Are you sure? I've been seeing this one interview stating there are around 3000 people in UK arrested for tweets a year, which is also an older interview I believe. What about Digital-ID and the constant atempt of codification of "islamophobia" into the law?
It seems to me that in urban areas in various different nations most normies have been off their rockers for some years now. It started well before covid, but covid brought the normies to a whole new level of frog-boiling kookdom. And by "frog" I was not referring to the French, lol.
It really helped during the COVID era to know some saw the insanity as it happened. It was shocking how fast almost everyone either went all 1984 or cowered in fear on demand. Hang in there. I bet not a few of your readers are concerned you could get caught up in the ongoing madness.
eugyppius was a comforting voice of reason. The near-unanimity of all media and every institution ramping fear and panic was very unsettling. And practically no one seemed to have a clue. When I spoke my mind everyone (save my beloved wife) thought I was nuts.
Curtis Yarvin has warned exactly that. The Dems will come back with a vengeance..your job , your finances ..they use law fare to bankrupt you .
The first thing the Dems will do if they win in 2026 is too impeach Trump .
Back to Yarvin “ he who creates have a revolution commits suicide “ . He thinks Trump should have defied the courts and Congress . It’s too late now . Yarvin says Trump should have said during the campaign “ I am gong to take charge of this country “ ..much like FDR said in 1933 .
Not really. But I am a bit surprised that they would openly cheer our death and think they were doing good.
I mean what do you expect when nearly 40% of them take medication for mental illness. But what's even scarier is that means 60% are running around untreated.
Make no mistake; if this continues they will hunt us down like prey. History doesn't lie. Its most profound and enigmatic lesson is people forget it.
We already see signs of this. Some of the reactions to Charlie Kirk's murder are a good insight into the level of indifference they would display when your corpse is thrown into a mass grave.
I hate to call anyone delusional, but the Hard Left display many worrying symptoms when they post online. They are unaware they are crazy.
Of course . We saw what happened during Covid . Had Elon Musk not bought Twitter and Trump had not been elected we would be in full dystopian totalitarian prison .
Around 1989 I had the fantasy that freedom had won (after the Wall came down), and that some we would (almost all) soon reach the high Uplands of freedom, never to depart. In those days, I could not imagine that what did happen during Covid and since, would EVER happen. Indeed, I refused to accept the truth about was happening during Covid (and before) a LOT. Despite clear info to the contrary. Surely I was not the only one.
Deranged. Germany is becoming like East Germany. Logical next step: criminalize authors + books that call goverment workers "parasites" and then those that criticize the regime -- or its policies -- generally. Independent thought will be forbidden.
If you say “dream”, well Lots of novels and plays and things have made us dream such a nightmare. Ex: The Gulag Archipelago. Plenty of other examples. One odd example: The life of Galileo. Brecht was an odd person, who, I think, believed in the truth and free speech, and, at the same time, was (some of the time) a “good communist” and believed “by any means necessary.” Debatable. An interesting German example.
In other words, I think for some time now (I’ll guess since early in COVID), lots of people HAVE worried that this kind of “terror” could be visited on them any day for something they said. And indeed it has happened a lot in lots of countries (US, Britain, and Germany come most to my mind). And think the US has moved back more to “freedom” than the other two countries.
But only by the fortuitously random good fortune of two right-minded billionaires successfully grasping two crucial reins of power. Any other combination and we would be just as lost as Germany right now.
The parallels to Asimov's "Second Foundation" are chilling. History is on a path predetermined by our "elite betters" when suddenly The Mule arises -- a freak individual whose existence and influence couldn't be predicted. The only solution is to "eliminate" him and return history to its charted course.
I hope our two "Mules" maintain impenetrable security.
Yes. I think I knew instinctively in 1984 when I without hesitation told a police officer that my name was 79019325 and to look it up. My motorbike was towed.
It is the first line of defence. However the clumsy force and made up law will cause the courts to be restless. After all, it is they who judge and punish if found guilty, not the Police.
