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Its a stupid, inappropriate, not funny poem. In fact I dislike most of what this guy makes. I admit as much.
But you should be able to say almost anything you want against a public figure. Its a good counter-measure against autocracy. An autocratic leader often is too weak to stand up against something as simple as comedy.
"this one actually was about.. the poem...."
yeah, rub it in 
It doesn't matter what the poem said. If you can't criticize public leaders, something is wrong.
"I dont really get the problem here."
Yet you state it in the next sentence
"We do have a law, which allows foreign leaders to complain at our goverment if they feel insulted."
"I think its better if judges make that decision then our chancelor making it."
That is a valid point.
There are large Turkish minorities in many key EU-countries. They have important ties with people inside Turkey. Their support is very important to maintain power in Turkey.
In order to achieve this Erdogan primarily abuses a long feud between Turks and Kurd's for outside support and instills more strict religious rules for inside support.
A totalitarian leader is weak when he looks weak. That is why they cannot deal with mockery where a leader of a more democratic country doesn't necessarily need to instill fear in order to maintain power.
Its not that difficult to make the dictator fall but its simply not in our leaders short-term interests at the moment. We should demand the right course of action of our leaders because a democratic moderate-islamic ally like turkey is worth gold in the long run.
"a international relations vs freedom of expression issue, but is by no means bowing to foreign powers."
the first part of the sentence really is a euphemism for what you deny in the second part.
In any case, ordinary citizens should be able to criticize their leaders or other peoples leaders no matter public relations.
Jan Böhmermann is a stand-up comedian who insulted the Turkish sultan Erdogan, and Merkel made it possible to prosecute him with a law from 1949. This law dictates that you are not allowed to insult a foreign head of state. One can get prosecuted on the condition that the German gov agrees to it.
I'm not a fan of Jan and I don't think he's even remotely funny but it shows how deep the EU leaders bow for dictators these days.
Its been a few days, and I start to get more and more stories of people I know who have a close relative who got injured. Some of them are still in the hospital. Some of them are both physically and emotionally scared for life.
Emotionally biased as I may be in this case, this is how I look at it: There might be many of them, but there will be always more of us. You can not defeat the entire world. They will loose in the end.
"There are 54 muslim countries and not one of them are taking any of these refugees. "
You mean apart from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait and many others?
I agree however to many rich gulf states do nothing.
They recruit in jails. 80% of terrorists are convicted criminals. Often they become religious only after a long life of crime. Some of them are "converted" only months before an attack. But most of them lived here a long time.
The big paradox here is they sometimes do it out of guilt. A bit like the typical crusader: you might have done everything wrong a God could condemn but you will be forgiven if you go wage a holy war.
I'm fine, thx for the concern. Its only like 20 kilometers from where I live 5 from where I work. I sometimes use the metro. I know a lot of people who do but nobody I know got hurt. Quit frightening.
lol
Einstein, you're supposed to say:
"how can we check that you don't change the math in your brain wornstrum?"
lets speed things up here...
I went a bit off topic there but to my defense I'm not used to people posting in politics let go reacting to a topic I wrote. Impressive wiki btw 
A constitution is a weapon against undemocratic reforms. It is supposed to be difficult to change it.
I agree to your analysis TYMO
Imo the gov has 2 choices: give up power in favor of democratic reform or face total collapse. They are propping up the econ because the peoples republic of china fears the people. Its unsustainable to fund overcapacity on this scale, even if they save some on military. I've predicted this long ago. Unfortunately it comes true. I just hope there won't be a massacre of the population during revolts like in earlier days.
"The constitution was written to protect the people from our own government."
and the British
With all the -so called- bad news, most of the economic authorities predict an new economic crisis.
Lets make it a game and put some predictions here and come back in 1,5-2 years.
I hope for the sake of entertainment the mods will allow us for once to bump this forum in 2 years. At the current level of activity it will raise 3 topics or something anyway.
I say the exact opposite of what most people say. Unless some serious disaster hit us, economy will soon rise like never before. Why? The same reasons those very self proclaimed specialists use:
*Oil prices are low:
This is a very good thing short term. (long term it might increase oil prices of course cause investments in oil production are lower)
*Stock market is going down:
it might sound simple but...it can only go up! It was way overpriced by wrong gov intervention anyway.
*Economy in brics countries is collapsing:
Those economies where simply overrated. Not the least by their own govs. But if it means anything, it means cheaper resources. Resources play an important role in the price of products. Cheaper products mean more money for everybody to invest in other economic activities.
*Not enough employment in US:
Economy in the united states is doing better. I'm sure jobs will follow.
*Jobs will be lost to brics countries:
wages in the brics countries are much higher as before, and other countries still lack infrastructure to become a factory econ like eg china.
father!...but... I'm not yellow?
lol
izard,
there are more players involved as "the Muslims". At the very least you need to make a distinction between shia and suni muslims to get a grasp of what is going on there. Syria, Iran and russia have a close connection because it is convenient for all sides. This goes a long way back. Isis is a big player in Syria, but not the only one. You have many different factions.
The international coalition bombing isis isn't very effective when you look to the cost of the operation but counters your idea of obama wanting to install a shia caliphate. Again, I do admit the approach is very ineffective and shows incompetent leadership. I believe he and his advisers are simply not as good as you want to portrait them.
"Obuma wants a worldwide kilafade , and thinks of himself as being the muslims supreme leader. He is using the united states and the united states military to make it happpen."
And this is not another conspiracy theory. Now I agree he's a really bad thing for the us and the row, but be realistic. Even if he was planning a kalifade, he's to incompetent to achieve this. I do agree however that he was/is responsible for the rapid rise of ISIS.
"Would be beter for everyone if they go back tot their own currency"
That is nonsense. The theory that says "devaluation brings more export and economic growth" isn't necessarily true in this case. That is a simplification. It is often proven by economic growth numbers but they forget to mention the huge economic downfall and poverty that precedes it. Its a mathematical trick. When you have 10 and go to 11 you have less growth in % then when you go from 1 to 2.
The cost for implementing a new currency is huge. The economic collapse of eg Italy would cause a new crisis in the EU. I do however agree that greece should never have been part of the EURO in the first place. But they shouldn't change now.
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