{"id":411,"date":"2011-08-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2024-04-24T13:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:50:17","slug":"revolution-spreads-germany-hundreds-fat-cats-cars-burned-country-60491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/economy\/revolution-spreads-germany-hundreds-fat-cats-cars-burned-country-60491\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolution Spreads To Germany: Cars Of Hundreds Of \u201cFat Cats\u201d Burned"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Revolution Against The Global Economic Elite Spreads To Germany As Protestors Torch The Cars Of Hundreds of \u201cFat Cats\u2019\u201d Across The Country.<\/h3>\n
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Location Of Fat Cats Cars Torched Throughout Germany<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While\u00a0 British Politicians continue to insist the riots in the UK were not political there has been a strong rebuke against those claims.<\/p>\n

Take for example the recent article I reprinted from the Guardian newspaper that puts the blame of the riots squarely on the shoulders of the openly blatant looting of the public by the economic elite.<\/p>\n

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Guardian: Pols Say Riots Weren\u2019t Political But Looters Knew The Elite Commits Robbery In Broad Daylight<\/h1>\n
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The Economic Elite Have Enslaved Freedom With Banker Bailout Debt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Looting with the lights on<\/h3>\n

We keep hearing England\u2019s riots weren\u2019t political \u2013 but looters know that their elites have been committing daylight robbery<\/h4>\n

I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities \u2013 window-smashing in Athens or car bonfires in Paris. And there are parallels, to be sure: a spark set by police violence, a generation that feels forgotten.<\/p>\n

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This is said in all seriousness. As if the massive bank bailouts never happened, followed by the defiant record bonuses. Followed by the emergency G8 and G20 meetings, when the leaders decided, collectively, not to do anything to punish the bankers for any of this, nor to do anything serious to prevent a similar crisis from happening again. Instead they would all go home to their respective countries and force sacrifices on the most vulnerable. They would do this by firing public sector workers, scapegoating teachers, closing libraries, upping tuition fees, rolling back union contracts, creating rush privatizations of public assets and decreasing pensions \u2013 mix the cocktail for where you live. And who is on television lecturing about the need to give up these \u201centitlements\u201d? The bankers and hedge-fund managers, of course.<\/p>\n

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Of course London\u2019s riots weren\u2019t a political protest. But the people committing night-time robbery sure as hell know that their elites have been committing daytime robbery. Saqueos are contagious. The Tories are right when they say the rioting is not about the cuts. But it has a great deal to do with what those cuts represent: being cut off. Locked away in a ballooning underclass with the few escape routes previously offered \u2013 a union job, a good affordable education \u2013 being rapidly sealed off. The cuts are a message. They are saying to whole sectors of society: you are stuck where you are, much like the migrants and refugees we turn away at our increasingly fortressed borders.<\/p>\n

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Those protests have now spread to Germany and the Germans are making it absolutely clear their actions are political. In fact, they are further making it clear the are revolting against the globalist fat cats who continue to rob the middle class and poor specifically by embarking in a campaign to torch the cars of the \u201cfat cats\u201d all across the country.<\/p>\n

Clearly the outbreak of political violence in Germany does not bode well for the rest of Europe as Germany has the best economy in the entire continent.<\/p>\n

A Zero Hedge report<\/strong><\/a> follows.<\/p>\n

The Benz Burners Arrive: Protests Come To Germany As Arsonists Burn Down \u201cFat Cat\u201d Cars<\/a><\/h2>\n

Following the recent riots in the UK, it seemed there was only one safe bastion from the marauding bands of indignants, labor unions, and\u00a0 general hooligans: Germany. That is, alas, no more. During the past two days, German protests against globalization, read Germany\u2019s undertaking to trade export strength for a joint European currency and a bailed out Club Ded periphery, have begun manifesting themselves albeit with a twist. As Bloomberg reports, in the past two days, arsonists have set fire to 26 cars in Berlin, mainly Mercedes, BMW, and Audis, which brings the total number of torched cars to 138, more than double all of 2010. \u201cThe arsonists want to hit what they say are \u2018Fat Cats,\u2019\u201d Berlin police spokesman Michael Gassen said. A special unit is investigating the fires as political crimes after the police received letters claiming responsibility that derided globalization, gentrification and rising rents, he said.<\/strong>\u201d It appears that while the Arab Spring was started by the self-immolation of a fruit seller protesting more or less the same things, that level of self-sacrifice is strangely missing in Europe\u2019s (and maybe the world\u2019s) most prosperous, and entitled, nation. As such we doubt much if anything will come out of this, suffice to way that Joe LaVorgna will promptly raise his German GDP due to replacement costs associated with rebuilding the burnt down \u201cfat cat\u201d cars. Also, if this is the apex of protesting, we doubt that Italy and the rest of the insolvent PIIGS has much to worry about Germany pulling away the subsidized methadone IV drip.<\/p>\n

