above the clouds must be free to cross the line well "German criminal law applies, regardless of the law of the place, for acts committed on a ship or an aircraft which is entitled to the federal flag or bear the nationality mark of the Federal Republic of Germany to lead. "
- § 4, Penal Code
German planes are flying a piece of Germany. A murder on a Lufthansa flight will be prosecuted under German criminal law. While I would be convicted for a crime under U.S. law on a Delta flight, for example, an Air France flight can look quite different legal matter. How far can aircraft be islands of law - or the oppression? This is exactly me that is happening. Booked
the transatlantic flight with KLM from Amsterdam was departing from the land of freedom to the land of the free. KLM now informed me a few Weeks before the flight that had been rescheduled on Delta, which is a partner of KLM. What this meant for my rights? How did KLM, if I had booked the flight with Delta, given the fact that I now was subject to American law? So I had already been refused on Dutch air space a can of beer. Through the window you could take the view of sea of clouds and blue sky - the feeling of boundless freedom! The aircraft itself will be stripped of his civil rights because it is not by chance 21 (an American policy of more or less arbitrarily fixed age).
When the mental game a little more gear: you'd get for possession of small amounts of cannabis, which you take while flying in food to be on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to the U.S. trouble with Delta, although the drug so do not even introduce into the country is? Do homosexuals get on a flight with Qatar Airways fear? Can I do if I think the whole plane over German airspace a lecture on the genocide of the Armenians with Turkish Airlines for "insulting Turkishness" in conflict?
In presenting this lack of freedom where it really freedom "without borders" (ie not the same "unlimited") should be raised - for me at least - the hair on the neck ...
Freital in February / March 2010 The Chairman of the FDP local branch region Freital, Oliver May talks within the framework of the so-called Hartz-IV-debate and in light of the Federal Constitutional Court ruling, which calls for a revision of the Bessungsgrundlage, each for a unification of the standard rate to 250 € month for every person, regardless of age, in need of a Community. However, it should not be counted against the child benefit, so that there would be 435 euros per child. This leads to an administratively simpler and cheaper for the state so, but also more equitable provision of ALG II and would be a clear and important signal for a child-friendly Germany. A family of four would have € 1370 for free, while rent, health insurance and pensions are paid directly by the consortium. This is such a family of loosely, it would be cheaper for the State and the Constitutional Court ruling is sufficient enough. For it is a truism - and to that extent is our national chairman Guido Westerwelle concur fully - the need to have those who work, ultimately more income than those who take government transfers to complete (pay indemnity rule), especially not the latter could be invested where the former this is not achieved. OM 
