Vor dem Gesetz
Before the law stands a doorkeeper.
--Franz Kafka
This just in, you don’t need to commit acts of terror to go to paradise...just become a German citizen. Earlier this week a suspected Al-Qaeda financier was freed from jail here after the country's highest court blocked his extradition to Spain. He was released from custody in Hamburg a few hours later, and climbed into a cab. Spain accuses him of being Herr bin Laden’s "permanent interlocutor and assistant" in Europe and having provided the Al-Qaeda network with logistical and financial support between 1997 and 2002.
"The federal constitutional court ruled that handing over the Syrian-German businessman (excuse me, businessman?) to Spain on a new EU arrest warrant would violate Germany's basic law." The Basic Law is Germany’s 'provisional' constitution, signed by Konrad Adenauer in 1949, and meant to be a transitional antidote to "a weak democracy succumbing almost without resistance to forward-surging tyrants."
Here is a graphic of how the Basic Law works:
Literally translated it means,"Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda."
"The government's anger at the decision reflects tensions between the authorities and the justice system."
--Franz Kafka
This just in, you don’t need to commit acts of terror to go to paradise...just become a German citizen. Earlier this week a suspected Al-Qaeda financier was freed from jail here after the country's highest court blocked his extradition to Spain. He was released from custody in Hamburg a few hours later, and climbed into a cab. Spain accuses him of being Herr bin Laden’s "permanent interlocutor and assistant" in Europe and having provided the Al-Qaeda network with logistical and financial support between 1997 and 2002.
"The federal constitutional court ruled that handing over the Syrian-German businessman (excuse me, businessman?) to Spain on a new EU arrest warrant would violate Germany's basic law." The Basic Law is Germany’s 'provisional' constitution, signed by Konrad Adenauer in 1949, and meant to be a transitional antidote to "a weak democracy succumbing almost without resistance to forward-surging tyrants."
Here is a graphic of how the Basic Law works:
Literally translated it means,"Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda."
"The government's anger at the decision reflects tensions between the authorities and the justice system."
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