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Far-left extremists are specifically targeting German luxury cars, symbols of the country\u2019s wealth and power, bringing the total number of vehicles torched in the German capital this year to at least 138, more than double the figure for all of 2010. Photographer: Stefan Nicola\/Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mercedes Targeted as Luxury Cars Burned in German Globalization Protests<\/h1>\n

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The fires come amid worsening economic data and political discontent in the country. German growth, last year the motor of Europe\u2019s recovery, almost ground to a halt in the second quarter. Gross domestic product, adjusted for seasonal effects, rose 0.1 percent from the first quarter, the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said yesterday.<\/p>\n

While the attacks are spread out over the year, police usually see a spike during the summer months. In some cases, arsonists have placed barbeque charcoal lighters on tires and ignited them, Thomas Neuendorf, a Berlin police spokesman, said today. Arsonists have in the past also lit a car\u2019s hood on fire after hosing it with accelerant. No arrests have been made in the most recent string of attacks.<\/p>\n

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The fires come amid worsening economic data and political discontent in the country. German growth, last year the motor of Europe\u2019s recovery, almost ground to a halt in the second quarter. Gross domestic product, adjusted for seasonal effects, rose 0.1 percent from the first quarter, the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said yesterday.<\/p>\n

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The rise in Berlin car burnings coincides with widespread lawlessness that erupted last week across England<\/strong>. More than 1,500 people were arrested as rioters looted shops, attacked bystanders and burnt autos. In Berlin, far-left extremists are specifically targeting German luxury cars, symbols of the country\u2019s wealth and export prowess, police said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe arsonists want to hit what they say are \u2018Fat Cats,\u2019\u201d Berlin police spokesman Michael Gassen said. A special unit is investigating the fires as political crimes after the police received letters claiming responsibility that derided globalization, gentrification and rising rents, he said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In Germany, it\u2019s hip to have flare:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn Britain you have the phenomenon that people are predisposed to jumping on the bandwagon,\u201d Becker said. \u201cThey see that something is up and want to be part of it, to add some fuel to the fire, as it were. With these cars in Berlin, they are in contrast consciously trying to send a message.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not necessarily the financial crisis which is the main motivation for these attacks,\u201d<\/strong> said Carsten Koschmieder, a political scientist at the Free University in Berlin. \u201cThe perpetrators see themselves as being from the left, and protest against capitalism, globalization and gentrification.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Just wait until the perpetrators realize that they benefits have gone poof following a few years of an ongoing Germany-funded European rescue\u2026<\/p>\n

Also, even in Berlin, it is all about location, location, location:<\/p>\n

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The attacks in the past happened mainly in eastern Berlin districts where more affluent tenants had pushed out squatters who arrived there after reunification in 1990. It\u2019s a \u201cnew trend\u201d that arsonists have now moved west, targeting areas such as Westend and its upscale neighbor Charlottenburg, said Michael Maass, a Berlin police spokesman.<\/p>\n

Pensioner Wolfgang Lambrecht inspected a burned-out silver Mercedes yesterday afternoon that was parked next to a tree, its trunk blackened by the fire. Lambrecht, who has lived in a nearby apartment for 16 years, woke up in the middle of the night when the smell of burning tires crept through his open bedroom window.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the morning, when I saw all the damage, I was so upset that I told my wife, \u2018Let\u2019s pack our bags and get out of here,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cBut that would be giving in to the radicals, wouldn\u2019t it?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At least they don\u2019t call those Germans who protest against the generosity of globalization (with other people\u2019s money of course), terrorists.<\/p>\n

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Update<\/em>: it appears the situation is a little more serious than we thought. Courtesy of @Jacobmbr, here is a map of all the recent car infernos (via Brennende Autos<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Note: The site referenced above contains a historical list of burnings, so make sure you are viewing the 2011 data. Note the Map only references attacks in Berlin and clearly you can see that there has been massive outbreak of \u201cfat cat\u201d cars in Berlin. It is also note worthy that the Bloomberg article only refers to cars burned in Berlin<\/strong> over the last two days<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Addendum<\/h3>\n

As I previously explained, the media and critics can ignore the protests all they want and balk at the reference to the protests as a \u201crevolution\u201d.<\/p>\n

The fact is, however, the corporate media\u2019s refusal to cover the story or to reference it as revolution does not mean it is not a revolution.<\/p>\n

When you have millions of protestors taking to the streets all over Europe saying their protests are a revolution it is hard to deny it is a revolution.<\/p>\n

The wave of revolution in Europe started in Spain with the media initially carrying the story and then burying it.<\/p>\n

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The revolution has started in Spain as tens of thousands take to the streets in protest of high unemployment and draconian austerity measures.<\/h3>\n

Note: Since this story is being buried by the press in several nations, please use the #SpanishRevolution in Tweets to help spread the word. Clearly, governments don\u2019t wont the revolution spreading to there own nations, which explains the media silence.<\/p>\n

The revolution has started in Spain as tens of thousands take to the streets in protest of high unemployment and draconian austerity measures.<\/p>\n

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And here is Corporate media coverage.<\/p>\n