Top Green Politician: Dumb and Dumber

Hard to beat the idiocy of this wacko conspiracy theory: A top member of the German Green party - Antje Vollmer, the highest ranking woman in Germany's parliament (and a real beauty by any definition) - accuses the U.S. government of an underhanded campaign against pedophile Catholic priests aimed at punishing Pope John Paul II for his opposition to the Iraq war.

Liberated Woman: Ms. Vollmer Exhibited Her Utmost Compassion for the Plight of Oppressed Muslim Women on an Official State Visit to Saudi Arabia Last Month.

Ms. Vollmer's theory is so far out in lunatic land that even SPIEGEL ONLINE is criticizing her:

"Germany's highest ranking female member of parliament has a new theory: the US government set the Catholic pedophilia scandal in motion because it wanted to weaken an already frail pope. That's also why it made Poland its chief partner in the Iraq war: to make the Vatican look bad. Yeah right.

She may not be the country's most powerful politician, but as the vice-president of the Bundestag, Germany's parliament, Antje Vollmer of the Green Party is one of its highest-ranking women in political office. When she talks, people listen. But last week we were a little baffled when we saw her shameless contribution to the growing canon of anti-American conspiracy theories and baseless analogies circulating in Germany.

First, in Sept. 2002, then-Justice Minister Herta Däubler-Gmelin compared George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler. Then came Andreas von Buelow, the former federal education and research minister whose 2003 conspiracy theory alleging the CIA and Israeli intelligence were responsible for the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington made for a best-selling book. Now Vollmer comes along, implying that the US government chose to draw attention to the Catholic pedophilia scandal not because of the crimes in and of themselves, but because Washington wanted to weaken the pope. (...)

Her theory? It seems the U.S. had to do something to weaken the influence of the pope, who was an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq. Vollmer finds it all very suspicious that after the war, "Poland was made a top occupying power in Iraq, naturally to weaken the pope's hinterland. Or how then, of all times, the campaign against the Catholic Church and the pedophilia was started, which was, of course, totally justified, but at this point in time was definitely a tit-for-tat response." Vollmer found it somehow strange that the US presidents traveled to the Vatican despite the "tough power struggles."

Like a good conspiracy theorist, she doesn't point fingers directly, but lets her comments hang in the air so that others can piece together the message. In essence, with her bizarre ramblings she was saying that the US tried to undercut John Paul II's political influence in Poland by giving his countrymen an important role in occupying Iraq and instigating a pedophile scandal against the church as a sort of smear campaign against the Catholic leader.

In an editorial, DER SPIEGEL's Henryk M. Broder remarks: "Statements like this aren't even commented on these days, just like the popular opinions that terrorism is the result of poverty and SUVs are responsible for climate change. None of the guests (on the show) attempted to contradict these statements in any way." He points out that, in truth, "the Poles didn't need to be forced to send troops to Iraq, because they trust Washington more than Brussels, Paris or Berlin. The Catholic Church has a recurring history of pedophile scandals in the US as in Europe -- even before the Iraq war. "But all this is meaningless compared to the rage of a Green politician trying to impose her conspiratorial views on a complex reality until everything fits together seamlessly. Whatever the deceased pope had longed for and meant: He does not deserve Antje Vollmer as the executor of his will." 

Poland's participation in the Iraq war an attempt to weaken the Pope's "hinterland"? An anti-pedophile campaign as a veiled attempt to attack the pope's position against the Iraq war?

Oh, those evil neocons...never shy about hatching dark conspiracies. This probably means they are behind the Michael Jackson pedophile accusations as well...probably to discredit him for being such a macro-pacifist. This all just makes one wonder: How long will it be before the US government hauls in Michael Moore on child molestation charges and ships him off to Gitmo? Who will be the next victim of this vast conspiracy? Have the neo-cons no shame? If they are willing to take the pope down, they could be willing to take anyone down...

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Ah yes...it all fits in so nicely to the "World Scapegoat USA" way of thinking that has swept Germany's left.

I just wonder, Antje, if you could kindly stick to the topic of child abuse for a while... How about discussing the pedophile experiences of another top Green politician: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, back in the seventies, when he ran a kindergarten in Frankfurt am Main?

