The World's Most Important Political Prisoner

[Carsten Wiethoff]

No, I was unaware conspiracy to commit a crime was not a stand alone crime in Germany, despite marrying into a family of which only my then spouse (a fluent German speaker) was U.S. born. In the U.S., no actual crime is required to be committed resulting from the conspiracy to be charged with conspiring to commit a crime. As in workers rights and protections, it seems German law is more balanced, although I was once told by a German friend that motorists in Germany expose themselves to breaking a law if they run out of fuel, disabling their vehicle on the road.

Don't know about the fuel thing, maybe a fine, I would have expected.

Re law, In my view, law in Germany and in the US are in fundamentals totally different systems. US and Brit is Common Law based, German is Code Napoleon based, if I get my facts straight. You could look that up, or speak to any lawyer, like Dawn Meredith.

There are bad laws in the US and in Germany, only in different places.

BTW Do you yourself speak a little German?