When the law is powerless to help you, but most definitely is on hand to harm you, your government is an anarcho-tyranny state. Strange how so many Western governments are moving/arriving to this point at the same time. When the propaganda fails to control the people, brute force comes into play.
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
Perhaps an appropriate response to all of this would be for Germans to go totally juvenile and begin using pen knives and markers to surreptitiously scratch swastikas into the paint on public toilet stalls, park benches, and every available surface they can find, as could be observed throughout the U.S. in the 60s and 70s.
Americans are normally rule breakers. I'm never more aware of that than when I go north of the border into Canada. During the inevitable big traffic tie-ups, the first cars to invade HOV lanes and run around their meaningless orange barrels almost always have NY plates.
Exactly right! Germany is now a failed state or government in the service of the globalist tyranny now controlling most of the world; Canada, the U.S., France, the U. K. are also failed states all sharing the same characteristics of mindless government control, abuses of power, loss of national sovereignty, failure to uphold constitutional values and total disrespect for the free expression of the voices of their own people; so along with the continued use of lies and deception and "legal" machinations, we will see more use of force to subjugate the populace; "what is a country? a country is what it stands for, when standing for something is most difficult; this is what we stand for: justice, truth and the value of a single human being." (from Judgement at Nuremberg (the movie).
Another way of expressing the anarcho part is "two-tiered justice," where only the establishment's enemies have the law enforced against them, and fully.
The subject Berlin Appellate Court’s ruling, authored by Judge Delia Naumann, to treat criticism of state action as a distinct class with different requirements seems, prima facie, and perhaps withstanding deeper scrutiny, in direct contradiction to precedent cited by judge Dr. Clivia von Dewitz in her opinion piece in the Berliner Zeitung*
“In a ruling on April 11, 2024 in response to a constitutional complaint by Julian Reichelt, the Federal Constitutional Court noted the special importance of freedom of expression and made it clear that the state must also put up with harsh and polemical criticism. This must also apply when Nazi symbols are used to criticize state orders, regardless of whether the criticism is justified or not.”
Many thanks! I'm also sure we disagree about many issues, but I am happy to be considered a friend, and the feeling is mutual. I'm also a big fan of your columns, which are the most intelligent, insightful, well-written analyses of present-day Germany that I'm aware of, not to mention funny! All best, CJ
I’m “between jobs” in the current popular euphemism, but like Mr. Lyons have some spare currency at the ready for your cause which is our cause. Let ‘em have it with both barrels! (I disclaim violence, whether with both barrels, or just the left barrel, or only the right barrel, or without barrels, and furthermore said disclaimer includes the disclaiming of Nazi-inspired as well as Nazi-historical violence, both of which are hereby disclaimed). Just say the word, CJ!
Was it Stalin who said 'show me the man and I'll show you the crime'? These nauseating Communists are on a mission, ultimately for China, though many don't realise it.
The courts seem hopelessly politicized. Same is true in the USA. The first German court that acquitted CJ did it due to the clarity of the facts of the case, but clearly regretted having to do so. The judge put a mask on her face to demonstrate her own level of compliance, or something like that.
Just because you don’t call yourself a Nazi, doesn’t mean you can’t share their values and mimic their techniques in order to dominate and suppress others. It’s not the label, it’s the things that you do. The Nazis are dead, totalitarian wannabes are alive, and it seems prospering.
It is much the same here, with our hate-speech laws. How they are actually written, including the lawmakers' statements of intent when the laws were first put together and whenever they have been amended differs greatly from how the politician-riddled courts have come to apply them.
The current interpretation is "any statement in any form which someone of [list of privileged groups] may find offensive if subjected to it", is a crime.
And the way the law is used means that any example I'd provide here, /even one from a court case used only as an example/ would be a criminal act on my part, if the court wanted it to be.
CJ Hopkins, if you read this, thank you for standing your ground and take care you don't get the Assange-treatment.
Frustrated by the ongoing degradation of our rights here in the US, it's even more shocking to read something like your comment and see how much worse it could be. Or likely *will* be.
