You will have to go back to the early months of this blog to find our conservative German friend discussing the balanced journalism of Al Jazeera English.
We ran into this card holding member of Germany's Christian Democratic Party, the party of Ms. Merkel, today, and he had a question and a statement.
The question, asked with a smile and a wink, was "so, what did you do back in the U.S., did you spy on us?"
The statement, without a wink and with the smile banished, was "I am so upset at the non-answers of the German government! The German agencies and the NSA are in bed together."
Like in the U.S., the citizens of this country have not taken to the streets en masse, although there has been an uptick in anti-surveillance demonstrations in Germany. Some German government ministers have struck a clear "no worries, it's all legal line", and despite some rumblings in the conservative governing party, most party members will not be vocal about their upset in public.
Without a camera or a microphone nearby, our conservative friend assured us, the situation is quite different.
Even those conservatives who are not very opposed to the spooky data collection are upset about the lies and the misinformation coming out of "their" government in Berlin.
After two paragraphs about the statement, would you like to know how we answered the question?
We put on a smile, sent a wink and said: "oh, no worries. We could tell you some interesting stories but let's stay clear from that on this very nice and blue summer day."
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