This month, the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) conducted a nationwide search for citizens accused of committing speech crimes. The annual crackdown is part of Germany’s robust censorship and speech criminalization policies. As European Union censors seek to expand the reach of laws like the Digital Services Act (DSA), all Americans need see the existential threat to our most “Indispensable Right.”
We have discussed how Germany is extending its criminalization of speech to the Internet. Germany imposed a legal regime that would allow fining social networks such as Facebook up to 500,000 euros ($522,000) for each day the platform leaves a “fake news” story up without deleting it. The country fined YouTube to force the company to remove views that the government considers disinformation on COVID-19.
Germany has also targeted Elon Musk with threatened prosecution if he does not reestablish censorship systems at X.
None of this, mind you, has put a dent in the ranks of actual fascists and haters. Neo-Nazis are holding massive rallies by adopting new symbols and coded words, while Germany arrested a man on a train because he had a Hitler ringtone on his phone.
Last year, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser was upset that civil libertarians were calling her anti-free speech, so she tried to shut down a publication for a satirical meme.
For this reason, it was fitting that the recent World Forum was held in Berlin. I spoke in Berlin at the World Forum, where European leaders gathered in one of the most strikingly anti-free speech conferences I have attended. This year’s forum embraced the slogan “A New World Order with European Values.”
That “new world order” is based on an aggressive anti-free speech platform that has been enforced for years by the European Union. It is vividly evident in the latest crackdown in Germany.
According to the BKA, there were 10,732 crimes related to online hate speech committed last year—a record number and four times the crimes from 2021. It is an example of the insatiable appetite created by censorship as people seek to silence their critics or those with opposing views.
Stefan Niehoff, a 64-year-old former Bundeswehr sergeant was convicted for posting satirical images involving Nazi imagery. While the criminal case was eventually dropped, he was fined because the judge failed to find his actions sufficiently satirical.
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister, Christian Democrat Herbert Reul seemed to relish the power: “Digital arsonists must not be able to hide behind their phones or computers. Anyone who thinks anything is allowed on social media is seriously mistaken.”
He added that “people have forgotten the difference between hate and opinion.” For those who cannot tell the difference, the solution is just to stay silent or risk a knock on the door. It is the very chilling effect reflected in the recent polling showing that most Germans are now uncomfortable sharing their views in public.
According to a poll of German citizens. Only 18% of Germans feel free to express their opinions in public. 59% of Germans did not even feel free to express themselves in private among friends. And just 17% felt free to express themselves online.
This is why some of us have praised Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for their stands against European censorship.
Free speech is in a free fall in Europe and E.U. censors are trying to globalize their reach, including pressuring American companies to censor citizens. They are receiving the support of leading American politicians and pundits. If Americans want to see what awaits down this road, they need only look at Germany this month.
One should recall that many stories that were ultimately proven truthful, were at first dismissed as disinformation.
Wuhan Institute of Virology lab leak as source of Covid
Hunter Biden’s Laptop
Former President Biden’s cognitive decline
Those are just a few examples. Once a government has the power to criminalize speech, and decide what constitutes disinformation, then it can easily censor government critics. This way lies fascism.
Hopefully, the US will protect American social media companies from European censorship demands, fines, and even arrest warrants. European countries may have ceded their own sovereignty to the EU, but the US is still a sovereign country. No European power may censor Americans, or American social media companies.
Why is no one worrying about all the victims of online German hate speech. The hospitals and morgues are full of these victims. Something must be done!
“The hospitals and morgues are full of these victims.”
Were they maimed and killed by phrases or clauses? I’m guessing clauses, which can be tricky little devils.
Because that is fake news. That’s why.
Thank you
We obtain very little real news. You have integrity, rare today. What is going on in Germany is horrid.
Since the Brit monarchy is all german, this is obvious preview of thier intentions for We the People.
