After Germany’s defeat in 1945, Walter Ulbricht returned from exile in Moscow to become one of the founding politicians of the DDR. The new state, he said, “must look democratic, but we must have everything under control”. It has been 80 years since Ulbricht spoke those words, and while the DDR has faded away, their spirit lives on in the political establishment of the Federal Republic. Our present rulers are doing everything in their power to re-establish pseudo-democracy in the West. This is not a mere Eugyppius exaggeration, and it is not sensationalism for internet clicks. It is what our politicians themselves are saying.
As in the DDR, we hear that these antidemocratic measures are necessary to protect us from the threat posed by the right. The truth is much more mundane: Germany has one of the oldest party systems in Europe. As has already happened in many other countries, this post-war establishment is coming apart. While our neighbours have endured the rise of new parties and political structures with some measure of equanimity, our cartel politicians in Germany are terrified of losing power, and they will use all the tools at their disposal to keep hold of it – up to and including the suspension of democracy itself.
Alternative für Deutschland find themselves in the targets of our nominally democratic priesthood not because they are extremely Right-wing, or racist, or xenophobic or anything like that. Politically, they’re hardly different from the CDU of the 1980s. Their real crime is having achieved enough strength to threaten the establishment ecosystem. The stronger AfD become, the harder it will prove for the reigning parties to form anti-AfD coalitions. Some of these parties, like the FDP, seem destined to disappear entirely; others, like the SPD, fear a future of permanent irrelevance. The once-dominant centre-right CDU, meanwhile, will find itself unable to form workable governments with partners on the Left, and thus without any excuse not to enact the mild nationalism that a clear majority of voters demand, and that is so deeply out of fashion with our globalist rulers.
This is the purpose of the unceasing, astroturfed agitation “against the Right” that the establishment have visited upon Germany for over a month now. The protests have not worked to destroy support for the AfD, so now they are being repurposed as a license to take enforcement action against “Right-wing extremism”. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) said at a press conference on Tuesday that the protests have given her both “encouragement” and a “mandate” to proceed against the Right. “This really is a very positive signal”, she said, “because it is about defending our open society against its enemies. As a democracy on the defence, we must stand up to the extremists.”
Faeser spoke these words in the course of announcing a range of measures via which she hopes to combat “Right-wing extremism”. These are also outlined in a 16-page Interior Ministry paper on ‘Resolutely Combating Right-Wing Extremism: Using the Instruments of Defensive Democracy’. Here, it is important to note that Faeser is among the most unpopular politicians in all of Germany. Last year she suffered a humiliating defeat in her effort to become Minister President of Hessen, and 60% of Germans view her unfavourably. That is powerful motivation to bring German democracy back under control. Her “package of measures” to combat “the Right” are some of the most openly antidemocratic, dictatorial policies I have ever seen any Western politician articulate. In other nations, these kinds of things are surely said behind closed doors, but in Germany they are printed in all the major papers. You can only imagine what these people contemplate in secret.
Faeser and her fellow political enforcers have such a wide-ranging, fluid understanding of what ‘Right-wing extremism’ constitutes, that the label can be deployed against basically anybody. The Interior Ministry paper claims that “The aim of Right-wing extremists is to abolish liberal democracy and reshape our society according to their nationalist, racist and anti-pluralist ideas.” You might think, “well, that’s okay then, I’m a pluralist liberal,” but that would be as naive as thinking you were safe from the Stasi because you were not a fascist. The same paper proceeds to complain that “the extremist… New Right… aims to discuss topics and use terms that give their inhuman plans a harmless appearance”. Translated from democratese: “There are people out there who are not saying anything illegal but they have made themselves inconvenient anyway.” The President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, likewise spoke at the press conference of the tendency of “Right-wing extremists” to “dress up and camouflage themselves”. They must “be unmasked and exposed… [as] enemies of our democracy”.
