Boris Kálnoky, Head of the MCC Media School in Hungary, has written a post for Corvinák pointing out that while the EU is making Hungary’s receipt of EU funds conditional on strengthening the ‘Rule of Law’, it has yet to say anything about a recent law in Germany that will enable the state to sack civil servants accused of not being in accord with the German constitution while bypassing their employment rights.
Germany passed a worrisome law that encourages people to spy on their fellow citizens, and to report on them if they say things that are deemed to be critical of Germany’s ‘constitutional order’.
Initially, the law was just meant to implement an EU directive for the protection of ‘whistleblowers’, if they report on infringements against EU regulations. But the leftwing German government, with last-minute changes to the draft law, turned it into an instrument for a political power grab in Germany. You can read the draft and the changes here.
Crucially, the law stipulates that civil servants, such as policemen and teachers, can be fired without a court decision if they are deemed to be in disaccord with Germany’s fundamental law (the constitution). That is a huge change to the legal status of civil servants who, so far, could only be fired if it was proven in court that they oppose the constitution. With the new rule, that doesn’t need to be proven anymore. Allegations will be enough.
But spying on neighbours will not be limited to state organisations. Companies with at least 50 employees are ordered to create – at their own expense – ‘Meldestellen’ – (‘reporting offices’) were anyone can report anyone if they think they saw, heard or otherwise witnessed something improper. Not something illegal per se – citizens can report incidents that, although not illegal, and perhaps even protected by the fundamental right to freedom of speech, seem to show that someone is critical of Germany’s fundamental law. And that can be enough to fire any civil servant.Victims can fight the decision in court, but at their own expense.
Freedom of speech thus remains protected by the constitution. But if you exercise it, you may lose your job. Not just if you are a civil servant. Or why would the law include private companies? There, as well as in state organisations, ‘whistleblowers’ can denounce their colleagues ‘anonymously’. And from there on, the whistleblower cannot be fired, as long as the report is investigated.
Imagine you are a teacher, and that you dislike another teacher in your school – perhaps because you are also a leftwing activist, and the other comes across as rather conservative. Maybe he said something disparaging about the EU? Or the government? Or the gender debate? Just report him or her.
Or perhaps, in a private company, you envy the job of a colleague and would like it for yourself? Just report them. If you do this to harm someone, and untruthfully, the law to stipulates that you may be punished. But since accusers can remain anonymous, that may never be proven.
Or perhaps you fear that you are about to be laid off in your company for whatever reason? Just report on someone. From then on, until the matter is investigated, you cannot be fired.
Germany’s ‘basic law’ is a fine and fair-minded one. But interpretations can evolve over time. For instance, it prohibits discrimination based on ‘sex’. What the authors of the basic law meant by that was that there should be no discrimination between men and women. Nowadays, a new interpretation of that passage understands ‘sex’ to mean ‘gender’, although that is not legally settled. Now, imagine a colleague at work states that in his view, there are only two biological sexes, and that marriage should be for man and woman. Although that is a perfectly law-abiding view, he may now be reported for deviance from the constitution. This will not have to be proven in court: Some state administration official may decide that that person can no longer serve the state.
At private companies, employers may decide that they they do not want to be seen as a place with a corporate culture that tolerates criticism of ‘diversity’. Although the law says nothing about consequences for anyone deviating from what is regarded to be the spirit of the fundamental law, there may well be very serious consequences in real life.
Finally, for political parties, the law opens up new strategic options in their quest for political power. To pick a party at random, the Greens for instance could decide to strategically place activists in big companies and state institutions (or to activate those who are already there), and then proceed to report anyone who disagrees with them. The result might be a political cleansing of state institutions and big companies.
As for the ‘Rule of Law’, one of it’s conceptual pillars is the assumption of innocence ‘until proven guilty’. The German law turns that on its head: Although legally, you will still be presumed innocent, materially your existence can be destroyed of you are suspected of ‘wrong’ opinions.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Papers from the National Archive reveal that Tony Blair’s Principal Private Secretary wanted to introduce press regulation to force news publishing companies to be more ‘accurate’ when reporting on Government policy. Alarmingly, the official in question was Jeremy Heywood, who went on to become Head of the Civil Service. The Independent has more:
Writing in August 2001, Mr Heywood said: “I assume it is unthinkable to impose accuracy regulation on newspapers?
“No other industry would get away with the practice of making up stories that even our most serious newspapers indulge in.
“Is there no country in the world that has a successful model of newspaper regulation?”
Ed Richards, a policy adviser, warned against such a plan.
“Personally I think it is nigh on impossible to introduce controls on the newspapers of the kind that you propose (and probably suicidal to try),” he wrote back.
Frustration with the press was nothing new among Mr. Blair’s inner circle.
In a presentation to a Cabinet awayday in 1998, the former Prime Minister himself said: “We have a serious problem with a juvenile media.
“The smallest decisions can become big headlines. They refuse to report the substance of what you do.”
Needless to say, invoking ‘accuracy’ as an excuse to censor facts and opinions the state disapproves of is now ubiquitous across Western democracies, with ‘inaccurate’, i.e., inconvenient, content now branded ‘disinformation’. See the Twitter Files for chapter and verse.
Worth reading in full.
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A hero. A real doctor in a world gone insane. For all the risks of hurricanes, I think I’d move to Florida in a heartbeat if I could.
Slightly off-thread, but I was reminded of the following issue from the distant past, which I conjecture is present today in the US and UK.
