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Hans Söllner is one of the few persons who still has something to say. Today I saw a documentation about him in Moviemento, called Der bayerische Rebell, and I was really impressed: this man still has courage to go to the police and file a self-complaint for drug possession, and to encourage other people to follow him just to DDoS police and attorneys. In the interviews, Hans Söllner gives a really interesting insight on his views of the world, his moral principles (doing what you want to do as long as you don't harm anyone) and his "relationship" with the Bavarian state authorities.



Another part of this documentation is interviews of traditional Bavarians from the place where he lives about Hans Söllner. It's really scary and shocking how adapted and silent these people are about all the unjust things that are going on especially in Bavaria. Hardly anybody really likes him, either, because he criticized Bavarian politicians and Bavarian politics as a whole. It's also scary when he tells the interviewer about the things he experienced with the police, e.g. a searching of his tour bus a few years ago, including a degrading personal search with anal examination (he could have hidden drugs in his ass) and stuff. The state attorneys are trying to get as often as possible, and so he e.g. got fined with (as far as I can remember) DM 7000,- for owning 1 kilogram of perfectly legal industrial hemp that he bought for about DM 57,- in a store in Cologne, just because state attorneys couldn't admit that they made a mistake didn't let analyze the hemp properly (which would have shown that the hemp is THC-free).



Of course, one has to look at Hans Söllner critically, and he definitely gets more attention through his problems with the state authorities (which he is often enough provoking), and some of his ideas are pretty weird and crude (suing Bavaria for not seizing and convicting the people who make the drugs available to him), but still, he's an interesting person to listen to. So people, if you have the chance, watch "Der bayerische Rebell" in cinema, or buy the DVD in October.