject it. They use murder as an end to political
means, which attempts to both kill human life and the democratic
community as a whole.
I’d normally say that this makes them more dangerous than ordinary
murderers, but Klar actually qualifies as something more than that as
well. His nine murders make him a serial killer, and the multiple
homicides make Baader-Meinhof a mass-murdering group as well. Would
Germany release a known serial killer on parole? Just on that basis,
how can they justify releasing Klar?