“German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said that the companies offering such online platforms are responsible for removing hateful content. He said the new bill would not restrict the freedom of expression, but intervene only when criminal hatred or intentionally false news are posted.”
What is “criminal hatred”? Clearly what German authorities mean is not just incitement to violence, but opposition to their suicidal policies regarding Muslim migration: “the issue” of this online censorship “has come to the fore amid the recent influx of migrants to Germany, which has sparked a backlash among some Germans including a rise in online vitriol.” German authorities apparently define “vitriol” as including any opposition to the Muslim migrant influx, no matter how reasoned, and to their supine attitude regarding jihad terror: Facebook and Twitter have already blocked 90% of their daily referrals from Jihad Watch, and the site is blocked by many Internet service providers in the UK and Europe. The government of Pakistan says that Facebook is doing its bidding and removing content that violates Sharia blasphemy laws.
The concept of “hate speech” is subjective. I don’t think that what I do constitutes “hate speech,” but Leftist and Muslim groups insist that it does, and they have all the power. “Hate speech” laws are tools in the hands of the powerful to silence the powerless and quell their dissent. But the increasingly authoritarian character of the political elites is in the final analysis a sign of their desperation. They didn’t see Brexit or Trump coming. They are rapidly moving to delegitimize and silence all those who dissent from their globalist internationalist agenda. But our numbers are growing. This ain’t over. And they will not succeed in silencing us.
“Germany approves bill curbing online hate crime, fake news,” by Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press, April 5, 2017:
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved a new bill that punishes social networking sites if they fail to swiftly remove illegal content such as hate speech or defamatory fake news.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet agreed on rules that would impose fines of up to 50 million euros (53.4 million dollars) on Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms.
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said that the companies offering such online platforms are responsible for removing hateful content. He said the new bill would not restrict the freedom of expression, but intervene only when criminal hatred or intentionally false news are posted.
Germany poses a particular problem for U.S.-owned social networking sites accustomed to American standards of free speech. Due to its Nazi past, Germany bans public Holocaust denial and any overt promotion of racism. The issue has come to the fore amid the recent influx of migrants to Germany, which has sparked a backlash among some Germans including a rise in online vitriol.
Social networks need to ensure that obviously criminal content — as defined by German law — will be deleted within 24 hours and other illegal content after seven days.
“Just like on the streets, there is also no room for criminal incitement on social networks,” Maas said.
“The internet affects the culture of debate and the atmosphere in our society. Verbal radicalization is often a preliminary stage to physical violence,” he added.
The minister pointed out that social networks don’t delete enough punishable content, citing research that he said showed Twitter deletes just 1 percent of illegal content flagged by users, while Facebook deletes 39 percent.
Maas also said that measures to combat hate speech and so-called fake news will ultimately have to be taken at the European level to be effective….
Patriot911 says
Will the social media outlets have to remove Jihadist posts calling for the destruction of Jews or incitements to violence against unbelievers? Somehow, I think they won’t…
gravenimage says
I really doubt it, Patriot911. I imagine this will be *very* selectively enforced.
MG says
I think you have to bitch and moan like a Muslim. I support reporting the slightest provocation for Muslims. They’ll figure it out one day.
Shane says
Why is Merkel doing the “Heil Hitler” salute in the photo? Is is because Hitler preferred Islam to Christianity because he felt that Islam is a religion of war?
Peggy says
That’s not hate speech. That speech is welcome speech.
John says
Your kidding your self
gravenimage says
Peggy is being sarcastic, John.
EmHotep says
I really don’t care about Germany, France and UK, they deserve more jihadis in their countries. They still support the supermaniac terrorist in Syria and talking about removing Assad..
The only leader works against sunni/wahhabi radicals is PUTIN. We support Putin in his war against obama’s jihadists.
Turkish Seculars.
Wellington says
Putin is a rank apologist for Islam, as heavily documented by other posters here like Angemon and gravenimage. He has sucked up to Iran, the number one sponsor of terrorism in all the world and, I hope you appreciate this, EmHotep, were Robert Spencer in Russia he would be jailed (or even worse off) and Jihad Watch would be shut down.