Sam Adams knew these same monarchy character minesets. 50 years, he stood against it. Sam’s protégé Thomas Jefferson, put this crape to rest,
Jonathan: For you it’s all about distraction. Discussing the alleged suppression of “free speech” in Germany avoids having to focus on what’s happening under the DJT regime, i.e., the systematic use of the organs of power to attack free expression here at home. From day one after getting back into the Oval Office for the second time DJT has (1) attacked and sanctioned law firms because he doesn’t like the clients they represent–something never done in the history of the country; (2) attacking and calling for the impeachment of judges whose decisions he doesn’t like–and indicting a judge for simply doing her job; (3) rounding up in Gestapo style thousands of undocumented immigrants, many lawfully in the country, denying them their due process rights, and sending them to gulags in foreign countries; (4) physically attacking a sitting Senator and a local office holder in NY because of their vocal support for the rights of immigrants; (5) attacking and trying to subvert the independence of universities–trying to force them to adopt the agenda of the regime. And the list goes on. Sound familiar? This is exactly what the Hitler Nazi regime engaged in after taking power in 1933!
Then, of course, are the attacks on the press, the bedrock of free expression in any democratic society. DJT has sued media outlets forcing them to capitulate to his demands. The latest example of DJT’s attempts to control the press is his attacks on CNN journalist Natasha Bertrand. Why? Because she broke the story about the US intelligence assessment that contradicted DJT’s false claim that Iran’s nuclear at Farno had been completely “obliterated”. This week DJT demanded that “Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! I watched her for three days doing Fake News. She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out like a dog!”. Had Joe Biden said such things about Fox News hosts he would have been condemned and investigations immediately started by the MAGA crowd in Congress. You would have appeared on Fox News calling Biden’s statements a serious threat to “free speech”.
When DJT uses the power of the state to silence dissent and debate that is an existential threat to the 1st Amendment. Doesn’t seem to bother you. You rather wax on and on about what is happening in Germany. Seems you have your priorities all backwards!
You have not cited a single instance where DJT has acted against free speech, not one, Shame on you!!!
“(1) attacked and sanctioned law firms because he doesn’t like the clients they represent–something never done in the history of the country; ”
Law Firms That were involved in actions that fomented hoaxes, and undermined national security.
This is hard for you left wing nuts – but everything is not a right.
Free speech is a right.
A security clearance is not.
“(2) attacking and calling for the impeachment of judges”
ROFL – those of you on the left impeached Trump twice and will with certainty do it again and again if you regain control of the house.
Regardless, Presidents, Senators, People of post here do not have the power to impeach anyone.
Only the House can do that.
A solution to the problem of rogue and lawless judges in necescary. I personally hope that the problem cen be solved with measure short of impeachment. But if everything else fails – impeach it is.
Why should a handful of judges that are in constitutional la la land remain on the bench ?
“indicting a judge for simply doing her job”
It is not her job to help a criminal illegal alien to avoid arrest.
“(3) rounding up in Gestapo style thousands of undocumented immigrants”
The correct word is “illegal”. The problem is NOT that the lost their papers. It is that the do not have the legal right to be in the country.
“many lawfully in the country”
Nope.
“denying them their due process rights”
As SCOTUS just affirmed – several times recently – Due process for an immigration issue is almost entirely by law withing the Article II Immigration courts. The only Article III due process an illegal immigrant is constitutionally entitiled to is individual habeaus relief. Which essentially is “I am not the illegal alien you claim I am” which is often resolved without a hearing.
Illegal immigrants are being sent HOME.
Due process is proportuionate to the rights at risk. There is no right of an illegal alien to be in the US.
The Due Process requirement is establishing by the preponderance of evidence in an Article II court that the person being detained and deported is not in the US legally.
The penalty – sending you home, takes nothingfrom the illegal alien that they had a right to.
If you do not like this CHANGE THE LAW – There is a house and Senate that pass laws in this country.
Trump did not make up the immigration law he is enforcing – as SCOTUS has concluded.
“sending them to gulags in foreign countries”
Then perhaps they should work to fix their own countries.
“(4) physically attacking a sitting Senator and a local office holder in NY because of their vocal support for the rights of immigrants;”
Your off your meds.
“(5) attacking and trying to subvert the independence of universities”
Universities are free to conduct themselves as they please – if they do not take money from governement.
I would prefer greatly that Govenrment extract itself entirely from education. But that is not politically reealistic.
If you take government subsidies – you are subject to federal law – like the Civil Rights act and Title IX.
Harvard may not discrimination on the basis of Race or Sex.
“trying to force them to adopt the agenda of the regime.”
No, using the power of the purse to punish violations of the civil rights act, and Title IX
“Sound familiar?”
Yes, Sounds exactly like Obama and Biden – Except that Trump is using federal power to get universities to follow the law and protect students rights, While Obama and Biden sought to coerce universities to violate students rights.
