1939 Deja Vu.
In the last several years, Germany has mimicked the Third Reich instead of a democracy.
During the covid scamdemic, a German lawyer was carted off to a psych ward for criticizing the draconian lockdown.
The German regime threatened to round up covid dissidents and put them in ‘detention camps’.
Germany’s slide into autocracy and disaster began when Führer Angela Merkel jumped into the political sack with the leftwing Social Democrats and subsequently opened the floodgates to hostile Islamic foreign nationals. While the German government gave the jackbooted treatment to its own citizens, Angela Merkel put out the welcome mat for muzzie vermin, resulting in a flood of rapists, thieves, child molesters, and jihadists. The German authorities and media have tried to cover up their crimes because they don’t want to “offend” the muzzie invaders.
As if Germany’s suicidal “multicultural” policies weren’t enough, the authorities are prosecuting anyone who protests the carnage by muzzie ‘immigrants’ and also worked out a deal with (*surprise*) Facebook to censor criticism in a country that has no equivalent to freedom of speech. Germany has actually made it a crime to criticize Islam on social media. The German media complies.
Merkel wanted to force internet providers to hand over information on people accused of “hate speech”.
They wanted to charge a Gab user for calling a German politician ‘fat’. Gab CEO Andrew Torba’s response: ‘Get bent’. PS: She is fat.
Recently, a lawyer who supports the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was fined 3,000 Euros ($3,143.65) for criticizing the German government. They also took his gun license and told him he faces disbarment.
When Vice President JD Vance addressed the Euro leaders in Munich, he told them what they needed to hear, whether they liked it or not:
……the threat that I worry most about for Europe is not Russia. It’s not China. It’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within—the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values that are shared with the United States of America.
……..when we see European courts canceling elections, and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we’re holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard.
…..Consider the side in that fight that censored dissidents, closed churches, and canceled elections. Were they the good guys?
……As it turns out, you can’t mandate innovation or creativity, just as you can’t force people what to think, what to feel, or what to believe.
We believe those things are certainly connected. Unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it’s sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War’s winners. I look to Brussels, where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest, the moment they spot what they’ve judged to be “hateful content.”
And I say “ourselves” because I fundamentally believe that we are on the same team. We must do more than talk about democratic values. We must live them.
…….I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago, the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings that resulted in his friend’s murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden’s laws to supposedly protect free expression do not, in fact, grant a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief.
And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britain in the crosshairs.
A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith-Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes.
Not obstructing anyone. Not interacting with anyone. Just silently praying on his own. After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply: “It was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before.”
Now, the officers were not moved.
Adam was found guilty of breaking the government’s new “buffer zone” law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person’s decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility.
He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution.
Now, I wish I could say that this was a fluke—a one-off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person.
But no.
This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called Safe Access Zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law.
Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizen suspected guilty of thought crime.
In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.
And in the interest of comity, my friends, but also in the interest of truth, I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe, but from within my own country, where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called misinformation.
Misinformation like, for example, the idea that coronavirus had likely leaked from a laboratory in China.
Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth.
So, I come here today not just with an observation, but with an offer.
And just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite.
,,……To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old, entrenched interests hiding behind ugly, Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion, or, God forbid, vote a different way—or even worse, win an election.
……..You need democratic mandates to accomplish anything of value in the coming years. Have we learned nothing—that thin mandates produce unstable results? But there is so much of value that can be accomplished with the kind of democratic mandate that I think will come from being more responsive to the voices of your citizens.
If you’re going to enjoy competitive economies, if you’re going to enjoy affordable energy and secure supply chains, then you need mandates to govern—because you have to make difficult choices to enjoy all of these things. And of course, we know that very well in America. You cannot win a democratic mandate by censoring your opponents or putting them in jail. Whether that’s the leader of the opposition, a humble Christian praying in her own home, or a journalist trying to report the news. Nor can you win one by disregarding your basic electorate on questions like who gets to be a part of our shared society.
Of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration. Today, almost one in five people living in this country moved here from abroad. That is, of course, an all-time high. It’s a similar number, by the way, in the United States—also an all-time high. The number of immigrants who entered the EU from non-EU countries doubled between 2021 and 2022 alone. And, of course, it’s gotten much higher since. And we know—the situation didn’t materialize in a vacuum.
It’s the result of a series of conscious decisions made by politicians all over the continent, and others across the world, over the span of a decade. We saw the horrors wrought by these decisions yesterday, in this very city.
And, of course, I can’t bring it up again without thinking about the terrible victims—who had a beautiful winter day in Munich ruined.
Our thoughts and prayers are with them, and will remain with them. But why did this happen in the first place? It’s a terrible story, but it’s one we’ve heard way too many times in Europe, and unfortunately, too many times in the United States as well. An asylum seeker, often a young man in his mid-20s, already known to police, rams a car into a crowd and shatters a community.
How many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction?
No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.
Euro government officials need a good dose of the consequences of their open arms policies for terrorists and violent foreign nationals. They won’t understand until it happens to them, their children, their friends, their neighborhoods. They have exclusive residences and 24 hour security. The muzzie human garbage needs to be dumped at their doorsteps.
I was stationed in what was West Germany during and after the Cold War. It’s hard to believe that the country I and my fellow Soldiers helped protect against the Soviet threat would one day come to resemble the Soviets.
Related articles:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/03/17/survey-three-quarters-germans-say-islam-not-belong-germany/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/german-television-station-asks-does-islam-belong-in-germany-are-stunned-by-the-results-video/