Oh yes, the nations you named are pathetic where Islam is concerned but so is Russia. Also, at least true free speech existed in Germany, France and the UK at one time or another but no longer. As for Russia, freedom has never existed there, so backward has been this country on this matter.
I know you mean well, EmHotep, but praising Putin for being in any way staunch against Islam is like praising Hitler for being staunch against fascism.
EmHotep says
Thank you Wellington, I wish there was a way to make all the jihadists disappear, without involving politics. What are we going to do with the thousands of jihadists. One day they are in Syria or Iraq, other day in my country Turkey and from here to EU. Is it worth for oil or money that many good people are suffering.
We have already jihadist dictator erdogan here, and I am also upset for the western democracies.
I wish all the best for the anti-jihad people.
Wellington says
“I wish all the best for the anti-jihad people.”
So do I, EmHotep. So do I. As I reckon things, the “anti-jihad people” who really know what the Hell is going on would have to be 1) non-Muslim since no Muslim, however benign and kind in their daily life, should be counted on as long as they remain a Muslim; and 2) to a fair extent knowledgeable about just how iniquitous and screwed-up Islam really is——-after all, knowledge is power.
These people are needed. They’re important. Right now, the more of them the better because the preservation of freedom in the West almost entirely depends upon them. Perhaps even the fate of all mankind.
Take care and keep posting. Best to you and yours. And, a la Churchill, never, never, never give up because better dead than a slave to Islam. Or, as the greatest state motto of all fifty states has it, i.e., New Hampshire’s, Live Free Or Die.
Indeed, an assessment of life more in opposition to what Islam intends for us all would be deuce difficult to find than that of the Granite State’s motto. Actually no contest I would argue. Again, take care.
Michael Mazur says
What did Hitler do, since you mention him ?
gravenimage says
Wellington is saying that Putin is no more against Islam than Hitler was against Fascism–in other words, that he is not.
Frank Anderson says
GI, Hitler and especially Himmler loved Islam. A number of Fox and History Channel presentations connect Hitler to the “Grand Mufti” to Saddam Hussein and the Muslim Brotherhood. Otto Skorzeny, Hitler’s chief “troubleshooter” went on after WWII to Egypt where he trained and guided killers in attacks on Israel in particular and the West in general. Himmler formed 2 large divisions of Muslims in the Balkans (Yugoslavia) that were noted for their brutality, with the aid of the grand mufti, who just happens to be related to Yassar Arafat, terrorist leader of the PLO until his death.
The world is a small place full of connections. Nazi death plots continue in the hands of Muslim killers. And Frau Merkel gives them aid and comfort. Don’t worry: I have no plans to travel to Germany, and have plenty of time, resources and lawyer friends to fight extradition.
gravenimage says
Frank Anderson wrote:
GI, Hitler and especially Himmler loved Islam. A number of Fox and History Channel presentations connect Hitler to the “Grand Mufti”…
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Yes–I am well aware of the connection, Frank. Thank you.
gravenimage says
Hi, EmHotep. I’m afraid Wellington and Angemon are right about Putin. Here is what he had to say when he opened Europe’s biggest mega-Mosque in Moscow, speaking alongside Fatah’s Abbas and Turkey’s own thug Erdogan:
“Today, traditional Islam is an integral part of Russia’s spiritual life. Islam’s humanist values, like the values of our other traditional religions, teach people compassion, justice and care for our loved ones. We place great value on these things.”
Of course, this is utter claptrap. Islam teaches no such things.
Lots more appeasement here:
“President Putin: Traditional Islam is an integral part of Russia’s spiritual life”
http://www.muslim.ru/en/articles/137/13878/
I wish this were not so–I hate to see Islam in Russia. But the recent Jihad terror attack in St. Petersburg shows how rife it is there–and enabling from the top does not help.
And–with all respect–I believe you are mistaken about Jihadists in Germany, France and Britain. Even if you care nothing about the people there and think they deserve to be slaughtered by Muslims, this can only make things worse for Secularists like yourself in Turkey.