[TL;DR: modern healthcare is dominated by politics and activist agenda rather than medicine]
Covid apart, fraud schemes involving anti-depressants, other interventions and protocols are well-known in the UK mental health services too, though the well-meaning people involved in them might find a justification for them, and indeed the fraud is minor in itself but has repercussions. In one hospital I was associated with (through visiting patients as a carers’ representative) there were issues over “ring-fencing” of government funding and protocols for treating severe depression. In essence, the physicians or finance directors found out, or concluded, that as a result of funding conditions they could only authorise and fund certain medication (e.g.cheap anti-depressants) or certain therapy (expensive Cognitive or Dialectical Behavioural Therapy) if they also ticked a box saying that in their opinion the depression was attributable to certain politically-associated causative agents, most relevantly “domestic emotional abuse”, “discrimination”, “bullying” and suchlike. (Politicians at the time were keen to use terms like “tackling workplace bullying” and “addressing the epidemic of domestic emotional violence” in their rhetoric.) Thinking they were working in the best interests of the patient and merely bending the rules a little, the physicians and administrators would collude to tick these boxes to keep the financial department and politicians happy and, usually, achieve a short-term (and often long-term) medical benefit. Unfortunately, in some cases (notably Dramatic Personality Disorder) the patients, often with distorted perception of their world, would see the “tick boxes” and use them as evidence to seek reparation from their ex-spouses, ex-employers for causing the depression, trying to use the ticks as evidence that a clinician supports the hypothesis of what causes the depressive behaviour, whereas the clinicians was merely bending the rules to obtain funding. Arguably, tick-boxing didn’t help the patient in the long term either, as it merely gave them an incorrect identification of the cause of their depressive behaviour, which they would then cling on to rather than seeking more accurate interventions. At least the lawyers made some money out of the practice!
Personal and professional integrity were quickly cast aside by too many in the face of financial incentives.
Thank goodness there were / are some true professionals who advocate for their patients and fellow humans.
https://tessa.substack.com/p/anthem-covid-19-vaccine-provider
Rotten ba#tards.
A cynic might note that they accidentally gave ALL the “vaccinated” a lower standard, by promoting a drug that was granted “Emergency Authorization Use”, and circumventing the normal protocol for brand new drugs. A proper risk and benefit analysis would be nice, at the very least.
Medical Apartheid justified by those who claimed to hate Racial Apartheid
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The medical profession has not covered itself in glory, and on not one, but three occasions.
[1] The medical professions showed open support for BLM an avowedly Marxist organisation that created an atmosphere to imply that only black lives mattered, as evidenced by of the radio presenter in the Isle of Man that lost his job because he said all lives matter, to give just one example
[2] The medical profession promoted lockdowns, masks and the mandating of unproven ‘vaccine’ therapies, with their unions championing governments to pay people to stay at home and not work. Now those same unions complain that inflation has devalued their pay packets.
[3] The medical profession prioritised Covid patients above all else so that Cancer patient’s care was suspended. And of course the example given above.
During any war it is expected that medics treat injured soldiers and civilians based on need and not who they are. Just one example is the famous story below from WW2. How far have we drifted form the following and why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrI1bB39PGs
Humanity in War: The Story of Two Medics on D-Day
The chilling thing about this is that so many perfectly lovely friends, relatives and family all went along with this. During the period when serious discussions were made about allowing unvaccinated to participate in society, I remember being a bit shocked at a perfectly reasonable friend thinking that it was not just OKay but actually justified to shut those of us who preferred not to take part in an experiment out of medical treatment/travel etc (or even restaurants in France).
It was, by far, the biggest outbreak of Mass Psychosis since the Medieval Witch Trials.
“Crimes the individual alone could never stand are freely committed by the group [smitten by madness].”
Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life
A “perfectly lovely” couple we know told us that all unvaccinated people should be imprisoned for endangering others …
i had the same thing happen to me, closest friends ,a sibling,cousins too.
i’m glad others like me here that i can read about so not feel so alone and wasn’t just me had this happen.chilling is good description .was like ww2 posters no parks no schools no restaurants no cinemas but they didn’t realize .still don’t.
These are bitter truths but it is always better to know and to remember. And the memories are going to be very poignant for many given their losses. This profession seems to think that it will always carry on unscathed. I have a feeling that this may not be the case given the awakening on a mass scale that has occurred in just the last two months. I would just ask them to repent of their actions it isn’t impossible. This has been a very fertile period in terms of cross-pollination of disciplines and the joining together of open minds. Before we lament our times we should imagine what it would be like if we didn’t have to go through them.
To read this article 3 years ago, one would assume one was reading a dystopian short story of the science fiction genre.
The sad reality is that I have witnessed very similar occurrences here in Australia.
And we don’t have a Florida to move to!
Good fiction is believable. This is unbelievable, sadly, but true. I was admitted to Royal Berks Hospital in 2021 and the lead physician in A&E was vitriolic, foaming at the mouth and shouting at me when I told him I was unvaccinated. He didn’t like that I had the temerity to tell him he had no right to advise me under his Hippocratic oath to take a clearly unsafe and ineffective treatment which he would know if he had read the trial data. He refused to treat me and passed me on to an underling. An unforgettable experience of the Covid era. Me and my family are happy and healthy. I wonder if he is?
He should have been up before the GMC and barred from practising. But he most likely got an award for following the narrative
Retaining your integrity and peace of mind is priceless.
Well done.
Dr James Miller should be seen as a beacon of truth, honesty and honour in a very faulty American medical system. I haven’t heard of any doctors with the same actions in the UK National Health system, but I suspect they may exist, although silenced by the system. After the extreme impact of Covid is over, I expect more situations like this will be discovered.