This construction of ‘Right-wing extremism’ as a cryptic, hidden quality that requires unveiling by the political police is unimaginably dangerous. You are never safe from a regime that thinks this way, because what you actually say, do or even believe doesn’t matter. You are guilty of ‘Right-wing extremism’ if Haldenwang’s office thinks you are. This flexibility is important, because the establishment are not actually interested in driving out zombie National Socialists. They want to neuter the political opposition, whatever its form or programme.
In what follows, therefore, you must remember that references to ‘Right-wing extremism’ are nothing but smears for political opponents. Likewise, resolutely uncharacterised and undefined references to ‘democracy’ refer to nothing more than the establishment party system. When Faeser says that “we want to smash… Right-wing extremist networks, we want to deprive them of their income, we want to take away their weapons”, she means that she wants to destroy and impoverish the people who disagree with her. When she says that “we want to use all the instruments of the rule of law to protect our democracy”, she means that she wants to use all the enforcement mechanisms available to the Interior Ministry to keep the opposition out of power.
Faeser, of course, was much more specific than that:
I would like to treat Right-wing extremist networks in the same way as organised crime. Those who mock the state must have to deal with a strong state, which means consistently prosecuting and investigating every offence. This can be done not only by the police, but also by the regulatory authorities such as the catering or business supervisory authorities. Our approach must be to leave no stone unturned when it comes to Right-wing extremists.
In the paper, too, there is much anger about the fact that “extremists… often mock the state and its institutions”. They must be taught to respect their betters, not only by police harassment, but by having their business and restaurant licenses revoked. The entire regulatory apparatus is to be repurposed for political enforcement.
The political police of the BfV must “intensify cooperation with state and local authorities”, which is another way of saying that they must more regularly inform local regulators of political misdeeds. Here it is not necessary that you be convicted of a specific crime to have your pub shut down. It is enough for the BfV simply to suspect you of ‘extremism’.
Faeser also wants to go after your bank account:
We must also uncover the financial links in Right-wing extremist networks, in order to deprive them of their income. This is the principle of ‘follow the money’. Operationally, we have significantly strengthened financial investigations at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Banks are already being sensitised. Financial structures are being analysed in detail, but we are coming up against legal limits. At present, financial investigations are limited to incitement to hatred and violence. That is not enough. I therefore want to amend the law to ensure that the potential threat is taken into account. This involves other factors such as potential for action and social influence. We also need to make procedures faster and less bureaucratic. No one who donates to a Right-wing extremist organisation should be able to rely on remaining undetected.
Faeser wants to change the law so that her Ministry can financially harass not only people who are suspected of “incitement to hatred and violence”, but also political opponents who merely exercise undue “social influence”. If you donate to an organisation that Faeser doesn’t like, she wants to publish your name and make you a target for state-affiliated paramilitary groups like Antifa. There is accordingly a great hue and cry from SPD and Green politicians to adopt their “Democracy Promotion Law”, which Renate Künast explicitly hopes will steer more funding to “Antifa groups” and other Left-wing NGOs, many of which are heavily involved in ideological enforcement on behalf of the state.
Faeser is also angry that the political opposition can travel:
We are just as determined to restrict the international networking of Right-wing extremists. Right-wing extremist hatred must neither be exported out of Germany nor imported into Germany. That is why we are working together with the relevant state authorities to prevent Right-wing extremists from travelling in and out of the country as far as possible.
It’s great to know that one day I might find myself forbidden to leave Germany because of something I posted on the internet. This is just absolutely nuts.
Faeser also has big dreams of More Internet Censorship. To combat “hate crime”, she hopes to expand the “central reporting centre” of the Federal Police, so that they can intervene more actively on social media and “ensure the deletion of channels and content that are used to spread truly disgusting hate speech”. She is also establishing “an internal detection unit” to identify not only “disinformation”, but also internet “influence campaigns… so that we can put a stop to them”:
German Right-wing extremists and foreign autocrats have something in common: they want to stir up anger and create divisions primarily through disinformation. This is done through lies, fake accounts and, in future, certainly even more so based on images or videos created using AI technology… That is why we are setting up a new early detection unit in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. We need to recognise manipulation and influence campaigns at a very early stage so that we can stop them.
