Germany is now once again ruthlessly suppressing the freedom of speech — but this time not to advance its idolatry of its own race and blood, but in order to appease its Turkish overlords.
“German Police Arrest Pirate Party Leader for Citing Anti-Erdogan Satire,” Sputnik News, April 24, 2016, (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Berlin chairman of the German Pirate Party Bruno Kramm was arrested by police for citing anti-erdogan satire poem, according to the party’s statement.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Berlin chairman of the German Pirate Party Bruno Kramm was detained by police during a protest against the government’s decision to open inquiry into a comedian’s satiric poem mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the party’s statement.
Last week, Berlin sanctioned the launch of an investigation against German comedian Jan Boehmermann over a controversial obscene poem that the satirist recited on German TV targeting the Turkish leader
“The demonstration in front of the Turkish Embassy was dispersed. Bruno Kramm was arrested for citing Böhmermann’s poem,” the statement published Friday on the Pirate Party’s Twitter page reads.
Kramm violated the same section of the German criminal code, which allowed opening proceedings against Boehmermann. The section 103 prohibits “defamation of organs and representatives of foreign states.”

Jerry says
They’re going right back to their Nazi days, except this time it’s for religious supremacy, not race. And what’s even more shocking is it’s over a satircal poem, not some inflammatory speech of hate and murder like you might find in islam. Evil has once again taken control of Germany, they’re repeating the past. You’d think they more than anyone could see the fascist hate in islam and want to prevent it. NOPE. They have embraced that sh*t like a baby to milk. It truly is a battle of good against evil. This is the history of religious fanaticism for humanity, it promotes violence, hatred, and intolerance. Back in the middle ages they used to drive a fork through the tongue of “blasphemers” to silence them before the burning stake. Metaphorically speaking we are seeing the same thing here: It’s the fork in the tongue before the burning.
It’s war people! They mean business and so should we!
FIGHT ISLAM! SAVE HUMANITY!
Twitter (@Saint_Wayne) says
Our leaders/establishment are in on it and have been for 20 years.
http://www.mann4bassetlaw.com/an_open_letter_to_jeremy_corbyn_on_child_abuse
We have to deal with those empowering the Muslims first if we are to win
linnte says
Wayne, that isn’t going to happen. If you are in Germany, what is needed is for hundreds of people to get arrested for doing the same thing Bruno Kramm did. Only when ALL the people SEE the absurdity of this Nazism, will they also rise up.
Laura says
Not ‘hundreds’ but hundreds of thousands!
Jerry says
If decent people of the world are so lazy they won’t protect human rights and freedom from islam’s religious retardation and violence then they deserve every evil thing they get. Are we going to be great for humanity or are we going to be groveling weaklings for muslims murderous attack on our way of life and freedoms? No, I’d rather die a hero for freedom than be some pantywaist for islam’s barbarity and retarded aggression.
Our media and politicians are too weak! Start speaking the truth about islam’s murderous ideology or consider yourselves the enemy of civil society and good morals! You can’t hide behind that flimsy curtain of denial and think we can’t see what you truly are: traitors of humanity and cowards protecting evil. You sicken me.
Polk1970 says
Despite the Nazi era ,today’s Germans are,by and large, obediantly
Following Orders” for the most part.
How else could Merkel get away with what she’s done?
Were’s the Bundestag?
Or should I say Reichstag
Jerry says
I think true Germans have shown remarkable restraint. Or should I say “submission.”
Michael Copeland says
Paragraph 103 specifies:
“Whosoever insults a foreign head of state …who is in Germany in his official capacity”.
Erdogan was not in Germany in his official capacity at the time of the speech.
Where has the criminal code been breached?
Jay Boo says
Paragraph 103
Yet didn’t Hitler sharply criticize foreign leaders?
Germany recently allowed the sale of Mein Kampf.
Extreme Right-Wing wackos are not the only ones interested in buying it. Muslim wackos and their Leftist allies on college campuses have just as much Jew hatred.
ensitue says
Glenn Beck predicted the rise of the Old Europe years ago and Clash Of Civilizations predicted it a decade before that, the world is reverting back to it’s old tribal roots
Westman says
When a government persecutes it’s own citizens, at the request of a foreign government, it has transitioned into a dictatorship; only worthy of banishment.
