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while the Social Democratic Party desired that advertising for a
terrorist group be withdrawn from the code. 29
The SPD believed that terrorist sympathisers should not experience
the hardest reaction of the state, because this might
encourage
solidarity and support with the terrorist scene. The CDU/CSU argued
against the motion with the suggestion that present terrorist attacks
were only possible because of massive terrorist advertising for members
and sympathisers over the last year. Furthermore f because gaining
sympathisers was a
goal of terrorist organisations, an increase in
sympathisers leads to an increase in terrorist campaigns.30
The Greens argued that because the normal rules and laws of liberal
democracy were not designed for ... fair weather democracy I, but for its
security in special situations, terrorism can be overcome with normal
rules. If the regular rules were adjusted to handle special situations!
these changes would affect other legal areas. For example, the state
prosecutor can call witnesses or accused individuals for questioning (by
force if necessary), which affects individuals' usual rights to lawyers
and leaves individuals facing charges of complici ty or experiencing
protective custody if they do not cooperate. Similarly, the availability
of special protection cells for suspected and sentenced terrorists has
now made these the disciplinary cells for normal prisoners. 31
However! none of the other parties agreed with the Greens. The FDP
questioned the Greens on how they imagined murders such as Zimmermann's
occured. Was it due to a single 'crazy I
that shot someone because of an
overconfident need to move the world, or would the person not have been
motivated without sympathisers such as the Greens who tell others that
the criminal codes should be changed, which would lengthen court cases.
The FDP also wondered whether the Greens stood for peace or change in
society and what ends they had in mind for society, if they accepted
violence as a means to achieving those ends, and if undermining the
legal system was a part of this. 32
The CDU/CSU concurred with these questions and saw the Greens as
uninterested in counterterrorism because they trivialised it to a
dangerous degree if they suceeded in having 129a StGB withdrawn along
with other measures. Combined, these would end the inner security of the
29 SUddeutsche Zeitung 9/10 February 1985, 5.
30 Mr. Bachmaier (SPD) , Mr. Saurin (CDU /CSU) in Verhandlungen des
Deutschen Bundestages 10. Wahlperiode, 120. Sitzung, 7 February 1985,
8929 1 8930-1.
31 Ms. Nickels (Greens) in ibid., 8933-4.
32 Mr. Kleinert (FDP) in ibid., 8934-5.