Word: schmude
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...bill has sparked widespread public criticism. Complained Gerd Pfeiffer, president of the Federal Court in Karlsruhe: "It cannot be right that the state, in order to arrest violent rioters, criminalizes all peaceful participants in a demonstration." Jürgen Schmude, party whip for the opposition Social Democratic Party, labeled the proposed legislation "a heavy blow to liberty and the rule of law." Yet few potential demonstrators seemed to be deterred. Declared a parliamentary deputy of the antinuclear Green Party: "We will never be violent, but we will also not fight against those who choose to demonstrate in a violent...
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