The article talks about a charge laid against MP Jomshof (Sweden Democrats, aka "the NeXt hItLeR") by a professional grievance-hustler.
The prosecutor who got the case decided that the charge lacked merit and dropped it, but now the hustler has filed a new report to the special prosecutor's office, who can over-rule the normal prosecutor's decision.
The charge itself is "hate-crime", due to Jomshof liking and sharing a couple of images on X. The images make fun of how arabs coming to Europe first beg for aid and asylum, only to turn violently demanding once granted residency.
The hustler in question is a former police officer who got kicked out of the force (no mean feat here, let me tell you) and started a farm, where the animals were eventually taken into custody and had to be put down to mismanagement and criminal negligence. However, instead of going to court, this former police officer left Sweden for five years until the statute of limitation had passed. He has since taken to filing criminal charges against anyone committing "hate-speech", and then when they lash out against him or bring up his past transgressions filing civil suits for damages due to defamation /under Swedish defamation/slander/libel-laws, it doesn't matter if the information spread is true or not, only if it is done with malicious intent and causes harm to the one it pertains to).
This is why I caution Americans of all sorts against the Democrat party over there: they have in the past stated that they view the Nordic/Scandinavian nations as models when it comes to matters of free speech et cetera.
As for Americans, most of us have no idea how special our First Amendment is and how it's being threatened. We somehow can't seem to connect the whole idea of "disinformation" and free speech.
Somehow was accomplished with government schools. The people who want to rule have no interest in a literate, critically thinking, rational populace. It's antithetical to every one of their goals.
The caption to the der Spiegel cover reads, “Haven’t you learned anything?” Spiegel asked above a swastika, as the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany approached on 18 May 2024."
The answer to their question is: No, you haven't learned anything. Seventy-five years later, you're still persecuting people for criticizing your policies.
Judicial systems need to be de-politicized, or pockets of injustice within the system will continue to spread.
Whenever someone is indicted on any charge the least bit political, they should be given an allocation of funds equivalent to the amount of money being spent by the prosecution, escrowed to be used solely for their defense; strict limits should be placed on fines & incarceration, and no “gag” orders. That would be a good start.
The only way to depoliticize anything is to disappear all those who try to politicize it in the first place. Leftism is first, last, and always, a people-problem -- abnormal., alien people.
Events like this and the corrupt sidelining of AfD are what send chills down my spine.
You said it best here: “The Federal Republic is growing every day more illiberal, as our elites become ever further detached from popular sentiment and the interests of their own people. If they are to stay in power, they will need to crack down on the ambient discontent of the rabble.”
This is what I would liken to the “gathering storm” now rising up in Western governments around the world.
They are becoming palpably more desperate, and, just like cornered animals, more vicious. They are more and more throwing off even any pretense of legality or Justice. They are in a death spiral and we, the people, are Enemy #1, the gravest threat to their continued existence.
They will stop at absolutely nothing to cling to power no matter what means or methods they deem necessary to implement in order to do so.
That is what is happening right now and around the world.
Buckle up. We are in an actual war for our survival as free people. And the enemy is our own governments.
And it’s gonna get much uglier before it ever begins to get better.
"This is what I would liken to the “gathering storm” now rising up in Western governments around the world... They will stop at absolutely nothing to cling to power no matter what means or methods they deem necessary to implement in order to do so."
This is usually the point where some American will quote John F. Kennedy: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." So check that checkbox.
Yeah. I could see dropping $100 in his legal defense fund, for his (presumably) inevitable appeal to the Federal Whoever-It-Was you said was the next step.
"German authorities are specifically eager to target those guilty of “delegitimising the state,” " Let me get this straight; 80 years ago, it would've been illegal to speak against the Nazi regime under this new, "enlightened" goal?
This is exactly the kind of lawfare BS we can expect from Democrats in the U.S. This is not an assumption; all we have to do is listen to them tell us who they are & observe their actions.
