Lutz Kinkel
One not too distant future scientists scandal Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg will investigate false doctorate. And they will find many typical ingredients. For example, like piling up a subject very quickly became the media tsunami. Or how the accused reacted. Only deny everything ("The allegations are absurd"), then add piece by the Irrefutable ("I have made mistakes," "I've made serious mistakes"). The reactions of the environment are out of a textbook. Chancellor Angela Merkel's attempt to draw between himself and the problem is a firewall, classified by the plagiarism scandal as irrelevant to the work of government. Or the trivialization, which was operated from the Union at all costs ("Do we have to do anything more important?"). Classic is the compression of the scandal to a head on which a victim must be brought, in which case the return and withdrawing fraudulently doctorate. New
however, the audacity of the accused tried to reinterpret the affair as a continuation of their own heroic story. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, it contrived to present themselves in the Bundestag as a model. His claim: would handle all the scientists so self-critical of himself as he did, the academic world would be better. It says the man, his university, glued his supervisor and science has no such leaders before. He has stolen from vanity and careerism other authors. The issue a special permit had to write a PhD at the earliest possible date in the letter head can and then fraudulently award was for many years. That is breathtaking.
Westerwelle would be gone
One was in the corridors of the Reichstag on Wednesday disputed question: What would have happened if not for Karl-Theodor Guttenberg, but Guido Westerwelle stole his doctoral work together would have? No doubt: The tsunami had rolled over him, he would have had to resign. This thought experiment has on two findings of this scandal out. First, it does not matter what wrongdoing is present, but who committed them. Secondly popularity protects consequences. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg meets in the population, as formulated by Hans Leyendecker of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", a positive bias, an almost religious mercy that forgives everything. When Guido Westerwelle situation is sometimes reversed. Even the smallest gesture can encourage people in their feeling that ministers would be better not Westerwelle.
know Chancellor Merkel to the popularity of Guttenberg, and they also know that they risk their own popularity set, if it had Guttenberg had forced to resign. So she let him give. The damage that it will grow from medium to long term is to not judge, but its outlines are already visible. If a fraud is allowed to stay Ministers can with conservative values such as honor, honesty and decency no longer promote credible. And if a fraud is allowed to stay ministers will also ask other a soft sentence, if they have a scandal at his heels. For those of Merkel often touted educational Republic is the case Guttenberg a catastrophe and every pirate product in China will be laughing up his sleeve. And not to forget: If Guttenberg to such actions such as cobbling together a thesis is capable of what he has hired - and what will he do? Merkel has embarked on a player.
The elites of the country
Guttenberg himself may have won the game with the population. In the political space he has lost it. Each sentence in which he, the words "test", "sources" or "inquiry" used, called in parliament on Wednesday produced only laughter. As the troops will respond if Guttenberg future again jagged fired a subordinate? The fact that the students giggle at the Bundeswehr University in Munich and Hamburg, where ministers copy and paste occurs there, is easy to imagine. Security Authority and to develop a PhD is a long, painstaking process. Lost is all 'fast. The return of the title is not enough to make good the damage. Had he not been on the track - Guttenberg would still call doctor.
The social morality, a urkonservatives theme has something to do with it, behave like the elites of the country. Whether they evade taxes such as the former Deutsche Post CEO Klaus Zumwinkel, if they stir up resentment as the former SPD-Senator Thilo Sarrazin, whether they can gild its mandate by the industry as the former CDU general secretary Laurenz Meyer. Or whether they reveal values for her career as the acting Minister of Defence, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, CSU.
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