GERMANY: Greens say sorry for past paedophilia ties.

An election platform from the Alternative Green Initiative List (AGIL), the Green party’s predecessor, took on the interests of paedophiles by suggesting that sex with minors should be decriminalised, providing the sex was free from violence or the threat of violence.

The document was brought to light during the election of 2013, as it was one of the party’s key candidates, Jürgen Tritten, then a student running for city hall, who had cosigned it. . . .

In their early days, the Greens sought out support by catering to minority interest groups as part of a “leftist liberalism” policy with roots in the 1960s.

Earlier: UK: The ‘right’ to sleep with children was one ‘civil liberty’ that NCCL [National Council for Civil Liberties] supported. “The Seventies was an era of sudden sexual emancipation. To some on the Left, sex with children was just another boundary to be swept away.”