The prominent pro-European and leader of the Greens in the European Parliament, Daniel Cohn-Bendit has recently defended his publication in 1976 of an article in which he wrote of his sexual experiences with children in a Kindergarten he used to run in Frankfurt in the 1970s. Responding to the republication of sexually explicit passages of the article in The Observer, Cohn-Bendit has said that his article was part of the sexual revolution which, together with the political revolution, he was then fomenting - although he claims that the experiences recounted in the article were in fact fantasies. There is, needless to say, no suggestion of this in the article itself. {Handelsblatt, 1/2/01} (source)

I guess this is another anti-pedophile campaign sponsored by U.S. neocons ... after all, Cohn-Bendit criticized the Iraq war. Need I say more?

Update: Here is the original quote from Cohn-Bendit's book "Der grosse Basar" (The Grand Bazaar), Munich 1975:

(After describing sexual conflicts between kindergarten kids and their parents:)

From the chapter "Little Big Men" pages 139 to 147: "My constant flirt with all children soon took on erotic characteristics. I could really feel how the little girls of five years had already learned to turn me on. It is hardly believable. Most of the time I was pretty disarmed. (…)

It happened to me several times that some of the children opened the flap of my pants and started to pet me. I reacted differently based on the circumstances, but their wish caused a dilemma for me. I asked them: “Why don’t you play with each other, why have you chosen me and not the other children?” But when they insisted I petted them nonetheless."

Just for the record: Kindergarten kids in Germany are 2 to 5 years old.

You may throw up now...

Comments

[Ray D.]

Thanks Niko, we've updated the article to read "2 to 5 years."

---Ray D.

[lemmy]

Wow, Antje Vollmer...what a babe! Heidi Klum, Michelle Hunzinger, Britney Spears, MOVE OVER!

[Realitycheck]

Funny, Miss Chador Vollmer...

on your webpage you don't seem to like the "Kopftuch" so much

http://www.antje-vollmer.de/cms/default/dok/20/20453.was_ist_am_kopftuch_religioes.htm

As for the rest: She really sets new standards for bullshit.

[PacRim Jim]

Like Vollmer's pic. Notice she's using her left hand to keep her right arm from saluting. (Her right hand is ready to go.)

[Sock Puppet of Doom]

Wow. Please tell me she doesn't act in any James bond movies, or have a shoes with switch blades in the tips of the soles.

As for her statements, I used to think Spiro Agnew was one weird sucker, She easily surpasses any of his weirdness. A grade a kook.

[beimami]

The worst thing is that Ms. Vollmer's ravings are representative of much of the German Left.

[Jabba the Tutt]

Hey, this conspiracy goes ever deeper. Here's an item from January 24, 2003, before the Iraq war. THEY were trying to silence Scott Ritter.
Crimen Falsi Blog:

Posted 7:36 AM by Omnibus Bill

Yadda yadda yadda?

Scott Ritter claims it's all a big conspiracy to silence him. Yeah, he's so right. The administration is using kiddie porn and child molestation charges to silence the anti-war movement. I suppose the arrests of Pete Townshend and R Kelly on similar charges were for the same purpose -- to silence their opposition to the war.

Sure Ritter's right - he must be. It never has anything to do with their buggering little kids or knocking boots with 14 year old girls you meet on the internet. Just like Martha Stewart's insider trading investigation has nothing to do with Sam Wachsal giving her inside information to help her sell before a precipitate drop in Imclone prices. It's just a typical prurient Ken Starr type witch hunt about sex. I'm betting Jeffrey "I'm His Wife Now" Skilling is wishing that he could have used this excuse.

One wonders, how long before some Colombian drug lord figures out that if he registers Democrat, publishes a political blog and screws sheep, that he will be able to assert that as a defense to drug trafficking and murder charges... "Yeah, sure I am Carlos, and I killed her. But thees eenvesteegations is just about dee sex and dee Republee-can weeetch hunt. Ken Starr, esse. Ken Starr."

The New York Times would buy it, that's for sure.

On the other hand, it's not like Ritter had much to say. It was just the same old tired message - Saddam's a good guy, no weapons here, millions of kids suffering -- and it's all the U.S.'s fault. If I wanted to hear that I could watch anti-U.S. demonstrations on C-Span. At least some of the dippy hippy chix are okay to look at, once you turn the sound down. And at least the (oft naked) hippy chix aren't lying about their sexuality.

