Look, I know I owe you varied topics, and I promise to deliver on that soon. I’m working on a longer piece about the decay of Green environmentalism, and I also want to write about the strange politics of Germany as an expression of our peculiarly uniform middle-class society. But, for the moment, I just can’t tear my eyes away from the insanity that is attending our elections. The AfD is holding strong above 20% and the CDU is having trouble breaking free of 30%. The writing is on the wall: whatever Government comes out of this is going to be a godforsaken mess. Our rulers knows this too, and they are losing their minds. The collective hysteria and repressive zeal is exceeding last year’s unprecedented panic about ThE RiGHt, which is really saying something.
These stories keep coming so fast and heavy that I can’t keep track of them all, so I am inaugurating a new series with regular updates until everybody calms the f**k down, or (I guess) until they turn off the internet in Germany – which sounds crazy, but every day things get more extreme here. For lack of a better term, I’ll call this series the German Political Insanity Update, and I’ll try to produce an instalment at least once a week.
Today we have the Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution declaring that criticism of public media is a “danger to democracy”. That matters; this man is among the top political enforcers and domestic intelligence chiefs in the country. We also have Nancy Faeser’s Interior Ministry sending a threatening memorandum to all federal police officers, warning them that active membership in “confirmed Right-wing extreme” groups – like specific regional chapters of Alternative für Deutschland – could constitute professional misconduct and warrant dismissal. She goes further, declaring that the state will not tolerate its civil servants joining any “extreme Right-wing”, “racist” or “anti-human” group, vastly exceeding the bounds of her authority. We have the Green Party Chancellor Candidate Robert Habeck calling Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg “autocrats” and comparing them to the Communist Party of China. These are not idle words from some crazy man; Habeck will very likely have a Cabinet position in the next Government, and it’s not wholly inconceivable that Germany ends trying to ban Facebook or X at some point. We even have bizarre “experts” on state media calling for the Government regulation of internet memes. Internet memes!
And then, finally, we have this story from the state of Hessen, confirming that our constitutional protectors are turning their sights towards the project of repressing internet speech in general. The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hessen – under Interior Minister Roman Poseck (CDU) – has formed “a temporary organisational division” to “analyse information and coordinate measures” regarding the “opinions” that “accumulate on social media platforms”. This new taskforce will combine agents from the counter-espionage and political extremism divisions of state domestic intelligence, for the purpose of fortifying the federal elections in Hessen. In his statement, Poseck voiced the particular anxiety that “social media platforms” provide access to “unfiltered” opinions. Apparently his office hopes to filter more of them.
More from Poseck’s statement, issued on Monday (emphasis mine):
In the digital world, fake news is spreading faster than ever before – especially on social media. Opinions accumulate on social media platforms, some of them unfiltered, including targeted fake news. … Disinformation is a major problem, especially during elections. Foreign actors try to influence elections and democratic processes, thereby undermining trust in institutions and democratic forces. This can poison the political climate and deepen divisions within society. Disinformation can influence voting decisions; the effects of disinformation can therefore be devastating for our democracy. …
Russia is deliberately using disinformation… to influence international public opinion and undermine the credibility of the Ukrainian and other governments. Similarly serious was the flood of false claims surrounding the U.S. Presidential elections, which caused lasting damage to trust in democratic processes. The current interference in European political debate by Elon Musk, who heads the platform X, is a cause for concern. The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, that Facebook and Instagram would no longer fact-check is also a bad sign. …
Fake news and manipulation endanger social cohesion. It is clear that the fight against disinformation requires joint efforts by the EU, the federal government, the federal states, social media platform operators and society.
It is the same noxious and deeply dishonest argument we have heard since 2016. The inconvenient political opinions of the rabble are reconstructed as “targeted fake news,” “manipulation” and “disinformation” proceeding from a rotating cast of villains from other countries – presently the ominous Putin-Musk-Zuckerberg triad. In this way, our politicians conflate their own people with foreign enemies and seek to deprive their citizens of the right to free political expression under the cover of maintaining “social cohesion” and defending “our democracy”. These lunatics would like nothing so much as to shut down the entire internet, which is an enormous thorn in their side – not because Musk has occasional conversations with blacklisted German political personalities on X, but because it has given millions of ordinary people a voice. We’re not supposed to have a voice, we’re supposed to shut up.
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Haven’t they heard the saying about when you stare so hard into the abyss etc. Speaking of auotcrats, just heard this morning how Biden is warning about Western Oligarchs’ so now they’re noticing, wonder what took them so long!
It seems unlikely police officers are actually going to be sacked purely for being a member of the AfD;
”According to a report from German newspaper Junge Freiheit published yesterday, all officers are being threatened with dismissal for their membership in the Alternative for Germany (AfD). However, it remains unclear whether the police will actually proceed with such dismissals.
