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Gemlany's 'non-violent' Greens: the support apparatus for terrorism

Green Party leaders who have gained seats in parliament or ers. Radikal has been one of the most aggressive and una­ city councils claim that they are "non-violent. " When a Green bashed platforms for the Red Army Fraction/Revolutionary legislator in the state of Hesse poured blood over an American Cells and "autonomist" terrorists. Under the rubric of "Heart general stationed in Germany last year, the Greens' national Attacks, " every issue would list the latest bombings and arson executive hailed the action as a model of non-violent protest. attacks, along with those taking credit for them, and would When military transport trains are derailed and military fa­ call for further militant actions. Despite the legal ban against cilities sabotaged--thistoo, of course, is "non-violent." radikal, it has continued to be published and distributed under Petra Kelly, formerly the Greens' national chairman, ex­ the auspices of the Swiss Wochenzeitung, which is linked to pressed her views on the subject of terrorism a little more the Berlin pro-terrorist newspaper taz. honestly in 1982: "I can't simply dismiss certain groups that Another representative of the pro-terrorist "old guard " is will eventually become violent, and lock them away the West Berlin "Alternative List " deputy Dieter Kunzel­ somewhere." mann who, understandably enough, considers himself an While civilized society believes that terrorists and other expert on questions of domestic security and criminal punish­ criminals should precisely be "locked away somewhere," the ment. The Alternative List is the Berlin equivalent of the Greens provide the cover, public relations, and support ap­ Greens.Kunzelmann described his illustrious career in June paratus for the hard-core terrorists of the Red Army Fraction 1983 as follows: (RAF), Revolutionary Cells, and similar outlaw groups. The I was already active in the 1962 confrontations in typical pattern is that the Greens organize a protest demon­ Schwabing. And then in 1966 I went from Munich to stration with other "peace movement " forces or with the Berlin and was very active in the SDS and the anti­ Citizens' Initiative environmentalist groups, and then profess authoritarian movement. From '70 to '75 I was in astonishment when the demonstration explodes into violence. prison because of alleged terrorist attacks. Of the five What a fraud this is can be seen immediately by anyone years I spent in prison, the court had to admit that I who examines the background and current activities of the was not guilty for three of those years. And I got out Greens. Damning information came to light, for example, in 1975 and fell in with one of the communist groups, during this summer's election campaign for the European the KPD. I was active in the Red Help, and then in Parliament, in which the Greens scored major victories. The the summer of 1978 I co-founded the Alternative List, Green slate included Brigitte Heinrich, Benno Harlin, and in which I have been active since, particularly in the Michael Kloeckner, all of whom were elected, and all of field of democratic law, where we have to deal with whom have flamboyant histories of terroristactivity. the justice ministries, the police, computerized data Brigitte Heinrich, during the student unrest of the . late- files, and thus the restriction of our democratic rights. 1960s,was arrested repeatedly and numerous investigations of her were carried out. She spent 16 months in prison, from Said Kunzelmann of his friends in the terrorist the end of 1979 to the middle of 1980, because she had been underground: a courier for the Red �rmy Fraction (Baader-Meinhof Gang), supplying and transporting explosives. In April 1983, the It is my view that the extra-parliamentary move­ Greens issued a declaration in the Bundestag, the Hesse leg­ ment must have a certain esteem for militance! Not islature, and the Frankfurt city council, calling for "Amnesty that we take part in it, but each one of us who is for for Brigitte Heinrich." passive resistance must be clear that he himself is Kloeckner and Harlin were sentenced in March of this drawn into the corner of terrorism, through the passive year to two years and six months in prison for inciting illegal means of resistance! And I would also like to bring acts and advertising for a terrorist group in the anarcho­ to passive resistance those who now believe that only terrorist Berlin rag radikal, of which they were the publish- militant resistance can succeed.