“This is exactly what the Hitler Nazi regime engaged in after taking power in 1933!”
Yes, Obama and Biden did exactly what the Nazi’s did.
“Then, of course, are the attacks on the press, the bedrock of free expression in any democratic society.”
An HONEST press is the bedrock of democratic society – as DISHONEST one such as we have is a threat.
Regardless again you conflate priviledges with rights.
Trump should attack and remove from the WH the entire MSM – including Fox and allow the new media in.
“DJT has sued media outlets forcing them to capitulate to his demands.”
Trump can not force anything – the COURTS can – the LAW can.
“The latest example of DJT’s attempts to control the press is his attacks on CNN journalist Natasha Bertrand. Why? Because she broke the story about the US intelligence assessment that contradicted DJT’s false claim that Iran’s nuclear at Farno had been completely “obliterated”. ”
Historically ALL Bertrand’s “leaks” have proven to be lies. ‘
Regardless, as usual you play word games
The CLAIM was only partly about Fordow. The core claim is that Iran was almost as close to a nuke as their were before this started. That is obvious nonsense that I and others have debunked repeatedly.
“This week DJT demanded that “Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! I watched her for three days doing Fake News. She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out like a dog!”.”
So What ? Trump is not the one running CNN into the ground. Mark Thompson is.
“Had Joe Biden said such things about Fox News hosts he would have been condemned”
Biden not only attacked Fox, he attacked left wing journalists that did not toe the line.
As did the Biden and Obama WH’s
“You would have appeared on Fox News calling Biden’s statements a serious threat to “free speech”.”
The actual use of govenrment power or money to violate the rights of others is a serious “threat to free speech”,
words you do not like to a journalist are not.
“When DJT uses the power of the state to silence dissent and debate”
How has he done that ?
DJT is suing the press as a private individual in law suits that started before the election, for defaming him.
Those of you on the left weaponized defamation law with bogus claims, turn about is fair play.
“that is an existential threat to the 1st Amendment.”
How so ? You said Trump used the power of the state to supress the rights of citizens – how so ?
Your hurt feelings are not a violation of your rights.
Dennis,
Where do you get your information?
The law firm was the one involved in the debunked Russian collusion hoax. So what if they lose their security clearance to sensitive information? They abused that right.
The CNN reporter was the one who said the laptop was not Hunter’s. She spoke the Russian hoax as gospel fact. She reports a dubious “anonymous” source as fact? Our pilots trained constantly for this mission and guided 240,000 pounds of explosives in a dead aim. How can a lightweight reporter have any accurate knowledge whatsoever? She had a low confidence anonymous source? Really? Does she know more than the CIA? NSA? The Airforce?
Regarding ICE agents. First, they have to wear masks. They and DEA have a bounty on their heads by the cartel and other criminal organizations. Second, the local and state won’t cooperate when they apprehend violent criminals. What would be a simple process, now requires that they come in numbers for their own protection.
So, they’re targeting the most violent criminals. However, because of the lack of cooperation when they seek out the violent criminal, they are often with other people who are here illegally. That is the operative word illegal. When somebody’s here illegally there are laws that must be followed.
I suggest that you find other sources of information to compare what you’re listening to, reading or watching. Do you just hear what you want to hear and disregard the rest? (Simon and Garfunkel).
Are you suggesting that the federal agents do not arrest, violent, criminals, child, rapist, murderers, drug dealers, and those who are involved in human trafficking?
It’s only five months into this presidency. There’s a long way more to go. And it might not hurt to take a fishing trip or go on a picnic or maybe go camping and turn off the “news” that you are watching.
Just saying…
Get help, or better yet, read other sources.
“under the DJT regime, i.e., the systematic use of the organs of power to attack free expression here at home. ”
Trump has excercised – as he frequently does his right to free speech and his power to use the bully pulpit of the presidency to critize the same people who criticize him.
He has NOT used the power of the presidency to violate the first amendment.
“From day one after getting back into the Oval Office for the second time DJT has (1) attacked and sanctioned law firms because he doesn’t like the clients they represent–something never done in the history of the country; ”
First that is NOT what Trump did – he revoked the security clearances of people who spread FALSE national security information.
If you perpritrate a national security hoax on the US government you MUST lose your security clearance.
Next it is not a sanction to revoke a priviledge,
Next – yes this has been done before – all the way back to washington.
