Based on recent events in Britain I’d have chosen them as most closely resembling the old Communist nations, especially East Germany with its massive Stasi network of police and informers. Aside from anything else I’d have thought that with millions of Germans still around who lived in that world there would be no way they’d put up with such again.
Stefan Niehoff is a 64 year-old retiree who lives in the small town of Burgpreppach in Lower Franconia. He runs an X account with 1,200 followers, where he occasionally expresses his dissatisfaction with the present state of German politics and with the Greens in particular. In June 2024, he retweeted [an image] which appropriates the logo of a popular cosmetic brand to suggest that Robert Habeck, our Green Minister of Economic Affairs, might be a “professional moron.”
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Schweinfurt police showed up at Niehoff’s house at 6:14am yesterday morning and took his tablet. Police later told the press that the raid was one in a series of enforcement actions – part of something called “an action day against cybercrime.”
It turns out that there’s actually laws on the books in Germany which makes it a crime to “insult” politicians, with stiff penalties to boot.
AYFKM? No, and the police raid suddenly bought attention to a lot of other such cases, the following being my favourite:
In April 2023, a man from Sachsen-Anhalt was fined €600 for tweeting the poop emoji (💩) at His Majesty the Sun Minister Robert Habeck. Specifically, he tweeted, “Herr Habeck, you are such a lying piece of 💩.” Habeck filed charges, and our offender received the following penalty order from the district court of Bitterfeld-Wolfen:
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Witness Habeck feels that his honour has been violated by your statement, and in particular by your use of the emoji, and is filing a criminal complaint against you for insult. You were furthermore aware that the witness Habeck is a federal minister and that your comment is likely to make it more difficult for him to perform his duties as federal minister in public.
This may (hopefully) blow up in the stupid faces of the politicians, but there is a seedy, Stasi-side to it, because it turns out that the only reason the likes of Habeck even know about such insults from people with 1200 followers on X is because they’re told about them:
Making formal complaints requires time, effort and paperwork, and so ideological activists and mysteriously funded agencies very often do the work for him – scouring the internet, assuming the costs, the risks and the bureaucratic hassle, so that all Habeck has to do at the end is sign a piece of paper. Many, but not all, of these prosecutions originate with activist operations like this.
You won’t be surprised to hear which politicians really enjoy this:
Most politicians decline to prosecute, but the Greens are different. Politicians like Habeck sign whatever the activists and the police put in front of them. As I’ve said, the Greens reflect the attitudes and the disposition of the German political elite in general; and this means that they identify with its bureaucratic structures and its enforcement mechanisms most closely of all. They love speech prosecutions. They want more of them.
Of course. The Green fuckers here in New Zealand would do the same if they could. There’s a reason that communists keep popping up in the Green Party, years after Keith Locke and Sue Bradford quit.
Still, the situation in Britain sounds more sinister than idiotic like the German scene:
The Chief Constable of Essex Police, Ben-Julian Harrington, who sent two of his officers to [reporter] Allison Pearson’s house on Remembrance Sunday morning, actively encourages public complaints under the Malicious Communications Act (1988). Not content with making sure people know what a hate crime is, he provides blow-by-blow instructions on how to report them on its website. [producing Non Crime Hate Incident (NCHI) accusations] An accompanying booklet called ‘Stop the Hate’ all but suggests it is a public duty to be an informer.
The cops would not tell Pearson who the accuser was or the details, and in fact referred to the person as “the victim”. Julie Bindel reported being visited by police over such an incident in 2019. She too was denied any information about the accusation, and so refused point-blank to attend for interview.
Adding these to the events I listed in the first sentence of the post means I’d still rate Britain as the more Stasi of the two nations.
Also, while Labour is pushing hard on all this, you can forget about the Tory opposition reversing this when they get back into government – they introduced almost all of it years ago:
It was a full seven years ago on October 17, 2017, that David Keighley warned on these pages of the latest of Theresa May’s ‘victim’ obsessions – hate crime. Elevating hate crime was part of her Tory ‘detoxifying’ programme – aka her full-scale shift of the party (and the then Government) towards progressive left woke thinking and culture, an appeasement that her colleagues shamefully ‘sucked up’. From race audits (into 130 aspects of life no less) to transgenderism, which she and her Equalities Ministers promoted, to hate crime, May pushed a poisonous rhetoric driven by the ideology of identity politics.
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People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Over 30 years ago farming east of Masterton we had a surprise visit from a SPCA officer who had travelled from Featherston, a journey over 50 Kms to inspect our farm dogs as an accusation of cruelty had been registered we had sheepdogs seriously undernourished.
WE were only too happy to assist and the inspector suggested if any thing our dogs were on the chubby side for working dogs. We then took her to a seperate location where we had a “Kennel Runner”, a dog that could not rest and to some luvlies might consider be considered slightly “skinny” but to her credit the woman from the SPCA wondered aloud why the complaint had ever been made?
She was only doing her job so I did not reonstrate with her but knowing full well who had been malicious, waited until the evening when I rang the local Chairman of the Organisation that has always complained vociferously about being short of funds, and asked him strait up who had triggered the wasted trip and precious funds.
Of course he declined to name the person and seemed unaffected about the two hours and over 100 kms of travel in circumstances I felt could have been pursued in court.
No such outcome.
Hello People sometimes whistle blowers and the uninformed can create chaos whith protections for pimps and the mentally touched, any moves to accommodate such vigilantism need to be very carefully monitored as the potential for malfeasance is far too easy.