The internal memo leaked to Junge Freiheit states that employees working for the police “in a party classified as definitely right-wing extremist” brought up questions of loyalty to the constitution.
In essence, threatening dismissal from the police simply because they are AfD members appears to be illegal under the German constitution. Even the fact that a party is determined to be “definitely right-wing extremist” is not necessarily a condition for dismissal unless there are other factors at work. At least according to the standard stipulated by Boehme-Neßler, a ban is necessary first.
While German politicians are working towards a ban, such an action could be years away, if it ever comes to pass at all. The AfD is currently polling at 22 percent and is the second most popular party in the country.”
https://rmx.news/article/will-the-german-police-really-fire-all-its-afd-members/
Insofar I remember this correctly, disciplinary law for German civil servants (Beamte¹) was recently, some time last year, changed to do away with a court-based procedure for such dismissals in favor of the responsible minister just dismissing whomever he or she doesn’t like by decree. If this is correct, Faeser can indeed just dismiss such civil servants for any reason of her choosing and the only redress is to have the changed law declared void because it doesn’t conform to the German basic law in some respect. This means she can at least issue very credible threats. It’s going to be cold comfort to someone who’s dismissed now that he’ll eventually be reinstated years later.
¹ Not really comparable to the British civil service because Beamter isn’t really a job. These people swear an oath of loyalty to the state and are principally required to do whatever their political superiors order them to do. In return for that, the state takes on responsibility for maintaining them “in an appropriate station” for the remainder of their lives.
Seems you’re not very forthcoming in sharing the evidence I asked you to provide in support of your libelous accusations that I’m a ”covert paedophile” and a ”pervert”. Or did you honestly expect me to let it go? An excerpt of your comment to refresh your memory, because there’s nothing wrong with mine;
RW
1 day ago
Reply to Mogwai
”I’m not usually given to violence but I’ve long since resovled that should some covert paedophile – like you – ever dare to try to absolve himself of his/ her perverted desires by projecting them onto me, violence would be the only appropriate answer to that. Hence, consider yourself extremely lucky that you’re using the internet to spread these lies about me you very well know to be lies because I’ve pointed out that your claim about the content of my statements is wrong numerous times.
I’m opposed to peverts like you trying to pizzagate this story because of the real-world harm this causes.”
Still keeping up the lies? Please see my reply of yesterday for a detailed explanation. Apart from that, I’m using the same heuristic for both paedophile and gay — people who keep bringing up either … well … preference in contexts it really doesn’t belong into (like Pakistani crime gangs organizing illegal teenage prostitution in English cities) certainly show a strange infatuation with the topic.
You’ve also referred to me as nonce for pointing out that biological development of the human body, specifically, puberty, doesn’t necessarily correlate with essentially random national age of consent laws, or, more simpy put, that teenagers of either sex are going to have sex – voluntarily – once their bodies are biologically sufficiently developed for them to desire to have sex.
Lastly, you’ve claimed that I was trying to dehumanize girls by pointing out that other people had forced them into illegal prostitution, a particularly idiotic claim.
Insofar you want to enhance your appaerance as a malicious troll with a strange infatuation with paedophilia even further, just keep on digging.
What’s hilarious is that the only person demonstrating the fact they’re lying is yourself. See how you can’t even bring yourself to call them what they literally are: Pakistani child rape gangs. And why on earth would the word ”paedophile” be out of context here, given that there were girls as young as 11yrs old ( of which I cited an example, but you ignored that, didn’t you? ) being raped by multiple men? But in your comment you stated that it was all ”drama” because this did not concern children and it did not concern rape because they were ”sexually mature women” and you reduced them to prostitutes and that the blatant sex abuse was ”consenual”. Anyone can go back and fact check me, I’ve done enough cutting and pasting.
Since when is a 12yr old girl a ”sexually mature woman”? Of course this gives off massive red flags. You are literally attempting to rebrand what is indisputably a massive sex abuse scandal as ”teenage prostitution”. But apparently, because literally everybody is talking about this now ( all over the world, thanks to much interest from Musk on Twitter ) due to a resurgence of interest since court documents and judge’s comments have been released online, subsequently going viral, I guess by your ‘logic’ millions of people must also qualify as being ”malicious trolls” due to our ”infatuation”, right?? I mean, have you actually heard yourself? Anybody talking about the biggest national shame in the UK is a ”malicious troll” or a ”paedophile” because they give a shit about child protection issues and talk about something topical which is in the news every single day, because we want to see these predators and their protectors brought to justice? You couldn’t make any sense if your life depended on it, could you?