German Elite have consistently fallen into military thinking, dividing society into the ruling elite “officers” and the “soldiers” to be directed as they, in their supremist thinking, determine. It may be an effective way to run a military or conduct national business but it will ignore the needs of productive citizens in preference to questionabie goals.
Worst of all, Elite German thinking will not recognize failure in the early stages.
DFD says
It’s a lot worse, in Germany, and in other places too. The Turks are protesting against the celebration of the Armenian Genocide Day (That’s today, the 24th). Though, it goes ahead regardless.
They also proclaim that it is anti Turkish for the Dresdner Symphony Orchestra to hold a concert in memorial to the victims. They also protest against the term ‘genocide/Völkermord’, referring to it as ‘inter-ethnic violence’.
In the Netherlands the Turkish Consulate has instructed Turkish, and other Muslim organizations, to report to them anti Turkish and anti Islamic articles or speeches.
Reported in PI (Politically Incorrect), German online magazine.
Westman says
Let’s hope that MP Geert Wilders, in The Nethetlands, makes a special address on the Armenian Genocide.
Erdogan, the thin-skinned paranoid man who would be Caliph.
ECAW says
Well, at least we haven’t sunk so far in Britain…yet:
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/introducing-the-president-erdogan-offensive-poetry-competition/
Paul E. Glott says
“Wait for it!” — John Cleese, (the defending yourself with a banana skit, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, 1972) Come to think of it, Europe seems to have based its foreign policy on this skit.
Charli Main says
With respect ECAW, stand outside the Houses of Parliament or any other Public building in Britainistan holding a banner calling the ” king” of Saudi Arabia a sheep shagger and see how long it will be before the defenders of Islam AKA the British police drag you off to see the inside of a 6X4
ECAW says
True. I can’t deny it!
ECAW says
Charli – Some time ago I suggested this as an experiment but couldn’t find any takers:
https://ecawblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/hate-speech/
Obviously I would love to do it myself but… er…yes there was a reason. Give me a minute…
ECAW says
Those of a sensitive disposition look away now:
DFD says
We have now “Britain First”, thy certainly stand up. And are standing for mayoral election in Londinistan! Or is it Londongrad?
Well, they have my support.
Charli Main says
Do you know if they will be putting up any Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist or Jewish candidates ???
How about black, brown or yellow Christians??????
regards CM
DFD says
Charli Main says: “…will be putting up any Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist or Jewish candidates ??? … How about black, brown or yellow Christians??????”
No idea, but they seem to be a fairly mixed lot. Certainly preferable to the Muslim candidate Khan, sharia. And Boris, as far as he is concerned, one may as well vote Murdoch.
The Londoners have a lot of choice, don’t they?
Regards, DFD
Jack Diamond says
{The section 103 prohibits “defamation of organs and representatives of foreign states.”}
Definitely defames his organs. Here is the poem, for lovers of the great literary tradition of obscene satirical poems about the “great” (the tyrants)…”kicking Kurds, beating Christians”–
Stupid as fuck, cowardly and uptight,
Is Erdogan, the president,
His gob smells of bad döner,
Even a pig’s fart smells better,
He’s the man who hits girls,
While wearing a rubber mask,
But goat-fucking he likes the best,
And having minorities repressed,
Kicking Kurds,
Beating Christians,
While watching kiddie porn,
And even at night, instead of sleep,
It’s time for fellatio with a hundred sheep,
Yep, Erdogan is definitely
The president with a tiny dick,
Every Turk will tell you all,
The stupid fool has wrinkly balls,
From Ankara to Istanbul,
They all know the man is gay,
Perverted, louse-infested, a zoophile,
Recep Fritzl Priklopil
Head as empty as his balls,
Of every gang-bang party he’s the star,
Till his cock burns when he has a piss,
That’s Recep Erdogan,
The Turkish president
{Defamation Poem by Jan Böhmermann}
Must infuriate the would-be Caliph to the point of busting blood vessels and ordering Islamophobia/Erdoganophobia hit man squads, to go with those spit-sputtering phone calls to Merkel.
