Germany some days before the Elections: Stoiber vs. Schröder! Schröder vs. Stoiber! Westerwelle vs. all! One for all! All for one! Everything will stay the same and nothing will be as it used to be. All or nothing! All nothing, or?
You could continue this game for some time until the Electoral-Sunday will be over, but on principle not many things are going to be changed after September 22, 2002. The earth will also be a globe after that day, I assume.
Mr. Stoiber and his „Competency Team” made the decision-making a little bit easier for the German population with the help of some of their statements regarding the threatening Iraq War. The wolf in sheep’s clothing? A German Bush? Well, anyway: Thanks, Mr. Stoiber! Every competing party likes to accept gratis gifts J
Mr. Schröder had some more experience with the basic arithmetic operations and could “count up 1 and 1”, when he realized just some weeks before the elections, that when reigning over a population, of which 91 % are against a new Iraq War, a clear comment regarding this matter can be pretty helpful. You may excuse the martial-policy of SPD (Social-Democrats) and the Green Party of the past four years (Yugoslavia, Afghanistan), but Mr. Schröder’s step ahead was more than necessary. You cannot be tied up to the NATO conventions for the years to come, which will be interpreted in this or another way according to the current situation. Furthermore, it seems that no-one really knows what aim the NATO is heading for after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Do they want to make or keep the world safe for Democracy? Aren’t they in a situation right now in which they have to protect themselves from themselves? At the latest since the time between September 11^th 2001 and the hot period of the German elections this year Germany (and Europe as well) was characterised by a thraldom to America which surmised and surmises that there would come things much worse.
Does Schröder’s refusal to the “Adventure Iraq” mean a complete U-turn? Let us hope this! Nevertheless, also Schröder has to be under pressure by the people – even if he will be elected for another four years.  

Regarding the coming elections this weekend one should keep in mind, that we vote those politicians into the Black Box (also see “Hint-Mail 2”), but that doesn’t mean at all that delivering our votes also includes delivering our brains. Especially between the elections a statement of Timothy Leary,  which they also try to persuade us from believing, is very important to remember: “Question Authorities! Think for Yourself!“ (http://www.omnimag.com/archives/features/leary/1_3.html)
Everyone has her/his own reasons why she/he wants to send a person with her/his voting into the Black Box, but the interrelations between the State and the People have to be maintained appreciably for a longer period of time than just 4 months before and 4 weeks after the elections.
Germany has to find a new way which is not that new though and still we have to keep the mistakes from 60-70 years ago in mind. 13 years after the fall of The Wall we have to get aware of the fact that Germany is an independent state with all its rights and duties like every other state as well. And it cannot be, that these aims are the right to stupidity and the duty of war. To scrutinize or criticise America’s policy has nothing in common with Antiamericanism. To prosecute Israel’s policy doesn’t mean automatically that you are anti-Semitic. Defaming, twisting, showing up other people has seen a boom in Germany. Politics are living from conflicts, media are living from conflicts, industry is living from conflicts. One may think that we can only live if there are no conflicts. Some may feel uneasy if there were no conflicts anymore. But the main problem is obviously that they concentrate on the artificially generated conflicts and overact the real ones, which are much deeper inside. The old game “Treating the Symptoms” and “Overacting the Causes”. Some of you will know that from your last visit to the doctor or the one or the other relationship – I guess, I don’t tell you anything new J If you consider the world in a holistic context you will discover a lot of parallels in life. But this all is nothing new as well and that’s why this is the end for today.

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Have a nice, sunny day. Yours, Michael. 

PS: I would like to attach a photograph (or a good montage), which a friend from Berlin sent to me. I do not to intend to say anything with that at all – for the hanging up of the electoral advertisements every party is responsible for themselves.

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