There are certain zip codes here in the US where compliance to Covid mandates seemed to be overwhelming; the most obedient German would have been envious.
Courts are generally not well known for slapping down the guys with the guns that keep them safe from the increasingly wacky, violent, and anti-social rabble out there. Politicians seeking support from that rabble, yes. Those who depend on the sheepdogs to keep them safe from the wovles, not so much. Self-preservation is a powerful motivator.
They (judges) are much more likely to let the perps off than to penalize cops. The message gets through (all that policing process, paperwork, and prosecution was for naught) without pissing off the cops to the point they turn on the legal system. Works, kinda.
Sorry to sober you but all this is happening in Eastern Europe also with not liberal (at least in propaganda) governments. If you criticise them online they send the police on you.
any government staying in power long enough will fall into this pithole. Authoritarian systems will end up here. Same about memeing. There is always the joke that liberal west can't meme anymore but I can tell you that a power hungry conservative government can't meme neither... and there are countless memes about their nonsense.
I find it hilarious how media only talks about bad Urban and his anti-LGBTsm as a symbol of totalitarianism, but not once have I heard anything about insane Germans arresting people for factually true tweets.
They you test the Ground for the Ukrainian Style forced Recruitment Scheme. A bit problematic when you promote LGBT Movement (most of my friends from the RAG Trade are Gay but would never ever participate in these State Organized Schemes so we can look forward of a very colorful Bundeswehr with Tits, Ass and Rainbow Hair. Lovely, the Russians will throw a Champagne Party to welcome them.
Sliding into a police state and with a government hoping to increase the size of the army. Now let me think...how well does this sort of thing usually end?
We're on Back to the Future Mode but don't worry, nothing is forever. Back in the 60s, not too long after End of WWII a Frankfurt Band took the Lyrics of "I think they take me away , haha" and translated it into one of the most popular regional Songs at the time>
I can't vouch for the order of provenance of either song, but this is a 100% ripoff of the 1966 "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa" by "Napoleon XIV." The music, the echo effects, everything. (Perhaps this is covered in the interview, but as I don't speak German I have no idea.)
Curiously, the Wikipedia page admits to foreign versions, but omits a German one.
Not much difference between NGO, CIA,KGB,STASI or SS. We got the Experience and i have firsthand experience of how NGO's work outside Germany: Greens: Heinrich Boell Stiftung, CUD: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, SPD : useless, probably Marxist Stiftung or something like this. They're busy in foreign countries like IRAN, Cambodia, Moldova etc. to trigger Regime Changes .
UK is probably even worse than Germany. But Germany has the advantage that less people know German than English and so it gets less coverage. Arguably for the third time EU is pushing total-suveillence laws, so soon it will look like this everywhere in the EU.
Mr Starmer KFC, Glorious Leader of the Hopeless, is pushing at personal risk to his own career (after all does anything else matter) to impose the latest messed up thinking. I see Ofcom have managed to push a whole generation of children onto the Dark Web thanks to the snooper's charter (aka the on line safety bill).
Oh - hello GCHQ! Got to say hello to our trackers....
Well with UvdLiying at the Helm of the EU it's probably in the Genes to enjoy putting others into a Totalitarian State. But ask yourself WHO PROFITS and you'll always end up with People like Klaus Schwab and Co.
Queen Ursula, as President Trump said to her face, represents only an administration and not one single country. Perhaps she needs reminding.... I'll just send a text message....
I imagine this as a nature documentary, with a David Attenborough-type narrating: “Here we see the resourceful parasite, at the first hint of rejection, deploy its full arsenal of defenses to maintain its cozy place feeding off its host.”
(No, I don’t think all public workers are parasites, and neither I imagine would Damian N. if he had to call the fire department to his house.)
Well, the relationship is parasitic because taxes are similar to theft if not theft outright. The Western tax state is nothing like the principalities and kingdoms that preceded the Renaissance, in which the West was formed and built. The tax state is the invention of the power centralizers; the libido dominandi.
