German TV Terror Drama Asks The Public To Deliver Their Verdict In A Terrorist Attack Plot.

[♥ Lily ♥]

German TV terror drama asks public to deliver verdict


The drama was broadcast across five European countries on Monday evening

TV viewers across Europe have taken part in a interactive courtroom drama centred on a fictional act of terror.

The public was asked to judge whether a military pilot who downs a hijacked passenger jet due to be crashed into a football stadium is guilty of murder.

Viewers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria gave their verdict online or by phone. The programme was also aired in Slovenia and the Czech Republic.

The vast majority called for the pilot, Lars Koch, to be acquitted.

The show, Terror - Your Verdict, was broadcast by German network ARD and was an adaptation of a play by bestselling author Ferdinand von Schirach.

Germany debates freedom and safety

In the fictional plot, militants from an al-Qaeda offshoot hijack a Lufthansa Airbus A320 with 164 people on board and aim to crash it into a stadium packed with 70,000 people during a football match between Germany and England.

"If I don't shoot, tens of thousands will die," German air force Major Lars Koch says as he flouts the orders of his superiors and takes aim at an engine of the plane.

The jet crashes into a field, killing everyone on board.

"The viewer is yanked out of the passivity of television watching," ARD programming chief Volker Herres told German newspaper Bild.

"He is actively called upon to become both an affected person and take a decision."

'Human dignity'

In Germany, 86.9% of the 609,000 viewers who voted believed Koch made the right decision. A similar proportion of viewers backed Koch in Austria and Switzerland.

Similar scenarios have been debated since the 2001 9/11 suicide attacks in the US.

Then US Vice-President Dick Cheney said later that shooting down the hijacked planes would have been justified to prevent greater loss of life.

However, in 2006 Germany's constitutional court ruled that such action would violate Article One of its Basic Law, that human dignity was inviolable.

In a TV discussion programme broadcast after the drama, German ex-Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung argued that the lives of the plane passengers were already impossible to save, and that the spectators themselves had a right to human dignity. It was a case of extra-judicial emergency, he argued.

A former interior minister, Gerhart Baum, disagreed, insisting that the pilot should be found guilty of murder as the fate of the passengers was not certain and human lives could not be measured against each other.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37692662

[Marzipan]

Do you think this is an attempt to tap enemies of the state?

[♥ Lily ♥]

My verdict;- Germany should call the elite paras in the British Special Air Service to save them again, like the two British SAS men who went to Germany after the German government called on Great Britain's government for special forces help.

A group of male and female Palestinian terrorists wearing Che Guevara commie shirts on them had hijacked a German tourist plane destined for Frankfurt that was carrying lots of German passengers (including 11 beauty queens onboard the plane,) who were returning from a holiday on the Spanish island of Majorca.

The terrorists had taken the ties and tights off the passengers and tied them to the passengers to the seats, planted explosive devices on the plane, and poured flammable liquid over the passengers (which included babies onboard the plane too,) whilst they held all the innocent passengers and crew as hostages on the German plane.

Two SAS men from Great Britain went over there, got on the plane, took the terrorists by surprise and shot all the terrorists dead with their trademark double-taps, and rescued and saved the passengers on the plane, as shown at 5:40 in this video documentary clip below.

The passengers were screaming when the SAS dressed in black clothing with masked faces suddenly threw their stun-grenades on top of the plane, but after the job was done and the terrorists were all dead, the SAS helped to lift and carry the petrified passengers and children off the plane to safety.

'Who Dares Wins.'



If the SAS can't jump high out the sky and get on the plane to save them, then I'd go with the instinctive option of Major Lars Koch as it would massively reduce the amount of casualties and deaths. I think in such a scenario where tough decisions have to be made super-quick, he should be aquitted.

[Marzipan]

This wasn't my initial question but reading it now I can understand why you responded this way but this was a very sound explanation to what you would do.

My question originally meant to ask: if you think this series is being used to monitor its people politically?

[♥ Lily ♥]

This wasn't my initial question but reading it now I can understand why you responded this way but this was a very sound explanation to what you would do.

My question originally meant to ask: if you think this series is being used to monitor its people politically?

Possibly.