Censorship is getting more and more blatant across the West. From Matt Taibbi at racket.news:
Acquitted on German hate speech charges in January, American playwright CJ Hopkins is being charged again for the same offense. He has a scary message for Americans
The German people are famous for putting everything in print, even things they shouldn’t, and in this instance at least, American playwright and author CJ Hopkins is glad. “The irony,” he says, laughing. “The Germans, always documenting everything.”
In a letter from the Berlin Prosecutor’s file on Hopkins, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA, analogous to our FBI) acknowledges receipt of a document from a government office describing an effort to have tweets deleted. “The Hessen Gegen Hetze reporting office,” the highlighted portion reads, “has already initiated measures to delete the relevant post on the social network”:
Hopkins reached out to me after listening in disgust to the Murthy v. Missouri Supreme Court hearing Monday. Standing was a big issue: our government said plaintiffs like Drs. Jay Bhattacharya and Aaron Kheriaty lacked definite proof that the government was responsible for suppressing their speech. No such issue exists in CJ’s case, as you can see.
Hopkins also wanted Americans who might be up in arms about the specter of legalized censorship in their own country to see that the phenomenon has also spread to virtually every Western democracy, often in more extreme forms than we’ve seen so far in the United States.
CJ’s unique insight involves his ludicrous German case, which as you’ll read in the Q&A below has taken bizarre turns since we last checked and will now go to trial yet again. As an expat following the American situation from afar, he’s seen how the authoritarian tide is rising in similar or worse ways all around the globe.
”target comics” Humor is indeed the most dangerous weapon against a dictatorship. Humor gives strength to the oppressed. Nothing shakes the foundation of a seemingly monolithic dictatorship like the earthquakes of the humor!
They have no double jeopardy there in Germanystan?
There is an authoritarian history in Jerry land.
Ivan says come on over and pick on someone your own size for a SS unit and region signs cast down in Red Square redux.
Might be time for a rump vassal to meet Ivan?
On the Eastern Front corpses got ran over repeatedly while rotting on trails and roads and Stuka legend Hans Rudel who sank a battleship with the JU-87 amputated his own leg to avoid a brutal capture.
In fact some bullies of the state need to go to the WAR field and take out some aggression maybe get kicked to the teeth and hit in the head a few times.
Reading an anti-spiegel The West is at WAR with Russia Part 1 (h/t-JR) translated article and it says the SPD is the most unpopular government ever.
The UKE 404 WAR is right up there with unpopularity and apparatchiks who prattle on about supplying money and material are slipping in the polls.
The Replacements must not feel any animosity towards the CPUSA (D) wing of the UNI-Party cookie jar laundromat and the Ukrainians.
Earlier read a fantastic history lesson about the Slavic nationalism neo-Nazi’s in the 404 and some of that makes the Germanic myths sound plausible.
My favorite was the planet riders.
Regarding Gaza, isn’t that Lebensraum (Living Room) in action?
We want their land and food and they are subhumans is right out of the NSDAP why we invaded Russia playbook.