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.
Covid totalitarianism is akin to Nazi totalitarianism, says C J Hopkins, "and even should the German state imprison me for saying this I will continue to do so". Read his powerful statement to the judge who acquitted him.
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".
Germany opens citizenship to 1.5 million Turkish immigrants, then gets the vapours when Erdoğan's AK Party announces a German offshoot pledging to fight for open borders and better social entitlements for immigrants.
Sceptics celebrated when Sucharit Bhakdi was acquitted of allegations of antisemitism last May. But few realise he is set to be tried for the exact same 'crime' again as Germany does not protect from double jeopardy.
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.
The revelation that the low-toxicity 'placebo' vaccine batches were never subject to quality control testing by the EU prompts a further question for Robert Kogon: did they contain empty lipids with no mRNA?