If Europe goes Muslim, I believe any chance of Turkey not fully Islamizing will be lost.
I want to see us *all* push back against the savagery of Islam.
EmHotep says
Hİ Gravenimage, I understand you, could you please tell me what is behind the love of muslims by western leaders? Why do they support islamists such as erdogan, isis, fethullah gulen or muslim brothers. It can’t just be left of right wing fights, there must be something bigger than that, such as illuminati or rothschild family behind the scenes. I cannot think the otherwise.
Meanwhile, why I like Mr.Putin because he has gods to send couple of TOPOL M (SS-27 “Sickle B) to Idlib and Raqqa without hesitation 🙂 I am praying for this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyRyAIAM2-c
Thank you.
gravenimage says
EmHotep wrote:
Hİ Gravenimage, I understand you, could you please tell me what is behind the love of muslims by western leaders?
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EmHotep, most of them, just like many ordinary people in the West, just want to believe that Muslim migrants are needy refugees, and not dangerous, violent invaders. I have neighbors and loved ones who are in this kind of denial–as do many other Westerners here at Jihad Watch.
More:
Why do they support islamists such as erdogan, isis, fethullah gulen or muslim brothers.
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Most don’t realize that Erdogan is an Islamist–they still think of Turkey as “moderate” and “democratic”.
The Muslim Brotherhood was considered by some–even some conservatives–as elected, and hence more “democratic” than al-Sisi. Few understand what the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood is at all.
Even fewer know anything at all about Fethullah Gülen. Of those who are familiar with him, there is not a lot of support–just the general sense that he hasn’t done anything obviously illegal, and so can’t be deported.
And no–even among the most clueless, there is *no* support for ISIS in the Infidel West. There is disagreement about how far we should go in fighting them, though. I think many, especially in the United States, fear getting involved in more quagmires like Iraq and Afghanistan.
More:
It can’t just be left of right wing fights, there must be something bigger than that, such as illuminati or rothschild family behind the scenes. I cannot think the otherwise.
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EmHotep, your belief that it is an evil Enlightenment-era secret society or an evil Jewish family responsible for the suicidal policies of the West is mistaken.
This has more to do with “political correctness” and denial than it does with conspiracies. None of my family members or neighbors are Rothschilds, nor are they members of the Illuminati–nor are those clueless people holding the “Migrants Welcome!” signs at the airports.
More:
Meanwhile, why I like Mr.Putin because he has gods to send couple of TOPOL M (SS-27 “Sickle B) to Idlib and Raqqa without hesitation ? I am praying for this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyRyAIAM2-c
Thank you.
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I have been heartened by Russia’s going after ISIS, as well. But Putin is *not* consistent in his opposition to Jihad. He is enabling a nuclear Iran, has winked at the imposition of brutal Shari’ah law in Chechnya, and has said that Russians share Islam’s values, all while opening Mosques in Moscow.
I’m afraid he has been–just the West–very inconsistent in his fighting Jihad.
epistemology says
I think the situation is a lot more complicated than that. I agree about Putin’s affiliation to Iran, I always disliked it to say the least but Putin unlike the Western European leaders like Miss Piggy, Teresa May, Hollande and the rest of them, Putin fights against the muzzie scum in his country, see his war in Chechnya, he’s absolutely coherent and adamant what you really need to be under the circumstances.
As for Heiko the German minister of Justice he won an award for moronism but he’s still behind the new socialist leader Martin Schulz who’s a lot like Schulz in Hogan’s heroes, the only difference is he’s not as friendly and likeable as the Schulz of Stalag 13.
As I said so many times,got to repeat myself the Germans didn’t draw the right consequences from their horrible past, they never learned that Islam and Nazism are two of a kind the same totalitarianism and the same heinous crimes, only difference Islam is a little bit older then Nazism and unlike Nazism still alive. But tell that the German elites.
Peggy says
We cannot really compare Putin to western leaders when it comes to embracing Islam.
Russia has always had their domestic Muslims who were there forever and have formed states. He has no choice but to compromise somehow. Those Muslims are on their own land and have been there for a very long time and Putin cannot just demand that they forget their culture and religion but he can find a way to live with them by allowing them to have their own rule in their own states.