After Faeser finished this long diatribe, the political-policeman-in-chief Haldenwang got to speak, and his words were just as disturbing. He demanded that we “rethink our approach” to “Right-wing extremism”, because the “phenomenon” is experiencing a “change”:
The boundaries between previously ideologically defined camps… are becoming blurred, making it difficult to localise them precisely.
The only thing that has changed is Haldenwang’s perspective. He has adopted an entirely new understanding of “Right-wing extremism”, namely one that embraces all non-establishment politics. When you begin to suspect one-fifth of your nation’s population of political crime, the boundaries indeed shift and it becomes quite hard to “localise” ideological malfeasance.
Halendwang is thus very worried about what people are thinking. The project, as he sees it, is not only combatting “the willingness to use violence”, but also addressing “shifting verbal and mental boundaries”. Yes, this man has indeed assumed responsibility for policing what people think:
Right-wing extremists make use of the fears and experiences of crisis among the population in order to radicalise the political fringes and spread their agenda to the middle classes. We must be careful not to allow such thought and speech patterns to become part of our language.
He’s also very disturbed that people on the “New Right” go to conferences and give speeches:
In the spectrum of the New Right, we see networking endeavours that extend beyond the small circle of Right-wing extremist intellectuals and also radiate into the parliamentary sphere. From there, there are established links at various levels to actors and organisations of other Right-wing extremists. These are structural connections within a strategically operating network. This network is characterised by reciprocal invitations to events, interviews and guest contributions for online formats and meetings in the real world.
To summarise: “Right-wing extremists” are a nebulous and difficult-to-identify population of political subverters, who must be unmasked by the political police. This is necessary to control prevailing “thought and speech patterns” in Germany. Once these extremists have been identified by our guardians of orthodoxy, they are to be punished for their mockery of the state, and the regulatory apparatus is to be repurposed to deprive them of everything from income to bank accounts. Their names are to be published so that they can be more easily intimidated and harassed by state-adjacent organisations for their political views, and they are to be prevented from crossing borders and from associating with each other. This is a direct summary of things that a sitting German Interior Minister and one of her top bureaucrats actually said at a national press conference four days ago.
If the establishment succeeds via these measures in quashing the opposition, the Federal Republic of Germany will develop a politics not unlike the bloc party system of the old DDR. The bloc parties were mere satellites that governed in nominal partnership with the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED), generally approving all SED proposals. While Germany would not have a clear ruling party like the SED, the freezing of the political ecosystem would formalise the present role of the Green Party as king-makers, and Green policies would become effectively impossible to vote against. This is clearly what our ruling establishment and the Green-adjacent state media hope to achieve.
To maintain such a system – and to make it resilient to undesirable electoral outcomes – it will prove necessary to insulate the political police from political oversight. Powerful people are already thinking about this, especially in the East, where AfD are so strong they have a serious chance of entering government after the September elections:
In view of the AfD’s possible electoral victory, [Stephan Kramer, head of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution], warned that the security interests of the Federal Republic could be affected in the Bundestag and state parliaments. Precautions are therefore required to protect secret information.
“For example, it would be worth considering whether we should subject elected officials who want to work in particularly sensitive areas to a security check,” Kramer said…“This must be regulated by law and, in my opinion, is more than appropriate given the security interests of the Federal Republic of Germany that are worth protecting.”
If the constitutional protectors are allowed to screen their own elected overseers, the transformation of Germany into a pseudo-democracy will be very nearly complete. The political police will select minders who are amenable to their enforcement programme, and thereby come to operate as semi-autonomous secret police. Establishment politicians, who depend upon the political police to keep the opposition at bay, will be inclined to expand their prerogatives to enforce the politics also of elected officials. The result will be a quiet coup that nobody quite notices until it is far too late to do anything about it.
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Thank you for the update on anti-democratic forces in the German establishment. We are seeing it here too but the different electoral systems mean the methods differ.
Its 1933 again…
Yes, the same year that the Ukrainian Holodomor starved 12 million Christians to death.
