Pedosexuality Part of Green History: A Look At News from Germany
By Karla Poewe
On Wednesday 20.05.2015, Spiegel-Online wrote a piece about a leisure-time shop called Falckenstein-Keller. It was a popular meeting place in the 1980s for pedophiles in Berlin. An unremarkable fact, except among its regulars were members of the Alternative List, which is what the Berlin District Association of the Green Partycalled itself in its early years.
The Falckenstein-Keller was one of the places in which at that time some members of the Green Party had sex with children (ibid). Apparently a commission set up by the Berlin Greens reported recently how the perpetrators in that city‘s pedophile scene were
The Green Party commissioned its report following the earlier publication of a study by Franz Walter, a political scientist from Göttingen, about the influence of pedophiles in the founding phase of the Greens. Stephan Klecha, Walter's co-author, stated in 2014: the debate about pedosexuality is part of Green history, and it is obvious that the Greens were more open to that idea than they might now wish to admit (Spiegel-Online 12.11.2014, "Pädophilie-Debatte bei den Grünen," Ann-Katrin Müller and Christian Teevs).
The recent Green report, which also involves historians doing archival research, contains new details and disquieting witness accounts. At the center of the study are two prominent Party members: Fred Karst and Dieter Ullmann, both now dead, who sexually abused numerous children, especially ones from deprived social backgrounds. Karst, who was a frequent guest of the Falckenstein-Keller, is also the founder of the Green group (Arbeitsgemeinschaft) called Young and Old. This Group was the meeting point for pedophiles who offered, among other things, Butterfahrten (Butter trips) for boys who were then seduced. The group belonged to the gay spectrum of the Berlin Landesverband and was thus an official branch of the Green Party. Bettina Jarasch, a local spokesperson for the Greens, expressed shame for what she called “institutional failure of the Party” (Spiegel-Online, Wednesday 20.05.2015).
Apparently, the Greens of Berlin made use of a so-called “minority dogma”, which gave the Group Young and Old far reaching autonomy and special ruling. For example, opinions that were unable to achieve a majority were allowed to be used and spread for years in the name of the Party – including the conception that “sexual relationships with children were legitimate” (ibid).
The German Federal Green Party’s reaction is relaxed. According to them, the Party bears absolutely no responsibility for the pedosexual perpetrations of individual party members. [1] Does this also mean that they believe the Roman Catholic Church bears no responsibility for the actions of its priests?
In my view, party officials refuse to take their own report seriously. To begin with, making the legitimation of pedophilia part of the founding philosophy of a political party is not only an institutional failure. It shows blatant disrespect for Democracy and it is an indication that these Greens recognize no morality or sociopolitical responsibility above that of achieving the right to enjoy their predilection at any cost. Legal and political activism to achieve pedophile rights, like pushing for the realization of other extremes, simply becomes part of the hegemony of common sense and a matter of practical politics. It is underpinned as we saw by the notion and execution of a “minority dogma” that gives them the right and confidence to dismiss majority opinions, freeing pedosexuals to spread not only their pedagogy but to practice it with children seemingly with the tacit compliance of their cohorts.
Why nothing was done against pedophiles in the Green Party, although he more than surmised their activities, Thomas Birk does not know. He is both member of the Green Commission that is to throw light on the matter and "Queer-political speaker in the Parliamentary Green Party" of the Berlin Chamber of Deputies. To the Tagesspiegel, a German newspaper, he admitted that there existed links of solidarity between gays and pedos (22.05.2015 Die Freie Welt "Schwuler Grünen-Funktionär gesteht Versäumnisse").
All of this after the hysteria in 2010 against the Catholic Church, after revelations of pedophilia in the Canisius-Kolleg as well as the secular UNESCO Odenwald School. Is it not remarkable how deeply convinced various pedosexual pedagogues were, and no doubt continue to be, in their worldview with its many gurus of which the above mentioned are but the tip of an iceberg?
Why nothing was done against pedophiles in the Green Party, although he more than surmised their activities, Thomas Birk does not know. He is both member of the Green Commission that is to throw light on the matter and "Queer-political speaker in the Parliamentary Green Party" of the Berlin Chamber of Deputies. To the Tagesspiegel, a German newspaper, he admitted that there existed links of solidarity between gays and pedos (22.05.2015 Die Freie Welt "Schwuler Grünen-Funktionär gesteht Versäumnisse").
All of this after the hysteria in 2010 against the Catholic Church, after revelations of pedophilia in the Canisius-Kolleg as well as the secular UNESCO Odenwald School. Is it not remarkable how deeply convinced various pedosexual pedagogues were, and no doubt continue to be, in their worldview with its many gurus of which the above mentioned are but the tip of an iceberg?
While academics as well as homosexual activists draw a clear distinction for purposes of politics between homosexuality and pedophilia, teachers in the above mentioned schools practiced the full spectrum of “intergenerational sexuality”: homosexual, heterosexual, pederasty and pedophilia. [2] The boundary between pedagogue and pupil was removed and the caring love of Agape was sacrificed for a dubious understanding of pedagogical Eros.
[1]
Peter Maxwell “Pädophilie-Debatte bei den Grünen: Wir schämen uns für dieses Versagen.” In Spiegel Online Politik, Wednesday 20.05.2015
[2]
My references come from Jörg Schindler, “Sexuelle Dienstleister“ in FR-online.de 5.3.2010; Philip Eppelsheim und Volker Zastrow “Die ‘wunderschönen Jungfrauen’ und die Burg” in Frankfurter Allgemeine Faz.net 14.4.2010; Amalie Fried, “Amalie Fried über die Odenwaldschule,” in Afghan German Online 10.3.2010. Alisa Perkins “Negotiating alliances: Muslims, gay rights and the Christian right in a Polish-American city,” in Anthropology Today 26 (2), April 2010: 19-24; Harris Mirkin, “The Pattern of Sexual Politics: Feminism, Homosexuality and Pedophilia” in Journal of Homosexuality 37 (2) 1999: 1-24.
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