You just keep repeating the same nonsense you’re posting all the time. I don’t quite get how you came to believe teenage prostitution – a crime in the UK – could be something other than a massive sex abuse scandal. However, I don’t subscribe to this weird theory of yours. Teenage prostitution is sexual abuse and is criminal and is something that’s morally absolutely repellent. That the non-existent child rapists you keep phantasizing about weren’t involved with this because they never existed is completely independent of that.
We’re already at the point where politically interested circles are claiming that this sex scandal never occurred and was just a “right wing conspiracy theory” and that’s due to people like you who are apparently using this opportunity to recycle the old pizzagate story¹ and everybody knows that was nonsense back than and is still nonsense now. The people behind this are interested in young women because these are easier to ensnare and operate with complete disregard for UK consent laws. But they’re not paedophiles, ie, people sexually attracted to biological children, humans being who haven’t gone through puberty yet. That’s something different².
¹ Basically, Hillary Clinton and her associates operating a secret child sex and child mutilation ring from a certain pizzeria in Washington (IIRC).
² The singer of the Welsh rock band Lost Prophets was a paedophile. He seduced women with toddlers in order to let them abuse these sexually. That’s something altogether more evil than someone having sex with a 15 year old who may not yet legally consent to that³.
³ Coming to think of that, what told you that me claiming that this happens and shouldn’t be called child rape – see ² above – means I would want to do it? I’m generally extremely uncomfortable with any physical contact to other people and always try to avoid it.
After reading your posts, the only conclusion I can come up with is that you are, in fact, a paedophile, just like the depraved paedo on here Ron Smith, but you try to hide it behind a lot of clever wording, like an octopus squirting out ink.
Thank you. At last, somebody with a backbone not afraid to speak up and say it like it is. I’ve gotten so used to it just being ‘me, myself and I’ around here all the time.
Yes, you are right, but it’s not fair to blame all men for what the perverts say, think and do.
But I never ever stated “all men”, and I should think my extensive posting on this matter makes it abundantly clear who I’m referring to. But if *some men* wish to take offence and claim victimhood then I can’t help them. What’s not fair is misconstruing somebody’s posts because it suits your agenda to blame them for something they never said.
Listen mate, you said the same yesterday but I chose to ignore you. I find teens attractive but have pointed out studies that call into question the assumed ‘harms’ of CSA that also covers around puberty. Even if I was a pedo, just calling me one doesn’t win the argument. It is a sexual preference that is illegal to ‘act’ on, but it is not illegal to be one.
It is a sexual orientation, not an ‘act’.
FALSE! You said some time ago, after you had given many hints of sympathising with paedophiles in various comments, when I asked you outright if you supported paedophilia, that you had read a lot about the “sexuality of children”, named various “researchers” and were convinced about it all, etc. YOU WEREN’T TALKING ABOUT TEENS.
Typical excuse of Paedophiles: BLAME HELPLESS INNOCENT CHILDREN for being TRAINED BY PERVERTS to respond sexually to adults, so that the adults can then point to the groomed, sexualised children and say, “Look at the infant/ toddler/ child showing sexual behaviour and tempting adults!!! You see? We perverts were right all along, and the kid is CONSENTING!!!”
You can STUFF YOUR SOPHISTRY.
And your sickening perversion.
SHAME on you and all your kind !!!
In my view, anyone who defends a paedophile deserves hanging right alongside him. Or her!
And it’s also disgusting to see old men and women lusting after teenagers.
Heroic Jewish Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg summed it up best, when he shouted at a high-ranking rabbi he had caught raping a little boy in the ritual baths at the synagogue. He said,
“STOP! YOU ARE STEALING THAT CHILD’S SOUL !!! “
Ron Smith would be welcome in Afghanistan, where he would agree with the hideous men that these little boys are “tempting” them, and should be blamed. Who taught these little sex slaves to do that, by beating and raping and starving them until they “learned” it? Their Slave-owners.
David Atherton on X: “In Afghanistan young boys are sold by their families to more affluent men. In a practice called “bacha bazi” meaning “boy play”, they dance for the men & afterwards they are raped. https://t.co/dmSv3XDJeS” / X
Well well well, DS does, in fact, harbour a bunch of ‘MAPs’/paedo-sympathizing, rape-apologist men who are adamant in both denying rape took place, because it was all just actually prostitution that was consensual, and that it definitely wasn’t children that were harmed given that these girls were “sexually mature women”;
“That the non-existent child rapists you keep phantasizing about weren’t involved with this because they never existed is completely independent of that.”
