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Posted on 06/25/2025 7:00:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Police in Germany have executed more than 170 operations targeting people they referred to as “digital arsonists”.
Starting early on the morning of June 25, officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office raided the homes of people suspected of running “criminal posts” online.
The police move was not the first such in Germany, where it is flagged a “day of action”, targeting alleged authors of “online hate and hate messages”.
This was the 12th time that the police took such nationwide action against so-called politically motivated crime (PMK).
Two-thirds of those people whom officers hit had reportedly made right-wing radical statements. The police also went after alleged religious extremists and left-wing radicals.
The raids also included people who were suspected of violating a specific part of the German criminal code, namely those who allegedly insulted politicians.
German politicians have been increasingly using this law, leading to hefty fines against those found guilty of calling politicians “morons”, for example, or mocking them with degrading images.
Greens politicians in particular have made efforts to seek redress against who insulted them.
One of the alleged culprits targeted by the latest raids reportedly wrote on X, “Heil Hitler!! Again. We are Germans and a successful nation. Male foreigners out.”
Starting from 6am, police officers searched the houses of suspects and confiscated computers, mobile phones and tablets.
“Digital arsonists must not be able to hide behind their cell phones or computers”, North Rhine-Westphalian interior minister Herbert Reul, a Christian Democratic Union MP, told news agency dpa.
“Many people have forgotten the difference between hatred and opinion, but it’s so simple: If you don’t do it in the real world, it’s not appropriate to do it digitally. It’s time for more attitude, offline and online.”
In May, the Federal Criminal Police reported that 10,732 crimes related to so-called “hate postings” were recorded last year, an increase of about 34 per cent compared to 2023. Compared to 2021, the numbers have about quadrupled.
On the same day of the latest raids, a tweet by someone working for the State-funded Federal Trans Association surfaced. The message was allegedly a public call for the murder of the “irresponsibly rich”, calling it “ethically imperative”.
The US has raised concerns about Germany’s approach to free speech, with figures including Vice President JD Vance criticising its strict hate-speech and insult laws as the stifling of free expression.
At the 2025 Munich Security Conference, Vance suggested US NATO support could hinge on Germany respecting US free-speech values.
Germany argued the laws prevented harmful rhetoric while balancing free expression.
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Germans are a weird culture. I still see vestiges of it in my family after more than 150 years in America.
They are smart, hard working, and diligent to a fault, but they seem to suffer from congenital myopia.
Don't fight them in forests?
I think the Green Party in Germany are all morons.
Germany’s at it again, acting like the hall monitor nobody asked for. Do they ever take a break from their power trip ambitions? Isn’t there something better they could be doing, like, I don’t know, minding their own business for once? Guess respecting basic inalienable rights is just too much to ask?
Awful to think about some FR poster in Germany having his door kicked in late at night and family hauled off because he wrote “Western civilization is a good thing”.
Restrict all US military personnel to US bases. Cut off their money and tell them why.
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We should also look at our support for NATO. I'm still confused why Turkey is a member.
The Romans knew what Chuchill so insightfully expressed. “The Germans are either at your throat or at your feet.” Their nature, possibly genetically based, has limited capacity for the nuances of civilization. A Roman writer once observed that while blond hair and blue eyes might be aesthetically pleasing, it clearly was associated with mental illness and bizarre behavior. sarc/off
No, not exactly. The Nazi were nationalist to a fault. These clowns are siding with foreigners that would destroy German cultural and replace it with Sharia law and burkas. They are enabling cultural suicide.
And yet they seem lax in going after the stabbing rapists they let in.
Heil Hitler 2.0, hmm.
That didn’t last long. Some just can’t change for the better.
Wih Germany sepponto the total control leftist road oce again it is probably imcumbent on the USA t maintain a strong military presence there. Germany has a certain History- 1870, 1913, 1939. Germans have not changed so much.
I seem to remember Germany using the press sometime in the past, I’ll have to remember what followed . . . .
And they don't even really like us.
It's time to recognize that and move on.
Spain refuses to pay 5%. And they're not even playing the game.
That'll give us an "out" to leave NATO.
Of the People, For the People and By the People is such a dangerous concept.
Bet the word Liberty is not on any EU coin.
“How dare you” girl from sweden fell not far from the german tree.
This.
But of course!
Well they are the shittiest and most mentally ill group. They are likely to attract insults that other more sane people would not.
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