The Village Where the Neo-Nazis Rule

[mgc1961]

Horst and Birgit Lohmeyer have been working on their life's dream for six years, renovating a house in the woods near Jamel, a tiny village near Wismar in the far northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Birgit Lohmeyer writes crime novels, her husband is a musician, and both try to pretend everything is normal here in Jamel.

It wasn't easy to find their new home. The Lohmeyers spent months driving out to the countryside every weekend, heading east from where they lived in Hamburg, but most of the houses they saw were too expensive. Then they came across the inexpensive red brick farmhouse in Jamel. Slightly run-down, but not far from the Baltic Sea, the house sits surrounded by lime and maple trees, near a lake.

The Lohmeyers knew that a notorious neo-Nazi lived nearby -- Sven Krüger, a demolition contractor and high-level member of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD). What the Lohmeyers didn't know was that other neighbors felt terrorized by Krüger. He and his associates were in the process of buying up the entire village.

Read more at http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,737471,00.html

[WhiteTara]

1. that sounds like a real nightmare

I wonder if they have disclosure laws in Germany. That would certainly be something I would want to know BEFORE I bought. I would also sell to them and run away. Slavering evil in my face would be too much.

[MineralMan]

2. Sell and move, folks. You won't win this battle.

All the kinfolks say, "Move away from there."

[XanaDUer]

3. Sort of reminds me of The Dells, OR

the town taken over by the Rajneeshees who then launched one of the first bioterror attack on American soil in 1984.

Yeah, I would leave.

:scared:

[MedicalAdmin]

4. Do you mean The Dalles? In Oregon?

And I would hardly call it a bio terror attack. Christ on a cracker, big meat companies do shit like that every year and no one even raises an eyebrow..

Not that it was nothing. It was a crime and it was prosecuted.




Cults - sheesh.

[XanaDUer]

6. Uh, yeah, 'Scuse my typo

Big meat companies go out and spray salmonella on local restaurant salad bars and salad dressing to make enough of the local population sick so they cannot vote to rig an election?

I'm no fan of "big meat", and am vegan.

SNIP- As of 2005, the Rajneesh group was the only known organization to have cultured its own pathogen for terrorist purposes.<39> Federal and state investigators requested that details of the incident not be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) for 12 years, for they feared a description of the events could spark copycat crimes, and JAMA complied.<20> No repeat attacks or hoaxes subsequently occurred, and a detailed account of the incident and investigation was published in JAMA in 1997.<13><40><41> A 1999 empirical analysis in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases published by the CDC described six motivational factors associated with bioterrorism, including: charismatic leadership, no outside constituency, apocalyptic ideology, loner or splinter group, sense of paranoia and grandiosity, and defensive aggression.<42> According to the article, the "Rajneesh Cult" satisfied all motivational factors except for an "apocalyptic ideology".<42> An analysis in the book Cults, Religion and Violence disputes the link to charismatic leadership, pointing out that in this and other cases, it was organizational lieutenants who played a pivotal role in the initiation of violence.<43> Arguing for a contextual rather than decisive view of charisma, the authors state that the attribution of outcomes to the personality of a single individual, even a charismatic leader, usually camouflages a far more complex field of social relationships.<43>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_attack#Aftermath

[Hestia]

5. Why not get non-nazi's to move in and out gun them. How can a country allow an entire village

to just be taken over?

[Cherchez la Femme]

7. Sociologically, it evokes

Skidmore, Missouri and Ken Rex McElroy only the numbers of protagonists/antagonists appear flipped. Even the local, county & state law enforcement officers were scared of Ken Rex.

Germany is ignoring it at their own peril.

[Mopar151]

8. Welcome to Hayden Lake, Idaho

A couple decades ago.