Another Reason to Love Bloggers and Despise the U.N.

Another good catch at Davids Medienkritick caught my eye and once again illustrates the appalling direction Kofi Annan's leadership has taken the U.N.



A German diplomat and former street fighter, Tom Koenigs, has been appointed by Annan to the position of Special Representative For Afghanistan.

The life experiences that led to Tom Koenigs' prestigious appointment include:

In his early years of inner turmoil, the banker's son from Cologne is supposed to have bequeathed his inherited wealth to the Vietcong. Later, as a member of the Green party, he served as the environmental counselor of the city of Frankfurt. Koenigs is supposed also to have figured among "Fisherman's Friends" as one strapped on one's motorcycle helmet before encounters with the police. Afterwards at the bar, according to the former Green Party member Jutta Ditfurth, the guys bragged about their heroic deeds in the confrontations with the "pigs" [Bullen – literally "bulls"]. FAZ.net for the original, Transatlantic Intelligencer for the translation

Check out Koenig's old buddy, Joschka Fischer, in the same article. Koenig and Fischer, along with Dany Cohn-Bendit, of the Paris 1968 riots, were members of (what else?) the Karl Marx Bookshop Co-op in Frankfurt.

I must admit, the European radicals make America's rad leftwing look like rank ameteurs. Let's hope they aren't taking notes.