The author was nearly raided by German police for posting a satiric image of Donald Duck as a Nazi from the 1942 Oscar-winning Disney one-reeler “Der Fuehrer’s Face”
Posted on 10/26/2025 12:04:40 PM PDT by DFG
A German court ruled the Trump administration is “openly far-right” with “fascist tendencies” as German police raided several prominent conservative critics for alleged “Hate Speech” last week. Firing back, the US Embassy in Berlin warned of “censorship and oppression of political opponents in Germany”, which is “threatening to ban the opposition”. Notably, President Trump has yet to even nominate an Ambassador to Germany, a diplomatic slight usually reserved for antagonistic countries.
A judge at Bonn Circuit Court described the Trump administration as “openly far-right extremist-populist” and claimed it had “fascist tendencies”, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported. The Circuit Court 13th Civil Chamber complained of “deeply anti-democratic, anti-justice, autocratic or fascist tendencies in the Trump administration,” the judge said in a ruling on a suit by an internet user complaining of US access to his data.
The bureaucratic, anti-free market EU has generated no successful Internet platforms of its own, but it frequently complains about US internet platforms.
The judge called Vice President JD Vance’s historic speech at the Munich Security Conference in February, calling out censorship and political oppression in the EU, “ridiculous” in light of alleged “fascism” in the USA.
A spokesman for the US Embassy in Berlin was “taken aback”, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported, expressing worry about “censorship and persecution of political opponents" in top NATO ally Germany: The US government is "concerned about the potential for a democratic blackslide in Germany due to steps to ban popular opposition parties,” the spokesman said.
On June 29, 2025, the ruling Social Democrat party voted to ban the most popular party in Germany, the right-wing AfD, which is currently polling at 26%, ahead of Chancellor Merz’s Christian Democrats at 24% and the failing Social Democrats at 15%. A possible AfD ban would have to be decided by Germany's supreme court, which has become notoriously political since Chancellor Angela Merkel installed fellow party member Stephan Harbarth as chair, ridiculously claiming the 1949 German Constitution requires carbon net-zero policies, for example. The Social Democrats have further been packing the court with leftist judges this year to ensure an AfD ban will go through because they cannot beat the party at the polls.
As the recession in Germany heads into its fourth year due to insane “climate transformation” polices, and migrant stabbings and gang rapes have become a daily occurrence, the German government is now resorting to more and more repressive measures to keep a lid on dissent, including banning Ludwigshafen mayoral candidate Joachim Paul from the ballot for crimes including liking "The Lord of the Rings."
This week, police in Hamburg raided the home of renowned media professor Norbert Bolz for a satiric post comparing the “woke” agenda to the Nazi slogan “Germany awaken!” (Deutschland erwache!). The almost 2-year old post was reported by state-funded “hate speech tracker” HessenAgainstHate to the “Hate Speech Desk” ZMI at the German FBI Bundeskriminalamt BKA.
Liberal journalist Jochen Bittner called for the Judge and DA who approved the raid to be tried for abuse of the law.
Free speech lawyer Joachim Steinhöfel called for German Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt to “issue clear guidelines on how to take context into account in free speech cases, on strict proportionality in digital evidence, and on safeguarding academic and press freedom. Whoever criminalizes criticism confuses justice with revenge and security with censorship." Steinhöfel called the search and seizure of a renowned professor because of an obviously legal tweet a “scandalous infringement of basic civil rights.”
German prosecutors obviously have instructions to find reasons to raid, prosecute and intimidate political critics, journalists and opposition leaders. They frequently exaggerate the threat posed by harmless tweets, such as taking any mention of the Nazis as a literal endorsement of the Nazis. On Michael Shellenberger’s website Public, I described how the Munich police nearly raided my home for a Donald Duck meme and criticizing Hamas uses of the swastika, for example. This was also reported to the police by state-funded HesseAgainstHate.
On Oct. 21, Covid-critical attorney Stefan Homburg received a summons for his court date Jan. 8, 2026, for “insulting” prominent German Covid “ethics czar” Alena Buyx, notorious for pronouncing vax mandates “ethical”. On April 12, 2024, Homburg had accused Buyx of endorsing “forced measures”, which she feels is an illegal insult. The prosecution files show that the D.A. in Hanover considers the case a “political prosecution”, which is apparently a category of crime now in Germany.
