Posted on 12/20/2022 9:30:14 AM PST by John Semmens
Social Democratic Party (SPD) member Sebastian Hartmann demanded that the German parliament pass a law banning the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, saying "there must be no tolerance for the enemies of the republic!" Georg Maier, a member of the SPD in Thuringia, accused the AfD of "trying to do away with our free and democratic basic order." The demands to outlaw the AfD were sparked by fear that people within the "Reichsbürger" movement were planning a coup against the SPD-led government.
AfD domestic affairs spokesman Dr. Gottfried Curio mocked the alarmists by pointing out that "the government's own documents reveal that only eight people said they might be willing to help overthrow the state. The feared coup seems more a farce than a serious threat. The real threat is the proposal to ban an opposition party. As I recall, banning opposition parties was one of Hitler's first actions to turn a democratic Weimar Republic into a totalitarian dictatorship."
Meanwhile, 41 US House Democrats filed a bill that would permanently bar former President Trump from ever holding public office again. Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), citing the 14th Amendment, declared that "Trump engaged in an insurrection on January 6, 2021 to overthrow the lawful and fair results of the 2020 election. He should face the same kind of disbarment from future offices as the secessionists of the Civil War faced."
Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md), asserted that "both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security identify white supremacy as the most lethally dangerous domestic terrorism threat our country faces." Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) concurred, saying "there is no room in this country for discrimination, violence, and unbridled hate. Luckily, the enemies of democracy were mostly defeated at the polls in November, but even with the heroic efforts of the FBI and social media to suppress anti-democratic speech, the margin was narrow. Can we really afford to allow these enemies to continue to mislead voters? Or should we more proactively silence these enemies?"
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“there must be no tolerance for the enemies of the republic!”
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The enemies of the republic being anyone who disagrees with their woke neoliberalism. Leftists are a bunch of fascist control freaks.
Regards,
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