“(2) attacking and calling for the impeachment of judges whose decisions he doesn’t like”
Again nothing new here. The president can not impeach anyone. The house impeaches.
The president can call for impeachment, just like any other american.
“and indicting a judge for simply doing her job;”
Trump did not indict Dugan – a Grand Jury did.
“(3) rounding up in Gestapo style thousands of undocumented immigrants”
That would be illegal aliens – that is the correct legal term according to US law.
“many lawfully in the country”
You can not be “undocumented” and be in the US legally.
“denying them their due process rights”
Due process is proportionate to the rights the government may be infringing on.
There is no right for an illegal alien to be in the US, The only due process they are entitled to is Habeaus.
“sending them to gulags in foreign countries;”
Nope, They were sent HOME typically, or to a country that would take them if their home country would not.
The nations they were sent to decided whether to jail them or not.
“physically attacking a sitting Senator and a local office holder in NY because of their vocal support for the rights of immigrants;”
No one was physically attacked by Trump. Many people have been physically attacked by left wing nuts.
A Senator chose to rush a podium where an SS protectee was speaking. The SS will tak them down all the time regardless of party or office.
“(5) attacking and trying to subvert the independence of universities–trying to force them to adopt the agenda of the regime.”
If a university is receiving money from the federal govenrment – it is NOT independent.
Just cut off all federal funding of universities.
“And the list goes on. Sound familiar? This is exactly what the Hitler Nazi regime engaged in after taking power in 1933!”
Actually not it does not. Your claims are false – AND they are not what Nazi’s did. Though democrats do frequently do what Nazi’s did.
“Then, of course, are the attacks on the press”
Trump criticizes some of the press.
Mostly those that have lost credibility with the people.
“the bedrock of free expression in any democratic society.”
We still have a free press, criticizing them does not make them unfree.
“DJT has sued media outlets forcing them to capitulate to his demands.”
If the Media capitulated – it was because the COURTS forced them.
Lawsuits are decided by courts.
” The latest example of DJT’s attempts to control the press is his attacks on CNN journalist Natasha Bertrand. Why? Because she broke the story about the US intelligence assessment that contradicted DJT’s false claim that Iran’s nuclear at Farno had been completely “obliterated”. This week DJT demanded that “Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! I watched her for three days doing Fake News. She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out like a dog!”. ”
Again free speech critical of a reporter with a long track record of error.
And haven’t we had enough of bogus stories about manufactured US intlligence assessments ?
“Had Joe Biden said such things about Fox News hosts”
He had, as had Obama. But more importantly – Biden and Obama ACTED to infringe on the free speech rights of reporters.
“When DJT uses the power of the state to silence dissent and debate that is an existential threat to the 1st Amendment.”
No one speech has been censored since Biden and Obama left office.
There is a great deal of criticizm of the MSM press – criticizm they have earned.
They can correct thatby doing their job correctly.
Hostility towards the President violates jounralistic ethics, but not thefirst amendment,
but the actual problem is that much of th press LIED – and it is far from just Trump that is pissed.
Party is over.
You don’t have enough money to leave and what skills have you that another country would want?
I hope Floyd’s cats are okay. He worried about them after he was gone. Floyd ate a can of sardines and crackers trying to afford cat food. I guess he won’t be back.
Floyd will be back. No worries.
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It’s the Germans. They have history with this. Couple that with rearming themselves and we’ve got a whole new set of problems on our hands.
“He added that “people have forgotten the difference between hate and opinion.”
Err, it’s my opinion that I hate you. What of it?
Every single one of these people needs to read Ordinary Men.
Billions of dollars spent to manufacture G.E. appliances in China will now be spent to manufacture G.E. appliances in the good old U.S of A. Toyota has lowered the price of their cars to America by twenty percent effectively covering the cost of their cars tariffs. Our Democratic paid bloggers are going to be very upset.
“Our Democratic paid bloggers . . .”
Meanwhile, those tariffs have caused a precipitous rise in the price of steel, aluminum, coffee (and countless other products) — to Americans.
When you cherry-pick the economy, you can conclude whatever you wish about those tariffs.
And I’m neither paid nor a D.
As usual a MAGA moron displays his poor comprehension.
Toyota announced that they expect a 20% reduction in revenue due to tariffs.
That is not the same as Toyota lowering prices as you falsely claim.