1933 wasn’t the year when the GDR state party built the wall against fascism (antifaschistischer Schutzwall) in Berlin.
The road to a healthier balance between the state and the people it is supposed to serve is a long one and far from certain, but stories like this give me. As with the Covid scam, it seems like the dark forces are overplaying their hand due to desperation or hubris. But the sun is shining and I’ve just had a large glass of red with my pork medallions so perhaps I’m not thinking straight.
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/farmers-take-over-kent-tesco-9106919
We have to support our farmers.
100%. We get all our meat from the local farm shop – they have their own beef and lamb and get the pork and poultry from nearby Suffolk. Eggs are local too. Milk from the milkman is further afield, but still England. A fair bit of our veg comes from our garden, plus apples, still eating blackberry jam from fruit picked locally last autumn. Lemons used in the homemade Limoncello come from abroad though – we’ll have to wait for global boiling before we can make 100% British Limoncello (and the bloody alcohol we use costs £££s here – all duty – cheap as chips in Europe so we have to import it when we go on holiday).
Very similar here tof.
Milk from the local farmer whose cattle graze within 100 yards of our house.
We had a bumper harvest of Victoria plums (50lb of one tree) two years ago and are still eating the jams and chutneys I made.
Our lamb products are from a local farm and they also supply our eggs. Chicken and turkey from a local producer. Beef products from the butcher at the bottom of the avenue, ditto pork.
We don’t buy supermarket meats.
Wild garlic will appear in March. The rhubarb is already up but not quite ready for picking and if I get organised I will be growing veg again this year.
And there will be no excuse for not collecting blackberries this year. Hopefully our blackcurrant bushes will put a crop up this year after two bad years.
I believe a greater degree of home production will become essential in the future. Assuming they don’t outlaw it.
Not seen wild garlic round here but I’m a city boy by origin so not sure what to look for. Sounds tasty though. I found wild strawberries once in Italy, never tasted anything so full of flavour.
“Assuming they don’t outlaw it.” This is a worry. There’s a chap on the Lockdown Sceptics Reddit who has a bought a good sized plot out in the sticks in Brazil, think he would be able to live off grid.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373842851625?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=5f08IoGRTWu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=-_y_2nlVSr-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=MORE
Hope this works.
Yes it does. You can eat all the plant. Dry it and save it.
When you find it you will smell it. Likes woodland and damp. Eat raw or cooked. It is gone by June but fabulous free food. I love it.
Thanks for that – will consult with Mrs ToF who is in charge of provisions.
https://letticeevents.com/london-foraging/#:~:text=Streatham%20Common%20has%20a%20wonderful,find%20beautiful%20shoots%20coming%20up.
“Foraging” – we might be reduced to that!
I did know people who knew places for mushrooms near London but I’d be too afraid to get it wrong.
Stay away from mushrooms tof unless you are with an expert. The wild garlic (Ransomes) are easy enough.
Please be very, very careful not to confuse wild garlic with the poisonous “Three-Cornered Garlic”, an invasive species from the Middle East that looks like white bluebells when in flower, leaves smell like garlic, and it has been destroying the native bluebell woods of England.
Thanks for the tip. Always impressed with the breadth of knowledge among the BTL commenters here.
Growing your own food is the next target:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/22/carbon-footprint-homegrown-food-allotment-increase/#:~:text=Growing%20your%20own%20food%20in,as%20rural%20farms%2C%20data%20show.
That figures – and huxleypiggles called it. Another conspiracy theory becomes fact.
Sounds idyllic!
Trying to live as well as possible is one way in which we defeat our enemies. They want us to be downtrodden and miserable.
Not a very pleasant woman at all, as I’ve previously shared. I think her and Dicktator Turdeau would get on like a house on fire. More here;
”Germany’s interior minister Nancy Faeser has demanded anyone supporting the farmer protests cease doing so, saying the movement was “poisoning” political discourse by pandering to “extremists”.
The interior minister — who this week launched government plans aimed at “smashing” the country’s growing political right — said those voicing support for recent disruptive anti-government protests were playing into the hands of populists.
