German troops can now operate on homesoil when shtf, what are they preparing for ?

[778 neighbour of some guy]

As title says, i heard this on the dutch business radio this afternoon while tanning in some intense burning sun.

I can only find articles in a German newspaper and have no free acces to English ones ( could not find it in a fast search anyway.

In short, from this day on the German army can and will be deployed on home turf when tshtf as a last resort, what could they be expecting? Are things that bad in Europe now.

If you have more info please post, Germany is awfully close to Holland in a shtf scenario.

Thanx in advance.

[christian]

This is what the dpa (German Press Agency) says:



The German military is now allowed to apply military force inside Germany - but only in extreme cases like terror attacks. This is what the Constitutional Court ruled in this highly controversial case, it thus expanded the possible applications of the army.

It's still forbidden to shoot down passanger planes during possible terror attacks; the deployment against protesters is also still not possible. The judges emphasized, that even when there'd be an urgency, a parliamentary decision needs to approve any operation beforehand.

http://www.zeit.de/news/2012-08/17/urteile-karlsruhe-erlaubt-bundeswehr-militaereinsatz-im-innern-17175403

Totalitarian tip-toe or decent judges trying to apply some common sense?

[778 neighbour of some guy]

This is what the dpa (German Press Agency) says:



The German military is now allowed to apply military force inside Germany - but only in extreme cases like terror attacks. This is what the Constitutional Court ruled in this highly controversial case, it thus expanded the possible applications of the army.

It's still forbidden to shoot down passanger planes during possible terror attacks; the deployment against protesters is also still not possible. The judges emphasized, that even when there'd be an urgency, a parliamentary decision needs to approve any operation beforehand.

http://www.zeit.de/news/2012-08/17/urteile-karlsruhe-erlaubt-bundeswehr-militaereinsatz-im-innern-17175403

Totalitarian tip-toe or decent judges trying to apply some common sense?


Thank you Christian,

My guess the euro is going down and they want to be ready when everybody finds out their accounts are cleaned out and tonights dinner will be woodchips and grass, the whole world is broke a 1000 times over for a long time now, i am so gratefull i/we am not in debt by our/my own doing and live within my/our means, pheeeeeeeew. hope my foodstash and my wood and propane ( campingstove and biolite will last me a good time).

[Operator]

In a way it's actually not all that new ... in Holland we had BBE (Bijzondere Bijstands Eenheid) now called: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_Interventie_Mariniers

Marines that are trained and used to counter "terrorism" ... (how expandable is that term ?)

http://members.quicknet.nl/wvanbokhorst/plaatjes/eenheden/bbem/2.jpg

http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/bbe1.jpg

[778 neighbour of some guy]

In a way it's actually not all that new ... in Holland we had BBE (Bijzondere Bijstands Eenheid) now called: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_Interventie_Mariniers

Marines that are trained and used to counter "terrorism" ... (how expandable is that term ?)

http://members.quicknet.nl/wvanbokhorst/plaatjes/eenheden/bbem/2.jpg

http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/bbe1.jpg

Klopt als een zwerende vinger!

Last year they did exercises in Holland too, had not happened in a lot of previous years, was very odd.

Its not new indeed but weird all of these things are happening now, so what are they up to is still my question.