{Pirate Party, lol}
Jack Diamond says
And all Kramm quoted from the poem, apparently, was “kicking Kurds, beating Christians”…nothing about Erdogan’s tiny member at all.
“When people slightly criticize the government in Turkey, they are persecuted, beaten or disappear. In contrast to this, the dictator Erdogan is allowed to significantly restrict the right of assembly and the freedom of expression in Germany merely for a statement, that he beats Kurds and Christians,” Kramm had written in a statement published on the German Pirate Party’s official website.
Angemon says
“{Pirate Party, lol}”
There are several of them in Europe. While specifics vary on a per country basis, they overall stand for the defence of civil rights and privacy on the digital world, revamping of patent and copyright laws, the end to invasive DRM, protection of the freedom of speech and the push for open source software.
Jay Boo says
Satire or Journalism ???
If Jan Boehmermann’s satire of Erdogan turns out to all be true then he is not insulting a representative of a foreign state.
He is merely reporting the news.
No Fear says
The poem doesn’t translate well. But I would defend the poet’s right to free speech.
Alistair cromley says
Erdogan must have warned Germany in no uncertain tones that he will unleash his 10k+ Grey wolf militia if Germany doesn’t do his bidding.
Ask the average person in Europe who the grey wolves are and they will not have a clue.
Here’s a hint. They are the largest neo fascist ultra nationalist terror organisation in Germany. And this Turkish organisation operates openly. They are also freely flourishing in Sweden and the Netherlands.
mortimer says
If the German supreme court has its wits about it, it will declare this obsolete law to be unconstitutional, since it opposes the human right of free speech in a free, modern society. We should have the right to criticize both our own politicians as well as those in other countries.
Erdogan must not be made into a god like Mohammed.
DFD says
Everybody is waiting for the judgement. If he, *hopefully*, gets cleared – oh brother…
Merkel proclaimed that this (ancient) law, applicable only to monarchs, will be annulled in 2018. Note, 2018, one year after the elections. Boehmermann has currently a higher popularity rating than Merkel.
PI magazine reported, a week or two ago, that wanna-be-caliph is the most insulted head of state in the world. In Turkey there are apparently over 2,000 (NO TYPO!) lawsuits out for insulting him…
citycat says
@ Twitter (@ Saint-Wayne)
Those that are empowering the Muslims are the Muslims who empower Muslims from birth, with the use of the Muslim community, the Qur’an, leaders that are narcissistic in the extreme.
The cancer is firmly gripping and there superficial actions will do jack to deal with the source of the rites of manifestations of absolute tyranny, called Islãm. Oh, and the vampire Allah that is too scary for words.
It’s a big job. Ok
Bill says
This is a sad development, but German citizens submitted to authoritarian rule they moment they allowed themselves to be disarmed. Merkel’s armed police bust up anti-Islamic invasion protests. Objecting comedians and now politicians are arrested and prosecuted. All governments seek a monopoly on the use of violence in order to enforce policy. The United States of America was the only revolutionary government to recognize this inherent evil. Even post-Revolutionary War former pro-England citizens were protected by the People’s second amendment. That is remarkable. I bring up this point because Islam uses violence and intimidation to achieve its objectives. It is having massive success against disarmed peoples, and, with European governments and the Roman Catholic Church under Pope Francis aiding and abetting them, Opponents of the spread of Islam are unable to form any meaningful resistance. Observe Germany and England. Look how easy it is to eliminate free speech when only the State can use violence or the threat of it to silence views that are inconsistent with Government objectives. So while German citizens and politicians criticize the loss of free speech, the criticism is swept aside and forcibly punished. There is no consequence to their government for using force or the threat of it to eliminate free speech. Squashing free speech is easier than having to actually address it or reason with it. That has forever been the case. At the end of the day, only citizens capable of defending themselves without sole reliance on their governments are going to be able to organize and resist, both politically and defensively, the Islamic invasion and their own governments’ efforts to silence them.
