1st of May, the Same Mess as Every Year

In the night from 30th of April to 1st of May there is Walpurgis Night a festival to dance and celebrate together while putting up the Maypole. The 1st of May then is celebrated mostly by labour parties as being an international day of workers.

Children Going Crazy

I do not know when or how it began that young children go around at night and mess other people’s property up. However, some people say that in the past it was rather thought as playing tricks on people. Nowadays children are only throwing paper and and spray shaving foam around. I never really understood this procedure and do not understand it yet.

Reading the news of our village today, I found out that this year the children used even eggs and flour to damage walls of houses and cars. The eggshells caused scratches on the car and the wall could not be cleaned again totally. The children were also said to have thrown fireworks into a crown of people obviously showing a lack of even the slightest reasonable behaviour. It must have been small firecrackers, because nobody actually got injured, but these kids must be really mindless. I could say that today’s youth does not have any moral anymore, but this has also been said by Greek philosophers. Yet, it might not be that wrong. I guess that there are two possibilities to make children go mad:

1. no future at all
2. too much of everything without having to work for it

We in Germany live in state 2 while e.g. in African slums, where there is also a lot of violence, people live in state 1. Furthermore, parents do not want to care for their children anymore (they said that 10 year old children were outside at 1am), instead—as I already mentioned on Dorji Wangchuk’s blog—they hope that the state does their work which will lead to more problems instead of solutions in my opinion. Yet, I also have to admit that exactly this system is proposed and installed by the state: They want mothers to send their children to a crèche instead of stopping work for some years and caring for the children.

Demonstration in Berlin-Kreuzberg

In Berlin, the police must think the same about the demonstrants of Berlin-Kreuzberg. In 1987 demonstrations of left-wing extremists and antifa (antifascism, yet extremists too) became to severe and police had to retrieve for a while from Berlin-Kreuzberg. Since then left-wing extremists are coming to Kreuzberg each year and cause street fights with the police.

Each year there are injured policemen and injured demonstrants. I do not want to judge about either of them here, because both of them can be very friendly and also very rude, but I think it must suck for some policemen to work there. They have to fight against people they might even support, because police service hasn’t become better within the past few years. Government puts trust in surveillance cameras instead of people and thus does not hire so many policemen anymore (they cannot be dismissed, because they are public officials). Thus, policemen have to face a lot of work and might get overworked easily, which also leads to overreaction in some cases.

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Thursday, May 6, 2010