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Germany considers ban on far-Right AfD
The Telegraph ^ | 8/13/23 | James Jackson

Posted on 08/13/2023 4:22:33 PM PDT by hardspunned

Germany is debating whether to ban the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the party surges to 21 per cent in the polls, amid warnings from intelligence officials that its members are becoming increasingly extreme.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German president, warned in a speech to the country’s domestic intelligence agency that “we all have it in our hands to put those who despise our democracy in their place”.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 1984; germany
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I suppose they have DVE in Germany too. The days of the West lecturing anyone about democracy are over.
1 posted on 08/13/2023 4:22:33 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

“democracy”


2 posted on 08/13/2023 4:25:26 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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What is “far-right” about this party? If anything, they’re like our GOP.


3 posted on 08/13/2023 4:26:22 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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If you remove the ability for people to choose their ruler, you encite civil war.


4 posted on 08/13/2023 4:26:35 PM PDT by struggle
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“Far right” ie, anyone who opposes communist left.


5 posted on 08/13/2023 4:26:42 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Good Lord.

The collective West is turning into an inter-connected series of banana republics.

First BananaCanada, then the United States of Banana and now Die Bananerepublik Deutschland...

6 posted on 08/13/2023 4:28:53 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German president, warned in a speech to the country’s domestic intelligence agency that “we all have it in our hands to put those who despise our democracy in their place”

Sounds just like democrats.


7 posted on 08/13/2023 4:29:14 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: hardspunned

Krauts are going to ban thoughts…

Interesting. I wonder if it would just create more of those original thoughts.


8 posted on 08/13/2023 4:30:24 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: hardspunned

“Democracy” appears to mean something very different to the Left than “the people decide how their society is to be”.


9 posted on 08/13/2023 4:31:26 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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Stasi gonna Stasi


10 posted on 08/13/2023 4:31:58 PM PDT by xp38
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To: MinorityRepublican

They’re “far-right” because they want to preserve their culture and race from Sub-Saharan Africans and Middle Eastern Muslims.


11 posted on 08/13/2023 4:32:10 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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They’re “far-right” because they want to preserve their culture and race from Sub-Saharan Africans and Middle Eastern Muslims.

Nothing extremist about that. They're like the MAGA wing in the GOP. Except they are probably more liberal than us. I bet they are environmentally friendly so they are pro-EVs and the like.

12 posted on 08/13/2023 4:40:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: struggle

Tucker Carlson interviewed Charles Haywood.

Haywood’s looked closely at the Spanish civil War and the Finnish civil War, and his analysis is that when the left starts to legally prohibit the Right from ever gaining political power, that’s the typical trigger for a civil war military conflict.

https://youtu.be/Yj11A5fUNBA?t=2984


13 posted on 08/13/2023 4:41:50 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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The collective West is turning into an inter-connected series of banana republics.

The only "western" nation that appears to be doing well is Israel. But even there, Bibi is having trouble dealing with the far left.

14 posted on 08/13/2023 4:41:58 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: hardspunned

The afD is neither “far right” nor “extreme”. What they are increasingly is a threat to the Establishment.


15 posted on 08/13/2023 4:42:11 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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that’s the typical trigger for a civil war military conflict.

I disagree. We're too comfortable so nothing will happen.

It would have to be something where the government decides to ban fertilizers and we all end up starving.

16 posted on 08/13/2023 4:43:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Ever notice the bans are exclusively “right” and never “left”?

Nazi party was a “left” party; nationalist owned press, industry, suppression of individual rights. There was nothing “right wing” or even close. It’s a line; not a circle. Extreme right is anarchy, and chaos

Left is communism, socialism and the collective


17 posted on 08/13/2023 4:44:03 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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Prussian Bureaucracy, Marxism, Nazism, and now banning political parties that arise in response to the tyranny and incompetence of the ruling party.

Germany is an abysmal failure when it comes to ideas about government. They should stick to cars, highways, sausages, beer, cuckoo clocks, and of course... further refining their expertise in the science of obsessive compulsive disorder.


18 posted on 08/13/2023 4:45:03 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Seems like Germany is going back to their Nazi roots. Any expat that lives there is a simp if you ask me.


19 posted on 08/13/2023 4:45:09 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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BTTT


20 posted on 08/13/2023 4:45:51 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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