The Media and the Paranoid State
Das Bild to FoxNews
Jacobs, Ron
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/31/the-media-and-the-paranoid-state/
Date Written: 2014-10-31
Publisher: CounterPunch
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX16878
In 1975, West Germany was often under varying degrees of lockdown. Roadblocks were set up at autobahn exits and identification was checked; groups of heavily armed police were seen in city centers holding machine guns and looking menacing; and airports were under armed guard. The reason given for this military-like presence was the existence of a leftist terror group known as the Rote Armee Fraktion.
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