Jerry says
Great comment, and sadly, so true.
Carolyne says
The Founding fathers of the US understood the danger from a renegade government and they wrote the Second Amendment to the Constitution so that we will not be unarmed in such an event. They also saw the danger of criminalizing the freedom to speak, even criticize Erdogan and anyone else we might feel like criticizing. But we are now at a crossroad. If Obama or Clinton is in a position to nominate and have confirmed a Supreme Court Justice to replace the late Justice Scalia, the First and Second Amendments will be overturned by a left wing Supreme Court and we will be in the same position as citizens of Western European countries. We must not allow that to happen. Once lost, these two privileges will never be regained.
Bill says
I tend to agree. Once lost, these rights will never be regained, unfortunately, without violence. These rights were not granted by the US Constitution to its citizens. We reject that they are privileges. The are basic, God-given, human rights. The founders understood these rights to always reside in the individual. The Constitution is a guaranty of the rights, not a grant of them. This concept is at odds with most of history, every monarch past or present, every feudal form of government past or present, and every form of Communism and, yes, socialism. The flawed UN Charter maintains that people get their rights from governments. Even the Pope does not believe these rights to be individual or God-given.
I believe these rights to be a core part of resistance to Islam. The work done on this Forum is superb in terms of educating and disclosing information about Islam. It is free speech on display. But it would not exist if somewhere, somehow, people stood ready and prepared to fight to defend this right. Unrestrained, government and elitists everywhere would silence Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller in a heartbeat. The speech codes and the “hate speech crimes” a the tools of authoritarian governments and private sector authoritarians. They criminalize speech and then use their tool of choice for enforcement: state approved violence. Police, kangaroo courts, fines, imprisonment, property confiscation — all of it backed up by the force of arms.
marble says
EU dictators are looking out for each other.
David Elstrom says
Marc Steyn had the best comment on Merkel’s cowardly and disgusting decision to let the comedian/satirist be prosecuted (no prosecution would be possible without the German government’s approval): “You can take the girl out of East Germany, but you can’t take the East Germany out of the girl. In the Eighties, Angela Merkel, was a board member of the FDJ – the “Free German Youth”, the kiddie wing of the one-party state – and the local secretary in charge of “agitprop”. So she has a deep understanding of how art and even humble jokes must serve the needs of the regime….” (www.steynonline.com)
Rich says
When will the announcement come that Germany and Turkey have merged and will now be called Gerkey (pronounced Jerky)?
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “the German criminal code … section 103 prohibits “defamation of organs and representatives of foreign states.”
I bet even the Nazis had blatantly and openly disregarded that “law” when they made fun of, say, Winston Churchill during WWII.
So I guess German propaganda is considered “illegal” too (hah! not really – criminals like Merkel are always subjectivists, all about the double standards where only they have rights, while everyone else only has a responsibility – to them)! And that pic of Adolf just reminded me of how much Sau Merkel looks like him! Creepy! I guess she must bleach her own toothbrush moustache!
Jack Diamond says
And the way Goebbels is laughing at Hitler’s lame joke…”a horst walks into a bar…”
No, more likely he was making fun of concentration camp inmates. Actually, Hitler had just about zero humor–certainly about himself. He did like ridiculing others, Diane Mosley thought him a “hoot” and talked about his hilarious take-off on Mussolini. Maybe echoing Nero, his real last words were ‘what a comedian is lost with me’ (though he didn’t appreciate The Great Dictator much). But there were jokes in Nazi Germany about Hitler, just as there is today about Erdogan. Even about the family jewels.
‘Hitler and Goering are surveying their realm from the top of Berlin’s radio tower. Hitler says he wants to do something to put a smile on the sad faces of Berliners. Goering thinks for a moment then helpfully suggests: “Why don’t you jump off?”’
This was such a popular joke one German woman told it to her neighbor, then was reported to the Gestapo, and then she was executed for it. Even with her being the widow of a dead hero of the Reich. Hitler had Muhammad’s sense of humor about such things. And Erdogan’s.