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Protection of the constitution and contact men for keeping surveillance on radicals
As the press reported, around 100 contact men working for the office for protection of the constitution had been planted in right-wing organisations. These men failed however to pass on any information to the responsible offices. This in itself is surprising; the fact that the office denied this for 10 years is simply incomprehensible.
The reasons given in the press were: The colleagues of the contact men had failed to appreciate the value of their work; over the course of time, the contact men had lost all respect and acceptance for politics, because politics in Germany has always supported right-wing politics.
The protectors of the constitution therefore rebelled against their superiors by refusing to supply information. This throws up the question of whether there was not at least one of these superiors who wanted to know the status of the investigations. It must also have been interesting to know how and where the contact men were being used. Obviously they could hardly turn up in the morning for an official meeting and then go to a right-wing watering hole in the afternoon, but somebody somewhere must have expected some sort of results from their efforts. Some means must also have been found of paying these people, because they received their pay from – where else- tax funds. And that in turn gives rise to the question of whether a bankrupt country such as Germany can afford such ‘elite troops’ who work without producing any result, and finally lose confidence in their own elected representatives. It must rather be assumed that nobody was interested in the results. There may perhaps even be people in the high echelons of the office for protection of the constitution who had an interest in ensuring that there were no results. For the taxpayer, this means a double rip-off.
It must now only be hoped that it is now really the case that the contact men also find politics wonderful, and are really only in it for the money. Then they would not be politically disenchanted at all – although the whole sordid affair gives plenty of cause for disenchantment.
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