Our western leaders don’t have such restraints. Well, they didn’t until they started importing Islam. Seeing how Islam was a newcomer our governments could have made it very clear from the beginning that there WILL NOT BE Sharia and they will not be considered above us. Instead they bent over backwards to make them our overlords.
That’s a huge difference we have between the two. We didn’t have to import so many while Putin didn’t have a say in who lives next door to him.
gravenimage says
Epistemology wrote:
I think the situation is a lot more complicated than that. I agree about Putin’s affiliation to Iran, I always disliked it to say the least but Putin unlike the Western European leaders like Miss Piggy, Teresa May, Hollande and the rest of them, Putin fights against the muzzie scum in his country, see his war in Chechnya, he’s absolutely coherent and adamant what you really need to be under the circumstances.
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Hi, Epistemology. Unfortunately, I don’t think Putin is all that coherent. He has allowed Kadyrov to turn Chechnya into a Shari’ah state:
“Chechen authorities are arresting and killing gay men”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/chechen-authorities-are-arresting-and-killing-gay-men
Not only is this troubling in and of itself, but having a Shari’ah state right on Infidel Russia’s doorstep is bound to encourage Jihad terror attacks.
More:
As I said so many times,got to repeat myself the Germans didn’t draw the right consequences from their horrible past, they never learned that Islam and Nazism are two of a kind the same totalitarianism and the same heinous crimes, only difference Islam is a little bit older then Nazism and unlike Nazism still alive. But tell that the German elites.
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This is very true, Epistemology. But we see this same sort of suicidal behavior from Europeans–and other Westerners–who had no Nazi past at all–including those who were the victims of the Nazis, and those who bravely fought back, as well.
Kiel says
Germany has always been on a balanced scale due to the past history. But as the Globalist Liberal Utopian Elitists, not only in Berlin but in all of the EU, feel their globalist ideology threatened they try to circumvent reality. That democracy is under pressure from supremacist Muslims carrying their Jew-hatred along is not seen as such.
KrazyKafir says
So now the next step is, to block all worldwide websites that allow criticizing Islam and the party line. No different then what North Korea does.
Paul Ashley says
And no different from the East Germany that spawned frau Merkel.
Peggy says
Seems like it all started with reunification of Germany.
Santa Voorhees says
“He said the new bill would not restrict the freedom of expression, but intervene only when criminal hatred or intentionally false news are posted.”
Let me guess, opposing jihad terror is criminal hatred and truth is fake news, right?
No Fear says
Great! The first sites to go will be those websites which display the Quran online.
gravenimage says
Given the history of the application of “hate speech” charges, I’m afraid I doubt it.
Red Bee says
Don’t be daft Heiko Maas. Since when is the delivery boy responsible for what they do with the paper?
http://www.redbee.website
mortimer says
Who decides what is ‘REAL’ or ‘FAKE’. The MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA, right?
Merkel has just imposed a POLICE STATE IN GERMANY.
Germans, you must now fight for your freedom or you may lose it forever to Sharia law.
It is now illegal in Germany to disagree with the government.
No one may now disagree with ANY of Merkel’s MISGUIDED POLITICAL POLICIES. They will be called names and then LOCKED UP.
What 20th century German political figure did that? Hmmmmmm….
Custos Custodum says
It appears from the reports that the decision is initially up to Facebook, Twitter etc. If they FAIL to censor the target QUANTITY of items within 24 hours, they risk massive fines.
There appears to be no remedy for a poster of views or facts that were WRONGLY assigned to the “hate speech”/”fake news” bin. The real aim is clearly to protect the establishment FROM unwelcome news and views, particularly about issues such as Muslimization.
In 2017, nobody in the U.S. or Europe seems very concerned that the government of a NATO ally and major EU power is putting itself into the position of determining what may and may not be said about its own policies and practices.
Governments avidly watch and learn from each other. Other governments will quickly follow suit if Germany’s speech police becomes part of the established order.
gravenimage says
Mortimer wrote:
Who decides what is ‘REAL’ or ‘FAKE’. The MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA, right?
