"To be or NATO be": Protesters hoped to capture the attention of the transatlantic military alliance and the German government
DW: Ramstein Air Base anti-drone protests: The Germans taking on the US military
A week of protests against the US drone program drew some 5,000 protesters to its most important air base in Europe. DW's Kathleen Schuster met with several of the people taking on the world's most powerful military.
At first it's difficult to reconcile the week's itinerary at the "peace camp" — yoga, reggae, poetry slam - with the gray-haired audience gathered in this dusky room.
Taking up every seat and windowsill, the crowd of at least 150 listens intently as each speaker outlines how the US government is leading an 'illegal war" in their backyard. The city is Kaiserslautern, the Air Force base in question is Ramstein and the war is that waged by US's drone operations, which they say violate German law.
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Update: Thousands Turn Out for Protest Against Ramstein Air Base Ops (Stars and Stripes)
WNU Editor: Only 5,000 demonstrators? I am old enough to remember the early 1980s when a million West Germans would show-up demonstrating against the U.S. military presence in the country.
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Cause heads needing meaning in their life and being to lazy to go out and actually do something hard like hit the books.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PCU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCU_(film)
Here is an example of the utterly destructive nature of causeheads.
PETA versus the postdoc: Animal rights group targets young researcher for first time
www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/peta-versus-postdoc-animal-rights-group-targets-young-researcher-first-time
Causeheads might also be seen as suffering from Munchausen syndrome by proxy
Their proxy would be any group larger than their own that does not do things their way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchausen_syndrome_by_proxy
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