On the other side of the coin, why can't the Republicans have any good sex scandals? An "R" gets outed as cheating on his wife, he quits Congress. Why the hell don't the "R"s fly the "It's just about sex" excuse? Oh well, I'd better stop making this argument or my S.O., if she reads this, will think I'm making plans.

The Neo-cons have to stop the threat of Pete Townshend and R Kelly. Man, those guys are smart.

[Lou Minatti]

She's got a very self-satisfied smug while wearing the hijab. This proves to me that leftists in Europe, particularly the Greens, are exceptionally stupid people. They think living under Islamic tyranny is "cool", preferable to western-style democracy.

[fmj]

Two actual Newspaper Articles about Islamism and the German Government (in German Language)

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,druck-349271,00.html
http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2008331

[Kosmopolit]

Great find!

I (futilely, I know, Greens are impervious to logic) blogged about it, with a brace of glaring sore thumb facts that totally unravel the entire moonbat theory (like, hmmm, didn't the pedophile scandal kick off about 20 yrs ago when Dubya was still on the sauce and Rove still had hair?)

http://noonshadow.blogspot.com/2005/04/new-conspiracy-theory-from-german.html

[ROA]

From the Australian paper “The Age” February 18, 2005:
“Late last year, police in the Democratic Republic of Congo decided to find out if it was true that United Nations peacekeepers and aid workers were raping girls as young as 12.
They set up a sting: a child was sent to the home of senior UN worker Didier Bourguet, who was thought to be among the worst offenders.
Bourguet allegedly tried to have sex with the girl, prompting police to raid the house. They found his bedroom set up like a film studio for making pornographic films. There were mirrors on three bedroom walls, and on the fourth wall, a camera that Bourguet could operate with a remote control.
On his computer, they allegedly found dozens of videos and photos of him having sex with children. In one photo, tears are rolling down the face of a victim.”

Now I understand the real cause of Didier Bourgeuet’s problems, the United States. Its much more logical to believe that the US government set up a senior UN worker in the Congo than to believe a selfless UN official could establish a kiddy porn studio to take advantage of refuge children.

[Pogue Mahone]

Anyone reading Bat Yeors new book - "Eurabia"?

[Cousin Dave]

(1) Since when did the Greens give a damn about the Catholic Church?
(2) Jacko is black? Could've fooled me. I though maybe it was just a goth thing.

[Flapdoodle]

It all makes sense to me now. Cohn-Bendit was a CIA agent the whole time...

There's really nothing new about any of this. This is more Great Powers stuff, which has been going on for centuries. Everyone gangs up on the dominant power to restrict its activities. This is a Gulliver- Lilliputians moment.

I'm glad Vollmer is getting accustomed to wearing a burka. With the declining birthrate of native Germans and the continuing influx of Muslims who hate their guts, she's going to need it.

[Steve]

My theory is that Antje Vollmer is a CIA plant, put in place to make the Greens look like a bunch of buffoons. Mission accomplished!!

[Quid]

A) I didn't know Cohn-Bendit was Catholic.

B) Ms. Vollmer is the reason Saudis insist on FULL coverage. These guys go through their whole lives seeing only their mothers and sistres faces in the flesh and when they finally get a chance to see an unrelated female in person, this is the face they're faced with. It's enough to make a grown man marry his camel.

C) With respect to the stupidity of the Left, Mr Kerry has yet to be outdone. Please see:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/10/kerry.votes.ap/index.html

and find out that the instances of voter intimidation he was referring to actually came from a satirical piece in The Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/election2004/news_4043.php

[mamapajamas]

Kos: "I (futilely, I know, Greens are impervious to logic) blogged about it, with a brace of glaring sore thumb facts that totally unravel the entire moonbat theory (like, hmmm, didn't the pedophile scandal kick off about 20 yrs ago when Dubya was still on the sauce and Rove still had hair?)"

Yup. But you KNOW that it all comes down to the fact that the US government (no matter who is in charge) is psychic, and therefore is supposed to know ahead of time what is going to happen 20-30 years down the road and what the results of any given action is going to be.

At least, that seems to be the major complaint against the US these days. Every complaint I've read against us in recent years reads like a conspiracy plot where the government just knew what was going to be happening today, and therefore are guilty, guilty, guilty!

[Quid]

Oh, yeah: D) Halliburton did it.

[jabba the tutt]

@Kosmopolit: "didn't the pedophile scandal kick off about 20 yrs ago when Dubya was still on the sauce and Rove still had hair?"