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Exactly, Mortimer.
Frank Anderson says
A really interesting hypothetical that could easily become a real case: Suppose the Germans declare JW criminal for posting what it considers “hate speech”, then tries to extradite Robert Spencer to face prosecution. Any bets how far the extradition effort would get under Trump? How about BHO? Or suppose the trial is conduction “in absentia” and the judgment is brought to the US to be enforced? Could the Germans be taking aim at all the people who know a little about evil?
Frank Anderson says
Couducted instead of conduction. Sorry.
Custos Custodum says
Note that it is left to private entities to determine what is or is not “criminal content” and to delete it within 24 hours.
The point is that the government can pretend that the entire process is beyond its direct control and thus does not implicate constitutional speech rights even in the crippled form recognized in European countries. Social media and other entities are to be fined 50 million Euros for failing to meet quotas of censored items “flagged” e.g. by organized Muslim or Left-totalitarian groups.
Conversely, there is no mention of any mechanism to protect the rights of posters who express unpopular or – even worse – state unwelcome facts. The basic principle is: Don’t think. If in doubt, DELETE, the more, the better.
In an actual court of law, a trial over a single pronouncement could take many months of briefings, taking of evidence etc. and would often lead to unpredictable results as conflicting considerations (freedom of speech, potential harm to an individual, public interest in the subject matter, etc.) would have be weighed. Facebook etc. are being invited to shoot from the hip, no doubt following detailed consultations between Zuckerberg and Merkel.
The proposal assumes that policing speech is and should be a routine function of the administration and the judiciary. Sadly, this is the default position of practically all “developed” nations outside the U.S., and even Americans are slowly being conditioned by well-paid, long-term initiatives to accept that “hate speech,” “fake news” etc. should be censored in the name of vague but viciously-enforced group rights.
Note that the idea of censorship through an agreed, private entity and many of the details are American in origin – specifically, they seem to be modeled on the “Motion Picture Production Code” adopted “voluntarily” but as a binding arrangement by Hollywood studios in 1930.
Details of these initiatives and of the accompanying propaganda strongly suggest that many of these anti-speech, pro-Muslimization initiatives throughout Europe were created and implemented with the active, high-level involvement of Obama administration strategists.
Realistically, the full truth may take decades to emerge – recall that fundamental insights re FDR and JFK continue to emerge in the U.S. more than half a century after the demise of the protagonists.
Peggy says
If FB and others are based in the US how can German laws apply to them?
If Merkel doesn’t like views expressed on sites like these then she is welcome to have them blocked in Germany but I can’t see how German laws can apply in other countries.
Can she sue CNN or The Washington Post for views expressed in their papers? I know she wouldn’t because those outlets are the same as her but it was just an example?
I think Mr Zuckerberg is only trying to find excuses for his own eagerness to censor us.
Custos Custodum says
FB maintains local subsidiaries in various countries, presumably including Germany. Also, Germany can control advertising payments to FB.
Precisely. Zuck is a sniveling little traitor, perhaps trying to avenge some unfortunate experiences at his fancy private high school.
Nigel GFF says
“…a rise in online vitriol….”
Well that justifies protecting us poor kids, doesn’t. If vitriol can transmute into a new species of criminality then I’m off to the lab’ to work on some lead (Pb) I have lying around………
TheBuffster says
Squelching expression is the breaking of the pressure valve. Letting off steam can allow people to regain their perspective and then proceed in a rational way to argue for their case.
Arguing for a case opens up the way for the opposition to argue against that case and for its own.
This is the process through which minds can be changed – hopefully with the most reasonable, factual, honest case winning people over.
When governments shut one side up, when one side of an issue doesn’t get to air its views, then it doesn’t get challenged and the opportunity to convince the minds that hold those views goes away.
Meanwhile, those minds seek each other out, perhaps communicate through email groups or meet in person, discuss and reinforce their views with no counter arguments.
Open discussion and debate is far better for debunking false ideas. When you shut down free speech, you shut down the debunking of falsehoods. Truth has reality on its side. It’s only falsehood that has to be protected from an open exchange of ideas.