In fact just 3 days ago Toyota announced that they are INCREASING prices by an average of about $270.
You also do not understand that Toyota is not particularly concerned about tariffs.
Half of the cars Toyota sells in the US are built here. They have 12 manufacturing plants in the US.
They do this because the models that they sell here are unique to the US. The models they sell here are not made or sold anywhere else in the world. Big trucks and SUV’s are not popular in the rest of the world. They prefer small sedans.
Your claims about GE are also overblown.
They are only bringing the production of washing machines from China to the US.
This plan has been in the works since 2019, and is not a response to tariffs. The increased spending in the US will be minimal, certainly not billions of dollars. GE has been working on the new plant for 6 years and have said that they will make extensive use of robotic assembly, so the number of new jobs will be minimal.
Blah blah blah get your own blog. Nobody cares what you write here.
Facts are always inconvenient for the fantasies of the MAGA cult.
Don’t you agree ????
Blah blah blah cult blah blah blah MAGAT blah blah blah
Over and over and over and over
Get a freaking life you loser
This is his life. When you’re ankle-chained to a radiator in the basement, your options are limited.
I hope that her handlers change the ramen flavor weekly, at a minimum.
You cited a few facts I had no quibbles with.
But your analysis was complete BS.
$270 is 20% is the Tariff on a 1350 car – I do not think Toyota has EVER sold a car in the US for as little as 1350.
Your living 50 years out of date.
@Anonymous
Ah, you tried again. I admire your persistence. They must be paying you well. If only you could apply that work ethic to something that isn’t certifiably insane. 🤷🏻♂️
Based on the amount of garbage content that she pumps out every day, if she had any talent whatsoever she could have written an entire series of novels. What a waste of a life. Gigi you’re not getting this time back, it’s gone, you’ve had no impact on anybody, you’re just talking to yourself. Go away and get help.
@Anonymous
Agreed. She is someone that is living off of the fruit of someone else’s efforts, for sure, and is misguided into thinking she’s doing something ‘righteous’. Uh-huh. Pbbl. 🥱
I am just sorry we have to suffer through it literally every bloody day. One would think by now they’d get the message, but mental illness is mental illness, no matter how much coddling one provides. And at the same time I’m not sorry: we can expose the idiocy with the light of truth, and thankfully, we do. I am convinced that Gigi would likely be in an institution were it 25 or so years ago. Alas, this is where we are, and we deal with it. Whatever. Will not stop sane people from waking up, even if they are a bit late to the game. the modern dem response is to kill it, perfectly dead, by whatever means are necessary. These are not healthy people, in any sense of the word. . . .
“In fact just 3 days ago Toyota announced that they are INCREASING prices by an average of about $270.”
Wow! A $270 increase on all Toyota vehicles?! That’s dirt cheap compare to their $900 increase for most of their models back in 2023 when Biden was POTUS. 😂
“2024 Toyota Price Increases Are Coming” – CarsDirect
“Half of the cars Toyota sells in the US are built here. They have 12 manufacturing plants in the US. They do this because the models that they sell here are unique to the US. The models they sell here are not made or sold anywhere else in the world. Big trucks and SUV’s are not popular in the rest of the world. They prefer small sedans.”
While there’s some truth in what you had stated, it’s not completely accurate. 😂 But that’s not surprising coming from a demwit like yourself. 🙂
Yes, outside of the North American market, pick-up trucks and SUVs don’t sell that often. However, that doesn’t mean they don’t sell in any markets besides the North American market.
Best selling pickup trucks in Mexico: “The best-selling pickup in Mexico is one of the poorest-selling in the U.S.” – MotorBiscuit (MSN)
Best selling pickup trucks in Canada: “Best-Selling Cars: Midsize vs Full-Size Pickups in Canada in 2024” – Driving (Canada)
Best selling pickup trucks in Europe: “Monster pickup trucks accelerate into Europe as sales rise despite safety fears” – The Guardian
Although the Ford Ranger might give the Dodge Ram 1500 a run for its money. 🙂
“Ford Ranger Celebrates 10 Years as Europe’s Best-selling Pickup” – Ford Media Center
“This plan has been in the works since 2019, and is not a response to tariffs.”
Who was president in 2019 and what did he do in 2018? 🙂
“GE has been working on the new plant for 6 years and have said that they will make extensive use of robotic assembly, so the number of new jobs will be minimal.”
