The following statement was made in court to the judge, prosecutor and the gallery during the author’s trial, at which he was acquitted last month. However, the prosecutor has appealed to overturn the acquittal, meaning the author is facing a second trial in an appeals court.
My name is C.J. Hopkins. I am an American playwright, author and political satirist. My plays have been produced and received critical acclaim internationally. My political satire and commentary is read by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. 20 years ago, I left my own country because of the fascistic atmosphere that had taken hold of the USA at that time, the time of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a war of aggression based on my Government’s lies. I emigrated to Germany and made a new life here in Berlin, because I believed that Germany, given its history, would be the last place on Earth to ever have anything to do with any form of totalitarianism again.
The gods have a strange sense of humor. This past week, thousands of people have been out in the streets all over Germany protesting against fascism, chanting “never again is now”. Many of these people spent the past three years, 2020 to 2023, unquestioningly obeying orders, parroting official propaganda and demonising anyone who dared to question the Government’s unconstitutional and authoritarian actions during the so-called Covid pandemic. Many of these same people, those who support Palestinian rights, are now shocked that the new form of totalitarianism they helped usher into existence is being turned against them.
And here I am, in criminal court in Berlin, accused of disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda in two Tweets about mask mandates. The German authorities have had my speech censored on the internet, and have damaged my reputation and income as an author. One of my books has been banned by Amazon in Germany. All this because I criticised the German authorities, because I mocked one of their decrees, because I pointed out one of their lies.
This turn of events would be absurdly comical if it were not so infuriating. I cannot adequately express how insulting it is to be forced to sit here and affirm my opposition to fascism. For over 30 years, I have written and spoken out against fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism etc. Anyone can do an internet search, find my books, read the reviews of my plays, read my essays, and discover who I am and what my political views are in two or three minutes. And yet I am accused by the German authorities of disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda. I am accused of doing this because I posted two tweets challenging the official Covid narrative and comparing the new, nascent form of totalitarianism that it has brought into being — i.e., the so-called ‘New Normal’ — to Nazi Germany.
Let me be very clear. In those two tweets, and in my essays throughout 2020 to 2022, and in my current essays, I have indeed compared the rise of this new form of totalitarianism to the rise of the best-known 20th-Century form of totalitarianism, i.e., Nazi Germany. I have made this comparison, and analysed the similarities and differences between these two forms of totalitarianism, over and over again. And I will continue to do so. I will continue to analyse and attempt to explain this new, emerging form of totalitarianism, and to oppose it, and warn my readers about it.
The two tweets at issue here feature a swastika covered by one of the medical masks that everyone was forced to wear in public during 2020 to 2022. That is the cover art of my book. The message conveyed by this artwork is clear. In Nazi Germany, the swastika was the symbol of conformity to the official ideology. During 2020 to 2022, the masks functioned as the symbol of conformity to a new official ideology. That was their purpose. Their purpose was to enforce people’s compliance with Government decrees and conformity to the official Covid-pandemic narrative, most of which has now been proven to have been propaganda and lies.
Mask mandates do not work against airborne viruses. This had been understood and acknowledged by medical experts for decades prior to the spring of 2020. It has now been proven to everyone and acknowledged by medical experts again. The science of mask mandates did not suddenly change in March of 2020. The official narrative changed. The official ideology changed. The official ‘reality’ changed. Karl Lauterbach was absolutely correct when he said, “The masks always send out a signal.” They signal they sent out from 2020 to 2022 was, “I conform. I do not ask questions. I obey orders.”
That is not how democratic societies function. That is how totalitarian systems function.
Not every form of totalitarianism is the same, but they share common hallmarks. Forcing people to display symbols of conformity to official ideology is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Declaring a ‘state of emergency’ and revoking constitutional rights for no justifiable reason is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Banning protests against Government decrees is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Inundating the public with lies and propaganda designed to terrify people into mindless obedience is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Segregating societies is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Censoring dissent is a hallmark of totalitarianism. Stripping people of their jobs because they refuse to conform to official ideology is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Fomenting mass hatred of a ‘scapegoat’ class of people is a hallmark of totalitarianism. Demonising critics of the official ideology is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Instrumentalising the law to punish dissidents and make examples of critics of the authorities is a hallmark of totalitarianism.