All of us speaking out against this abhorrent crime are all just “infatuated” ‘fantasists’, and by virtue of the fact, “perverts” and “paedophiles” ourselves. So by your warped world view ( and that of your delusional mates ) Tommy Robinson must be an infatuated paedo/pervert. Elon Musk, posting about this regularly, must be an infatuated pervert. Campaigner Maggie Oliver is an infatuated paedo. Rupert Lowe MP, posting daily about deporting rapist scum, he’s obviously an infatuated paedo pervert. Everybodys ‘fantasising’, apart from yourself, right?Yes, anyone speaking out about the reality of child rapists, of the Pakistani gang variety, are themselves “perverts” and “infatuated paedophiles”, according to your ‘logic’, and your deranged chums, it would seem. That is what you’ve just stated, after all.
Tommy Robinson, the infamous far-right, infatuated, paedophile, pervert fantasist…I always knew there was something off about him.
They are just itching to break into the house of any AFD member with armed officers, just like they did with that German Dr while he was doing a live podcast in 2020. Some months later, he was dead.
This outrage shows yet again that the Fall of the Berlin Wall we all celebrated in the West was just a trick to allow Communist East Germany to take over the Western Democracy that was West Germany.
The irony is that support for AfD is at its strongest in East Germany but then they have had experience of communism.
The best solution for Germany would be for the East to seperate from the West and be run under AfD.
It won’t happen because the Germans have no idea what is going on in their own Country and unless Musk can rally the young to vote then they are finished.
The future for Germany is bleak if a moron such as Habeck remains a minister in the next government, if they are capable of forming one. In the meantime, German industry collapses a bit more.
Can’t call him a moron without running the risk of arrest/prosecution – applies only in Germany.
For now….
Very well said…these arguments are the same all over and are basically the Globalists talking points…they are obviously terrified of being booted out of power in yet another country, due to their ruinous policies and are now resorting to telling us white is black and black is white…..That they even attacking Zuckerberg, is astounding….they are clearly beyond reason and thus very, very dangerous.
I’m starting to understand how the Nazis came to power.
The establishment k ows that any form of free speech is dangerous to them so they try to close it down, other than for themselves of course. However, the game is up and those outside of Germany will point and state ‘The Emperor has no clothes ‘. The result will be still more votes for the right of centre political parties. The establishment is stuck. Whether they allow free speech or not, this is only going one way and it is the way of their demise.
I hope you are right.
Membership of the BNP was made a sackable gross misconduct offence during my police career. It didn’t affect me directly but I did think it was an outrageous infringement of liberty. Being a member of the BNP doesn’t make you a racist copper, or a racist anything. Your actions and human interactions are what make you a racist, in the same way that telling a racist joke doesn’t make you a racist, or telling a sexist joke doesn’t make you a sexist or misogynist.
I have no doubt that if they could have sacked you for voting BNP, they would have done. There were/are some who thought UKIP was a racist party, and who would happily have banned membership of that that party also.
Ban… Ban… Ban…. the mentality of The Left.
I wonder if that was because the evil Communist Subversive “COMMON PURPOSE” has long infiltrated the police and all levels of government, as exposed by retired Royal Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Gerrish of the UK Column website.
He pointed out that their motto, which they taught to civil servants under David Cameron in “Leadership Courses” was “Go Beyond Authority”.
Isn’t it more than coincidental that whatever is spoken by the WEF at Davos immediately becomes the focus for the majority of western leaders in the following year. Last years focus was on the control of information it being as one “leader’ I think it was Von der Layen saying it was the biggest threat to the world. What they really meant was its the biggest threat to their positions. So I conclude that the WEF is the unelected world Government, a bunch of self serving autocrats with misanthropy as one of their key attributes. I would contradict Von Der Layen and say that the WEF and its members are the biggest threat to the world and the annual meeting at Davos is nothing less than the conference for the worlds biggest terrorist groups. It is an organisation that should be investigated and banned. In my opinion.
You are spot on about the evil World Economic Forum, like that photo of Olukemi Olufunto posing between two WEF leaders at the WEF.
It is they who are trying to force her upon the British people as the PM nobody wants.
The totalitarian play book is identical. All you do is swap out the ‘threat of the Jews’ with the ‘threat of the far right’ and you’ve got the same textbook autocracy.
Using Nazis to justify becoming Nazis.
Fake news, dis or mis information? Strange that, because most of that in the last 5 years has come from Government sources! The BBC is a fantastic source of such too, although funded by license holder, but they are rapidly voting against everything BBC with their wallets. Our climate is apparently 1.5 degrees hotter than in the pre-industrial period, although this is fake because the available thermometers are unlikely to be this accurate (say +- 0.5 degrees), and there were also very few about because they were hand made and there were no calibration methods except ice (if one had any) and boiling water at unknown atmospheric pressure! Even the glass would be likely to have irregular and variable bore, so measuring out the temperature increments would have had huge variation in accuracy. Why no one seems to know this is beyond me, and obviously the MET office has no scientists or Engineers worth anything left! Perhaps scientific fact is now considered disinformation?