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When it comes to immigration, political correctness often overrides the rule of law in Germany, where many migrants who commit sexual crimes are never brought to justice, and those who do stand trial receive lenient sentences from sympathetic judges.
On June 30, for example, a court in the northern German town of Ahrensburg found a 17-year-old migrant from Eritrea guilty of attempting to rape an 18-year-old woman in the stairwell of a parking garage at the train station in Bad Oldesloe. The woman was seriously injured in the attack, in which the migrant tried to subdue her by repeatedly biting her in the face and neck. After police arrived, the migrant resisted arrest and head-butted a police officer, who was also sent to the hospital.
Despite finding the Eritrean guilty of sexually assaulting the woman and physically assaulting the police officer, the court gave him a seven-month suspended sentence and ordered him to do 30 hours of community service. He has been released from custody and will not be deported.
In addition to judicial leniency, migrant criminals have benefited from German authorities, who have repeatedly been accused of under-reporting the true scale of the migrant crime problem in the country, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments.
In January, the newspaper Die Welt reported that the suppression of data about migrant criminality is a "Germany-wide phenomenon." According to Rainer Wendt, the head of the German police union (Deutschen Polizeigewerkschaft, DPolG), "Every police officer knows he has to meet a particular political expectation. It is better to keep quiet [about migrant crime] to avoid problems."
Also in January, a document leaked to the newspaper Bild revealed that politicians in the northern city of Kiel had ordered local police to overlook many of the crimes perpetrated by migrants. According to Bild, police in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony have also been instructed to be lenient to criminal migrants.
In February, Die Welt reported that authorities in the German state of Hesse were suppressing information about migrant-related crimes, ostensibly due to a "lack of public interest."
In May, a chief superintendent from the Cologne police department revealed that an official at the interior ministry in North-Rhine Westphalia ordered him to remove the term "rape" from an internal police report about the assaults in Cologne.
Police in Cologne now say they have received more than 1,000 complaints from women, including 454 reports of sexual assaults, related to New Year's Eve. Police in Hamburg say they have received complaints from 351 women, including 218 reports of sexual assault that took place on the same evening.
On July 7, more than six months after the Cologne attacks (and the same day that the Bundestag approved the new "No Means No" rape law), a German court issued the first two convictions: The District Court of Cologne gave a 20-year-old Iraqi and a 26-year-old Algerian a one-year suspended sentence and then released the two men.
The court found the Iraqi, identified only as Hussain A., guilty of kissing one of the victims and licking her face. The Algerian, named as Hassan T., prevented the boyfriend of the other victim from intervening to stop the attack and offered him money to have sex with her: "Give the girls or you die," he said. He was found guilty of being an accessory to sexual assault.
The Iraqi man, who was 20 at the time, was sentenced under juvenile law and was ordered to attend an integration course and do 80 hours of community service. The newspaper Bild published photographs of a jubilant Hassan T. smiling as he left the courtroom.
One observer said the light sentence was a mockery of justice and would serve as an invitation for criminal migrants to do as they please with German women.
What does concern me, however, is the large, and growing, support
Bernie has from the electorate, especially Catholics. CatholicVote
recently published statistics on the election showing that 52% of
Catholic adults believed Sanders would be an average or better
president. 52%? Seriously?
I struggled to understand the wide
appeal of Bernie Sanders mainly because I know socialism, or even a
government that looks a lot like socialism, will never work in this
country. It is economically unsound and morally unjust. But upon a
closer look, I see why Catholic support of Sanders is so high. There
seems to be a confusion over what Catholicism teaches about charity and
equality and what government can do to facilitate that charity and
equality. While Catholic Social Teaching tells us that we as Christians
have an obligation to help those less fortunate, it states that it
should be done through good will by faith, not government mandated
programs funded by excessive taxes.
The fundamental flaw in the
perceived relationship between Bernie's social-justice mantra and
Catholicism came forth while reading a piece by Josh Gelernter in National Review on cultural appropriation. Though the topic is
unrelated, he states that, "young leftists who want to appear good
without the hassle of doing good" are problematic and rampant in today's
society. The desire of many to appear good without actually doing
anything good is a line of thinking that lends itself to Sanders
campaign. Pumping money into government welfare programs and education
seemingly does what many people are unwilling to do themselves - assist
the poor, hungry, sick, and marginalized. In an effort to reconcile
Catholic Social Teaching with modern American society, numerous
Catholics have eliminated individual good will and charity in favor of
government-subsidized programs and insane tax plans...
