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Germany’s government to ban opposing political party, too?
American Thinker ^ | 8 Sep, 2023 | Eric Utter

Posted on 09/08/2023 6:10:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Germany’s AfD (Alternative for Germany), a populist political party whose main policy plank is dramatically tightening Germany’s open borders, is in danger of being outright banned.

Germany’s government, like America’s, is currently dominated by hypocritical leftist autocrats who are now debating whether to ban what it considers to be the “far-right” Alternative for Germany party. AfD has surged in popularity recently, and is now polling at 21%, despite warnings from intelligence officials that its members are becoming increasingly “extreme.” German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier recently stated, “We all have it in our hands to put those who despise our democracy in their place.” He was addressing the country’s domestic intelligence agency. (Which is not the STASI.)

Thomas Haldenwang, the nation’s domestic spy chief, said:

We see a considerable number of protagonists in this party that spread hate against all types of minorities here in Germany.

This whole situation is remarkably similar to that in the U.S., with those in power branding their political opponents as “extreme” and “far-right,” and attempting to marginalize, punish, cancel—or imprison—those with whom they disagree.

The AfD isn’t spreading hate. Rather, it is the elites who lord over their citizens and mock them for their beliefs—and who tell them what speech/thought is and isn’t acceptable—that are doing so.

Leftists are spreading hate against the AfD, which is, in fact, a minority party. Banning its existence outright would be a remarkably Nazi-like thing to do, and particularly ironic while saying this must be done to save “our democracy.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; germany
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1 posted on 09/08/2023 6:10:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

How National Socialist of them.


2 posted on 09/08/2023 6:10:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I did Nazi that coming.


3 posted on 09/08/2023 6:11:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

Yeah, they’ve been here before.


4 posted on 09/08/2023 6:11:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: MtnClimber

Can’t they just indict all the opposition members like in the USA?


5 posted on 09/08/2023 6:12:04 AM PDT by MMusson
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To: MtnClimber

Meanwhile, King Charles has kissed Germany’s backside and Germany is rolling out the red carpet for Prince Harry...


6 posted on 09/08/2023 6:13:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: MtnClimber

Par for the course for Germany.


7 posted on 09/08/2023 6:13:16 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: MtnClimber

Washington, DC is already working on that.


8 posted on 09/08/2023 6:14:19 AM PDT by Howie66 ("Biden-Fetterman 2024. It's A No Brainer")
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To: FLT-bird

Sleepy Joe’s handlers are watching these developments with a keen interest.


9 posted on 09/08/2023 6:15:09 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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To: MtnClimber

It is “hate” to oppose the takeover of Europe by migrating hordes of non-Europeans


10 posted on 09/08/2023 6:15:27 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: MtnClimber

Eventually, while there is still time, people in the West have to learn that the really evil people in society are now today’s liberals, rather than the Fascists and Communists of the past, as both of those ideologies are fully discredited.

So it’s up to the people of the West to THROW OFF these Leftists, or else other countries with the power to remove these governments (think China and Russia), will instead do it for us, and like World War 2, it will be very messy if that has to happen.


11 posted on 09/08/2023 6:16:27 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: PapaBear3625

Maybe if they promise to behave nice this time, Poland might allow the Volksdeutsche to come to Poland.


12 posted on 09/08/2023 6:17:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

Germany related...

https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2021-07-06/germany-network-enforcement-act-amended-to-better-fight-online-hate-speech/


13 posted on 09/08/2023 6:17:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: MtnClimber

“Rule by decree is the only way to save our democracy”.

Paraphrasing what I actually heard from a well-educated university type a few weeks ago. These people learn more and more about less and less until they know absolutely everything about nothing. And absolutely nothing about everything else.


14 posted on 09/08/2023 6:17:43 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: BobL

Communists hijacked the word “Liberal”, to mask who they really are.


15 posted on 09/08/2023 6:18:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

The Nazi Klaus Schwab and his World Enslavement Forum will start the Great Reset in Germany first ? LOL


16 posted on 09/08/2023 6:22:10 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

I thought this was about America for a minute and banning MAGA based politics.


17 posted on 09/08/2023 6:23:55 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: MtnClimber

Here in the US they just throw the opposition In prison


18 posted on 09/08/2023 6:25:25 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Exactly. We aren’t any better.


19 posted on 09/08/2023 6:27:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

One world government is Authoritarian Totalitarian by nature.


20 posted on 09/08/2023 6:36:07 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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