Thanks for covering this. I've been following this case intently. An absolute travesty of justice. I don't know how these judges can look at themselves in tbe mirror. These people are the same ones who would have been part of the 'people's court' in the 1940's but pretend to be on the right side of history. I really respect CJ for fighting till his last breath to get justice. A lesser man would have fled the hellhole a long time ago
That's life over here in Berlin, alter und neuer Hauptstadt des Reichs. When we were students we called that "Klassenjustiz", and it was always there, hidden in the shadows. There are laws and then there are those who interpret them..and they always win..
When the law is powerless to help you, but most definitely is on hand to harm you, your government is an anarcho-tyranny state. Strange how so many Western governments are moving/arriving to this point at the same time. When the propaganda fails to control the people, brute force comes into play.
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
― George Orwell
All in lockstep...just like with covid.
Perhaps an appropriate response to all of this would be for Germans to go totally juvenile and begin using pen knives and markers to surreptitiously scratch swastikas into the paint on public toilet stalls, park benches, and every available surface they can find, as could be observed throughout the U.S. in the 60s and 70s.
The Germans are normally rule followers.
Can't image much juvenile behavior out of them.
Americans are normally rule breakers. I'm never more aware of that than when I go north of the border into Canada. During the inevitable big traffic tie-ups, the first cars to invade HOV lanes and run around their meaningless orange barrels almost always have NY plates.
American sinners🤣🤣🤣🤣but Toronto traffic is soooooo bad!!!!
that was the biggest tell
Exactly right! Germany is now a failed state or government in the service of the globalist tyranny now controlling most of the world; Canada, the U.S., France, the U. K. are also failed states all sharing the same characteristics of mindless government control, abuses of power, loss of national sovereignty, failure to uphold constitutional values and total disrespect for the free expression of the voices of their own people; so along with the continued use of lies and deception and "legal" machinations, we will see more use of force to subjugate the populace; "what is a country? a country is what it stands for, when standing for something is most difficult; this is what we stand for: justice, truth and the value of a single human being." (from Judgement at Nuremberg (the movie).
So true and I would add Australia to that list
and New Zealand
Where is Reinhardt Fullmich?
A great movie by the way.
He is a political prisoner in Germany.
More stick than carrot, lately.
Nothing about it is anarcho- though. There is unlimited amoral "legal" structure, which is unfortunately, forever, the enemy.
Another way of expressing the anarcho part is "two-tiered justice," where only the establishment's enemies have the law enforced against them, and fully.
Precisely!
The subject Berlin Appellate Court’s ruling, authored by Judge Delia Naumann, to treat criticism of state action as a distinct class with different requirements seems, prima facie, and perhaps withstanding deeper scrutiny, in direct contradiction to precedent cited by judge Dr. Clivia von Dewitz in her opinion piece in the Berliner Zeitung*
“In a ruling on April 11, 2024 in response to a constitutional complaint by Julian Reichelt, the Federal Constitutional Court noted the special importance of freedom of expression and made it clear that the state must also put up with harsh and polemical criticism. This must also apply when Nazi symbols are used to criticize state orders, regardless of whether the criticism is justified or not.”
*https://open.substack.com/pub/cjhopkins/p/political-justice-in-new-normal-germany
Is this not a basis to overturn the Appellate?
I feel like Judge Delia Naumann should have closed with “Lassen Sie sie Apfelstrudel essen.”
Many thanks! I'm also sure we disagree about many issues, but I am happy to be considered a friend, and the feeling is mutual. I'm also a big fan of your columns, which are the most intelligent, insightful, well-written analyses of present-day Germany that I'm aware of, not to mention funny! All best, CJ
As do I, CJ! Sorry to hear of all the bother you're in but, like others, credit card is at the ready! Forza e corraggio
I’m “between jobs” in the current popular euphemism, but like Mr. Lyons have some spare currency at the ready for your cause which is our cause. Let ‘em have it with both barrels! (I disclaim violence, whether with both barrels, or just the left barrel, or only the right barrel, or without barrels, and furthermore said disclaimer includes the disclaiming of Nazi-inspired as well as Nazi-historical violence, both of which are hereby disclaimed). Just say the word, CJ!