I personally don’t view firemen, police, teachers, doctors, nurses, u.s.w as parasites and think that the post is way off the mark. Still: most people would see the post, snigger and move on. I can’t believe the thin-skinned authorities have nothing more productive to do! Tough times in Deutschland.
Can't remember when : firemen, teachers, doctors, nurses were part of the Government.
Must have missed that change. As far as Police is concerned they used to be called "Polizei dein Freund und Helfer".
That scheme died somewhere in the 90s i guess. When the Ample Government came to rule they quickly changed the Law so that the German Bundeswehr and the Police would work under the same umbrella ..... in order to keep the Society at aby. They knew very well what would come. Frigging Annalena Baerbock even projected a Heisser Herbst (hot autumn) coming right after they took over power.
Lol. Please go to Mises.org and learn something about the Der Stat.
The very relationship of taxes at the point of a gun without consent is parasitic. You might consent, but I do not. Nor did any of my ancestors. The feds in the West claim land and authority well beyond any sense of legitimacy.
I'll never forget when, as adults, I accompanied my brother to the impound lot on a routine police matter. The cop who took us to my brother's vehicle looked quite familiar. It took me a minute to place him: the biggest, meanest, most feared bully in our senior class in high school. Yup.
I'm a born and raised Noo Yawkuh from a nice middle-class background and there was never a time in my life when I didn't think of cops in general as a bunch of corrupt bullies. And there've been police dept. scandals there for my entire adult life.
It's an impossible dilemma for ordinary good people in the force because every cop needs to feel that his colleagues have his back--it's essential of course that they do. But every group then ends up enforcing its code of omerta.
He said something mean, but he had a right to say it. I think everyone should be more careful about what they say. But I don’t believe it justifies a police raid.
WARNING, warning for Lizzi !!! Saying "I think everyone should be more careful about what they say" is condoning the slippery slope!
That said, it might be fruitful to check whether the German police academies are being run by former Stasi Beamte. Although, while doing so, we shouldn't think Germany is unique in this respect. In neighboring Holland they still have an offense called "belediging van een ambtenaar in functie", which may be rewarded with a 600-Euro fine.
Fortunately, in the US we still have the First Amendment!
"I think everyone should be more careful about what they say."
I believe the German police impressed the same message upon the tweeter, although somewhat more emphatically than you do for "everyone." And again, since we're talking language, where words matter, is your opinion ("said something mean") based on the original German tweet or the translation into English thereof?
I think what he said was accurate and fair. You fear the truth.
Yes, some innocents are caught up in our illegitimate monopoly “democracies” of tyranny, and just try to make do. But; this changes not the parasitic relationship. To avoid being a parasite, they must use their time and talent to effect change to the system.
I see why you feel safe being dressed by 6 AM. The best raid time is 4 AM but then there would be the issues of shift changes and possible police overtime. We can't have that. At least they did not break down the door.
Terrifying. Did you ever dream this could happen in your lifetime?
not really, no. Germany got really scary during Covid and then it never quite stopped being scary.
Britain is trying its best to catch up with Germany, but it’s not quite there - yet.
Are you sure? I've been seeing this one interview stating there are around 3000 people in UK arrested for tweets a year, which is also an older interview I believe. What about Digital-ID and the constant atempt of codification of "islamophobia" into the law?
That has stopped in the USA . We can thank Musk and Trump
Genuinely hilarious. Which of the two have sweeter semen?
That would make a great research project, Mary. If you do it right, you might swing a VP job in a future Democrat administration.
So Biden and Heels up were better?
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Yes . Both are vying for the prize of “ most insane country “ .
Canada will be runner -up.
I would question that. I follow the lawsuits brought by the UK Free Speech Union. Truly tilt-a-whirl, the land of King Chuckles.
Bringing lawsuits is like Glendower calling spirits from the vasty deep.
Now, if they're winning them, that's a whole different story.
They do win some. https://freespeechunion.org/news/
And my respects.
