Germans fear censorship as left pushes harsher restrictions on free speech | Eastern North Carolina Now
Social Democrats and Greens want to punish citizens who criticize them
As police start to arrest ordinary citizens and even media figures for criticism of politicians, a poll by major German pollster INSA shows that 74% of Germans are now reluctant to discuss politics for fear of criminal repercussions. That is not, however, stopping the main leftwing parties, the center-left Social Democrats and the far left Green Party from proposing an even harsher crackdown on free speech with harsher penalties.
Social Democrat leaders are proposing to toughen the laws against insulting politicians, which can already carry a three year prison sentence by increasing sentences, expanding the scope of what can be prosecuted, and making prosecution easier. The Green Party is calling for censorship of social media.
Two recent cases have particularly caught the public's attention. A 64 year old pensioiner was recently arrested for a social media post calling the Economics Minister, who is from the Green Party an "imbecile" after the German economy is in the toilet under his leadership. The editor in chief of the conservative news site Deutschland Kurier was heavily fined and still could be jailed for a meme showing the Social Democrat Minister of the Interior holding a sign saying "I hate freedom of expression" after she unconstitutionally sent dozens of masked policemen on a raid to close down a conservative magazine, an action later declated illegal by the courts which reinstated the magazine.
In the three years since the law has come into force, 1,300 German citizens have been criminally charged with insulting politicians.
America can be thankful that anti-free speech politicians Harris and Walz failed to win the presidency, or we would be facing the same suppression of free speech. In Germany the "Social Democrats" are behaving much like a party from the last century that also used "socialist" in their name, the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazis. Leftwing fascism is a huge threat to freedom in Germany today.
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It is the far left, such as yourself, Bobbie, that falsely calls the populist right in Europe "far right". The reality is that the serious antisemitism problem in Europe comes from the Muslim migrants, like that recent attack on Jews in Amsterdam. The populist right wants to stop this antisemitism by sending those Jew-hating Muslim migrants back where they came from. But as a Hamas-apologisr yourself, Bobbie, you can't see the forest for the trees.
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Just not true. The far right in Germany is made up of Germans. Nazi pig stuff is banned but slowly making a comeback.
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Benjamin Franklin wrote that "politicians, like diapers, should be changed often, and for the same reason". These totalitarian German politicianss would probably jail him for that, but it is clear that they are very full diapers and badly need changing.
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Muslim illegal alien migrants are the source of the antisemitist that is now rampant in Europe. There was a pogrom, organized ahead of time in Amersterdam by Muslim migrants where they attacked and injured Israelis and other Jews. When a permit was requested for a rally against antisemitism, it was denied by city authorities on the grounds that they did not have the resources to protect Jewish rally goers from Muslim pro-Hamas counterdemonstrators . That is sad and that is sick.
The Netherlands is next door to Germany, but they have the same antisemitism problem from hordes of Muslim illegal alien migrants. To solve Europe's antisemitism problem, the Muslim illegal aliens need to be rounded up and sent home, or have what Europeans call "remigration" imposed upon them. We call it deportation, but it is the same thing. |
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There was also a recent case in Germany where a citizen sent an email to a judge saying he "must be mentally disturbed" after the judge gave a Syrian illegal alien no jail time and only 3,000 euros restitution for raping a 15 year old German girl who was walking home and telling him in court "you are well on your way to becoming a normal citizen here". Even though the email went only to the judge and not to anyone else, the outraged German was fined 5,000 euros for insulting the judge. What is Germany coming to when an illegal alien rapist gets only 3,000 euros restitution but a German who is outraged over that absurdity gets fined 5,000 euros for insulting the judge.
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Lets see. One of the first things Hitler did was supress free speech. The globalist parties in Germany are already well on their way to doing that. Then they banned rival political parties, including rival parties of the right. The globalist Social Democrats and Greens are openly talking about doing that shortly, before the upcoming election. Then Hitler decreed gun control, and his 1938 Reich gun law is still in effect. With all the knife crime from illegal alien migrants, many Germans now probably need guns to put down rapes, robberies, and murders from the illegals but thanks to both Hitler and the globalists, they do not have them.
Sadly, there is rising antisemitism in Germany today, but it is not coming from the German people. It is coming from the hordes of Muslim illegal alien migrants that the globalists have let into the country. |
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After murdering 6,000,000 jews one would think the German people should reflect long and hard as to what lead up to it.
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In fact, the AfD stands for the most part right where the CDU used to stand prior to Merkel. The late great CDU German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer would probably feel more at home in today's AfD than today's CDU, even with Merz pulling back right on some issues.