Sabotage on rail line in Germany

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Little Green Men?

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“Angry Birds Commando” which posted a statement on the left-wing platform Indymedia reading: “Many things would work infinitely better without the industrial system.”

Sounds more like anarchists.

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You don’t expect the Russians to come out and admit it, do you? It’s interesting that before this incident, “Angry Birds Commando” was unknown. Russia even has a name for it–“maskirovka”.

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Thank you for that info. I’m still pretty current on the left in Germany from friends but not Russian rightist operatives, although I know there are many there and they finance a lot of activities including the neo-fascist AfD.

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Vandalism..? Sounds like terrorism to me. But you’ll never hear that out of the now-sheeple Germans. I lived there for many years. How times have changed…

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The group may not be known to the general public, but it is known to the German security authorities:

The group “Kommando Angry Birds”, which has claimed responsibility, is “known to our authorities as a left-wing extremist join-in campaign”, said Interior Minister Reul. The group had “already sabotaged the Düsseldorf area several times in recent years”. The attack shows “how vulnerable our critical infrastructure is”.
Translated from: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/bahnverkehr-anschlag-auf-bahnstrecke-linksextremistisch-motiviert-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-250801-930-864123

From the same source:

A letter of confession was published on the left-wing platform “Indymedia”. In it, the “Angry Birds Commando” claimed responsibility for the crime. The authenticity of the letter is still being investigated, a police spokesman said. According to the police, the two incendiary devices on the central railroad line had the same design.

Regards, Volker

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Did they burn the Mt. Rainer Scenic bridge earlier this year?

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The Kommando Angry Birds poses as more of radical anarchist environmental group than a typical leftist group. And there may well be a Russian connection.

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And here I was, wondering if it was a bunch of die-hard Maquis still holding a grudge.

Just so everyone knows I wouldn’t be making a joke about it if someone was hurt or killed.

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MeTV broadcast Season 5 Episode 23 of The Walton’s about one of the members of the ‘extended’ family had move abroad and married a man who became an Austrian Diplomat before the Hitler age. When Hitler annexes Austria Diplomat is give diminishing jobs. The couple’s son followed the crowd and became a member of the Hitler Youth - supposedly the HY were given the ‘job’ of Bullying specific Jews in the place - the son tried to help the Jews and was beaten to death by the HY.

Bad times in the WORLD.

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Inappropriate post.

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Bad deeds are bad - no matter when or why they happened.

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What does that mean?

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I confess I immediately thought of 25:11 and later:

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It’s a pejorative, typically used by followers of Hannity, et al.

In this case the usage seems to be from someone ignorant of history and culture.

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word, “sheeple” was first used in 1945 and referred to people mindlessly obeying their government.

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As I said, a pejorative. And I don’t quite see the accuracy of the application that the one-off poster Powell made.

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The term pre-dates Hannity’s career. I remember it from the 1980’s. How do you get that he is ignorant of history and culture based on one post? He said he lived over there.

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