It is right that Germany defends itself against elements of the political far-right that have “contempt for our entire system,” said the head of the country’s domestic intelligence agency on Wednesday, the day after surveillance of the country’s leading far-right party got a legal nod. The comments by Thomas Haldenwang, the head of Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), came the day after a court ruled that the activities of the anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party were suspicious enough to merit being put under surveillance. The administrative court in Cologne dism…