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Germany Conducts Mass Raids Over Online ‘Insults’ Against Elected Officials
Gateway Pundit ^ | March 23, 2022 | Alicia Powe

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.


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1 posted on 03/23/2022 7:57:46 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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2 posted on 03/23/2022 7:58:02 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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They skipped a few generations, but the totalitarians are back.


3 posted on 03/23/2022 7:59:17 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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Vee haff vayze of deeling vit you.


4 posted on 03/23/2022 8:00:21 PM PDT by Migraine ( )
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Ja can not call me poopyhead!


5 posted on 03/23/2022 8:01:07 PM PDT by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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To: Mount Athos; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

Did NAZI that coming...


6 posted on 03/23/2022 8:01:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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7 posted on 03/23/2022 8:03:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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Shouldn’t they be wearing the deaths-skull pins and Swastika armbands?


8 posted on 03/23/2022 8:04:44 PM PDT by Bellagio
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"Your mother wears army boots".
knock, knock.
9 posted on 03/23/2022 8:07:13 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Instead of Build Back Better, how about put it back the way you found it?)
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Soon to be the norm here in the USA too, rather than the occasional event that it has been for the last year or so..


10 posted on 03/23/2022 8:08:33 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Kritik an Regierungsbeamten ist verboten!


11 posted on 03/23/2022 8:08:53 PM PDT by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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12 posted on 03/23/2022 8:09:31 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Ukraine is not a good country and does not deserve active US support.)
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They skipped a few generations, but the totalitarians are back.

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They didn’t stop. Having a different opinion about world war 2 has been illegal for a long time.


13 posted on 03/23/2022 8:09:37 PM PDT by TTFX
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“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’

Didn’t Hitler have similar laws?


14 posted on 03/23/2022 8:09:58 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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Wow! Putin won’t have in invade Germany!

They will be willing partners!!


15 posted on 03/23/2022 8:10:03 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz is ugly and his momma dresses him funny. Go ahead, arrest me, Schultz


16 posted on 03/23/2022 8:10:11 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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“That can’t happen here”......


17 posted on 03/23/2022 8:13:30 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Didn’t they last do this about 80 years ago?


18 posted on 03/23/2022 8:15:54 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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They’re Baaaaack. Sieg Heil.


19 posted on 03/23/2022 8:22:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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Only a matter of time. Fascism/Islam fusion. I wouldn’t want to be bordering Germany in 50 years or so


20 posted on 03/23/2022 8:26:15 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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