That’s rather odd. Because according to this article on ABC News website, GE is expecting to move some production from the People’s Republic of China to a new assembly plant in Kentucky, And they’re expecting the plant to produce 800 new jobs in that particular state.
“GE Appliances moves some production from China to Kentucky with $490M investment” – ABC News
Do you have a source to back up your claim that GE had been working on such a plant for 6 years and that they will make extensive use of a robotic assembly line?
I know that I won’t expecting an answer from people like you because you spineless cowards usually can’t answer such simple questions. 🙂
While parts of what you assert are correct, the spin is making everyone woozy.
It is also unwise to attack someone’s reading comprehension while making simple but large math errors.
$270 is 2% of the cost of the CHEAPEST toyota sold in the US – not 20%.
The reduction is revenue can mean only one of two things – Toyota expects to sell 22% less cars in the US,
or they are eating all but 2% of the cost of the tarrifs.
“You also do not understand that Toyota is not particularly concerned about tariffs.
Half of the cars Toyota sells in the US are built here.”
Half are not,
“They have 12 manufacturing plants in the US.
They do this because the models that they sell here are unique to the US. The models they sell here are not made or sold anywhere else in the world. Big trucks and SUV’s are not popular in the rest of the world. They prefer small sedans.”
My 1985 Honda Civic was made in Marysville OH.
“Toyota models made in the USA include the Camry, Tacoma, Tundra, Corolla, Highlander, and Avalon, among others. These vehicles are produced in various states, including Kentucky, Texas, and Mississippi.”
The Camry and Corolla and Avalon as sold throughout the world.
“Your claims about GE are also overblown.
They are only bringing the production of washing machines from China to the US.
This plan has been in the works since 2019, and is not a response to tariffs.”
The exodus of manufacturing from China began before Trump – but it accelerated under Trump’s first term – you note the GE decision was made in 2019, and is accelerating further in his 2nd.
More manufacturing is leaving China for even poorer countries. But high end manufacturing is moving back to the US.
“The increased spending in the US will be minimal, certainly not billions of dollars. GE has been working on the new plant for 6 years and have said that they will make extensive use of robotic assembly, so the number of new jobs will be minimal.”
Absolutely the manufacturing that moves from China back to the US will employ fewer people at much higher wages. While those that move to Thailand or Malaysia will employ more people at lower wages.
All you are doing is reciting a law of economics without realizing it.
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If only Hunter would run. There’s a great candidate, real straight shooter, smartest person that Vegetable Biden knows (sadly that part likely is true).
Sounds a lot like the US, where speech on social media is being searched to make immigration decisions…
As of two days ago, every fake “birthright” citizen is now an illegal alien along with his illegal alien mother; as many as ~50 million violated existing law at the time of their births. That authorities failed to enforce the law does not bear.
Doesn’t go into effect for 30 days.
Oh yes, that’s an exact equivalence, one to one I tell you. Denying entry to some nutjob whose online accounts read like Saturday night at Democrat Underground is entirely the same thing as people being jailed in Germany for completely normal critiques of their own government. You really hit the nail on the head this time.
Go back to Politico.
I’m fine with kerping jihadists out. BTW – hate is legal, so is xenophobia.
Germany has reverted to its previous communist Eastern rendition; much, if not all, of Europe is following suit.
Communism has failed everywhere it has been attempted.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” constitutes a hobbled, unproductive, and brutal dictatorship.
The United States must exit NATO until all member countries adopt the original Constitution and Bill of Rights, or the essence thereof.
All nations must abandon the enslavement of communism and provide maximal freedom to individuals with a severely limited and restricted government, as the Constitution implements.
The American thesis, and that of the Constitution, is Freedom and Self-Reliance.
All men must be free, and all men must provide for themselves.
Charity and philanthropy are noble.
The EU has been invaded and the invaders do not want any bad language said about them. The EU surrendered. They’re finished and being repopulated. We’ll never hear about the slaughter taking place. The invaders wouldn’t approve.
Looks like the Nazis won after all.
Bad guys win is a new theme.
What they are doing is exactly what Vance talked about in his great speech. Churchill’s 1946 “Iron Curtain” now extends to the shores of the Atlantic.
Brian,
Good point if you mean the western shore of Ireland.
