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An article on the Remix News website explains that German police have launched a nationwide crackdown on what they call “hate mail” and “insults” targeting politicians, the German Criminal Police Office President Holger Munch announced in a Tweet. The action was directed against more than 100 suspects in the country.
All who were targeted with raids published their comments in connection with the federal elections last September.
While there are some legitimate threats from online users, German law enforcement is also targeting people for merely insulting politicians. For example the leftist Berlin Mayor Micheal Muller became angered after someone posted a satirical photo of him on Twitter, prompting him to arrange a raid on the house of the person who posted it.
In Germany the definition of “criminal hate speech” has been expanded to include a range of “insults” that would normally fall under the category of free speech in many Western countries such as the United States. The police are weaponizing the law to target those who are exercising legitimate freedom of speech.
The fascist house raids are supported by a range of German institutions, including 100 General Administrative Offices, and the Frankfurt General Administration offices.
These were not the first raids of this type, but rather it was the eighth time they have done so. The previous batch of raids occurred last December.
Hesse’s Attorney General Torsten Kunze says the raids are happening because politicians are “insulted, slandered and threatened” on the internet. He said, “In order to prevent the withdrawal of those affected from reaching a level that endangers democracy, we are prosecuting these crimes consistently and in close cooperation with the public prosecutors of the other federal states.”
The German Criminal Police Office president also said, “Freedom of expression reaches its limits as soon as it comes to defamation, insults and threats.” Anyone who posts ‘hate messages’ must expect that the police will then be at the door.”
Germany is increasingly becoming authoritarian with the issue of free speech. The latest leftist government has sought an entire ban on the Telegram instant messaging app.
Supporters of Germany’s opposition party Alternative of Germany (AfD) which opposed the Covid mandates has recently been cleared to be labeled as a “suspected threat to democracy,” which opens the possibility of all party members being surveilled regardless of whether they have committed any wrongdoings or not.
The German government is also launching an entirely new agency to monitor “hate speech” and make arrests, expecting to criminalize over 150,000 “hateful comments” on social media every year.
A fascist leftist politician German Nancy Falser
The leftist politician Nancy Falser has launched a “10 point plan to combat right wing extremism,” with many of the objectives aimed at the AfD opposition party.
[Note: Europeans should be ashamed of what they are allowing to happen to them. Of course there are people fighting against it, but how could any of the others possibly not oppose what is happening? We must not let that happen to the U.S.]