This just proves how far Rove and the neo-cons plan ahead.

[Sock Puppet of Doom]

Birt Hume actually had a brief bit on Volmer on his Fox news show this evening/afternoon. He had a more flattering picture and reported only the facts.

[Del Hoeft]

Charming picture of Ms Vollmer. How nice of the potentates to put together a little after-infibulation soiree for her.

[Common Sense]

Frankly, I thought it was OBVIOUS that there was a Zionist-tinged media campaign (not merely "neoconservative", by the way) against the Catholic Church AS A WHOLE (not just the Pope). This is not to deny that the Catholics have a problem - but Where, O Where is the same media-driven hysteria about Jewish and Protestant clerical abuse, which is just as much a problem?! Hint: the rabbis and their end-times evangelical dupes support wasting American blood and treasure on destroying *potential* threats to their first love: the nuclear-tipped race-based Jewish state. Go ahead snicker...all your arguments amount to is laughing and threats to vomit - but I never expected reason from you cultists and power-worshippers.

[Kai Carver]

Good post, except for:
> Antje Vollmer, the highest ranking woman in Germany's parliament
> (and a real beauty by any definition)
Huh? No that's a real non sequitur. What do her looks have to do with anything?

Hey, Mr. Common Sense (Ms. Common Sense?) - what, pray tell, do the "Zionists" (and then you tip your hand by referring to "rabbis") have to do with the topic under discussion? Or is this just under the general proposition that "the Jews are to blame for everything"?

Gee, it would really be nice to be as powerful as all the anti-semites think we are!

Yours truly,
a member of the nonexistent Jewish world conspiracy

[fima fimovich]

I would like to send you some links to publications
about my criminal case. I worked for Mitsubishi
Electric Automation in Vernon Hills, IL, USA.
My case are getting public attention now as an example
of miscarriage of justice. I could not defend myself,
because I did not have enough money for computer
expert. I was forced to confess for possession of
child porn. I got browser hijackers while browsing the
web. I was redirected to illigal sites against my
will. Some illigal pictures were found on my hard
drive only after
recovering in unallocated clusters, without dates of
files creation/download.
I do not know how can courts press widely on people to
convict them, while whole Internet is a mess.

This is my story in inquisition21.com. There is all
information about case written by Irish writer Brian
Rothery.

http://www.inquisition21.com/article~view~7~page_num~3.html

This is publication in Wired news

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63391,00.html

This is publication in Theregester

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/13/browser_hijacking_risks/

Article in Globe and Mail newspaper
http://ctv.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040617.gttwhijac17/tech/Technology/techBN/ctv-technology

Article in ZDnet
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5344831.html

This is article in Washington Times, May 22, 2004
There is information about my case.

http://www.cato.org/cgi-bin/scripts/printtech.cgi/dailys/05-30-04.html

Article in Crime research center:

http://www.crime-research.org/news/07.22.2004/506/

Article in Dallas, TX Newspaper

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13614767&BRD=1426&PAG=461&dept_id=528214&rfi=6

The problem for me now is to find lawyer, who can
review the case. When I pleaded guilty, there were no
any publications, like in wired news. This article was
posted on hundreds sites, published in newspapers,
discussed on many boards, and translated to many
languages.
I think the problem with my confession was prosecutors
pushed case to trial without any thoughts about
computer experts. Judge answered NO for any requests.
Prosecutor promised couple years in prison. My lawyer
came to me and said 'You must answer in next 5
minutes, after that they call jurors for trial'. 100%
you will get conviction, no doubt.
100% to get conviction, and go to prison for couple
years. This was opinion of very experienced lawyer.
Going to prison with child sex conviction, there were
possibilities to get raped, bitten, or even killed.
These were real, very real.
So it was pressing like criminals pressing on victim.
I am political refugee from Soviet Union, and in my
understanding, there are no difference between
prosecution, court, police and criminals. I got
another prove of this.
People are silent in this country because charging
with any crime is very easy, but defence costs huge
money. Most people do not have $15,000 for lawyer, but
this is not enough. I think $200,000 is not enough to
defend yourself. So police and and procecution enjoy
abusing of power, like masters with slaves.
I just tryed to explain why there was plea agreement.
Some people do not understand this. They asking
questions like why admitted something you are not
guilty of. Josef Stalin victims admitted to any crime
just to exchance for easy death. Also you probably
read Orwell '1984'

Fima.