It seems to me that in urban areas in various different nations most normies have been off their rockers for some years now. It started well before covid, but covid brought the normies to a whole new level of frog-boiling kookdom. And by "frog" I was not referring to the French, lol.
So .. you are wondering why too many people are living in evil-Clown world?
Well, you can listen to this article's audio overview for a perspective on insanity seeds;
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God Bless., Steve
It really helped during the COVID era to know some saw the insanity as it happened. It was shocking how fast almost everyone either went all 1984 or cowered in fear on demand. Hang in there. I bet not a few of your readers are concerned you could get caught up in the ongoing madness.
eugyppius was a comforting voice of reason. The near-unanimity of all media and every institution ramping fear and panic was very unsettling. And practically no one seemed to have a clue. When I spoke my mind everyone (save my beloved wife) thought I was nuts.
Things were getting weird, but Covid was like gasoline on a fire.
I wonder if Covid was the initial arsonist created fire that has now died down due to lack of oxygen..........
Until they decide to open a door.
Yes ..Had Musk not bought Twitter and Trump not been elected the USA would be in full blown dystopian totalitarian prison .
Every time I'm tempted to think of President Kamala, I need to go get a drink.
I think she feels much the same… about the drink anyway
Absolutely, Ray Orwell
Some are saying if the Dems get in in future many may need to leave. Payback and all that.
Curtis Yarvin has warned exactly that. The Dems will come back with a vengeance..your job , your finances ..they use law fare to bankrupt you .
The first thing the Dems will do if they win in 2026 is too impeach Trump .
Back to Yarvin “ he who creates have a revolution commits suicide “ . He thinks Trump should have defied the courts and Congress . It’s too late now . Yarvin says Trump should have said during the campaign “ I am gong to take charge of this country “ ..much like FDR said in 1933 .
Yes you are correct . Glad no one knows me .
It is a worry. Similar all over Europe. The Hard Left are done with us. They have convinced many normal centrist views are fascism.
What do you expect? The smaller government is the stronger the individual.
Strong individuals are a threat to the state.
We have the same problem in the US.
Random shout-out to Ursula & Heiko! The censorious EU duo!
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You'll need a successful electio to have hopes of reversing this.
Not really. But I am a bit surprised that they would openly cheer our death and think they were doing good.
I mean what do you expect when nearly 40% of them take medication for mental illness. But what's even scarier is that means 60% are running around untreated.
Make no mistake; if this continues they will hunt us down like prey. History doesn't lie. Its most profound and enigmatic lesson is people forget it.
We already see signs of this. Some of the reactions to Charlie Kirk's murder are a good insight into the level of indifference they would display when your corpse is thrown into a mass grave.
I hate to call anyone delusional, but the Hard Left display many worrying symptoms when they post online. They are unaware they are crazy.
Well, they're stupid too:
https://x.com/BurtMaclin_FBI/status/1989104601451381120?s=19
Who is openly cheering your death (besides your family)?
So oppressed, you are.
Put your mask back on
Sick burn 🤮
Orwell wrote 1984 to be a warning--not a handbook.
LOL! I'll use that, thank you.
I'm not so sure about that...
Of course . We saw what happened during Covid . Had Elon Musk not bought Twitter and Trump had not been elected we would be in full dystopian totalitarian prison .
Either that or revolution.
The problem with participating in a planned Color Revolution is that the outcome is predetermined before it begins. You're just an extra.
I refused the COVID tyranny and was put under house arrest. I hate their guts.
Gotta protect that constitution. Wreckers abound...
Around 1989 I had the fantasy that freedom had won (after the Wall came down), and that some we would (almost all) soon reach the high Uplands of freedom, never to depart. In those days, I could not imagine that what did happen during Covid and since, would EVER happen. Indeed, I refused to accept the truth about was happening during Covid (and before) a LOT. Despite clear info to the contrary. Surely I was not the only one.
Mike Carroll
just now
I refused the COVID tyranny and was put under house arrest. I hate their guts.