“while you have to be a total moron to read Hopkins’s tweets as affirming National Socialism”…yet, that is exactly what the appellate court did.
Because they'd rather look like morons than allow public officials to have to face legitimate criticism.
Was it Stalin who said 'show me the man and I'll show you the crime'? These nauseating Communists are on a mission, ultimately for China, though many don't realise it.
That was Berea, Stalin's head of Security, but we are witnessing this in almost all countries now. Despicable and disheartening.
That was Levrenty Beria, Stalin’s head of secret police.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
The courts seem hopelessly politicized. Same is true in the USA. The first German court that acquitted CJ did it due to the clarity of the facts of the case, but clearly regretted having to do so. The judge put a mask on her face to demonstrate her own level of compliance, or something like that.
Morons or not, they just follow orders.
It seems that courts have fallen in a downwards spiral condemning Corona policy critics that they cannot come out of without losing face.
As if they didn't realised they lost face already ...
Is Germany striving to disgrace itself again before the eyes of history? Kind of looks like it.
Just because you don’t call yourself a Nazi, doesn’t mean you can’t share their values and mimic their techniques in order to dominate and suppress others. It’s not the label, it’s the things that you do. The Nazis are dead, totalitarian wannabes are alive, and it seems prospering.
They seem to be trying their best to outperform the Nazis running our medical establishment over here.
They're kind of like America's Democrats -- always blame your opponents for doing what you do.
Goes way back in time. Eve blamed the serpent. Adam blamed God for giving him the woman.
Most people don't take responsibility for their actions, they blame the 'other side'. If only.....
You've got to hand it to them. They always seem to be on the cutting edge of political insanity.
It is much the same here, with our hate-speech laws. How they are actually written, including the lawmakers' statements of intent when the laws were first put together and whenever they have been amended differs greatly from how the politician-riddled courts have come to apply them.
The current interpretation is "any statement in any form which someone of [list of privileged groups] may find offensive if subjected to it", is a crime.
And the way the law is used means that any example I'd provide here, /even one from a court case used only as an example/ would be a criminal act on my part, if the court wanted it to be.
CJ Hopkins, if you read this, thank you for standing your ground and take care you don't get the Assange-treatment.
Frustrated by the ongoing degradation of our rights here in the US, it's even more shocking to read something like your comment and see how much worse it could be. Or likely *will* be.
Prepare the regurgitation-receptacle of your choice then:
https://samnytt.se/forundersokning-mot-richard-jomshof-lades-ned-overklagas
The article talks about a charge laid against MP Jomshof (Sweden Democrats, aka "the NeXt hItLeR") by a professional grievance-hustler.
The prosecutor who got the case decided that the charge lacked merit and dropped it, but now the hustler has filed a new report to the special prosecutor's office, who can over-rule the normal prosecutor's decision.
The charge itself is "hate-crime", due to Jomshof liking and sharing a couple of images on X. The images make fun of how arabs coming to Europe first beg for aid and asylum, only to turn violently demanding once granted residency.
The hustler in question is a former police officer who got kicked out of the force (no mean feat here, let me tell you) and started a farm, where the animals were eventually taken into custody and had to be put down to mismanagement and criminal negligence. However, instead of going to court, this former police officer left Sweden for five years until the statute of limitation had passed. He has since taken to filing criminal charges against anyone committing "hate-speech", and then when they lash out against him or bring up his past transgressions filing civil suits for damages due to defamation /under Swedish defamation/slander/libel-laws, it doesn't matter if the information spread is true or not, only if it is done with malicious intent and causes harm to the one it pertains to).
This is why I caution Americans of all sorts against the Democrat party over there: they have in the past stated that they view the Nordic/Scandinavian nations as models when it comes to matters of free speech et cetera.
Holy cow.
As for Americans, most of us have no idea how special our First Amendment is and how it's being threatened. We somehow can't seem to connect the whole idea of "disinformation" and free speech.
Somehow was accomplished with government schools. The people who want to rule have no interest in a literate, critically thinking, rational populace. It's antithetical to every one of their goals.
