Germany Arrests 25 Suspected of Planning to Overthrow Government

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/world/europe/germany-coup-arrests.html

by TeaDrunk • 4 years ago

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Ginger-Pickles• 4 years ago

https://archive.ph/zuJW7

markeibes• 4 years ago

It annoys me that they call the person a prince. There is no nobility in Germany.

guenthert• 4 years ago

All member of nobility lost their privileges early in the Weimarer Republic (1919), but they were allowed to keep their titles. Many chose to drop those as well, but some keep them to this day.

My (one guy on the Internet) impression is that the majority of British still support their nobility (as demonstrated just recently when Queen Elizabeth II died), while in Germany only a minority does. I can't help feeling a bit pity for those clinging to their titles, particularly if they make publicly a fool of themselves like Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (!) [1] or this "prince".

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiatsaff%C3%A4re_Guttenberg

stormking• 4 years ago

There are no royal "titles" in germany, just people with a strange surname. Calling that dude a prince or his name a title is just wrong.

squarefoot• 4 years ago

So this time is Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golpe_Borghese

pifm_guy2• 4 years ago

I want to live in a place where overthrowing the government isn't illegal.

Sometimes governments go wrong, and when that happens I want the citizens to be able to get rid of them and start afresh.

And with modern governments having access to a lot of weaponry, it would really be better if that happened peacefully.

trias• 4 years ago

That is what elections are for.

kadoban• 4 years ago

That makes no sense. If 25 random assholes can choose to remake the government, that'll keep happening until one group of them makes it illegal.

AndrewThrowaway• 4 years ago

"Overthrowing government" is legal. By winning an election.

pifm_guy2• 4 years ago

North Korea would like a word.

Germany Arrests 25 Suspected of Planning to Overthrow Government

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