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© 1984 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Another well-known Green parliamentarian is the airline Green movement, says: "I think less of the U. S. A. than I pilot Keppel of the Hesse Greens, who in September 1979 do of the U.S.S.R.," while Nazi terrorists such as Odfried had tried to hijack a Lufthansa plane and was sentenced to Hepp have gone hunting for American GIs in their auto­ three-and-a-half years in prison. mobiles, with bombs. Neo-Nazi leader Karl-Heinz Hoffman declares: "The Greens would have to embrace me if they 'Amis go home!' know how Green I am." The Greens are of course rabidly anti-American (except, The Greens in Baden-Wiirttembergare deliberately seek­ perhaps, when being wined and dined by members of the ing to appeal to the more backward instincts of the rural New York Council on Foreign Relations), and have partici­ population, to incite them against "the occupiers." A spokes­ pated in numerous demonstrations and sabotage actions man for the Green regional office declared: against American military facilities in Germany. A Green Farmers have an enormous rage in their gut. Es­ member of parliament from Baden-Wiirttemberg, Thilo pecially in the area of Reuttlinger, Canadian troops Weichert, put it this way: have destroyed entire crops with their tank treads, We live in an occupied land and the occupiers are without regard to the protests of the farmers. The next the U.S. and NATO armed forces. The victims are maneuvers could end in real farm riots against the the children, homeowners, car drivers. Our occupiers soldiers. Many people think that. The population has do not usually even know the German language, let become politically more conscious. alone German law. For these occupiers, our environ­ The Greens in Hesse recently announced in a press re­ ment is a huge garbage can. lease that the American forces stationed there serve the goal The neo-Nazis could not have expressed it more bluntly. of "the destruction of Hesse and its population." They have Michael Kiihnen, a neo-Nazi who works closely with the demanded that the regional government of Hesse "initiate

Terrorand sabotagehit militarybases in Germany

Aug. 31: Arson is carried out against an excavator which over the wall of a German army barracks, between some was to be used to dig a shaft for a road-explosive structure­ military vehicles. In Warendorf, the warning lights on a intended for use by retreating NATO forces to blow up roads landing strip are destroyed. in case of a Soviet invasion. In the region of Malente-Nev­ ersfelde, quick-setting concrete is poured over the cover of a Sept. 13: A freight train smashes into a blockade on the tracks similar road-explosive structure. at EberbachiHesse, constructed of wooden blocks, steel rods, and large stones. The track was used exclusively by military Sept. 8: A road-explosive structure is completely sealed with trains at this time. quick-setting concrete. Sept. 14: A U.S. armored transport is blockaded in the train Sept. 9: The fence of aU.S. army depot in Mutlangen is cut. station in Biidingen by 12 persons armed with wooden spars In Kalletal-Bavenhausen in Lower Saxony, copper wires are and pavement stones. forced into the keyholes of the doors of a pump building of a NATO pipeline. In Giitersloh, U.S. military vehicles are Sept. IS: The Greens issue a leaflet calling on the population painted with RAF (Red Army Fraction) emblems and signs to disrupt NATO's air and land maneuvers with "flyingdrag­ reading "No NATO War." The vehicles'tires are punctured. on kites."

Sept. 10: A British Army railroad engineer in Giitersloh Sept. 19: In Hamburg, a telephone cable to a divisional determines that a switch has been jammed with iron staples observation post is cut. In Steinau, Hesse, a telephone cable and steel rods. to a maneuver-command observation post is cut. A British soldier is injured by a shot from an air-gun near Dassel, Sept. 11: In Oldenburg, four Molotov cocktails are thrown Lower Saxony. German and American military police inves-

