Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Ignorance is Strength: German Sociologist Arrested for Membership in Terrorist Organization

I'm not clear on all the details yet, but Andrej Holm was arrested on July 31st under § 129a StGB” (German Penal Code, section 7 on ‘Crimes against Public Order’). He is a sociologist at Humboldt University in Berlin and does work on cities, which is apparently part of the trouble. That he uses the word 'gentrification' in his work is among the evidence given for his membership in a terrorist organization. Here is a mainstream media piece on it:

Deutsche Welle (in English).

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