Andrei Reisin of Sports Wire takes in his article " cliché fireworks of double moralists "one of my favorite topics on ... and if the topic "Media scolding" is, of course I'm almost forced on my internet Klowand relish to add my two cents. Not that the sports writers can wire unsaid many arguments, but the topic is too old and too stupid to make it easy unaufgegriffen Sun Core is, in short, the appalling bigotry of the German media representatives in dealing with firecrackers in the context of sporting events and the identification of flares and hooligans / troublemakers.

Recently I received a completely different context, a mail that the views of ordinary football fans (non-Ultra mind you) probably sums up just short as accurate. And because there probably is no area where the opinions of the average observer's football and sports journalists durchschnittchenlichen diverge so far, I'm their words as our own times:

The atmosphere must have been a dream. Yes I find this whole rules and prohibitions, which bother making today in the stadium must be totally miserable. If anyone is injured with pyro stuff, then this is extremely uncool, but how many people do that stuff into the stadium in order to hurt someone? Great pity, great pity ...

A long time indeed used DSF (I'm not sure yet, I am trying to avoid this emulation as a broadcaster), curves bengalobeleuchtete in the trailer to their Eurotorshow. I always found it amusing to the same station did in his game reports from Germany always out especially when it came to interpret the burning of flares as the fifth sign of the apocalypse.

Now it is so media representatives gladly granted, and do not condone illegal behavior - as a good citizen - to point to its illegality. Let them also gladly granted that they come out in this way to be extremely stuffy and uncool. I ask also do not own reflection on the right philosophical approach that citizens in a Western would have to follow democracy only the laws which they recognize themselves as useful , because laws in a democracy (as opposed to other social systems) are only anchored in the will of the majority and So no other instance are subjected, as the people they have to follow. It is precisely the feature of a democracy that the citizens definitely has a duty to scrutinize laws and knock off their moral and ethical component. This variety of non-authoritarian democracy has indeed impaired in Germany anyway never get a foot in the door.

"Democracy is no cure for this, as majorities simply by virtue of being majorities so DO NOT gain the virtues of wisdom and justice. The judgment of an individual's conscience is not necessarily or even likely inferior to the decisions of a political body or majority, and so '[i] t is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which i have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right ... Law never made ​​men a whit more just;. And, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made ​​the agents of injustice '"

I could write here pages, why the ban on fireworks in football curves is not sufficiently covered by security and the state to its citizens elsewhere an exponentially higher risk exacts (highways without speed limit, interim storage for nuclear waste, nuclear missile launch facilities in the residential area nearby, Giftmüllverklappung) than from Smoke bombs posed in football stadiums. But no, Mr. Reisin's only point is yes, the double standard German sports journalists, who enjoy the one hand, to the colorful Bengaloshows in Mediterranean countries, the same activity of 200 German away fans but with the full rigor of the law want to see punished.

Well, as I said, a few years ago pyrotechnics was common in football stadiums and there. It took place only in the corners and there probably enjoyed widespread popularity. Presumably, one or the other burn holes made in the hooded shirt and get trouble at home with mom, otherwise known injuries and deaths, but nothing. When I am afraid of Pyro, I was not just in the corner, simple as that

Well, that have been attributed to the ultras themselves, because after going from pyrotechnics just then out of danger, if not burned off in its own block with like-minded people, but as a projectile at risk of other visitors, the tartan track ankokelt or player hits ( Georg Koch had his career quit because of a throw firecrackers and subsequent loss of balance, Milan goal "guardian" Nelson Dida ended his career after a Bengalotreffer € in 2005 and subsequent disorientation Derby - even if he still stands between the posts). So it's quite an argument that the use of pyrotechnics in the stadium contains a potential hazard and expect the order of power can not only see the damage that has occurred as a reason to intervene. If no pyro is burnt off in the stadium, anything can happen.

So far, so double-edged. Now, it is also not the role of sports journalists, legal philosophy to argue or to point out that each year 31 December injuries, property damage, and probably also complain to the one or the other is dead. Finally, one can but the irresponsible behavior of a few do not take the occasion to take all the population groups the well-deserved fun. After all, no one will come up with the idea to ban the beer after the shift workers, not only because few know their limits with alcohol and burn away the ball. It would be enough for me already, if will be observed that the burning of fireworks is illegal in the stadium, but in itself a harmless crime. If flares are thrown at people, it is however an act of violence by violence who must be punished. For throwing. Not for holding. If flares in their hands make for vibrant mood of the curve, it's not violence, but at worst, a misdemeanor. Even so Ultras are only violent criminals when they commit violent acts.

Of course, I can burn away 5 bottles of grain with the turnip and a car ride after that endangers life and limb of other road users and my own liver. The presence of 5 bottles of grain in the cabinet wall and a car in the garage but this is a prerequisite, but no compelling reason for automatically following drunk driving. I could ring armed with a bread knife with a neighbor and kill the man problems safely. From the fact that I have a bread knife in the drawer, but can not construct first. So, love sports journalists: A violent offender is a violent offender if he is violent, not when he used the same symbolism as a violent offender.

Oh, and before I forget: fall in Italy at the time very many goals and catenaccio is a thing from the 70s, it is also acting rightly won the World Cup. The AC Milan but has a higher average age, with the 19-year-old Pato, but also the greatest talent in international football in his ranks. It is a myth that the fouled not even a penalty shoot and it may not be statistically determined whether ball dribbling and hold fast or play is more promising. Fireworks are dangerous when thrown. You're welcome.