24 Special Report EIR October 30,1984 criminal prosecution of the U.S. troops." Hesse's Social Luise Rinser, and Kerschgens were arrested and charged Democratic interior minister is quite open to this sort of with illegal entry of military bases and disturbing the peace. proposal, since he had himself publicly attacked the United The original planning group for the protests against the States when the commanding general of the Fifth Corps of maneuvers, the "Working Group for the Fulda Gap Fall '84 the U. S. Army complained about the lax attitude of the state Action," worked with the "Peace Committee" of the Hessian authorities toward attacks against American military Greens and the "Peace, Inc." of the national Green orga­ installations. nization right from the start. The Greens do much more than issue fulminating press releases, however. This fall's NATO maneuvers have pro­ Support for imprisoned terrorists vided the pretext for a new explosion of terror and sabotage Another case of direct support of pro-terrorist activities actions, and the Greens are right in the thick of it. In mid­ came to light in the city of Dortmund in April of this year, September, the Frankfurt Greens cemented up the explosive where the Greens participated in a "Salute action in support chambers of a Frankfurt bridge (intended for use by retreat­ of political prisoners." The "salute action" on behalf of jailed ing NATO troops in case of a Soviet invasion). Bundestag members of the Red Army Fraction (RAF) and other terrorist members Manfred Zieran and Jutta Ditfurth from Frankfurt groups was launched jointly by the Greens, the "Urban In­ took part in the protest action. dians," the "War on War" group, the autonomist women's The Greens declared afterward that they were fully in group, the Prison Initiative, the Investigative Committee, favor of violations of the law in order to prevent military and the radical-terrorist newspaper KLUngelkerl (The Gang maneuvers. Said parliamentarian Gertrud Schilling: "We do Member). it quite consciously." The "salute action" group demanded, among other things, Among the participants in various actions against mil­ the integration of hard-core terrorists in the prisons with other itary installations, Green activists Rudolf Bahro, Schubart, inmates-an obvious security breach:

tigate an incident involving the draining of 10,000 liters of over the Main River near Hanau, six covers from the mine fuel from three American tank trucks. chambers are removed and two plastic tubes filled with con­ crete. The words "Sabotage is a necessity" are spray-painted

Sept. 20: At Eddinghausen, Lower Saxony, the wind screen onto the bridge. of a German army vehicle is destroyed. Sept. 25: Demonstrators force their way onto the U.S. air­ base at Finkenberg and cover the sensors of three Hawk Sept. 21: Rocks are thrown at a helicopter of the border rockets with paint. In the Wildftecken train station, 40 Ger­ defense troops as it begins take-off. In Ampleben, Lower man military cars have their brake cords cut, and the slogans Saxony, a German army guard is shot at with firecracker "Americans Go Home" and "Resistance Now-War against rockets.An armored unit of the German army near Detmold War" are sprayed on. At Orie, Lower Saxony, a German is fired upon. A revolver is found at the scene of the crime. armyarmored personnel carrier is attacked by 50 demonstra­ tors armed with clubs and knives. The soldiers have to bar­ Sept. 22: At a search of a "peace camp" near Edinhausen, ricade themselves in the vehicle, whose exterior is severely clubs, knives, axes, and spike cutters, among other weapons, damaged. Near the Alkem nuclear plant in Hanau, a police are discoverd. In the area of Hildesheim-Hameln-Hanover, officialhas his servicerevolver stolen as he attempts to secure civilian and military traffic is stopped by groups of 15-20 identification from a protestor, during a demonstration by 50 persons.Bags of paint are thrown against military vehicles. individuals from the Maintal "peace camp." A patrol car is Near Coppenbriigge, street blockades are set up and then set surrounded and attacked by 20 masked demonstrators. on fire, and tires destroyed. Sept. 26: In a U.S. supply depot in the Berlin region of Sept. 24: At the border troops' (BGS) firingrange at Alsfeld, Grunewald,a guard is attacked and forced at gunpoint to give the fence is cut and signs painted such as "BGS and BW up his weapon and radio. Approximately 300 demonstrators [Bundeswehr-the army] practice for war." In the Hanau succeed in penetrating the U.S. army base at Grebenhain. area, individuals from the "peace camp" at Maintal tear out Forty-five are arrested. Sixty demonstrators force their way directional signs at a U.S. practice landing field. At a bridge onto the U.S. helicopter base at Fulda-Sickels.

