Monday, August 3, 2020

Hippies Came Up in the German News Today

I noticed today that a bar-closure in the Berlin region, because of Corona problems....didn't go well over the weekend.  The public TV group for Berlin....RBB....covered a good bit of the story, and is worth reading.

On the SE end of Berlin-City....in Neukoln.....the police were ordered to swarm in and shut down a bar that problems with discipline over the ban rules.

At least 2k anti-ban demonstrators showed up in the street area, and countered the police presence.

Fireworks were employed by the protest crowd, along with stones.

What the news has said.....it was a combination of odd characters....hippies, right-wingers, and civil-rights enthusiasts.

So I sat there for a long while....imagining this scene where you'd have hippies, liberal civil-rights enthusiasts, and far-right wingers....meeting and agreeing on something.  You just can't find many occasions where these three groups could meet and be agreeable. 

This getting hippies onto some national database as being 'dangerous'?  The nightly news guy for ARD blinking a moment or two, and then saying that the police consider hippies as dangerous and a threat to society.  That would be something to curiously view.  

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