🚀 go-pugleaf

tony_reed@nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca (Tony Reed) writes:
>Thus spake Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT] (weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de):

> >This is nonsense. Pure and simple. We have it in the constitution, on very
> >prominent place, that no German citizen may be extradited to another state.
> >Not even within the EU.

>Ah, yes.  The German constitution.  Didn't it also have a provision
>that any and all refugee claimants were to be allowed entry to the
>Fatherland?  

No. It had a provision that people that are prosecuted because of political
crimes get asylum.

>And wasn't that provision recently repealed (or whatever
>you call it) to placate the right?

Well, I won't discuss what placates whom, but it was modified so that
the determination of who is politically prosecuted can involve lists 
of countries where there is no such prosecution at all (previously
it had to be refuted case by case in court) and that people that
already applied for asylum in another safe country can't apply here again.

A lot of people have argued that this considerably weakens the right to
asylum. Others argue that it helps only to throw people out who
obviously have no right to asylum but entertain administration and
courts for years with legal procedures. Pick your choice.

If you like to discuss that in more depth, maybe you take this thread
to soc.culture.german.

>It seems the German constitution is subject to sudden changes, and I
>don't think I'd put too much faith in it.

Given the fact that it protects me and not you, and that you don't
enjoy an equal protection by the Canadian constitution, I wouldn't
overestimate this lack of faith.

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr


-- 
  Christoph Weber-Fahr                  |  E-Mail:  weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de 
  Universitaet Kaiserslautern,  KIT     |  S-Mail:  Postfach 3049
  Tel. 0631/205-3391                    |           D-67653 Kaiserslautern
--------------------------  My personal opinion only    ---------------------