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In Berlin, in 2004, a letfist local newspaper Taz initiated a move to rename part of a street their office is located at in remembrance of Rudi-Dutschke. He was a prominent socialist activist in the 60s, even survived assassination but unfortunately died a couple of years later.
Another newspaper, Axel-Springer has their headquarters on the same street. The same company did play significant role in dissing the student movement Rudi-Dutschke was part of and some believe they are indirectly responsible for the assassination.
What ensued was a long legal battle, where the court had to decide whether the street could be renamed. Taz won the court case and in 2008 the street got its new name.
In 2009, Taz installed a sculpture displaying well-known editors of Bild (owned by Axel Springer), the most sold tabloid in Europe. Their chief editor Kai Diekmann (sic) sports an oversized dick that goes up to the roof of the building. Of course Bild tried to sue, but they lost and the sculpture is there to be enjoyed to this day.
In Germany, you can have fun, but it must be blessed by the court.
Tiny town of 30k supported by lumber, paper, mining, fishing.
So much disposable cash in the hands of the shortsighted means lots of drugs. But it always was discreet.
Mounties get a man inside the operation really far, and on the way out he names about 20 guys.
For a few weekends after, townspeople would find abandoned cars on the logging roads, just over on the side, two people in the front, two people in the back, everyone shot in the back of the head.
Druglord cleaned up. Stayed outta jail.
Damn, that's grim.