The governments who are shutting down that open exchange are scared to death of the truth.
TL says
Down came the Berlin Wall, and now up goes the Fatherland’s Firewall.
TheBuffster says
Computing Forever has just put up an animated video that skewers the anti-reality, anti-free speech culture that we’re facing.
Westman says
The future must not belong to those who slander the number 4….
Custos Custodum says
Thread winner!
gravenimage says
Brilliant, Buffster. Thanks for the link.
Peggy says
This creature knows she’s finished. So now she is doing all she can to inflict as many bad laws onto German people as possible before she is booted out.
She knows she is going down and will take the whole country down with her.
gravenimage says
Death of free speech: Germany approves bill imposing massive fines for online “hate speech” and “fake news”
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Fascism in action. Very, very disturbing.
denis says
It strikes me that the only thing the German government wants to do is shut down any dissent about Germany being over run with third world Muslim immigrants who for the most part are poorly educated and can offer little to the German economy. These immigrants were offered to have 200 mosques built for them, paid by the Saudi government and stocked with Imams who preach Wahabbism the most brutal form of Islamic teachings from whence most Islamic terrorists derive.
Merkel is doing her best to shut down dissent against Muslims but with the coming German election she will be another footnote in German history as the woman who destroyed Germany
Sue says
Germans have become naive children who in the end will be boiled alive in oil.
Halal Bacon says
nothing going to change, needs new leadership, Merkel thinks Germany is her petri dish
Richard says
Angela Merkel with her Heil Islam salute.
nicholas tesdorf says
Even Joseph Goebbels would have been impressed with these new German initiatives to suppress free speech. Angela Merkel does do a very impressive ‘Sieg Heil’ too.
God's Warrior says
The next step is for Germany and the world to remove all hate speech from all tax-exempt religious organizations including their scriptures and preaching.
Does this lady not know the depth of hate speech hidden from her by her Islamic advisers? It’s not rocket science nor is it debatable. It is blatantly far more contemptible than anything else in existence in any medium in any country on any planet in any galaxy in this and every universe.
How do rational people have an opinion without doing their homework? How can such persons lead a country?
James Stamulis says
Wow Merkel is making Hitler proud. Funny how only truth is labeled hate speech but then that is what the left hates most truth.
New to Alt Media says
How is “free speech dead” when GERMANY…You know, where this takes place, doesn’t have “free speech”?
What a tabloid headline to use. While story is great, these headlines are why these sites are deemed fake news
Jeanette says
You could go back to sites that claim that Barack Hussein al-Obama is the Messiah.
gravenimage says
Wait–you have a problem with this headline, but not with this bill?
Screeminmeeme says
While those of us in the West are mourning the ‘death’ of free speech, the bright side is that now the Germans will be forced to punish all Muslims who spew their vile hatred of non-Muslims, right?…..right?
Carolyne says
Germans are very intelligent, innovative people, but they have a tendency to be like lemmings and follow their leaders off a cliff. They have a chance to divert the crowds away from the cliff and let Ms. Merkel leap over the cliff by herself in the next election. But will they? I doubt it.
RationalVoice says
Yes lets hope we can persuade the Germans to follow her to the edge AND THEN PUSH HER OVER !!!!!
Florida Jim says
Political correctness is killing everyone. Divide and Conquer is the rule of Democrats, Marxists, Muslims and Socialists.
Angemon says
Why aren’t Germans protesting against this? Oh, right – that would make them “bigots”, “racists”, “hatemongers”, etc. …
John A. Marre says
Would be nice if they would be so eager to punish rape and murder as they are to punish people who know who to blame for it.
Peter says
So, when German public media propagandizes “fake news” (e.g., Islam is a religion of “peace, justice and tolerance” and covers up Jihad), there will be no penalty, as that would be like the government paying fines to itself!
