A new role model

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>]

From:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,739846,00.html

How Germany was suffocated
[...]
Roth [the Green party chair] had begun our conversation with a tribute to
the Prince of Wales, who had recently visited Germany. "He's so green. He
spoke about nature and biodiversity, genetic agriculture and nuclear power,
and he was so clear, so intelligent. I was so impressed I want to propose
him for honorary membership in the German Green party." She noticed that I
was laughing. "No, really," she insisted.
If ever there was going to be an antidote to the stifling consensuality of
Germany, it promised to be the greens - and look at them now: Prince Charles
is their idea of a radical."
[...]
Next, I was introduced to a realo-fundi mixed marriage: Doctor Thea Dückers
(R) and Johannes Kempmann (F).
[...]
We sat on the back steps of the Lower Saxony parliament building, drinking
beer, the setting sun in our eyes, talking about the strange lessons that
experience teaches. "We were part of the local red-green parliamentary
alliance," said Duckers, who is now a member of the Bundestag and a leading
green economic expert. "But after we were turned out in 1994, my husband and
I started a humanitarian agency and were working with the Kurds in northern
Iraq. Every day, we saw the American jets fly over and we'd be so happy.
Their presence allowed us to do our work. It was an important moment for us,
a big change. We both began to understand the importance of military power.
I voted for the military actions in Kosovo and Afghanistan in the
Bundestag."



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