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Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media
New York Times ^ | Jun. 20, 2017 | David Shimer

Posted on 06/22/2017 7:59:23 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

BERLIN — In a coordinated campaign across 14 states, the German police on Tuesday raided the homes of 36 people accused of hateful postings over social media, including threats, coercion and incitement to racism.

Most of the raids concerned politically motivated right-wing incitement, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office, whose officers conducted home searches and interrogations. But the raids also targeted two people accused of left-wing extremist content, as well as one person accused of making threats or harassment based on someone’s sexual orientation.

“The still high incidence of punishable hate posting shows a need for police action,” Holger Münch, president of the Federal Criminal Police Office, said in a statement. “Our free society must not allow a climate of fear, threat, criminal violence and violence either on the street or on the internet.”

The raids come as Germans are debating the draft of a new social media law aimed at cracking down on hate speech, a measure that an array of experts said was unconstitutional at a parliamentary hearing on Monday.

Under German law, social media users are subject to a range of punishments for posting illegal material, including a prison sentence of up to five years for inciting racial hatred.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: germany; islam; thoughtpolice
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1 posted on 06/22/2017 7:59:23 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

Within every German beats the heart of a solid Nazi......no exceptions.


2 posted on 06/22/2017 8:02:07 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Within every German beats the heart of a solid Nazi......no exceptions.


3 posted on 06/22/2017 8:02:08 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: Mr. Mojo

The Lying Leftist Hypocrites. They “hate” more than anyone, but these hypocrites instead frame fascist tyranny in a law called “hate crime” from which they self-righteously immunize themselves.

How I hate the Left.


4 posted on 06/22/2017 8:03:51 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Mr. Mojo

Murder humans, and it’s “Nice muzzies. We love you. We’ll bring in a million more.”
Write something about the murders, and it’s the gestapo in your house, a nightstick up your xxx, and you in jail.
Nice going, murkul!


5 posted on 06/22/2017 8:04:51 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Le Pen: "Islamism is a totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on civilization.")
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To: Mr. Mojo

Joseph Goebbels approves of this.


6 posted on 06/22/2017 8:06:06 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Mr. Mojo

Today’s example of the insanity brought on by the mental disease we all know as liberalism. the Krauts need to dump Murky Mertal and rid themselves of the invading force she’s brought upon em.


7 posted on 06/22/2017 8:07:47 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

The Constitutional Court that handles things like this episode...typically takes a minimum of twelve months...sometimes on up to eighteen months...to render a judgement. So don’t go and expect the authorities to slow down. Once it’s deemed unconstitutional....everyone of these folks arrested will have to compensated, so this gets into the millions of Euro very easily.


8 posted on 06/22/2017 8:07:50 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Mr. Mojo

The fourth Reich?


9 posted on 06/22/2017 8:09:48 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Night of the broken keyboards?


10 posted on 06/22/2017 8:10:44 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Millions outside Germany should create fake profiles and “hate” away

Apparently Germany has learned nothing in 80 years

You’d have thought the crumbling of the Wall and E Germany would have awakened them to the beauty of freedom


11 posted on 06/22/2017 8:10:57 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (pr"Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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Didn’t the Germans learn anything from the last time a national socialist regime rose to power with this kind of rhetoric?

Or does a few generations wipe out their collective memory, and cause them to fall for the same BS time and again.

I say that the Germans are driving the whole “refugee” muslim invasion of europe, with the euro elite engineering the demise of native Europeans for personal profit.

The euro elite want Europe to devolve back into pre nation-state monarchies.


12 posted on 06/22/2017 8:11:10 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: rrrod
" Within every German beats the heart of a solid Nazi......no exceptions."

turd of the century........ no exceptions!

13 posted on 06/22/2017 8:12:49 AM PDT by crazy scenario ( )
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To: Mr. Mojo

I guess I had better stay out of Germany for what I think should be done to traitor Merkel for selling out Germany to the Muslim supremacists.


14 posted on 06/22/2017 8:14:06 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Mr. Mojo

Yet the invaders go free.


15 posted on 06/22/2017 8:15:22 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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So they merely create watch lists on people who they know are going to blow things up, drive over them in trucks, shoot them, slash their throats or chop their necks...

But they send a SWAT team after idiots who blab idiotic things through their keyboards.


16 posted on 06/22/2017 8:19:14 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Mr. Mojo

“Hateful” posters get their houses raided.
Violent Muslims are simply “known to authorities”.

Well, okay then.


17 posted on 06/22/2017 8:23:49 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: factoryrat

My history professor at college back in the 1970’s said a united Germany is always dangerous. They are a warring people. Solzhenitsyn addressed the issue of the Nazi’s raiding houses, and was very clear in the proper response. When will his writings and books burn?


18 posted on 06/22/2017 8:23:55 AM PDT by healy61
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To: Mr. Mojo
"Most of the raids concerned politically motivated right-wing incitement"

This is media speak for "complained about the islamic invasion of their country"

19 posted on 06/22/2017 8:33:10 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: rrrod

Kristallnacht 2017.


20 posted on 06/22/2017 8:35:11 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Proudly deplorable since 2016 - BLOAT)
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