Posted on 03/23/2022 7:57:46 PM PDT by Mount Athos
The German government has begun prosecuting its citizens for thought crimes, raiding the homes of hundreds of Germans who have allegedly leveled insults against politicians online.
In an effort to prosecute”criminal content” contained in over 600 statements posted on the internet, Federal Criminal police raided scores of apartments and houses for incriminating evidence on Tuesday and interrogated 100 people across 13 German states for allegedly posting hateful remarks against elected officials and question the results of the 2021 federal election, the German news publication Der Spiegel reports.
“Railing against elected officials is outlawed in Germany and warranted a so-called “joint day of action,” Bundeskriminalam, Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, warned in a press release.
“The basis for these investigations is Section 188 of the Criminal Code (StGB), which was revised in spring 2021 and makes insults, slander and defamation of people in political life particularly punishable,” the statement reads. “Public officials and elected representatives are given special criminal protection under [Section]188 StGB, regardless of the political level, against hate postings.”
Those in the country who continue to violate Germany’s speech laws will be held accountable, cautioned President of the Federal Criminal Police Office Holger Münch.
“Freedom of expression reaches its limits as soon as defamation, insults and threats are involved. With the action day, we are making it clear: Anyone who posts hate messages must expect the police to be at the door afterward,” Münch said, adding federal authorities will “also works intensively against hatred and hate speech on the Internet outside of such days of action.”
Germany is also targeting its citizens for holding populist viewpoints in the name of protecting democracy. Earlier this month, the German administrative court provided the nation’s domestic intelligence agency authority to surveil the populist Alternative for Germany, a political party with 81 seats in Bundestag, the German federal parliament.
When the attempt is made to squelch speech, the bullets should immediately fly.
Lass uns gehen, Olof!
Hard for me to believe people hate Putin when their own countries act worse than Putin. This behavior is coming to America soon.
The land of the free and home of the brave will be no more.
That beautiful American revolution for freedom will be a long gone memory to be earsed along with the now almost defunct Constitution.
Wow! Authentic German gibberish; yours is much better than mine, I’m afraid. I can just hear the jackboots, ja!
Independent states can quickly become prosperous
There is nothing anyone can do to make it any better or even stay the same.
Pax Americana is no more so they return to type.
Too bad.
They had some nice buildings.
Germans are nazis
It’s time to dismantle Europe.
They all suck.
AWESOME
Yup
You’re a natural poet, that was almost a haiku
Another example of how deep into tyranny the communist countries of the EU and the Disunited States of America have evolved...
The communists, worldwide, have largely gained control of 80% of the global population...
A dream that, in 1917-1923, seemed like a fantasy to the likes of Kerensky, Lenin, and Stalin as they assumed and solidified power...
It has turned out that the fall of the Soviet Union has made the world a far more dangerous place and that the controllable “cold war” has been replaced with a much more dangerous and dark global communist tyranny...
Stalin, Ho, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Mao have to be spinning in hell from jealousy...
was revised in spring 2021
that was sneaky - in the middle of a covid wave?
memory lane:
“Lockdown Extension Looms in Germany as COVID Case Numbers Rise
By Reuters
|March 19, 2021, at 5:25 a.m.
but it does make one wonder if this was also on the agenda when, “German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to meet with leaders of Germany’s 16 federal states on Monday to discuss whether to extend a lockdown that has been in place since mid-December...
I’d be curious how much longer SNL would last if they started treating Biden/Harris, Schumer/Pelosi, like they did Trump and Palin.
Sounds like the nut bags we have in charge here 🤪
It looks like Hitler and the third Reich have returned to Germany.
Ja
Dear Deutchland,
How very fascist of you (ahem,again).
Is Herr Merrick Garland in the house ?
eina kline Sonderbehandlung ...
All I have to say is...Let’s go Brandon!
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