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There’s something horribly wrong when you’re afraid to speak your own thoughts
When I first moved to Germany in 1990, the country, rich in culture and life, was a great place to live.
Optimism was high in the wake of reunification and the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
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But, my oh my, how things have deteriorated.
The leftists have not only taken over the country, but also the conservative CDU party.
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First came the idiotic green movement and climate hysteria starting in the 1990s, followed by the election of stealth communist Angela Merkel in 2005, who let the country be flooded by illegal aliens from all over in 2015.
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Then came the Corona pandemic and all the censorship, government and media lies and restrictions on freedom and basic rights. Dissidents were jailed and/or persecuted.
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Paragraph 188
But just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, they did after the election of the socialist-green-liberal government in 2021 which moved to demolish German industry and put the country in its worse recession since the 1949.
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The demise led to a level of protest and criticism that the government refused to put up with.
They hit back with the intensification of Paragraph 188 “Defamation and slander against persons in political life” of German Law, which went into effect in 2021.
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Paragraph 188 now states:
(1) If defamation (section 186) is committed against a person in the political life of the people publicly, in a meeting or by disseminating content (section 11(3)) for motives connected with the position of the offended person in public life, and if the offense is likely to make his or her public activities considerably more difficult, the penalty shall be imprisonment from three months to five years.”
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In other words, if your speech makes it more difficult for incompetent government officials to keep screwing up the country, you get your house raided, electronic devices confiscated, and possibly do jail time, that is longer than what robbers, muggers and rapists do. Offending the Majesty is a terrible crime.
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One person saw his home raided, because he reposted a comment that called Minister Robert Habeck a “dimwit”.
The video above shows where this has all taken us.
Notice how 60 Minutes admires the new law.
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Designed to silence the opposition
The intent of the new law has nothing to do about creating a nicer place to live, but rather the very opposite.
It is designed to make it really easy to raid homes of dissidents, spread fear, and silence opposing voices.
It should be called The Tyranny Act.
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Many among you, outside of Europe, may think this is a bit funny, but let me assure you that it’s not when you actually live here.
It’s dangerous and you have to be careful expressing yourself.
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The law also goes after people who spread false information; its falseness is determined by bureaucrats.
My blogging days are soon coming to an end, if I stay in Germany.
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Elections slated for this coming Sunday aren’t going to change anything. Friedrich Merz (CDU), a former Blackrock executive, is favored to win,
But he’s all in on it and will form a coalition with the Greens and/or Socialists.
Dark times are ahead.
It may soon be time to pack up and leave after 35 years.
Vance’s speech was spot on.
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US VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE SPEECH IN MUNICH, FEBRUARY 14, 2025; FULL TEXT
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/us-vice-president-jd-v...
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NYTimes Headline with the usual misrepresentation, February 15, 2025
"Vance Implores Europe to Accept Extreme Parties"
"Casts Shunned Groups as Legitimate Vessels of Voter Resentment"
Vance's speech is mainly about Free Speech, Censorship and Mass Migration in Europe
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