If you read through the various news sources of Germany, it's come out today via the Interior Ministry (the German version of Homeland Security)....that they now believe that right-wing extremism has reached a level.....requiring approximately 600 additional folks at the national and state-levels.....eye-ball and control threats from the right-wing extremists. ARD (public TV) covers the bulk of the story.
The money required for this? Apparently approved by the Bundestag and Finanzamt.
Has right-wing extremism grown to the point where you need a special bureau for just them? This is debatable.
Some will say that since 2013 and the refugee crisis period....that right-wing extremism has grown at great proportions. Some will suggest that in the five eastern states.....it's now a major deal. Some will say that several attacks and a couple of murders are now part of a trend.
Will this bureau be only for right-wing extremism? Well, that's the funny thing about this whole discussion. Virtually every single comment made....suggests that they will only face right-wing extremists.....not left-wing extremists. Is there currently a left-wing extremist problem? Again, this gets into a debatable situation. So far, over the past three years, you can't point any murders on the left-wing. You can point at fires, some assaults (very limited), and thug activity on construction/renovation projects.
The odds that the left-wing extremists will become a problem? Maybe, but that's not to discuss here today. Then you might go and ask the really stupid question....would the right-wing extremist police bureau be across the street from the left-wing extremists police bureau? Could they even be in the same building or structure. I kinda doubt it.
Would all of this lead to some crisis down the road in twenty years.....with both bureaus competing for funding and public perception? I might go and suggest that by 2040....two bureaus will exist and be at some serious level of public mistrust.
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