There is a saying "Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them". The German government appears to be unwilling to learn from its past mistakes and thus is quickly on the road to repeating them, to the benefit of those who are working against nucelar power.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s the German state infuriated the general populace with its hard tactics to control anti-nuclear dmonstrators. Law abiding Germans riding public buses would occassionally find helicopters coming out of the sky, stoping the bus and fully armed military police searching the bus fo anti-nuclear activists. These kind of tactics aided in the dramatic reversal of the German populace from being a majority in favor of nuclear construction within the country, to a majority against. The last reactor ordered in Germany was started in 1982. And the German utilities have recently told the environmental minister that they have no plans for additional reactors in the the country. Grandmothers riding buses are again safe from comandos dropping from the sky.

Or are they? Recently the German environmental youth congress (JUKss) was about to print two articles in its magazine. One was on the demonstartions against the Castor rad-waste transports which have grown to many thousands of demonstrators on the train tracks in the last year in German. The other article was on the Siemens Chirstmas Boycott, which is organized by 26 groups world wide and supported by over 600. The German environmental ministry ordered the articles removed from the magazine, which they were. The environmental ministry is the largest funder of JUKss. But the story does not end there. The JUKss leadership is furious and this New Years day 500 to 1000 angry young greens leave their annual meeting in Berlin and decend on the Siemens offices in protest about the censorship.