On the right to free speech, Germany has joined the ranks of Iran, Palestine, China and the Democratic Party in The United Sates. It’s amazing that to me that the citizens of these nations keep supporting their leaders as if living in fear has some tantalizing attraction. I attribute it to PWMAM. Please Whip Me Again Master. Perhaps in can be blamed on the PGMACBFF syndrome. Please Give Me Another Crust Of Bread For Free. It seems that they learned nothing from the starvation of thirty million farmers in Soviet Russia because the farmers had something to eat every day while the rest of the population starved due to Stalin’s economic policies. It’s not surprising that many who are reading this blog are not aware of what happened in Russia because the left has removed the study of world history from Americas classrooms. Hitler said, give me one generation of children and I will fundamentally change the nation. Barrack Obama said exactly the same thing. The sheep must walk the walk or face the consequences. Welcome aboard the ship of fools. No bleating allowed unless properly reviewed by the sheep herder.
“It’s amazing that to me that the citizens of these nations keep supporting their leaders as if living in fear has some tantalizing attraction”
but do they actually support their leaders?
see the problem fully. Germany has made it clear, that support “for the state” is a mandate, with a consequence for non compliance, fines and jail time.
are we so certain that the people of Germany actually support “leaders”.
maybe we just don’t hear from them..because again, if you decide to chirp politically incorrect opinion about invaders and the impact they have on job, the economy and community safety…that speech might be regarded as “hate”…and furthermore, aimed directed at the same leaders who made decisions to have open borders and have created these problems.
also: we cannot presume that the United States is the only nation states that has produced obvious elections fraud, gerrymandering, and otherwise, disinformation (Russia Russia, orange man is putins’ puppet). Surely, we can’t believe that election in Germany are fraud free?
look around Europe…in the region….every single time that a nationalist candidate (maga-like in the sense they want to restore cultural integrity, close borders, shore up domestic economic security), somehow that person gets painted as some kind of neo Nazi kook and insurrectionists. it has happened so often in the last 10 years, it has become obvious…the deep state is not exclusive to America. The political uniparty in the EU will not allow a Trump like figure to gain any power. period.
so I really question if the German people actually do support these so called leaders. I mean what have they done for the german people?
God Bless America
The German law’s ‘Chill Effect’ upon Free speech is quit remarkable to watch, where the Law’s Chill Effect is in effect and where it is not (Germany|America).
I would say that in both Countries the Online behavior remains the same.
In Germany and America, most people don’t even talk with their next-door neighbor, yet alone espouse their opinions. Since the rise of; Cell Phones, Email and Texting, Talking to someone has gone into a Chill Effect of self-preservation of its own, even someone as close as a Family member yet alone a Neighbor. In fact a large percentage Avoid having to have conversation with them. The ‘willingness to be ‘Publicly opinionated’ is gone, perhaps because the reality of the proximity to real danger.
Free Speech on the Internet (Social Media, Blogs, Comment areas) are the conduit to conversation and deeper expressions of opinion. The Internet has moved the public sphere off the streets and into the Home. Wherein the physical dangers of confrontation have gone, but the danger to psychological confrontation and subversion still remain real (Bullying, Ostracization, Brain Washing, Grooming, Indoctrination,…).
The Germany’s attempt to ‘squelch’ the harmful effects of online free speech are Nobel, the actual efficacy of the Laws and the effects of enforcement, at this point, will take more time to measure the results. My guess is the overall attempt to impose the Chill Effect will result in something like that of the U.S. Prohibition of Alcohol, wherein Online Free Speech Speakeasys will propagate (Alternate Communication Channels). The Free Speech “juice joints” will survive hosting cost with Crypto and Encryption. That’s already happening now on the Dark Web. The Chill Effect will drive more Speech underground and foster propagation as the conduit for free speech become more popular. As the ‘enforcement actions’ of the German Police drive a proportion of the German masses into this position by creating need for self-preservation of individual existence, freedom, and choice.
The Chill Effect’s existentialism is a Kafkaesque nightmare (Franz Kafka).
The Herding of the Masses into communications systems that can; Identify, Monitor, Track, and Quantize Behavior are becoming more saturated. Intrusion is not Existential anymore. WE ARE WATCHING YOU! is taken for granted.
[ Kafka & Orwell are laughing at Us with a smile – I Told You So! ]
Agreed.
The “chill effect” is quit remarkable.
And Kafkaesque relates to that of the manner of Franz Kafka.
Who’da thunk it?