I have documented the emergence of all these hallmarks of totalitarianism in societies throughout the West — including but not limited to Germany — since March of 2020. I will continue to do so. I will continue to warn readers about this new, emerging form of totalitarianism and attempt to understand it, and oppose it. I will compare this new form of totalitarianism to earlier forms of totalitarianism, and specifically to Nazi Germany, whenever it is appropriate and contributes to our understanding of current events. That is my job as a political satirist and commentator, and as an author, and my responsibility as a human being.
The German authorities can punish me for doing that. You have the power to do that. You can make an example of me. You can fine me. You can imprison me. You can ban my books. You can censor my content on the internet, which you have done. You can defame me, and damage my income and reputation as an author, as you have done. You can demonise me as a “conspiracy theorist”, as an “anti-vaxxer”, a “Covid denier”, an “idiot” and an “extremist”, which you have done. You can haul me into criminal court and make me sit here, in Germany, in front of my wife, who is Jewish, and deny that I am an antisemite who wants to relativise the Holocaust. You have the power to do all these things.
However, I hope that you will at least have the integrity to call this what it is, and not hide behind false accusations that I am somehow supporting the Nazis by comparing the rise of a new form of totalitarianism to the rise of an earlier totalitarian system, one that took hold of and ultimately destroyed this country in the 20th century, and murdered millions in the process, because too few Germans had the courage to stand up and oppose it when it first began. I hope that you will at least have the integrity to not pretend that you actually believe I am disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda, when you know very well that is not what I am doing.
No one with any integrity believes that is what I am doing. No one with any integrity believes that is what my tweets in 2022 were doing. Every journalist that has covered my case, everyone in this courtroom, understands what this prosecution is actually about. It has nothing to do with punishing people who actually disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda. It is about punishing dissent, and making an example of dissidents in order to intimidate others into silence.
That is not how democratic nations function. That is how totalitarian systems function.
What I hope even more is that this court will put an end to this prosecution, and apply the law fairly, and not allow it to be used as a pretext to punish people like me who criticise Government dictates, people who expose the lies of Government officials, people who refuse to deny facts, who refuse to perform absurd rituals of obedience on command, who refuse to unquestioningly follow orders.
Because the issue here is much larger and much more important than my little ‘tweet’ case.
We are, once again, at a crossroads. Not just here in Germany, but throughout the West. People went a little crazy, a little fascist, during the so-called Covid pandemic. And now, here we are. There are two roads ahead. We have to choose – you, me, all of us. One road leads back to the rule of law, to democratic principles. The other road leads to authoritarianism, to societies where authorities rule by decree, and force, and twist the law into anything they want, and dictate what is and isn’t reality, and abuse their power to silence anyone who disagrees with them.
That is the road to totalitarianism. We have been down that road before. Please, let’s not do it again.
C.J. Hopkins is an internationally acclaimed playwright, author and political satirist. He writes on Substack.
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That top article is complete horsepoo. What it translates as is; ”1/5 of Brits weren’t daft enough to get a test to see if they had a specific cold virus, and especially not if they had no symptoms at all.”
Everyone will have had exposure to the damn thing by now, even if they were completely unaware of it. We’re over 3 years in FGS. Next!
My thoughts exactly Mogs. I will never have a test. If sticking a piece of bamboo into my brain passes for medicine they can stick it.
In August 2021 I was somewhat poorly with ‘flu-like symptoms for over ten days. So what laid me low? It is probably significant that I fell ill about four days after attending a large family gathering in which the vast majority were jabbed up so it’s a certainty that is where my infection came from – but I can’t say it was the C1984.
The population now has definitely been exposed to whatever bug might have been circulating so I agree:
“That top article is complete horsepoo.”
This is what happens when you give common colds and flu ‘special’ names LOL…!
Who knew so many would fall for the trick? That if you called a common respiratory virus Tom, Dick or Convid..it could take on special powers and elevate it to some higher level of consciousness that would fool the World?
The very same common virus, know about for thousands of years, and which all of mankind has always suffered from, and always will…..It’s a bit of evil genius really!!
“…even if they were completely unaware of it”?
