The Guantanamisation of Germany?

German Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble is no longer a cautious opponent of terrorism; he has become obsessed with it, writes Heribert Prantl commenting on Schäuble's latest proposals for combating terrorism. Schäuble plans among other things to ban 'those who threaten' the constitutional state from using cell phones or the Internet and to introduce changes in Germany's constitution which would make the killing of targeted terrorists legal. "Wolfgang Schäuble is making us afraid. The minister talks as if Germany could only be saved by turning itself into a 007 state - by mutating from a constitutional state into a regime of legal illegality. He talks of prudence but practices the opposite; he warns of hysteria yet propagates it himself; he disapproves of Guantanamo but talks as if it were vital to prepare the way for the Guantanamisation of Germany's judicial system."

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