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Dark_Falcon1/13/2015 5:42:19 pm PST

Predictable, but still bad:

Record turnout at Dresden PEGIDA rally sees more than 25,000 march

What began as a quiet evening on the Elbe turned into the largest PEGIDA demonstration seen so far in Germany. Early on Monday evening, a group of anti-PEGIDA demonstrators gathered around Dresden’s Theaterplatz and the city’s synagogue, well-supplied with hot tea and potato soup. By 7.15 p.m. local time (1815 GMT), however, over 25,000 PEGIDA supporters were marching through Saxony’s capital, where they were met by sporadic groups of counter demonstrators.

Greeting the marchers at the pre-march rally was movement organizer and regular PEGIDA speaker Lutz Bachmann.

Bachmann said that the group had six key aims, each met by raucous applause: “1. Creation of an Immigration Act. 2. Right and duty to integration. 3. Expulsion of Islamists and religious extremists. 4. Federal referendums 5. An end to warmongering. 6. More means for internal security.”

Three points:

1. I’m told the reference to ‘warmongering’ is about not opposing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. I can see that as being true but I’d like to hear the thoughts of others on that point.

2. If you click the link, the photo of the march shows a Polish flag among the German ones. I know Poland has sometimes had xenophobic issues of its own, but it was still disappointing to see.

3. Another crazy far-right person surnamed Bachmann, If Germany’s Lutz Bachmann is as bad as America’s Michelle Bachman, then things may get ever uglier.

BBL