This presupposes the existence of symptom-free Covid. Now we know there’s something odd about this virus compared to all previous respiratory pathogens, such as its transmission via aerosols. But other than a faulty PCR test, there’s nothing at all to substantiate that you can be a symptom-free “carrier” of Covid. Anyone I’ve ever known to test positive for Covid has felt shite for at least a week!
It’s clear to me that many many people are only testing AFTER the onset of specific symptoms. Many may test routinely also, but for instance in hospital workers who have to test every day, probability law dictates that there will be a high number of false positives generated, and these will be from those who test positive but feel completely fine (as in they don’t really have Covid. 1/5 of Brits sounds like a reasonable estimate.
A very good 15min excerpt on Joel Smalley’s ‘stack of a Jessica Rose interview, talking mainly about the jabs, VAERS and touching on lockdown harms. I’d like to watch the full thing though as he’s butchered the editing somewhat and Jessica is always a quality guest because she’s all about the data.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/necessary-safe-and-effective-expert
I agree, she’s always on the ball….but it’s never good news!!
She is reporting more bad news on the jabs in this article….
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/contamination-with-antibioticspike
Anandamide has published a Substack today that everybody needs to understand. The gist of the findings following sequencing of the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 products is that there is a high level of dsDNA contamination in the Pfizer products. This dsDNA contamination is in the form of circular expression vectors containing a spike gene and two antibiotic resistance genes for kanamycin and neomycin.
LOL I posted this earlier on the excess deaths article. We move in the same circles, me and you.
And while I’m on the theme of the Mail running crappy articles, apparently a study in the US demonstrates the non-death jabbed are more likely to get diabetes. Make of this what you will;
”Dr Alan Kwan, a cardiologist who led the study, said: ‘These results suggest that Covid vaccination prior to infection may provide a protective effect against diabetes risk.
‘Although further studies are needed to validate this hypothesis, we remain steadfast in our belief that Covid vaccination remains an important tool in protecting against Covid and the still-uncertain risks that people may experience during the post-infection period.”’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11749827/Now-scientists-claim-youre-likely-develop-DIABETES-youre-unvaccinated-against-Covid.html
I saw that. The comments section is encouraging.
No one buys this. The entire premise is so farcical, it makes the author look like a slavish dolt.
Do they bother with editors concerned with ludicrous claims on DM?
Eh, probably not actually…
Yes I had a quick peruse and thought so too, which is heartening. And who can take any doctor who is allegedly ”doing science” seriously if they say; ”we remain steadfast in our belief..” re the death jabs? I mean, that doesn’t sound like a man of science at all to me, it sounds like a science-denier who’s clinging onto the last wooden plank from his boat to save himself from drowning as his house of cards that he’s wedded himself to thus far has tumbled down. ”belief”?! He also sounds like a right flaming shill. Wonder what his conflicts of interest are if I could be bothered to check…The bioweapon jabs are just a faith-based system of dangerous lies, and I’m willing to bet he’s a bloody masktard to boot! As ever I’ll defer to legit cardiologists and await Drs McCullough and Malhotra’s opinion on this study’s findings.
And in other news –
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9107966/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dme.14631
Ha, yes exactly. Good find. I thought this topic of diabetes emerging post-jab seemed familiar. I saw it on Dr McCullough’s substack recently. I think he’s citing a different paper to yours;
”It has been said we are in a chronic disease epidemic of diabetes mellitus. Before COVID-19, approximately 10% of diabetes was juvenile Type 1, which is an auto-immune illness characterized by auto-antibodies against pancreatic islet cells. The remaining 90% is adult onset type 2 diabetes characterized by lifelong excess in adiposity and insulin resistance. Mass vaccination with mRNA and adenoviral DNA vaccines may change the epidemiology of diabetes as we know it. There are several papers emerging concerning new onset diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis after taking a COVID-19 shot. Moon and colleagues reported a well characterized case of new onset type 1 diabetes in an adult temporally related to COVID-19 vaccination.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/new-onset-type-1-diabetes-after-covid
“Cancel the Vikings” – Rod Liddle in the Spectator wonders what took them so long to realise the “Vikings may have been a bit right-of-centre and therefore ripe for a spot of cancelling”.