Deranged. Germany is becoming like East Germany. Logical next step: criminalize authors + books that call goverment workers "parasites" and then those that criticize the regime -- or its policies -- generally. Independent thought will be forbidden.
If you say “dream”, well Lots of novels and plays and things have made us dream such a nightmare. Ex: The Gulag Archipelago. Plenty of other examples. One odd example: The life of Galileo. Brecht was an odd person, who, I think, believed in the truth and free speech, and, at the same time, was (some of the time) a “good communist” and believed “by any means necessary.” Debatable. An interesting German example.
In other words, I think for some time now (I’ll guess since early in COVID), lots of people HAVE worried that this kind of “terror” could be visited on them any day for something they said. And indeed it has happened a lot in lots of countries (US, Britain, and Germany come most to my mind). And think the US has moved back more to “freedom” than the other two countries.
But only by the fortuitously random good fortune of two right-minded billionaires successfully grasping two crucial reins of power. Any other combination and we would be just as lost as Germany right now.
The parallels to Asimov's "Second Foundation" are chilling. History is on a path predetermined by our "elite betters" when suddenly The Mule arises -- a freak individual whose existence and influence couldn't be predicted. The only solution is to "eliminate" him and return history to its charted course.
I hope our two "Mules" maintain impenetrable security.
Yes. I think I knew instinctively in 1984 when I without hesitation told a police officer that my name was 79019325 and to look it up. My motorbike was towed.
Uh, have you heard about Germany’s history? These are the least serious crimes against humanity Germans have committed in the past century.
Why is the U.S. in NATO? Asking for a friend!
Political inertia heterodyned by established grift.
Shocking.
The Police have gone past consensual authority to goons - a common situation in Western Europe.
I hope the victim gets to bring this before court, so the goons can answer for their sketchy views on law.
And the politicians who condone this officious behavior are forever looking for Nazis -- always in the wrong places.
Like the mirror.
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Please let us know if there is a go fund me for his defense lawyers. I definitely want to help him!
Unfortunately the courts have been siding with the goons.
It is the first line of defence. However the clumsy force and made up law will cause the courts to be restless. After all, it is they who judge and punish if found guilty, not the Police.
Hopefully this all ends. And if it does the German people should treat the police thugs like the French treated "collaboraters" during WW2:
Shave their heads and ban them from society.
Of all the things that piss me off about this, the police take the cake.
Oh it's going to end all right. Catastrophically, I'll bet. It sure doesn't look to be in the cards for common sense to prevail.
Germans are much better at following orders than Americans.
That's not true across the board.
There are certain zip codes here in the US where compliance to Covid mandates seemed to be overwhelming; the most obedient German would have been envious.
Yes. But, those cops are pussy's and need to be treated as such
As always police tell you we only follow orders .But who is the order giver . ?
Chancellor Frau Merz.... maybe....
Courts are generally not well known for slapping down the guys with the guns that keep them safe from the increasingly wacky, violent, and anti-social rabble out there. Politicians seeking support from that rabble, yes. Those who depend on the sheepdogs to keep them safe from the wovles, not so much. Self-preservation is a powerful motivator.
In the US courts are happy to slap down the police, when they happen to be enforcing laws against one favored group or another.
They (judges) are much more likely to let the perps off than to penalize cops. The message gets through (all that policing process, paperwork, and prosecution was for naught) without pissing off the cops to the point they turn on the legal system. Works, kinda.
Sorry to sober you but all this is happening in Eastern Europe also with not liberal (at least in propaganda) governments. If you criticise them online they send the police on you.
I was hoping the East of Europe would not be infected the same way as the West of Europe. I guess self-serving corrupt types are truly international.
any government staying in power long enough will fall into this pithole. Authoritarian systems will end up here. Same about memeing. There is always the joke that liberal west can't meme anymore but I can tell you that a power hungry conservative government can't meme neither... and there are countless memes about their nonsense.