“Anyone who verbally panders to radicals only strengthens the radicals that we have to fight together from the political centre,” she told the RND network — partly owned by Faeser’s own Sozialdemokratische Partei (SPD).”
But it’s when she says this that the pure lack of self-awareness ( or is it?? ) and hypocrisy becomes apparent;
“It is about defending our open society against its enemies. We must do everything we can to prevent this inhumane ideology from further eating into our society.”
Yes your ”open society”, with regards to your borders, is the exact problem and will be the downfall of your country, which is well on its way to being ‘Islamified’ so it’s probably too late anyway. You let in countless riffraff who milk the state and attack the German citizens and yet you have the gall to demonize people who are awake and challenge your policies as ”far-right extremists”?? It is these unchecked incomers that are the ”enemies”, the extremists are of the radical Islamist variety and they are the very ones you are guilty of ”pandering to”, so you’re the world’s biggest hypocrite with your double-standards because it’s sure as hell not the farmers, the opposition AfD and their supporters that you scapegoat who are the immediate threat to the populace, you ignorant, disgraceful woman!!
https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/farmer-protest-supporters-are-poisoning-political-discourse-antifa-minister-claims/
Who are the real ”enemies” that you’re pandering to, Mrs Woman, because it isn’t the poor, beleaguered farmers. The jury’s in. Maybe try looking at your own crime figures before mouthing off about people who ensure you have food to put on your table;
”Who is committing sexual assaults and rapes in Germany?
According to the latest statistics from German government, African and Afghan immigrants are 41x and 23x more likely to commit rape.”
https://twitter.com/Klaus_Arminius/status/1755239095402430654
Where have I heard the ideas of Faeser or Haldenwang before?
“For you must also understand this, my people’s comrades: No leader can use more strength than his followers give him! What am I without you? What you do not give me, I can never use for your own benefit! If you refuse me your unanimous unity, what should I do?! I am a single man, I can possess the best will. The will is not worth more to you than your will is worth to me! And that brings us to the problem of freedom! Freedom, yes! Insofar as the interest of the national community gives the individual freedom, it is given! Where the freedom affects or even impairs the interests of the national community, the freedom of the individual ceases! Then the freedom of the national community takes the place of the freedom of the individual!”
A. H. (1937)
Amazing that he even called them “comrades”.
Scratch a National Socialist and find a Stalinist beneath.
As Ayn Rand observed:
“Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme—collectivism.”
Insofar absolutely stupid statements go, this one is certainly on par with Evola’s conclusion that Nietzsche must have been some sort of communist.
Personally I think Rand is a more reliable observer than Evola considering here experiences. Why is it a stupid statement? Here is Nietzsche on the individual and this is the complete opposite of A.H’s ‘philosophy’ as well as Lenin and all the other collectivists.
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself”
Rand was a Russian woman of pretty limited education who wrote a couple of fairly bad books (I’ve read one of them – Anthem – and started to read the Fountainhead but didn’t complete it because it was just to unreadable and uninteresting, as I’m rather less fascinated by strong violent men than the author apparently was) and was – apart from that – mostly interested in applied adultery.
The enumeration is already stupid because what she calls nazism is German fascism, something which was widely popular in central Europe after its devastion by the western colonial powers (eg, Dollfuß in Austria). Socialism is a historical term referring to the German worker’s movement before the advent of Marxism. For instance, there used to be something called Christian socialism but obviously never Christian Marxism.
And then, Fascism and Marxism are diametrically opposed to each other in almost everything. Marxism is inherently international and against states, Fascism inherently national and stands in the European line of thinking which recognize the state as a superorgansim and really mankinds proudest achievement. Hegel articulated that in the 19th century but the same thoughts are already visible in speeches Thucydides rendered in the Peloponesian War almost almost 2300 years earlier.
Rands collectivism is basically just Both claim there’s something more important than the individual, that is, me and my sex life! This absolutely musn’t be! She just doesn’t want to be bothered with stuff she can neither eat nor have sex with, absolutely run-of-the-mill consumer society drone.
