Posted on 04/11/2025 3:02:51 PM PDT by DFG
Germany has been accused of violating basic Western values yet again, as a news editor in Germany faces a hefty fine and a seven month prison sentence for posting a meme mocking the government’s “hatred” of free speech.
The Bamberg district court in Bavaria sentenced Deutschland-Kurier editor David Bendels this week to seven months in prison on probation and a fine of nearly sixty per cent of his annual income, or 210 ‘daily rates’, for posting an image on social media of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser holding an altered sign.
The common meme tactic of changing the words on signs held by politicians for satirical purposes was used to make Faeser’s sign read: “I hate freedom of speech”.
Bendels was initially convicted in November, and the ruling was confirmed on Monday, finding that he had committed “defamation directed against people in political life,” Die Welt reported on Tuesday.
According to Bendels, it is the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany that a journalist has been threatened with prison for breaching the statute.
The Kurier editor also claimed that the prosecution was prompted after Interior Minister Faeser personally filed a complaint against him.
Bendels said on Monday that he plans to appeal the ruling, saying: “We will not accept this verdict and will defend ourselves against it using all legal means.
“The Deutschland-Kurier and I personally will continue the just struggle for freedom of the press and freedom of expression, which is indispensable for the continued existence of democracy in Germany, resolutely, stably and with all consistency.”
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From the depths of Hell and eternal torment, Hitler smiles.
“I personally will continue the just struggle for freedom of the press and freedom of expression, which is indispensable for the continued existence of democracy”
Dude, it was democracy that got your ass convicted.
Germany will always slide back to its modern roots. Hegel. Nietzsche, Schopenhauer.... prophets of doom. Shut up slaves. All hail the Fatherland.
SPD, governing partners with the CDU.
Isn't irony ironic?
Hmm...well, alrighty then...
The irony is glaring.
Take that as a badge of honor and then run for elected office
Ich hasse die meinungsfrieheit = I hate freedom of speech
I hate Europe.
Screw them. Get out if NATO. Let them defend themselves. Too busy surrendering to their Muslim overlords anyway.
Klause is one of the new Nazis.
I thought maybe that was Joe Biden 🤣🤪
“Fahrvergnügen! Fahrvergnügen! Fahrvergnügen! Bring me Fahrvergnügen!”
BMW owners everywhere
When Germany unified wasn’t the communist part supposed to disappear?
EU/Deutschland GeStasi
Some philosopher once said that if you give the American people and the German people a choice between chaos or injustice that the Americans would prefer chaos over injustice, and the Germans would choose injustice over chaos.
A very strong authoritarian streak has always run through German culture going back centuries, as in; ‘do as you’re told or suffer the consequences’.
Oddly enough, the Japanese have an ancient saying “… the nail that sticks up gets hammered down …”. They’re very strong on conformity.
Maybe that explains, at least in small part anyway, being culturally simpatico with the Germans and their joining ranks against America 85 years ago.
They’re afraid of freedom, including freedom of thought and the freedom of expression.
Both cultures have a great deal in common with America’s political left.
The attempt to put President Trump in prison to prevent his return to power is a perfect example, and very similar to the jailing of this German journalist.
I’m beginning to think that the only hope to save Europe from itself is another D - Day Invasion, this time to defeat the communist leaders of the European Union.
It will never happen of course, but they’re so far gone that Europe is no longer Europe, and the distinct cultural differences of each nation has morphed into an unrecognizable heap of inescapable liberal horseshit.
Shameful treason.
(They’re afraid of freedom, including freedom of thought and the freedom of expression.)
Imagine if she had posted some memes with Bible verses
That will eventually be outlawed
And a few will cheer....
Many places in Europe already outlaw the Bible and Christianity.
The Bible condemns the two holiest sacraments of the liberal left, homosexuality and abortion.
The international political left sees Christian beliefs as the greatest existential threat that must be eradicated.
Biden’s DOJ targeted conservative Catholics for this very reason.
Leftism everywhere must be crushed politically, meaning permanently discredited and impotent, without power.
Christianity is the foundation and rock that the West was built upon.
Without it, Western Civilization and freedom will disappear, probably for all time.
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