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.
But my oh my how things have deteriorated. The leftists have not only taken over the country, but also even the once conservative CDU party.
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 uncontrollably by immigrants from warring countries in 2015.
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.
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. All the demise of course 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.
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.”
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, devices confiscated and possibly do jail time that is longer than what robbers, muggers and rapists do. Offending the Majesty is a terrible crime.
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.
Designed to silence the opposition
The intent of the new law of course 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 to silence opposing voices. It should be called The Tyranny Act.
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.
The law also goes after people who spread false information. My blogging days are soon coming to an end, if I stay in Germany.
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.
It reminds me unfortunately of The Enabling Act of March 23, 1933 — forced through the Reichstag already purged of many political opponents –gave dictatorial powers to the NSDAP.
This is very saddening. I hope you find a suitable solution.
The CJ Hopkins saga is worth a study!
CDU will make the new government together with SPD and Grüne.
So, as you have stated above, all that will only get worse.
Maybe, but I see it a s a less likely possibility, the governing coalition will not include “die Grüne” but CDU, SPD and FDP, if the latter reaches 5%.
The sad point is that many of the people of my environment, who are most foreigners, are worried for AfD gaining voters, but do not understand where the real problem comes from.
Very Nice Information , Thanks
GTU
You mean that you no spread false.
Mean it can label false, but no is.
Who define false is question
And if you vote the wrong way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxdl5RRN8Vc
Sorry to hear of your problems
I will not even comment on this. My thoughts about European leaders are too vile to be shared.
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** He said it — “Germany is turning into an unlivable Tyranny“! — right there in the title:
https://notrickszone.com/2025/02/18/germany-is-turning-into-an-unlivable-tyranny/
On a more urgent note:
The latest non-news is ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Front‘ (or ‘Im Osten nichts Neues‘) ——
With less than 100 hours before the election, they’ve held the “The great chancellor duel of … in full length” *.
Why a ‘duel‘? Because in the German (per)version of ‘Democracy’, it’s perfectly respectable to have a presidential (Kanzler / Chancellor) debate in which only the 1st & 3rd – leading candidates are included. In which they agreed to agree on pretty much everything. [Yawn] ? Or could this be a case like the decadent Weimar-Republik zirka 1932 A.D. … slouching toward Catastrophe ? **
To the point, a quick scan of this — ‘Here* you can find the most important statements from the TV duel Scholz vs. Merz’ — gives no indication that in environment-aka-‘Green / Grüne’ policy (never say Klimapokalypse) there is anything to dispute.
From which, one could conclude that ‘There is No Alternative (for Germany)‘ [ Kanzlerin Merkel‘s go-to line ].
But for a more inclusive view, you might try Victor Davis Hanson‘s or David P Goldman‘s well-reasoned takes on the matter, they are both in agreement that —
Yes! (Doch!) there is an Alternative for Germany … and it is exclusively the Alternativ-für-Deutschland (AfD). Truth may be stranger than fiction, once again.
*Source: https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article255475792/Bundestagswahl-Merz-nennt-Koalitionsbedingungen-Scholz-will-CDU-Chef-mit-AfD-Frage-in-Bedraengnis-bringen-TV-Duell-zum-Nachlesen.html
Off topic
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14414367/covid-vaccines-new-syndrome-biological-changes-yale.html
“Yale scientists link Covid vaccines to alarming new syndrome causing ‘distinct biological changes’ to body”
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.18.25322379v1
On a more urgent note:
The latest non-news is ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Front‘ (or ‘Im Osten nichts Neues‘) ——
With less than 100 hours before the election, they’ve held the “The great chancellor duel of … in full length” *.
Why a ‘duel‘? Because in the German (per)version of ‘Democracy’, it’s perfectly respectable to have a presidential (Kanzler / Chancellor) debate in which only the 1st & 3rd – leading candidates are included. In which they agreed to agree on pretty much everything. [Yawn] ? Or could this be a case like the decadent Weimar-Republik zirka 1932 A.D. … slouching toward Catastrophe ? **
To the point, a quick scan of this — ‘Here* you can find the most important statements from the TV duel Scholz vs. Merz’ — gives no indication that in environment-aka-‘Green / Grüne’ policy (never say Klimapokalypse) there is anything to dispute.
From which, one could conclude that ‘There is No Alternative (for Germany)‘ [ Kanzlerin Merkel‘s go-to line ].
But for a more inclusive view, you might try Victor Davis Hanson‘s or David P Goldman‘s well-reasoned takes on the matter, they are both in agreement that —
Yes! (Doch!) there is an Alternative for Germany … and it is exclusively the Alternativ-für-Deutschland (AfD). Truth may be stranger than fiction, once again.
*Source: https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article255475792/Bundestagswahl-Merz-nennt-Koalitionsbedingungen-Scholz-will-CDU-Chef-mit-AfD-Frage-in-Bedraengnis-bringen-TV-Duell-zum-Nachlesen.html
Leave Germany, go to the USA which is now saved, and tell Trump to write off Europe and tell him to just invest in his star-shield project that will kill any enemy’s missile launched against the USA. And let Europe fall into Putin’s hands. They don’t deserve better.
I am so sorry to read of your position, and you have my every sympathy as here, in UK, we are going down the same route under the globalist Starmer – er, he is not leading, he is being told what to do by them – Davos group etc. My mother, a refugee from Breslau in the former Germany from the advancing Red Army, would be turning in her grave at the desecration of our western civilisation.
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