Last Friday, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) declared Alternative für Deutschland to be a “confirmed Right-wing extremist” organisation. I very much fear that “the Right” is going to be the new panic apocalypse issue, now that climate has ceased to command apocalyptic fears, everyone abandoned the Covidpocalypse and nobody really believes that the Russians will invade Brandenburg and usher in the Putlerpocalypse.
The first thing that happened, after I wrote my Friday post, is that our American friends weighed in on this new round of political repression here in the best and most democratic Germany of all time. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance both denounced this attack on the AfD.
I like to think that Vance’s tweet draws on my earlier suggestion for how to address these themes in ways that will prove particularly awkward for our establishment. Perhaps the Vice President really does read Eugyppius!
That is, however, a side matter. Tireless Russia hawk, former Bundeswehr officer and present Bundestag member Roderich Kiesewetter lost his mind in Rubio’s replies, claiming with bizarre incoherence that Europe must now hope for a new “Churchill” to “contain” the United States:
Kiesewetter is among the most prominent CDU politicians and he appears on television all the time. Openly contemplating military confrontation with the United States is what passes for sanity in the Federal Republic these days.
Also, the 16 year-old girls who run the social media accounts for the German Foreign Office weighed in with a sanctimonious lecture for Rubio about “democracy” and “Right-wing extremism”. We Germans, you see, are uniquely justified to use authoritarian tactics against the political opposition, because Hitler.
Note the total lie that the BfV investigation behind this “extremist” upgrade was “independent”. As former BfV chiefs will confirm, our domestic spy agency is entirely subject to the direction of the Interior Ministry. Nothing it does is independent. In fact, the BfV only released its upgraded classification now at the insistence of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, who wanted to take a parting shot at the AfD before leaving office tomorrow.
As I said on Friday, the 1,100-page report justifying the “extreme Right-wing” classification has been withheld from the public and from AfD officials themselves. Some people, however, have received copies of this mysterious and otherwise deeply secret document. These people are journalists like Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt at Der Spiegel, and they were presumably provided these copies by Interior Ministry staffers so they could write articles like this one, telling us all how Right-wing and extreme the AfD are.
As a direct consequence of this transparently orchestrated publicity campaign masquerading as an official “investigation”, we now have to have unceasing constant very concerned discussions across all print and video media about why the AfD is so bad and what we should do about it. Over the weekend every last paper rushed to tell us about new poll showing that 48% of Germans favour banning the party. The Süddeutsche Zeitung has a hefty piece on the front page today telling us all “What makes the AfD so dangerous”. Also today, incoming Family Minister Karin Prien (CDU) proposed stripping the AfD of public financing. The aforementioned Kiesewetter is full of ideas about how to harass Bundeswehr soldiers who support the AfD. Prominent state media journalist Georg Restle at Das Erste declared that “enemies of the constitution should not be given a stage”, openly hoping the BfV upgrade might be a way to circumvent neutrality rules and finally banish the AfD from all public broadcasting. Restle’s colleague, Anja Reschke at NDR, just wants to ban the AfD, because “it’s like in a sandbox” where “70% of the kids are playing nicely and then someone comes along and ruins it. … At some point you have to say: No, you can’t play anymore”.
The other thing our morally upright guardians of poor border security and expensive unreliable energy really want to do is deprive everybody who supports the AfD of their jobs. A crazy Korean-German lawyer named Chan-jo Jun, who for some reason is always appearing in the media to say unhinged Leftoid things, offers his thoughts on this front to Tagesspiegel.
Jun believes any civil servant who is in the AfD can be fired if he “supports party positions or has at least not sufficiently distanced himself from them”. This should affect “not only AfD members in security agencies or schools”, but literally everyone, including mere “groundskeepers” in the employ of the Government. Unfortunately, they can’t automatically fire you just for being in the AfD; they must first establish your specific political crimes. “Liking posts on social media, paying party membership fees or advertising one’s own membership” in the AfD “could… be categorised as supporting an anti-constitutional party” and therefore be grounds for termination.
Jun thinks we’ll finally be able to cleanse our public schools of AfD-affiliated teachers, and also that non-AfD teachers “will now be able to warn their pupils more clearly than before about the party and its far-Right associations”. Also civil servants who merely “endorse anti-constitutional AfD positions” can be fired, Jun says. He also thinks that the public sector can “make compliance with the free and democratic order a prerequisite for awarding… contracts”. In this way he hopes that many private companies will begin firing AfD employees to improve their eligibility for government contracts.
