German Neo-Nazi Database

From Yahoo News:
"Germany to create far right extremists' register"

Germany will create a national database as a clearing-house for information on far-right extremists amid mounting criticism because its security agencies failed to detect a deadly neo-Nazi terror group for years. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said Wednesday the new database to be used by all federal and state-level intelligence and police agencies will be modeled on a similar registry for Islamic extremists created in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

^ Databases are only good if you use them effectively. If you have a bunch of names with known extremists or terrorists on it and do not do anything with it then it is simply a program wasting government money and not saving lives. Germany should be good at making and using this database. The Nazis used a similar one to keep track of all its citizens (and those living in their occupied countries) as well as Jews and others they wanted to arrest. East Germany also used a similar program to control its citizens. It is a little ironic that a database program perfected by the Nazis is now going to be used to track Neo-Nazis. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/germany-create-far-extremists-register-