EIR October 30, 1984 Special Report 25 Since the first prisoners from the RAF have been Question: "How does that work concretely,are there big inprisoned under "maximum security arrangements," technical preparations?" Answer: these prison conditions have been the object of a public With burning,there's no big deal, and technically political controversy.... In the recent past, the per­ the preparation is really simple. Every car had gas in spective of integration has come to the fore. Many it. And the so-called fire accelerator, well, that's gas­ prisoners want to live together in groups "capable of oline, that you can get at any filling station. Herbicide interaction," and thus can achieve living conditions and powdered sugar in a ratio of one to one as tinder, which will ensure their physical and psychological and a fuse that bums down in 30 minutes, then in a survival. half hour there is a nice flash flame. But people do The coalition circulated 130 "information packets," which that differently, with more electronics and a clock, among other things contained the Kliingelkerl and the Re­ according to their talents. genbogen-Neue Folge (Rainbow-New Results), a news­ On the motivation: paper sympathetic to the terrorist Revolutionary Cells. Pack­ ages were to have been sent to RAF leaders Christian Klar We have no crazy theoretical superstructure,stuff and Brigitte Mohnhaupt; but here the federal attorney gen­ like introducing the world revolution or the anti-im­ eral's office intervened and an official inquiry was launched. perialistic struggle. It's more out of our shock that the Support activities of this type are by no means limited word 'home' has become spoiled for us,it is more a to the Dortmund Greens; for example, the West Berlin Greens matter of defending our tum, since the swine want to sent the lawyer Golzem, well known to the radical coun­ wreck another piece of living space {Lebensraum] terculture in Frankfurt, as an observer to the trial of Toni (emphasis added ). Negri, the mastermind of Italian terrorism. On the relation to the Citizens' Initiative (BI), the en­ The 'Day X' action vironmentalist umbrella group that works closely with the At the end of September, the regional deputies of the Greens: Lower Saxony Greens launched a campaign of sabatoge and On principle, it's my opinion that the BI do their blockade against the transport of radioactive wastes in the thing and we do ours. So long as the BI doesn't try region of Liichow-Dannenberg.The slogan was, "Day X­ to distance themselves from us, there is no prob­ Stop the Nuclear Waste Transp()rts." lem.... It is understandable, if they distance them­ In that region, over 4 million marks of damage had been selves for tactical reasons. The BI is after all a reg­ done by 1983 through terrorist attacks against trucks, con­ istered organization. struction machines, offices, and railway lines. In July, the In our circles, everybody is secretly overjoyed if radical newspaper taz devoted a full page to the work of two something happens. If there weren't 500 people who anonymous terrorists of the "Wendland Resistance," in which would half-publicly say that, then we would certainly they quite freely spoke of their tactics and their relations to have problems personally. the "official " environmentalist Citizens' Initiative, which the Greens worked with. (Wendland is an old name for this part A franker characterization of the relations between the of Germany, which the ethnic separatists are trying to revive. ) Greens and the underground terrorists cannot be found. At

There is no point to further symbolic actions, nor the end of September, the courts of Gottingen and Dan­ to militant mass actions. So you shift quickly to the nenberg suppressed, on a nationwide basis, the distribution most concrete point of attack: construction first and of leaflets and placards for "Day X," since the printed ma­ infrastructure,because it's the simplest there and there terial was clear incitement to criminal actions. Following are no direct confrontations with the cops. that, the regional officeof the Greensin Hanover was searched by the police. Searches also took place of the rooms of the The newspaper then asks about the sabotage actions Citizens' Initiative of Liichow-Dannenbert and of the Liine­ themselves. "What about setting fires?Is that really fun?" burg Work Group against Nuclear Plants. Despite this,Green The answer: deputies Manfred Mombaur and Charlotte Garbe announced Afterward,I would say. At the time, you're always that they would defy the court order, and the national board scared shitless. To set fire to digging equipment, that of directors of the Greens took responsibility for the new really gets to your nerves. In a larger group, as with editions. Further, speakers of the Lower Saxony parlia­ the train, there it's looser. It doesn't get you down so mentary fraction of the Greens called for support of the much and in the forest you can feel even safer. For blockade actions. us it's not the fun of setting things on fire,super-secret The Liineburger Work Group against Nuclear Plants, pleasure doesn't come from that; but rather thoughts which is known for its open support of violent actions, like: Have we done wrong? Made some sortof mistake? behaved even more arrogantly, disseminating on a national

