Posted on 08/22/2023 12:04:38 PM PDT by CFW
Just when you may have thought things couldn’t get any crazier: American playwright and humorist C.J. Hopkins, profiled in this space on numerous occasions, has been sent a “punishment order” by a German judge, offering him a Sophie’s Choice of 60 days in jail or 3,600 euros.
His crime? Essentially, insulting the German health minister in a tweet, and using a scarcely-visible image of a Swastika on a mask in a book critical of the global pandemic response, The Rise of the New Normal Reich. He was first accused of this “crime” in June, shortly after Roger Waters was placed under investigation for wearing his clearly satirical “Pink” costume in a stage performance in Berlin. As I wrote when C.J. was charged weeks later, authorities claim that through the use of the mask image, C.J. was “disseminating propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization.”
The judge in C.J.’s case has already heard free-speech argumentation from his lawyer, and this technically being a non-jury misdemeanor offense, has already ruled against those arguments. C.J. will apparently have a chance to argue for mitigation, but the decree has already been handed down:
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In friggin believeable. The New Normal has arrived.
Does C.J. Hopkins live in Germany or are the Nazi Germans trying to get at him while he lives in America?
Would the correct German response be "Ficken sie."?
This is the same country that once executed a man for telling a joke.
If it had been a hammer and sickle emblem, would he be up on charges?
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He was first accused of this “crime” in June, shortly after Roger Waters was placed under investigation for wearing his clearly satirical “Pink” costume in a stage performance in Berlin.
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It seems that he’s spent time in Berlin on stage..
Memo to self:
Do not renew the Passport expired due to Wuhan Coup Flu, so I can’t go to DC,NYC,LA,Bananatlanta,etc, here or Berlin over there..
End of memo
They keep denying they are the fourth reich while acting like the fourth reich.
If it quacks like a duck it is a duck.
All FReepers ought post an image insulting of a German minister…right above a Brandon image.
My wife and I were legal residents in Germany for several decades, she longer than I, though I worked in more European nations than did she. One does some "hoop jumping" for the Aufenhalttitel which had periodic renewals. I felt the "time" was coming when it would become uncomfortable to remain there, given American sensibilities to be outspoken. Our notion of "free speech" does not exist there.
Given the fact -- easily demonstrated -- that the National Socialists were "anti-capitalist" and styled themselves as Aryan socialists, it had been a triumph of the socialists to construct the myth that this form of anit-capitalism and Aryan socialism was "on the right."
When all the socialisms, plural, are gathered together, National socialism and WWII Italian fascism cluster properly with Soviet socialism and Sino-socialism, as well as the smaller "evils" like the Khmer Rouge.
When we retired, we chose to return to the states. Clearly in my mind, this sort of thing -- the Hopkins affair of which Taibbi writes -- was for me a clear premonition.
The same holds true for the coalition parties currently toying with the notion of banning Alternative für Deutschland from participation in elections. Casting them as "right wing" while propping up National socialism as right wing, though it was anti-capitalist, would be a triumph for "it can happen here" again.
This seems a worldwide problem in the moment, with the overt socialists in the Democrat Party, as well as in media and academia, being our peculiar form of the same temptation -- to make others "vermin" as pre-WWII Jews were seen. As today's "unvaccinated" are sometimes seen. As those who would express MAGA are deemed "domestic terrorists" by an American political party currently in power.
While the Hopkins affair is relatively small, a few thousand Euros fine, it is a premonition of what can come.
The correction will also come, and actually in underway. Inner city collapses are showing the socialists' "emperor has no clothes," naked to been. Some form of this needs repeating in many ways and many venues.
The Germans just can’t help themselves.
Good post.
When the Germans banned pro-Naxi speech after WWII it was always clear to me that it was just the camel’s nose under the tent—a bad policy that eventually would get worse and worse and worse...
until any opposition to the regime in power would see their speech banned.
“First they came for the Nazis.....”
How do Germans tie their shoes?
in little nazi’s.
“When we retired, we chose to return to the states. Clearly in my mind, this sort of thing — the Hopkins affair of which Taibbi writes — was for me a clear premonition.”
Seems to have been a good decision. Although we have much the same starting to occur here in the States.
One thing that ticks me off the most concerning the actions of the “powers that be” over the past couple of years, is the double standard of justice being implemented in the prosecution of the January 26th trespassers. The left would have (and have in the past) received trespassing notices for similar actions. And even those were usually dismissed. Remember the leftists and their antics during the Kavanaugh hearings. Not a one suffered any consequences and certainly none were thrown into jail.
And the GOPe remains silent.
I think it might take some unusual events to spawn positive changes. But we certainly are seeing the beginning as we watch San Francisco, wherein a Democrat mayor, with a Democrat Board of Supervisors, a state with Democrat governor, super majority in the legislature and two Democrat senators, that mayor has taken aim at Biden. "Not doing enough." As San Francisco goes through its fiscal collapse.
I think events will force many politicians' hands. Ben Stein's law say that which cannot continue, will not continue. I think this will turn out the case. When and why the hysterical want us to panic and stampede is exactly the when and why we should NOT.
in little nazi’s.
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Oh, I'm stealing that one!
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