Oh, and of course the NGO protest machine is planning to take to the streets again, to demand that the Government initiate ban proceedings against AfD:
A network of Left-wing NGOs is planning a large-scale day of protests this coming Sunday to demand proceedings to prohibit the AfD. Among those calling for nationwide protests are the network ‘Together Against the Right’ and the campaign ‘Defend Human Dignity – Ban the AfD Now!’ More than 60 NGOs from across Germany have joined the initiative.
The protests will… urge the Bundestag, the Bundesrat and the incoming federal government to “immediately initiate proceedings to ban the AfD before the Federal Constitutional Court”. …
In a press release on the planned day of action [the groups state]: “The classification by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution must shake even the last doubters awake. For far too long, there has been waiting, hesitation and appeasement, while the hatred of the AfD has been allowed to spread and cause daily suffering for our fellow human beings.” …
They describe the AfD as an enemy: “The AfD is a threat to the lives of all people who do not fit into its worldview. It spreads ethnic-nationalist and racist ideas, mocks democracy and attacks the rule of law,” the action alliance says. Once in power, the AfD could “institutionalise its attacks on human dignity and democracy”. … The AfD thus also threatens to undermine the lessons learned from the Holocaust: “At the beginning of the Basic Law stands the unbreakable protection of human dignity – as a lesson learned from the Holocaust and National Socialism. The AfD, however, threatens human dignity and the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of all.”
Germany has become a really, really stupid country.
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If we are not a war with Russia and certainly not at war with any of their Tennis players I have to laugh at the absurdity of not putting the nationality of the Russian Players next to their name on the scoreboard at Wimbledon eg. ——-So you will see Alcaraz (ESP) versus Medvedev (__ ). ——-Medvedev is apparently from nowhere. But wouldn’t it actually be more civilised and less petty to put (RUS) next to his name to show ordinary Russians that we have no problem with them and we are not just a bunch of virtue signalling twits?
‘Does the Government have the power to punish Mr Phillips without trial?’ is, indeed, a very big point which affects us all.
The covid panic and the powers that the government improperly arrogated to itself was a great shock to many.
Newspapers are reporting on the activities of some servicemen having surveilled private individuals without authorisation.
There is an unsavoury arrogance and entitlement on display from questioners and certain of the questioned at the covid ‘inquiry’.
All of this is emblematic of Blair’s Britain groupthink, itself a product of a bloated, overmighty, overweening state/public sector:
‘…..social desirability bias becomes more prevalent in collectivist societies (Robertson and Fadil, 2009)
‘Social desirability bias occurs when respondents give answers to questions that they believe will make them look good to others, concealing their true opinions or experiences.’
Unfortunately this is set to get a great deal worse over the next few years.
Perhaps it needs to in order to create both a remedy and the popular will to implement it.
I doubt any remedy is possible while so many are willing to believe western establishment lies.
If they’re sanctioning reporters for being contrary to foreign policy then there are a lot of BBC reporters, etc. who require sanction for their Gaza coverage.
Any government which feels able to treat Julian Assange in the way that it has – and continues to do – may be assumed to be corrupt, prepared to ride roughshod over its own laws, and sinister to the point of evil.
I don’t expect them to change their ways in the near term so we will see more of this unlawful and almost hysterical behaviour in the weeks and months to come. How dare you disagree with the Climate Change religion/Covid Hysteria/Net Zero Bolleaux.
Is it really necessary in articles like this to preface everything with (words to the effect) “I don’t agree with x but …”? This sort of mealy mouthed virtue signalling is most evident when it comes to Tommy Robinson or Andrew Tate. These people are on our side and we must not throw them overboard in order to suck up to our enemies.
Andrew Tate is ”on our side”?? I think it’s safe to say you are most definitely not speaking for women there. But I guess if you have shared values with somebody who’s a rapist, sex-trafficking, narcissistic misogynist you’re well and truly outing yourself there aren’t you? Or is it because you too are the proud owner of a ‘PHD’, ( Pimping Hoes Degree )? It’s no surprise he converted to Islam is it? I mean, he ticks all of the boxes of a full-on Islamist doesn’t he? Plus the fact he’s anti-West. A <4min vid to illustrate what a vile PoS this scumbag is, though I was spoilt for choice tbh;
https://twitter.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1710675972679508123
This article is a well-reasoned and factual take down of the professional lying grifter and exploiter of vulnerable women;
”The private chat logs of the War Room reveal much of what Andrew Tate actually believes. His modus operandi is more than just an elaborate money-making scheme: it is a worldview bordering on an ideology. The ‘PHD process’—referred to by participants as “the white path”—is that worldview in action. It is the process of taking a “low exposure female”—that is, a girl with a limited public profile—and slowly and methodically guiding her, through psychological manipulation, on a path toward sex work. Money is obviously one of the incentives; financial gain, however, according to many chat logs, does not appear to be the primary motivation. The domination and subjugation of women appears to be the real ‘high’ for many participants—Tate included.