Do have fun. You’ll never be able to get rich like the old days. You had to be rich to leave. Poor and stuck.
“Kafkaesque” describes situations that are bizarre, illogical, and often oppressive, particularly those characterized by complex and impersonal bureaucracy. The term originates from the works of the Czech-German writer Franz Kafka, whose stories often depict isolated individuals grappling with incomprehensible systems.
adjective: Kafkaesque
characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka’s fictional world.
“a Kafkaesque bureaucratic office”
OMG! There are two of them!
That is quit remarqueable.
But on the dark side of free speech (which we all clamor to support and sustain) is the disproportionate over-representation of “minority” voices (political/racial/economic) across all vehicles of mass communications (including print and Internet).
By this I mean that under the auspices of “free speech,” MEDIA chooses WHICH voices are given the national platform, visibility, clickbait, front-page headline to be heard/seen/made known.
When national media is dominated by a particular political ideology, who needs censorship to attain its goals?
It’s the world order. The “minority” voices aren’t minorities at all.
False.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/caucasian-countries
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/capitalist-countries
Wait. You think America, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia et al. are Caucasian? You’ve never been to California, have you? It’s gonna take a whale of an effort, including much “discipline,” to take these once-great and now-invaded nations back.
Get the bugs out.
“You” happens to be https://worldpopulationreview.com”
can you read?
Truth is being imposed. The world controllers think there isn’t truth, objective truth, and cultural truth is imposed upon people. It’s called existentialism.
The new truth of white man bad is being imposed and geographical regions are being repopulated if bad white man is there. That’s western civilization white man bad.
It’s actual physical genocide as well as cultural genocide. In 100 to 200 years white man will be a myth as well as Christians and Jewish people. People will be genetically tested to hunt down the last Jewish gene.
The transformation is complete. It’s just a few centuries of mop up. If there is an afterlife and reincarnation is true well all incarnate as non whites. From a religious viewpoint there are many worlds where Caucasians exist but not this one.
Buraq the steed of Islam has done his work. It’s as plain as day. The common people in the world consume too much and pollute for no intelligent reason the rulers think. The common people will be kicked back to horse and buggy and subsistence farming dying off as nature intended.
PT, it’s the swan song of freedom of speech when there’s an alternate truth. The constitution is a relic of mythology isn’t it?
Barbara of Seville
Ew.
^^ * we’ll
The LGBT group is a demonstration of how truth is imposed. The world rulers are laughing as people protest for the imposed truth of men are women and back it up with a demand to remove the genitalia of children.
SCOTUS put a partial stay on that truth only in some States and not without dissenters on the court. Recall the France and it’s opening Olympic ceremony? Imposed mockery of white Christians.
It’s being repopulated by Islam. Buraq, the steed of Islam is which horse of the apocalypse? It’s just Barry to you and me.
The Dems have tried almost the same thing in America. When they controlled the three letter agencies, were embedding their agents in social media companies, suppressing conservative speech and articles about the Hunter laptop, setting up a ministry of truth, and blacklisting covid dissenters. If you value freedom of speech and other freedoms, such as 2nd amendment freedoms and freedom of religion, you should vote Republican.
Not just Republican but conservative. The Democrat Party has adopted ‘1984’ as an operations manual not the dire warning it was meant to be. The Europeans have no Constitution and have imposed Oceania style government. The Dems have tried their damnedest to do so here. And succeeded to a degree. Hence AOC, Crockett, just about any Dem official you could name, and soon-to-be-(s)elected mayor of NYC, Mamdani a national socialist antisemite.
Brian,
Let’s not forget that the Left also comtrols AI, as evidenced by what ChatGPT says section 1 of the 14th Amendment says:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States… are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
You can see, by where the elipsus is, they conveniently left out “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof”.
I’m a blind guy and use a screen reader so what I hear is the entire sentence, minus those all-important words. Someone simply hearing the sentence this way is given the impression that all one need do is be born or naturalized in the US, regardless of where they’re from, and voila! instant citizen. the words “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” kinda mucks up the Left’s disires to grant everyone and anyone citizenship, simply by being here.
There was no reason why the AI couldn’t have displayed the entire sentence as written.
And we wonder why trust in people, institutions, etc, is declining?
Has control of the 3 letter agencies truly been wrested from the far Left? There’s been quite a spring cleaning, but that is an entrenched power structure.