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‘Tyranny in Disguise’ — Rubio, Vance Blast Berlin over Move to Classify AfD as ‘Right Wing Extremist’ Party
Breitbart ^ | Kurt Zindulka

Posted on 05/03/2025 8:51:11 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

The Trump administration has accused Berlin of acting in a tyrannical manner after a top intelligence agency officially branded the populist AfD party as an “extremist” group over its stance against mass migration, paving the way for more government spying against the right-wing party.

The supposedly independent Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) — which reports directly to the Interior Ministry of the elected civilian government — ruled on Friday that the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is a “right-wing extremist” organisation. The classification will allow for increased state surveillance of the anti-mass migration party, including observing its meetings with informants and wiretapping of party communications.

In a statement justifying the move, the BfV specifically cited the AfD’s stance towards immigration, specifically from Muslim countries, as being “not compatible with the free democratic basic order” of Germany.

“This can be seen in the large number of statements made on an ongoing basis by leading officials of the party that are hostile to foreigners, minorities, Islam and Muslims. In particular, the ongoing agitation against refugees and migrants promotes the spread and deepening of prejudices, resentments and fears towards this group of people.

“The devaluation of the aforementioned groups of people is also reflected in the generalised use of terms such as ‘knife migrants’ or in the general attribution of an ethnoculturally determined tendency to violence by leading members of the AfD.”

The agency also claimed: “German citizens with a migration history from Muslim countries are not considered equal members of the German people ethnically defined by the party.”

The move came as the AfD has risen to the top of the polls and after it won the most seats in its history at the February federal elections, making the populist party the largest opposition force in the Bundestag parliament.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Germany; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adf; itisakaren; itisextremist; rubio; trump

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1 posted on 05/03/2025 8:51:11 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

I disagree. It’s not in disguise.


2 posted on 05/03/2025 8:55:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SoConPubbie

The gang in charge wants to stay in charge.


3 posted on 05/03/2025 8:58:01 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: SoConPubbie

They need to start calling Berlin’s current leaders Nazi’s.


4 posted on 05/03/2025 9:03:34 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: SoConPubbie

“First they came for the Nazis.....”


5 posted on 05/03/2025 9:05:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SoConPubbie

How ironic, Nazism and now Islamo-Nazism.


6 posted on 05/03/2025 9:06:34 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: SoConPubbie

They will do this to Reform in the UK next.


7 posted on 05/03/2025 9:07:14 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SoConPubbie

Actually the Germans did ban the Nazi Party in the 1920s, and put Hitler on trial for treason for The Beer Hall Putsch.

Hitler essentially used that trial as a springboard for his political career, writing Mein Kampf during his prison time.

If they had just let Hitler alone, most likely, the Nazi Party would have stayed a fringe party and eventually would have died out.


8 posted on 05/03/2025 9:07:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SoConPubbie
They're back.....

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9 posted on 05/03/2025 9:23:52 AM PDT by Karl Spooner (Putin: "Time to finish off the Ukraine troops"- 3/28/25)
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To: Karl Spooner

“Today is history!”


10 posted on 05/03/2025 9:25:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SoConPubbie

But, PDJT is der fuhrer right!


11 posted on 05/03/2025 9:31:17 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: SoConPubbie

most of those officials and technicians probably have grandparents or other relatives who were experts at this
sort of business during soviet or gnatsy years.


12 posted on 05/03/2025 9:33:09 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: SoConPubbie
Get our troops out of Europe now.
They don't need to be involved in Europe's next war.

13 posted on 05/03/2025 9:33:46 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: SoConPubbie

Europe has followed the Democrat’s playbook to a tee. Unlike the US, they’ve been successful in doing so by banning or arresting top candidates, designating certain parties persona non grata, etc. European media has no match, often punishing those who dare speak their minds. When you have that level of control, all that’s left is the question of how much pressure the cooker can take before it gives.


14 posted on 05/03/2025 9:38:54 AM PDT by Greenpees (Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
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To: pepsionice

ping


15 posted on 05/03/2025 9:42:26 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: epluribus_2
“not compatible with the free democratic basic order” of Germany.

wonder how many people being sent to germany fully agree with that free democratic ideas with freedom of speech, religion, non-religious law and order. guess they'll find out.

16 posted on 05/03/2025 9:43:47 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: SoConPubbie

This centerpiece of the homo-fascist Euro-Reich needs to be re-partitioned.


17 posted on 05/03/2025 10:01:40 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: SoConPubbie

All that’s missing are the snappy uniforms.


18 posted on 05/03/2025 10:07:58 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: SoConPubbie

yes

open borders is the new “normal”

secure borders is extremism


19 posted on 05/03/2025 10:09:03 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: SoConPubbie

First Macron stops LePen from running, now the Germans outlaw the AfD.
Europe and the UK are now full of marxist tyrants.
They are all probably paying the Vatican to elect another marxist Pope.


20 posted on 05/03/2025 10:21:05 AM PDT by doc maverick
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