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Germany's domestic intelligence chief has defended his efforts to police the "thought and speech patterns of citizens" as he outlines the distinctly East German-sounding offence of "delegitimisation of state conduct".
Police officers in Germany pulled a 16 year-old girl out of class and told her to stop posting Smurf-themed AfD-friendly content to TikTok, a move defended by a Minister as "preventing her from committing a crime".
German politicians are so worried about the rise of anti-democratic forces they are taking decisive action to ban criticism of Government figures and sending police to search the homes of dissenters.
The German Government's growing clampdown on the insurgent Right-wing opposition is certainly illiberal and authoritarian, says Eugyppius, but it's not helpful to label it 'fascist'.
Eugyppius paints a bleak picture of the state of democracy in Germany, as the Government seeks to use increasingly antidemocratic measures to suppress opposition.
Yes, the German President did liken AfD supporters to "rats", says Robert Kogon. The claim that he was just alluding to the Pied Piper leading children astray doesn't stack up. And anyway, that's offensive enough.
German intelligence agency the BfV has branded leading politician Hans-Georg Maaßen a "Right-wing extremist" for criticising globalism, the Green Party and mass immigration after he proposed working with AfD.
Two weeks after a leading member of a party in Germany’s governing coalition compared AfD supporters to "flies on a pile of shit", German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has now compared them to "rats".
In Soviet Germany, the Government protests YOU. But days of Government-backed protests and state media campaigns against the AfD have failed to break its support, and still less to solve Germany's problems, says Eugyppius.
Amid economic turmoil and plummeting approval ratings, Eugyppius takes aim at the German Government for orchestrating anti-Right protests to distract from real issues.
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