That same week, rabid Israel critic Jürgen Todenhöfer announced he is being investigated for “hate speech” for comparing the Israeli government to the Nazis, and for criticizing German support for Ukraine, in light of claims Ukraine blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. “The court ordered a search of my apartment, my office, my car, and also me personally, as well as to seize all my cell phones, iPads, and storage media.”
Contrary to media reports, the raid has not been executed so far because the authorities could not find him, Todenhöfer posted.
“At any moment, security forces could storm my apartment, search it, and seize my electronic devices. If one is no longer allowed to criticize Netanyahu, if one is no longer allowed to speak openly about war and genocide, then freedom of opinion in Germany is at an end. Without freedom of opinion, democracies cannot survive”, Todenhöfer stated, melodramatically announcing he would not pay a fine if sentenced and go to prison instead.
The Central Reporting Desk of the Bundeskriminalamt BKA has received 59,010 reports since 2021, of which 85% were deemed to be actionable, it reports, including 5186 reports in the 1st quarter 2025, 6241 reports in the 2nd quarter 2025, and 5256 reports in the 3rd quarter 2025, a total of 16,683 reported "hate speech crimes" 2025 so far. Assuming the 85% actionability rate applies, that means approximately 14,000 "hate speech crimes" have been pursued this year in Germany, or approximately 50 per day.
JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference Feb. 20:
"I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing. In fact, it is the most surefire way to destroy democracy. Speaking up and expressing opinions isn’t election interference.
Even when people express views outside your own country, and even when those people are very influential – and trust me, I say this with all humour – if American democracy can survive ten years of Greta Thunberg’s scolding you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.
But what no democracy, American, German or European will survive, is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief, are invalid or unworthy of even being considered. Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There is no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don’t. Europeans, the people have a voice. European leaders have a choice. And my strong belief is that we do not need to be afraid of the future."
The author was nearly raided by German police for posting a satiric image of Donald Duck as a Nazi from the 1942 Oscar-winning Disney one-reeler “Der Fuehrer’s Face”
Ahhh, Nazis… they never change.
Communist East Germany absorbed and took over West Germany during reunification. So those filthy scumbag STASI (the judge in this case) consider anyone to the right of Karl Marx as a flaming right winger.
Germany’s days are numbered. The new Ottoman empire will soon overtake and absorb them. They will bow to the Caliphate and pay the Jizya tax to their Islamist master. /spit
When Der Fuehrer says, “We ist der master race”
We Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer’s face
Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great disgrace
So we Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer’s face
OMG
I think the Nazis need to stay the hell out of American politics and do something about their own. Friggin’ Nazis.
The Gestapo is alive and well in Germany.
Mayhaps one might be able to inform me of the difference between “national socialist” and “social democrat”.
My image of the two is one side brown shirt over all Germany, the other was birthed from the minds of what was ‘behind the Iron Curtain”, The Democratic Socialist Republic of OsterDeutscland.
I say this with conviction, being a Vietnam/Cold War vet, and still doing a bit of cranial rewiring, much to my beloved’s chagrin, so I could see that “Ist alles klar, kommissar?” still remains.
Shhhh! Gotta keep Russia-Russia-Russia going and preserve that trade agreement with the EU.
You’re not wrong…
Sad but true.
Unfortunately.
My thoughts exactly.
Exactly.
I think that a big part of the distinction is focused around nationalism and patriotism. In America, we tend to see these as positive values. America The Beautiful. Star-Spangled Banner. We love our country and we want to guard our borders. All of that is extremist right-wing nationalism. For the Left, it’s the worst thing possible.
National socialism may want big government socialism to control daily lives (the Left would call that Good) but the “National” part of it makes it Evil.
The Left is Globalist. No nations. No borders. One world government controlling everything. That is where the social democrats seem to want to go. And crushing any sense of nationalism is essential for them to succeed.
Free speech must be shutdown. Recall Hillary stating the same thing is needed here. This is the work of the WEF Davos worshipers, their evil is increasingly becoming so onerous and visible they cannot allow honest citizens to compare notes and happenings.
This is the spirit of anti-Christ rising up. America is the only nation still pushing back against it.
Sounds like Deutschland is back into good old fashioned National Socializing.
The judge did not NAZI this comparison being made.
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