OK, there are other reasons, like not knowing the language any more, and Julie having to put up with lousy cheeseburgers, but now and again the idea has occurred to me, especially when the US seems to be running off the rails in particularly ugly ways.
And then you get things like this, in which a german member of parliament argues that, because there were jews in the ranks of the bolshevik secret police, the jewish people (ahem) bear the same relationship to genocide as do germans.
I can't even begin to count how many bigoted assumptions you would have to make to think there's any kind of logic there. My jaw just drops.
Of course, over there you can consider legal action against people who spout garboage like that, rather than just applauding their freedom of speech as we do here....
Posted by wallich at October 31, 2003 03:08 PM