26 Special Report EIR October 30, 1984 scale a "Sabatoge Plan," which included advice such as the following:

Technical Advice: When tearing up the street, al­ ways begin on the side and undercut the tar layer. Important for our "street construction locations": pick­ hammer, sledge hammer, trowls ... whatever your The Nazi roots of heart desires. the Green For disruption of rail traffic: party Chainsaws to lay logs and wood blocks across the track; socket wrenches with long-armed levers, fold­ The Green party, like the Nazi party before it, is no sponta­ able spades to dig away rocks-this can be done with­ neous excrescence, but a project launched by an international out expense and quite quickly; attention must be paid oligarchy.Its sponsors include the Swiss-based Nazi Inter­ that many rail ties be dug under on one side of the national, British and continental theoreticians of "race sci­ track consecutively, otherwise the interrupting sloping ence," the Anthroposophist cult, financier networks of Brit­ will not be achieved.Quick-setting concrete for cross­ ain, the United States, and Old Feudal Europe, and Soviet ings.There are even people who cut the tracks through operatives committed to the destruction of Western welding.... civilization. It was a group of "world federalist" organizations that Numerous brochures of similar content were distributed launched the Greens by advancing ecological arguments from Liineburg, in which "attacks, including with explo­ against industry and technology, among them the World ' sives," and measures such as putting up smokescreens to Wildlife Fund (WWF), World Union for the Protection of block transport of atomic waste, were encouraged. Life, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature On "Day X," 400 activists were mobilized within an (mCN), and the Young European Federalists (where Green hour by means of a telephone chain.They immediately set leader Petra Kelly got her start). up street blockades and barricades. At the beginning of The founder of the mCN and the WWF, Britain's Sir October, the attempt was to be made to directly block two Julian Huxley, was as racist as Adolf Hitler. He believed transports. The first missed the blockade, despite the fact that, "In the long'run, the population problem is more im­ that 14 blockades were set up on streets, and quite a lot of portant than war and peace . . . for man is beginning to damage was caused by the fires that were set.For the second overrun the entire planet like a cancerous tumor ... In all transport, 30 larger blockades were set up and a dozen larger developed countries, the level of inborn intelligence is fall­ fires set and hundreds of smaller street barriers were erected. ing.... Quality is threatened by quantity ....We are di­ In two locations, the police had to intervene en masse in minishing natural selection through our modem medical order to clear the streets. knowledge and social-service programs, which will result in As expected, "Day X" erupted into violence.In the office degeneration .. .a positive population policy makes neces­ of a trucking company in Dannenberg, a fire extinguisher sary birth control of men of low quality by men of superior was found that had been fitted with an ignition charge. In quality ...." the area of Liichow-Dannenberg, five instances of sabotage Working closely with Huxley's mCN and the WWF were discovered against railway lines which corresponded were two men who later co-founded the German Green exactly, according to the police, to the intentions of the movement, Bernhard Grzimek and Herbert Gruhl. Gruhl, previously confiscated "sabatoge plans." Railroad ties were once a theoretician of the neo-Nazi National Democratic dismantled, rocks taken from under ties, and ties taken out Party, wrote the book A Planet Is Looted, in which he de­ of their mountings. All this, however, didn't satisfy the manded "a dictatorship tougher than Stalin's" to ration scarce Berlin taz, which wrote on Oct.11: resources. Even if construction and torching of barricades is Frankfurt Zoo Director Bernhard Grzimek was a high a lot of fun, creates disorder, and eliminates the feeling official in Hitler's Reichs Food Ministry and a member of the of boredom, it ultimately lacks perspective. It seems Nazi Party. Later his journal, Green Action for the Future as though heavier guns have to be set off. But is it (GAZ), exerted a magnetic attraction on old and new Nazis. worth the risk, if the remainder of Germany is indif­ Among his collaborators was former Goebbels aide Wilfried ferent to the district of Liichow-Dannenberg? Only the von Oven, who wrote in old-Nazi Dr. Gerhard Frey's interplay of purposeful actions against nuclear-indus­ Deutscher Nationalzeitung that "despite the general condem­ try firms outside Wendland, as well as the continuation nation and vilificationof Hitler and his worldview, the notion and increase of the activities in the district, seem cur­ is beginning to gain ground that it was he who, according to rently to make an effective resistance possible. Gruhl and many others, recognized and sought to grapple

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