Bruce Allen Scharlau PhD thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

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CHAPl'ER SIX:
THE DYNAMICS OF COUNTERTERRORISM
Commentator: ... what is domestically, politically and
policewise necessary, must also have a constitutional
basis. It makes no sense to first make laws only when a
particular situations arises. On the contrary, laws
must be made to prevent the occurence of a particular
situation. In this situation the parties must recognise
their common duty and quickly pass the security
legislation. 1
All those persons [whom he met] have been identified
unequivocally as chance encounters rather than planned
contacts. However! I will not be persuaded that Miss
Blum was also a chance encounter ... the fact that she
apparently let him leave without saying good-bye and
quite obviously showed him a way out of the apartment
building that must have been overlooked by our strict
surveillance ... Of course, we could not keep the entire
area ... under complete surveillance ... In my opinion the
best thing would be to let her run around freely so she
can make a mistake, and probably the trail will lead to
his present quarters .... 2
I mention that only, because Jutta had been sought for
two years as an 'anarchist I. Do you think that is why
I'm suspected? Naturally my name and my address are in
her notebooks... If it was the other way around, when
she was the teacher and had lived with an anarchist f
that would certainly incriminate her. But a man, says
the mathematics teacher, the Office for the Protection
of the Constitution! lets him have his own opinion. 3
The last two chapters established models of how individuals are
drawn to terrorist groups, and how the groups function. This chapter
integrates the models with the concept of identification to highlight
its contribution to understanding terrorists f motivation due to
government responses to political terrorism in West Germany.
The chapter begins with government counterterrorism policy
assumptions, overall policy balance, the resources provided for policy
implementation { the policy strengths and limitations, and a concluding
discussion of the dynamics of the terrorists and the government
measures. The chapter shows a conflict of values between those held by
the terrorists and the government I
which exhibits itself in the dynamics
1 Peter Schneider, Messer lin Kopf. Drehbuch (West Berlin: Rotbuch
Verlag, 1979), 16.
2 Heinrich Boell{ The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum. Or: How
violence develops and where it can lead (Harmondsworth: penguin Books,
1978), 63.
3 Peter Schneider, ... schon bist du ein Verfassungsfeind (West
Berlin: Rotbuch Verlag, 1976), 19-20, original emphasis.