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Posted on 05/06/2025 5:30:56 AM PDT by george76
Germany faces criticism from all directions for its authoritarian actions against the country's largest opposition party
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The German government appears to be seriously preparing for a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party after the country’s powerful domestic spy agency classified the party as “definitely right-wing extremist.” Now, world leaders are reacting to the classification, with Hungarian Prime Minister saying he backs the party and its co-leader Alice Weidel.
After the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) gave the AfD its new designation, which paves the way for a ban of the entire party, Orbán asked on X “What the hell is going on in Germany?”
He then tagged Alice Weidel and stated: “You can count on us.”
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Orbán and Fidesz kept their distance from the AfD for years, mainly under pressure from the German government. However, shortly before Germany’s national elections, Orbán hosted Weidel in the country in February, calling the AfD the “future of Europe.” Weidel described Orbán as a “role model.”
Orbán is far from the only one backing the AfD. The BfV’s new classification of the AfD gives the spy agency unbelievable powers to several AfD members, including access to their emails, phone calls, and chats. Considering it is the largest opposition party in the country, which now polls as the most popular party in the country, the threat to democracy and privacy is enormous.
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The United States is now coming out against Germany’s tyrannical measures. The head of the U.S. State Department, Marco Rubio, wrote on X, “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies.”
The German Foreign Office even responded, writing: “This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped.”
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Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk wrote on X that a ban of the AfD would be “an extreme attack on democracy.”
U.S. Vice President JD Vance wrote: “The AfD is the most popular party in Germany (…). Now the bureaucrats are trying to destroy it.” Referencing German history, he added: “The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it was rebuilt—not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment.”
There are growing calls now, even in the CDU, to an outright ban on the party. However, Friedrich Merz has not yet commented on a ban, while his future interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, has urged caution against one.
The AfD has already launched legal action against the BfV designation. A ban would disenfranchise millions of voters and descend Germany into the realm of an authoritarian system known for banning opposition parties. There are also doubts about whether a ban would even be successful, with the country’s top court, the Constitutional Court, potentially ruling against it; regardless of the outcome, it would take years of legal battles to finally conclude.
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One world globalists trying to retain power.
The one way to do that is by abolition of all opposition.
The Euro nations have a record of doing just that.
Practice makes perfect you know.
Large crowds rally in Istanbul over jailing of Erdogan’s main rival
Germany tries to ban the AFD.
Democrats tried to kill Trump.
To save democracy.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4308271/posts
When do they start the roundup of the opposition ?
Shaping up to be a return to medieval era religious war. Reconquista 2.
Except they don’t have enough Ferdinands and Isabellas.
Left-wing extremists trying to ban normals.
That’s basically what’s going on in Germany.
There’s that scene in Amazing Grace where an anti-slave politician says the people want slavery to end, and the movie’s antagonist scorns back, The People?
Government runs always toward its own existence, even if people have to suffer for it.
What happens to the disenfranchised AFD supporters? Clearly democracy has failed them. They will get more radical. What would MAGA supporters have done if the Dems killed Trump?
Romania annuls elections and bans winners.
France convicts and electronically monitors conservative opposition.
Britain jails free speakers.
Sweden has no go zones.
Didn’t the nazis outlaw all opposing political parties?
Yes
The other nations in the west are losing Uncle Sugar. They know they will no longer be able to buy votes for socialism, so now they are going to plan B. Oppression of the opposition and general totalitarianism. It may work in the short term but won’t in the long term. Then Europe will have another devastating civil war and we won’t be involved directly this time.
Nothing says “democracy” quite like surveilling, censoring, banning and ultimately imprisoning your political opponents.
Sieg Heil!
The USA has a large military presence in bases in Germany.
We should begin flying C-17’s full of small arms, ammunition, heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars, and anti-tank weapons into Germany for distribution ONLY to the PATRIOTS of Germany who are in the AfD movement.
With the proper firepower, the true German people can resist the globalist tyrants in charge and hold onto their culture and liberty.
The ruthless scoundrels want to crush their most genuine and patriotic citizens.
The harder they try not to repeat the past, the more inexorably they head right into it.
The US could learn something from this.
Time to ban the Democrat Party!
collectivism requires the elimination of any opposition
by any means necessary
You forgot one Milt.
Ukraine. The center of globalist Nazism.
These bastards escaped to south America after WW2 and kayed low.
Now they’ve reappeared and are openly practicing their agenda.
Hmmm...
What’s going on? I think they call it totalitarianism.
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