Tate claims to be a ‘traditionalist’—but, ironically, his PHD process is a deliberate inversion of the traditional relationship structure in which a man works hard to provide for his partner and family, while a woman cares for and provides for the home and the children. The PHD process reverses this dynamic, with the woman earning money—through sex work—that is then given to her male partner in exchange for sex and attention. In Tate’s world, the woman is the breadwinner, the maintainer of the home, the creator of the family; meanwhile, the man lives lavishly off the largesse provided by ‘his’ woman who spends her time selling her body online. It is a potent psychological strategy that has proven very effective for Tate and his followers.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/inside-andrew-tates-war-room/
Ok Mog, fair comment and I know he has a big mouth and that will put a lot of people off. If the accusations stand up in a proper trial with a jury and the evidence isn’t rigged against him, then I will not support him further. Secondly, whilst I say we are all on the same side, it is probably true to say that Andrew Tate is on no one’s side but his own. But for now, I see his detention without trial and the attacks on him from the BBC and the Guardian and all the other usual sources as a classic establishment take-down designed to shut him up and lock him away. Those who stand against the deep state need our support.
Tate is a pimp who’s also engaged in self/vanity marketing on the internet. That’s not exactly new and this so-called PHD is just how this ‘business model’ always operates. This also means that he’s an unsavoury character operating in a grey area of the law where the reason for Haven’t been to jail yet is usually Didn’t get caught so far. Routine cocaine user, obviously, but that’s not something special, either. He’s certainly undeserving of any support. OTOH, he also isn’t the evil incarnate he has sometimes been protrayed as.
Good to see the great PH finally make an appearance on DS. He was one of the few in the MSM that called covid from the start. Cue a load of downvotes/and comments about him getting vaxxed…
Anyway, it seems to me we (and the US) effectively are at war with Russia – it’s just a proxy war because for political and military reasons it suits us to keep it like that.
The war is being used for financial and economic supremacy. Politically the Ukraine problem could be seem as an excuse to try and upset BRICS a little, and reduce their influence in the world trading’s. The USA is starting to tighten up the international use of the dollar (also the Euro) to put extra pressure on the Russian economy, at a time when the Russians and Indians are in conflict over how to pay for oil exports. Indian does not want to use the Yuan and although members of BRICS, India and China are not hand in glove and are in conflict themselves in certain areas of interest. Commerce will always find a way to operate, governments will always try to control it, but it is the public that have to deal with the consequences.
‘We’ … ‘us’ … ? Count me out of this proxy war please.
Me too!
One can argue whether we are at war with Russia or not. The fact is the UK is supplying weapons and military material to Ukraine and telling the Ukrainians to use it all against Russia. And, as documented in the 350-page ‘Ukraine’s Crimes against Humanity’, available on the internet and written by M. Grigoriev, President of the Foundation for the Study of Democracy, and listing more than 400 testimonies of victims and eyewitnesses of Ukrainian war crimes and terrorist acts against civilians committed between 2022 and 2023, these weapons are being used by the Ukrainian military not only against the Russian military but also against the Ukrainian civilians living in eastern Ukraine, many of whom are ethnic Russians.
Ah, you say, but the Foundation for the Study of Democracy is based in Moscow so it is Russian propaganda. Fine, but then show me an equivalent Ukrainian document, detailing an equal number of written testimonies of supposed Russian crimes.
Indeed, as reported by bloggers such as Graham Phillips, Patrick Lancaster, Mike Jones, Eva Bartlett, Alina Lipp … the Ukrainian military has been shelling schools, hospitals, shopping centres and residential districts in eastern Ukraine since the ‘Maidan coup’ in 2014. Why? To ‘cleanse’ the country of ethnic Russians. Patrick Lancaster has seemingly hundreds of videos on YouTube, where he speaks to the civilian victims of such actions – check them out.
These bloggers are the ones providing independent, non-government funded reports directly from the ‘front line’. It is not that long ago that one could rely on mainstream media for independent reporting; nowadays they have all become government propaganda agencies.
