December 30, 2005
UNSERIOUS, BUT WITH A NICE NAZI TOUCH:
German Proposes Tagging Islamic Militants (Reuters, 12/29/05)
Known Islamic militants should be electronically tagged so their movements could be tracked, a regional German interior minister proposed Wednesday."This would allow us to monitor the roughly 3,000 Islamists who are prone to violence, hate-preachers and fighters trained in terrorist camps," the Lower Saxony interior minister, Uwe Schünemann, said in an interview with the newspaper Die Welt.
Mr. Schünemann said electronic tagging was a viable alternative to holding the militants in protective custody, as suggested by the former German interior minister, Otto Schily. Mr. Schünemann was quoted as saying that his proposal would not be against Germany's Constitution.
"It's practical for all Islamists who are prone to violence and who we can't expel to their home countries because they could be tortured," Mr. Schünemann said.
No society need tolerate witches. Posted by Orrin Judd at December 30, 2005 2:29 PM
Maybe I missed something, but couldn't you just take the tag off? Stick it on the pet poodle?
Posted by: Jay at December 30, 2005 2:33 PMI assuming by tagging they mean a microchip of sorts under the skin. And yes, that is a seriously Nazi touch.
Posted by: Ed Driscoll at December 30, 2005 2:36 PMWe did it to Martha Stewart, when she got out of Prison. And no, we shouldn't tolerate b*t...witches.
Posted by: h-man at December 30, 2005 2:58 PMCan't we just put a tattoo on their forearm?
Posted by: Pete at December 30, 2005 3:04 PMEven if they don't take the tag off, they can still practice terrorism. The Germans would just know where they're doing it.
Posted by: pj at December 30, 2005 5:29 PM