The caption to the der Spiegel cover reads, “Haven’t you learned anything?” Spiegel asked above a swastika, as the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany approached on 18 May 2024."
The answer to their question is: No, you haven't learned anything. Seventy-five years later, you're still persecuting people for criticizing your policies.
As well as medically experimenting on innocent people.
Thank you for this. We all need to support CJ lest he become the next Julian Assange.
Or Gonzalo Lira.
That was a horrific case and not even remotely subtle by state actors.
Judicial systems need to be de-politicized, or pockets of injustice within the system will continue to spread.
Whenever someone is indicted on any charge the least bit political, they should be given an allocation of funds equivalent to the amount of money being spent by the prosecution, escrowed to be used solely for their defense; strict limits should be placed on fines & incarceration, and no “gag” orders. That would be a good start.
A cheaper start would be to eliminate all judicial and prosecutorial immunity from prosecution
Stochastic justice maybe the only reasonable way to go (which is probably best personified by the US Supreme Court).
The only way to depoliticize anything is to disappear all those who try to politicize it in the first place. Leftism is first, last, and always, a people-problem -- abnormal., alien people.
Events like this and the corrupt sidelining of AfD are what send chills down my spine.
You said it best here: “The Federal Republic is growing every day more illiberal, as our elites become ever further detached from popular sentiment and the interests of their own people. If they are to stay in power, they will need to crack down on the ambient discontent of the rabble.”
This is what I would liken to the “gathering storm” now rising up in Western governments around the world.
They are becoming palpably more desperate, and, just like cornered animals, more vicious. They are more and more throwing off even any pretense of legality or Justice. They are in a death spiral and we, the people, are Enemy #1, the gravest threat to their continued existence.
They will stop at absolutely nothing to cling to power no matter what means or methods they deem necessary to implement in order to do so.
That is what is happening right now and around the world.
Buckle up. We are in an actual war for our survival as free people. And the enemy is our own governments.
And it’s gonna get much uglier before it ever begins to get better.
"This is what I would liken to the “gathering storm” now rising up in Western governments around the world... They will stop at absolutely nothing to cling to power no matter what means or methods they deem necessary to implement in order to do so."
This is usually the point where some American will quote John F. Kennedy: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." So check that checkbox.
John Kerry calls First Amendment ‘major block’ in holding media ‘accountable’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWdxgtlxpO8
There is no better place to say this than at a World Economic Forum event!
Very insightfully stated!
Coming to America.
Oh wait...it is already here.
😢
Eugy: your stack has a broad reach. Please post the crowd-fund info for CJ once he posts it. I have my credit card ready.
Yeah. I could see dropping $100 in his legal defense fund, for his (presumably) inevitable appeal to the Federal Whoever-It-Was you said was the next step.
I hope he researches well to get the most successful, kick ass lawyer out there.
Yes, this is very important!
Many people don’t understand that to get a higher chance to win a case, the lawyer is key.
The real problem the German officials have with C.J. Hopkins is that his criticism is legitimate.
"German authorities are specifically eager to target those guilty of “delegitimising the state,” " Let me get this straight; 80 years ago, it would've been illegal to speak against the Nazi regime under this new, "enlightened" goal?
This is exactly the kind of lawfare BS we can expect from Democrats in the U.S. This is not an assumption; all we have to do is listen to them tell us who they are & observe their actions.
Thanks for covering this. I've been following this case intently. An absolute travesty of justice. I don't know how these judges can look at themselves in tbe mirror. These people are the same ones who would have been part of the 'people's court' in the 1940's but pretend to be on the right side of history. I really respect CJ for fighting till his last breath to get justice. A lesser man would have fled the hellhole a long time ago
💯
It pains me to see this great country and people on a totally preventable downward slide.
I have personally known a number of sane Germans with good senses of humor and have enjoyed visiting Germany.
And driving the Nurburgring 😎😁
That's life over here in Berlin, alter und neuer Hauptstadt des Reichs. When we were students we called that "Klassenjustiz", and it was always there, hidden in the shadows. There are laws and then there are those who interpret them..and they always win..