Indeed, as reported by bloggers such as Graham Phillips, Patrick Lancaster, Mike Jones, Eva Bartlett, Alina Lipp … the Ukrainian military has been shelling schools, hospitals, shopping centres and residential districts in eastern Ukraine since the ‘Maidan coup’ in 2014. Why?
Because pro-Russian separatists declared these two provinces independent republics which started a civil war in eastern Ukraine. As is the usual case with this kind of warfare, anything that’s within the zone the artillery can reach will be progressively reduced to rubble. On both sides, obviously, although ‘bloggers’ will only report what’s happening on their side.
To ‘cleanse’ the country of ethnic Russians.
Ah, yes, good ol’ genocide again. Everybody seems to have one these days, no matter how far-fetched. It’s positively impossible to accomplish ethnic cleansing of anything by fairly low-volume, static trench warfare which is what was happening in this area before the Russian invasion which ended (so far) with the annexation of somewhat more Ukrainian territory by Russia.
The Ukrainian Government in Minsk 2 agreed to allow the two oblasts to become self-governing entities but still within Ukraine. It was only after it became clear that |Ukraine had no intention of honouring its agreement that, understandably, that the separatist start to take action.
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I would like to know the sources from which HMG obtains its view that Ukraine is a beacon of democracy.
Let us remind ourselves that Britain’s Prime Minister Johnson was the one that refused to give security guarantees to Ukraine when they were offered (and wanted to accept) a pretty benign peace deal in Istanbul that would have seen Russia’s withdrawal from the entirety of Ukraine except Crimea. So much for Ukrainian self-determination.
This intervention has been widely reported in the West (except of course in official circles) and only last week featured in a TV interview with Ukraine’s chief negotiator at the talks.
Ukraine has been a tool of the West and nothing the West does is in the interest of Ukraine’s people. It was done to weaken Russia but has ironically made them much more of a military and commercial threat whilst at the same time weakening the West military might and draining Europe’s bank accounts.
Very pleasing to see an article by Peter Hitchens here in DS.
Well done DS. Thank you Peter Hitchens.
Actually I agree entirely with the case Peter Hitchens makes.
The most worrying aspect of this case, notwithstanding judgement pending, is the degree of treachery being employed by this rogue government aided and abetted by a corrupt judiciary.
We have a monarch who is supposed to protect us from rogue government . . .
The bloody Windsors are actually fully embedded within club Davos Deviants.
Traitors actually.
I have been following Graham William Phillips for years as he gives a very accurate account of events in Ukraine.
He was at the Maidan riots showing the violence of the pro-EU neo-Nazis in the US led coup.
He was reporting the struggles of the DPR and LPR volunteers against the ultra nationalist Ukrainian army in The Donbass.
He was in Mariupol during and after it’s liberation videoing the residents celebrating the Russians arrival.
He taught himself how to speak Russian and makes many humanitarian deliveries to the people of the Donbass in his beat up old Rover car.
His treatment by the UK government is an absolute travesty.
He is deeply patriotic towards England but he is against the UK being a vassal state of the US.
He has seen the persecution of the ethnic Russians in the Donbass by the Ukrainians in this US proxy war against Russia and, like me, he believes the Russian action was justified.
This is no reason for the UK government to deny him his rights without a trial.
He has had to take the UK government to court to defend his own rights.
An excellent article from Laura Perrins at TCW taking apart the immigration scandal and rightly making great play of Bozo’s culpability.
Apparently – according to Bozo over one million immigrants in two years is a Brexit success.
There is only one word for that stain on the planet but it is hidden within
C you Nxt Tuesday.
Is it lawful (i.e. in accord with Common Law) for our servants, the government, to “sanction” (whatever that means) us?
As Peter Hitchens (who is almost always right, except when it comes to needles) says…. this is the top of a very big and very slippery slope indeed, and a lot is riding on this case. Looking more widely, the case of Julian Assange brings shame on this country, and it would be nice not to add to this affront to justice. I hope the DS, despite its pro-Ukraine leanings, will continue to have a principled approach.
If this Russo-Ukraine war is eventually concluded by peace talks, it will be revealing to see if the British state concludes a peace deal with Mr Phillips.
The main point is the government over stepping its powers, and making a mockery of free speech, its time the whole system was overhauled.
Whilst Peter Hitchens is to geopolitics what Taylor Swift is to archaeology, he is correct that working as a propaganda mouthpiece for a foreign government UK is not currently at war with is not an offense per se. The vile Graham Phillips should be abominated but not legally sanctioned.