I find it hilarious how media only talks about bad Urban and his anti-LGBTsm as a symbol of totalitarianism, but not once have I heard anything about insane Germans arresting people for factually true tweets.
They you test the Ground for the Ukrainian Style forced Recruitment Scheme. A bit problematic when you promote LGBT Movement (most of my friends from the RAG Trade are Gay but would never ever participate in these State Organized Schemes so we can look forward of a very colorful Bundeswehr with Tits, Ass and Rainbow Hair. Lovely, the Russians will throw a Champagne Party to welcome them.
Sliding into a police state and with a government hoping to increase the size of the army. Now let me think...how well does this sort of thing usually end?
With cymbals
Very emotionally.
"sliding"
God bless the German people as they fight Big Brother.. !! Never give in.. never comply..
I love Big Brother. You don't? Hmm...
We're on Back to the Future Mode but don't worry, nothing is forever. Back in the 60s, not too long after End of WWII a Frankfurt Band took the Lyrics of "I think they take me away , haha" and translated it into one of the most popular regional Songs at the time>
https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/der_schoene_morgen/bermudadreieck/-ich-glaab--di-hole-mich-ab--ha-haaa---von-malepartus-ii.html
I can't vouch for the order of provenance of either song, but this is a 100% ripoff of the 1966 "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa" by "Napoleon XIV." The music, the echo effects, everything. (Perhaps this is covered in the interview, but as I don't speak German I have no idea.)
Curiously, the Wikipedia page admits to foreign versions, but omits a German one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They're_Coming_to_Take_Me_Away,_Ha-Haaa!
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"All the hallmarks of an NGO speech investigation"? Dude, it has all the hallmarks of a KGB raid. Damian should have called them Chekists.
I think there's a lot of connections between NGOs and intelligence agencies.
Ideological connections for sure.
Financial too. A lot of that was exposed in the Twitter Files.
Not much difference between NGO, CIA,KGB,STASI or SS. We got the Experience and i have firsthand experience of how NGO's work outside Germany: Greens: Heinrich Boell Stiftung, CUD: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, SPD : useless, probably Marxist Stiftung or something like this. They're busy in foreign countries like IRAN, Cambodia, Moldova etc. to trigger Regime Changes .
Natzy Germany is back..
It is a problem that is to be found in many West EU27 member states and the UK.
Woops.
I have have thought about that.....
UK is probably even worse than Germany. But Germany has the advantage that less people know German than English and so it gets less coverage. Arguably for the third time EU is pushing total-suveillence laws, so soon it will look like this everywhere in the EU.
Mr Starmer KFC, Glorious Leader of the Hopeless, is pushing at personal risk to his own career (after all does anything else matter) to impose the latest messed up thinking. I see Ofcom have managed to push a whole generation of children onto the Dark Web thanks to the snooper's charter (aka the on line safety bill).
Oh - hello GCHQ! Got to say hello to our trackers....
I never knew Starmer was involved with Kentucky Fried Chicken! THAT could explain quite a bit!
Well with UvdLiying at the Helm of the EU it's probably in the Genes to enjoy putting others into a Totalitarian State. But ask yourself WHO PROFITS and you'll always end up with People like Klaus Schwab and Co.
Queen Ursula, as President Trump said to her face, represents only an administration and not one single country. Perhaps she needs reminding.... I'll just send a text message....
Inescapable conclusion. History having its little joke.
I imagine this as a nature documentary, with a David Attenborough-type narrating: “Here we see the resourceful parasite, at the first hint of rejection, deploy its full arsenal of defenses to maintain its cozy place feeding off its host.”
(No, I don’t think all public workers are parasites, and neither I imagine would Damian N. if he had to call the fire department to his house.)
Well, the relationship is parasitic because taxes are similar to theft if not theft outright. The Western tax state is nothing like the principalities and kingdoms that preceded the Renaissance, in which the West was formed and built. The tax state is the invention of the power centralizers; the libido dominandi.