It’s an excellent point. Television is awash with romanticising the blood, gore, rape and pillaging committed by the Vikings. Compare their portrayal to that of the evil English imperialists spreading Western infrastructure and culture.
I am English and proud to be.
I know it’s Rob Liddle so not meant to be taken seriously, but calling the Vikings ‘right wing’ is as ahistorical as saying Edward II was gay, purely projection of current prejudices back into history. I suppose romanticising them is just as bad really but Up Helly Aa looks like fun.
The Vikings didn’t even have a left or a right, they were seafarers, raiders, warriors, farmers and fishermen (not fisherthem!). Must we always attach these political attributes to explain behaviour from the past. It’s so dull. I imagine I would be described as a far right white supremacist just because I didn’t want an effin’ jab, don’t believe in the climate hype, want the mass immigration to stop, don’t believe the msm Ukraine narrative and I’m proud to call myself English and more but I’m just an ordinary fella…
Yep, we’re definitely on the same page Aethelred.
What is the point of the Sy Hersh story ATL…? It has no information that the original, which was already posted, didn’t have?
I’ll repost this, as I posted it later last night…(a re-tweet from El Gato Malo….)
BREAKING: A @Dept of Defense Source Speaking On The Condition Of Anonymity Told Me Details Of How @Joe Biden Ordered The Nordstream Pipelines Destroyed In June But Then Got Nervous & Changed Orders To PLACE THE BOMBS But Make Them Capable Of Later Detonation.
He DID NOT Inform Germany But DID Inform Norway Sweden and Denmark.
The CIA Informed Joe Biden Our Navy Had A Way To Place Bombs On Pipelines & Use A Raytheon Air Dropped Sonar Trigger At A Later Time.
The Navy Had Concerns That A Long Delay Between Placing The Explosives (C-4) & Detonating With A Sonar Drop Buoy Would Cause A Bomb Failure…
https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1626078491560099840
As I said yesterday, I don’t know who this man is, or whether he’s a know reliable source..but then again there have been smears against the Pulitzer Prize winning Hersh……but obviously this story is still running…
This is curious….I haven’t read this anywhere….so are they dropping the ‘quackcine’ quietly?? Not entirely sure what to make of it….
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/find-a-walk-in-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-site/
…but it contains this …
Changes to coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine booster doses. After 12 February 2023 you will not be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose.
Some people who are at increased risk, for example because of age or certain medical conditions, may be offered a seasonal booster later this year. If you are eligible for this, the NHS will contact you when it’s your turn to get vaccinated.
If you follow the link you can find out walk-in-centres in your area…my area shown none at all…..!
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1626206903209717761
It’s funny, but worrying.
….genuinely hard to believe the position that utter moron holds…When will I wake up!?
I think the Veep is high as a kite most of the time. I mean this isn’t normal behaviour. She would be better off as a primary school teacher and removed well away from the levers of power.
Still no DS article on the Ohio poison death cloud? Where’s Greta when you want her?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohios-apocalyptic-chemical-disaster-rages
Enjoying her stolen childhood I think…how dare she!
Re the Florida Surgeon General story ATL..this is a more expensive overview from Dr Robert Malone ….
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/warning-florida-department-of-health?sd=pf
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/17/russia-to-introduce-digital-identity-cards/
Russia pushing Digital ID.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/16/discuss-so-whats-with-the-chemical-spills/
An update on the latest US train derailments. They are now more common than varieties of Billy’s viruses.
Short read.
According to Politifact, there are roughly 1000 train derailments in the US each year, so 5 inside a month is not unusual.
WTbloodyF!! 1000 train derailments? How? Why? I mean that is one heck of a lotta trains going horizontal. Imagine if that was over here, there’d be a massive outcry or some sort of reaction other than ‘Oh it’s just another of those pesky train derailments…lucky it ain’t nuclear waste! Ho hum’. !!!!!
LOL!….
https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf
A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10.
The club—the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)—is not pointing fingers yet.
But the circumstantial evidence is at least intriguing. The club’s silver-coated, party-style, “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool—the HYSPLIT model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon Territory on Feb. 11. That is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same general area.
In the interest of safety and security, HOLD THAT HANDRAIL!!
Have you seen the list of uk hotels full of illegals !! No way back soon ! What’s it all really for ??