Posted on 08/29/2020 3:15:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Berlin authorities estimate that some 30,000 people attended the latest coronavirus skeptic demo.
While most of the day was peaceful, hundreds of people attempted to storm the Reichstag parliament building. […]
With some unidentifiable German pop music playing in the background, the feeling at the afternoon rally is reminiscent of a town festival, but a closer look at the T-shirts emblazoned with slogans suggests otherwise. Out the back of a hire truck, one man is closing a sale with an elderly, white-haired woman with a walking stick. “That’ll be €5 ($5.95),” he says, handing her a red T-shirt with the word “Querdenken” across the chest. These are the self-proclaimed “lateral thinkers” — the organizers behind the demonstration against the German government’s measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the Stuttgart-based group, some 20 Articles of the German Constitution are being violated by the restrictions imposed to tackle coronavirus. They want these to be lifted.
Other T-shirts shed light on the ideology of the wide mix of people who have attached themselves to the COVID-skeptic movement in recent weeks — for the large part a mixture of coronavirus doubters, conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers.
Particularly popular is the motto of conspiracy theorist Heiko Schrang — “realize, wake up, change” — or slogans like “Don’t give Bill Gates a chance,” “End the muzzle!” or “No compulsory vaccinations!”
Like at previous “anti-corona measures” demos, members of Germany’s far-right scene were also present, many of them visible with the flags of the German Empire and The Kingdom of Prussia. Both have become synonymous with the Reichsbürger movement that denies the legitimacy of the modern German state. Others waved placards affiliated with the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon. …
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Oh dear.
Election time is a good time to stick to them
I watched quite a bit of the protest online. I didn’t see anyone out of hand but did see the police randomly walk up to people and seemingly detain or arrest them.
Love it ! We need the same here !
End it now ! No more stupid masks. Open the schools restaurants bars gyms !
not the first time the Reichstag has been stormed.
Totally agree. This has got to end.
The world is in revolt.
Oh good grief.
Did you mean ‘jawohl’?
So it’s spreading.
GOOD!!!
My thought.... Fauci's Lab monkies.
The masks were to originally to stop people from sneezing and/or coughing and releasing the virus into an area of 6 feet beyond their face.
The virus needs a host or it dies.
If the virus is within your house, you don't know how it got there and how long it will live. And it will die. The idea that you have to sterilize your house is ridiculous.
The government is crazy...and Cuomo is crazier.
That would be “Fauci’s Lab Monkeys”
“Heute sind wir alle Berlines!”
(Today we are all Berliners!)
I wish!
First, we take Berlin, then we take Manhattan.
ICH BIN EIN QUERDENKEN BERLINER !
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