“She just doesn’t want to be bothered with stuff she can neither eat nor have sex with, absolutely run-of-the-mill consumer society drone.”
Sounds like most of Stalin’s Kremlin.
Of course he did. Because he was referring to his comrades from the Great War. That’s where the term really comes from, at least in Germany: Soldiers referring to fellow soldiers. The Marxists just nicked it from there. Or rather, the German Marxists where also addressing their comrades from the Great War as comrades.
Translating from the whitepaper her ghostwriters put together:
12) Combat Antisemitism
There has been a dramatic raise in the number of antisemitically motivated crimes since the crime against humanity committed by Hamas on 10/07/2023, mostly by muslims. However¹, antisemitic crime has been on the rise for years and most of them are committed by right-wing extremists. As society, we have a duty to oppose antisemitism firmly and to protect Jewresses and Jews² in Germany. Any attack on them is an attack on our open society.
Because of this, the federal government agreed on a “National strategy against antisemitism and for Jewish life” strategy at all levels of the state and society as a whole: Every club, every school and every company can peruse that to combat antisemitism in its very own environment.
The federal government has also increased its efforts to strengthen and publicize Jewish life in many areas. For instance, it raised the state grant to the central committee of Jews in Germany, which came into being due to a general agreement on 01/27/2003³, from 13 million Euro to 22 million Euro in 2023.
Yup. Literally Hitler. He could almost have written that himself.
¹ After having paid lip services to the current thing, Faeser switches back to the topic she really wants blather about in the next sentence.
² This doesn’t make much sense in English because English nouns aren’t gendered. But German ones are and this clumsy and overcomplicated style, which always causes the speaker to appear as if he was somehow not really alive is central to the way German government officials talk.
³ Implemented by the first Red-Green coalition in office around the turn of the millenium. Just as with the watering down of naturalisation law, Faeser basically just acts as more of the same copycat of her predecessors.
It was only after seeing a photo of Angela Merkel in her East German Youth Stasi uniform, and her relentless Open Borders policy, that I began to realise that the fall of the Berlin Wall we had all celebrated in the West just allowed the Communist East Germans to seize control of the whole of Germany.
These evil Closet Communists like Faeser and Haldenwang are just continuing Merkel’s Treason against the German people.
Meanwhile, here in the UK the treasonous Bozo was replaced by the equally treasonous Fishy.
Treasonous Teresa May beats the lot for treachery.
Shame on her imbecile constituents who keep re-electing her!
Whoops. Aye, that damned numpty was / is a wrong ‘un.
The C1984 “vaccines” and deaths.
Covid “vaccine” deaths in one year equivalent to all other vaccines in 33 years.
Bloody hell and that’s only up to 2021.
Exactly.
The question is though which Covid ‘Vaccine’? There were 28 developed around the world and if you include quality control issues of individual batches this adds further variables. Iran used 11 different ‘vaccines’/vaccines and that great genius Blaire said you can mix and match!!! This was the biggest unscientific blunder committed in the name of science since WW2.
There was no blunder. What occurred was deliberate.
Forget History and you repeat it.
I usually like Eugyppius articles, but this one seems a bit over the top to me. I’ve read Faeser’s whitepaper in German and it’s IMHO mostly electioneering, ie, lots of highfalutin talk and little else. Her specific plans are
Only the first and the last point really mean anything. The whole weapons stuff is essentially a gimmick which her voters are going to like (or so she hopes). Regarding the first point, her plan is obviously that the BfV will – in future – be allowed to spy on anyone the responsible officials consider an interesting target. OTOH, they’re certainly doing that already, anyway.
The basic message behind this is that this ‘lady’ believes firmly in the omnipotence of paper decrees regardless of what – if anything – these accomplish in practice and wants to “righten” the language of some of her favourite paper decrees.
Faeser is unpopular, can’t think why!
These same people are also sending vast amounts of money to a regime that has active real Nazi’s in its government and other ruling infrastructure, and its armed forces.