"Hans, are we the baddies?" "Yes, Hans, we are". But how outrageous that Beamte status is a protected characteristic these days
I personally don’t view firemen, police, teachers, doctors, nurses, u.s.w as parasites and think that the post is way off the mark. Still: most people would see the post, snigger and move on. I can’t believe the thin-skinned authorities have nothing more productive to do! Tough times in Deutschland.
Can't remember when : firemen, teachers, doctors, nurses were part of the Government.
Must have missed that change. As far as Police is concerned they used to be called "Polizei dein Freund und Helfer".
That scheme died somewhere in the 90s i guess. When the Ample Government came to rule they quickly changed the Law so that the German Bundeswehr and the Police would work under the same umbrella ..... in order to keep the Society at aby. They knew very well what would come. Frigging Annalena Baerbock even projected a Heisser Herbst (hot autumn) coming right after they took over power.
You seen "public servant" compensation and retirement packages in, say, California recently? I thought not.
Lol. Please go to Mises.org and learn something about the Der Stat.
The very relationship of taxes at the point of a gun without consent is parasitic. You might consent, but I do not. Nor did any of my ancestors. The feds in the West claim land and authority well beyond any sense of legitimacy.
Firemen maybe (could be self organised as in the past) but the rest are real parasites... And mostly useless ones.
True evil is such a mundane abomination. Any neighborhood kid can grow up to be one.
I'll never forget when, as adults, I accompanied my brother to the impound lot on a routine police matter. The cop who took us to my brother's vehicle looked quite familiar. It took me a minute to place him: the biggest, meanest, most feared bully in our senior class in high school. Yup.
I'm a born and raised Noo Yawkuh from a nice middle-class background and there was never a time in my life when I didn't think of cops in general as a bunch of corrupt bullies. And there've been police dept. scandals there for my entire adult life.
It's an impossible dilemma for ordinary good people in the force because every cop needs to feel that his colleagues have his back--it's essential of course that they do. But every group then ends up enforcing its code of omerta.
I'll have to fire up "Serpico" again, just for old times' sake...
Funny thing. I worked at a private school where David Durk's daughter went and I met him once.
While I don’t like what he said, it certainly didn’t justify what the police did.
What would have justified what the police did? And what was your objection to the tweet (in its original or translated language)?
He said something mean, but he had a right to say it. I think everyone should be more careful about what they say. But I don’t believe it justifies a police raid.
WARNING, warning for Lizzi !!! Saying "I think everyone should be more careful about what they say" is condoning the slippery slope!
That said, it might be fruitful to check whether the German police academies are being run by former Stasi Beamte. Although, while doing so, we shouldn't think Germany is unique in this respect. In neighboring Holland they still have an offense called "belediging van een ambtenaar in functie", which may be rewarded with a 600-Euro fine.
Fortunately, in the US we still have the First Amendment!
Lizzi wants people to "self-censor."
Which is exactly what the government wants.
And sending police out to mug those who don't is their way of achieving it.
"I think everyone should be more careful about what they say."
I believe the German police impressed the same message upon the tweeter, although somewhat more emphatically than you do for "everyone." And again, since we're talking language, where words matter, is your opinion ("said something mean") based on the original German tweet or the translation into English thereof?
I think what he said was accurate and fair. You fear the truth.
Yes, some innocents are caught up in our illegitimate monopoly “democracies” of tyranny, and just try to make do. But; this changes not the parasitic relationship. To avoid being a parasite, they must use their time and talent to effect change to the system.
what did he say that was "mean"? calling people parasites?
Yes, I thought it was mean, but he has a right to say it.
What a nightmare!
They could argue that government employees are a national group.
You could also argue that they're a religious group, under a broad definition of "religious".
I see why you feel safe being dressed by 6 AM. The best raid time is 4 AM but then there would be the issues of shift changes and possible police overtime. We can't have that. At least they did not break down the door.
Safest would be to remain naked as much as possible. Discomfit the mercenaries and deprive the videographers of their B-reel.