JCCourt says
Reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Thanks.
wboggs says
So who are the “fake news” and “hate speech” cops going to be? Talk about abuse of power; some people have read the Quran and hacking off your head isn’t something they want from their Countries immigrants. I think more and more government s have guns to their heads; I think more and more governments have Bilderberg members in them and just one of those is the cancer cell that destroys a Country and will eventually destroy the World.
common sense says
Europe really needs to stay ‘Europe’, not just only in culture, art and the people. By law as well and definitely military. If bending free speech to meet the screeching of Islam continues then the afforemetioned begins to erode and powerful nations could fall into the hands of Islam. I am inable to process that vision at all, I have many friends from Sweden, Ireland, Germany and the UK.
We dont want that at all, ever, your American friends have your back.
Lydia says
I will speak the truth.
If they want to silence me, then they have to kill me.
But the truth still will not die with me.
I am willing to pay that price.
Frank Anderson says
Lydia, our death accomplishes exactly what “they” want: It silences us. Please take a look at the opening monologue by George C. Scott in the movie “Patton”. I continue to beg pardon for forgetting the source of the quote, “It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.” The hammer has the opportunity to beat the anvil instead of receiving the beating. Suicide is an islamic teaching. Jews, Christians and all other rational thinkers understand that we are worth more alive in this world than dead. Alive we can still contribute to making the future better.
Very old teaching: “Grandson to grandfather: ‘Why do you plant walnut trees when they will not bear fruit for 70 years? Grandfather to grandson: ‘Because my grandfather planted these for me!'” Consider all the people who have sacrificed much or everything for our chance to live in freedom and liberty. Should we get lazy and not do our part to pass these blessings to the future, instead of the vast evil that is confronting us? Make the evil ones take the death trip. Choose life.
SoCalMike says
I hope and pray Angela Merkel and the rest of the cultural and political European and American Left all suffer the same fate as Mussolini and Hitler.
They deserve it but they deserve Mussolini’s fate more.
UNCLE VLADDI says
ALL “Hate-Speech Laws” ARE CRIMES!
“Progressive” criminals – who like all criminals desire an equality of outcome over a true equality of opportunity, and to get it will always try to socially engineer ever-more rights and ever-less responsibilities for them selves, by offloading their responsibilities onto their victims by stealing their victims’ rights – pretend to hold submissive masochism as the highest virtue (for their victims to hold, not them) and the ultimate crime to be causing offense and hurting other people’s (criminal’s) feelings, (i.e: by accusing them of their crimes).
So they want to make it illegal to accuse criminals of their crimes, since that might hurt their feelings and in offending them with the often-painful truth, “make” them commit even more crimes!
Is there anything which really ought to qualify as hate speech and be banned?
NO – not because it’s “hateful” (because that sort of nonsense is only making subjective assessments based on emotions;) and “HATE” is really only the perfectly natural human response of perpetual anger towards ongoing crimes (like islam); without ‘hate’ we would never bother to accuse criminals of their crimes in order to stop those crimes.
Unreasonable false displays of hatred and anger on the other hand, are what the Left is good at – but that’s already illegal, not because of the anger displayed – that’s just the outrageous holier-than-thou virtue-signalling packaging used to disguise their preposterous extortion attempts – but because it’s fraudulent slander.
Such criminal leftists who try to make “hate” into a crime, only ever make it ‘illegal’ to hate crime itself!
Speech which is already disallowed is incitement of immediate violence and death-threats … and even those aren’t illegal, if say they call for the police to use violence to counter ongoing mob violence and looting, or call for the death-penalty for murderers!
Dale Netherton says
Is Infidelophobia included?
Rick says
Germany is lost forever and there’s no coming back,….. Very sad!!!!
gravenimage says
Patriotic Germans need to stand up and flout this law.
Custos Custodum says
Lenin is said to have remarked about German revolutionaries: “Before storming a train station, they’ll first buy platform tickets.”
gravenimage says
You can be polite and still stand up against the crushing of freedom of speech.
Barry says
Well I guess I’m bound to sooner or later get caught up in the ‘hate speech’ net…..you see I feel the need to confess that, regarding Merkel and all the other bureaucrats destroying western Europe with their heads in the dirt (or up some anatomical opening), I have a phobia of them all…..It’s called ‘moronophobia’….