Preventative Dention?

This morning....big meeting with German federal authorities....the Interior Minister... Dobrindt (CSU)....spoke up and said....he's calling for the introduction of preventive detention for potential threats. 

I'll just say from the federal folks (the BKA).....there's 400-plus Islamist individuals who might fit into this category of potential threats.

I paused over this....there's NO constitutional text to allow 'preventative-holding.'

There is a piece that allows (after a serious crime)....a piece to hold you, if you were a threat to society because you demonstrated clear-potential, or a threat to run-away. But these are actions which we aren't really discussing.

So there would have to be a constitutional change (my view).

If you were just uttering BS about stupid infidels....how they need to be roughed-up or hurt....that probably wouldn't get you preventive holding under current rules.

But then I come to the 2nd issue....once you invent/write such a law....where exactly would you go and hold such individuals?  Clearly, you need a German-super-max-type prison....like the US has in Colorado.   Then you'd tell the guy...upon detention.....he would never leave such a place.  In a crazy guy's mind.....this would hype him up, and he'd be a threat for the remainder of his life.

This being just for 400 guys?  I have my doubts.....this list would expand within a year to probably 1,000 guys, and potentially in five years.....maybe 3,000.

So I'll just say this....whatever they are discussing....will NEVER occur....NEVER be funded....NEVER be built.

If you asked me logically about the use of such a place?  Yeah....it's probably the only 5-star answer to get Germans to being safe and comfortable.   

One added note....you'd go and add lefty/righty extremists.....to fall into this pit as well.  This problem would not fix much of anything.

What Is Waswasa?

 Within the Islamic religion....waswasa is an Islamic theological term that means the subtle “whispers” or intrusive suggestions planted in a person’s heart or mind by Shaytan (Satan/the devil himself).

Oddly....it describes Satan’s attempts to introduce doubts, temptations, baseless worries, or distracting thoughts in order to weaken faith, disrupt worship, or lead someone toward sin. 

So if you were in some treatment  program for deradicalization....you probably have a defensive mechanism in your mind...thinking the clinic-help folks....are  planting doubts in your mind or trying to distract you.

This Berlin Abdul guy facing this reality?  I think from day one of the deradicalization program....he had a frame of mind to 'protect' himself from change. If so......then the whole concept of the program...is wasted effort.

Odd Polling For Sachsen-Anhalt State Election

 6 Sep is the election day for state voting in Sachsen-Anhalt.  Polling?

AfD will (without doubt) 'win' with 41-percent of the vote.

CDU, 2nd place with 24-percent.  Linke Party with 14-percent, and SPD at 5-percent.

Note, you have to have 5-percent or better....to get seats in the state assembly.

Then follows Greens, BSW, FDP and lesser parties....4-percent each....meaning 16-percent of the state votes....earns no seats.

When you do the math....AfD will be fairly close to 50-percent (meaning  no coalition is required).  The question is.....will the SPD get to 5-percent?  If not....then it's absolutely clear...AfD wins and forms it's own gov't within the state.

The other odd scenario?  If you vote for the CDU, and the SPD gets 5-to-6 percent....AfD can't get a free deal, and the CDU end up in a leading-the-coalition 'game'....with the SPD/Linke Party.  In this case...a fair number of CDU folks are peeved at the deal-making involved, and they might vote AfD to avoid the deals.

28 July 2026: Germany: 6 Things

 1.   It's just odd....a Muslim radicalized youth (age 21)....goes into terror mode, and left-wing commentary tries to 'sell' you on the idea that it was a 'right-wing' attack.  Lot of BS existing...especially around Berlin.  

One odd aspect of the dead radical guy....while in the German prison...he was apparently trying to convert Muslims (already in jail) to be radicalized.  At  some point, the prison realized the 'act' going on, and put him into a separate enclosed area.  He still tried to socialize and friend-up other Muslims. 

If you asked me....this idea of bringing him out of prison....to a 'deradicalization' program....was a four-star joke.  

One other odd aspect....at some point in the legal process....he was  categorized as 'emotional development delayed' (even though he was over age 18)....which meant they didn't treat him as a adult but as a juvenile.

2.  Tegel Airport (Berlin) effort to convert over to a university....has begun.

3.  Starting in August, providers and operators of AI-generated content must clearly label it as such. (German and EU mandate).

4.    "Crashout" is a newly invented word (in 2026) by German teenagers.....refers to a situation where someone completely loses their composure, freaks out, or reacts extremely emotionally.

5.  Interior Minister Dobrindt wants to fit electronic ankle monitors to dangerous individuals.  'House-arrest/detention' would follow the guy.  I'll predict....most don't have the patience for the monitor, and will quickly violate the situation.

6.  Heat wave for my valley returns Wed/Thur...35 C (95 F).  Settles back to 31 C by Friday/Saturday.

The Odds of Having Paranoid Schizophrenia With Lower IQ?

 Well....it's a numbers thing.  A lower IQ is linked to a higher risk of developing schizophrenia.

This relates to a 3.7-percent increase in risk for every single-point drop in an IQ test. So if you considered 100 average, and you had a 80 IQ....that means  20 x 3.7-percent....70-percent higher chance.

In recent weeks....I've hyped the problems of low-IQ folks in making rational decisions and relating to threats of violence.

Each time you note a member of society doing something irrational and threatening....you can generally start a betting pool....something related to a lower IQ has occurred.

Interview

 This AM....interview via RTL-news....with the Interior Minister....Alexander Dobrindt (CSU).

At some point.....it's talked about over the weekend terror attack in Berlin: “How can a sentence actually be suspended on probation for someone who has been identified as a threat?” which is the quote given by Dobrindt.  Obviously, how the Abdul-character was 'free'....makes no sense.

The Abdul's lawyers?  Obviously, they found the legal framework to convince a judge that you could go through a recovery process to lose your radicalization.

I'll just say....as the weeks go by, and more questions get public attention....there's intense pressure building up.  But I said that five years ago as well.  It helps to have stupid people....go through Amnesia....over and over.

Elon Interview

 Last night....I sat  and completed the 90-odd-minute interview of Elon Musk with Zanny Minton Beddoes, the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist.  You can find it on YouTube.

I'll make three observations.

First, I don't 'HATE' the news media or journalists.  I'd say if anything....over the past dozen years....I've been very skeptical of the stories laid out....or the narrative told.  Since AI came along....I can hit the analyze-button, and check out the facts (if any).

Second, once I've noted that you are slanting the story....intentionally....my trust goes to zero.  I might still read your piece....but I'm very unlikely to buy into the story.

Third, I don't really believe that journalists have any special skills or talents. Maybe in the period up to the 1990s.....there were some with talents....but that era has ended.

The interview worth viewing?  Oh yeah.  

Just A Odd Number

 Focus published a piece....experts in Berlin-City....say that from the entire community...there are in the range of 1,940 radicalized folks who seem  to be violence-prone extremists...of the Islamic religion.  That's Berlin....alone.

Nation-wide?  The number suggested is 9,000.

The problem? At some point....folks start to ask security questions, and how police efforts can work?

In some ways....it begs the question....is this intentional...to create a bigger problem than the current economy?