The Teutonic peoples have long had a totalitarian streak in them when it comes to their forms of government. As in, long before AH was even born.
PS - When someone ACTS like a sheep, it is not an ad hominem attack to refer to them as such, particularly when they are, as you were in your post, “speaking” for others and trying to drag THEM down into their own “sheepdom”.
Of course, “Yoyo” is NEVER an ad hominem, is it? However, if you were, by some miracle, NOT simply attacking me personally, but were in fact making reference to my “ever-changing” positions on some issue, then I encourage, nay defy, you to provide an example.
The questions are only whether these people challenged a simple local ordinance about licensing, and whether the police and the DA overreached.
From what I have read, yes ...... and no.
It’s been real but I think I’m finished discussing political philosophy and cultural anthropology with you.