This move is reminiscent of what’s happening North of the American border. Canada also cracks down on views which are different from Trudeau’s dictates, or more importantly, on any view that threatens the direction in which Trudeau wants to take the country. America is quickly moving in the same direction. Although each country’s circumstances are different, it is the same globalist drive everywhere to dominate and dismantle free societies, along with any trace of their traditions.
In the case of Nancy Faeser, she’s opposed to a video promoting a protest involving “the symbolic ‘pillorying’ of fellow left-wing climate minister, Robert Habeck, who has so far failed to get a handle on the country’s gas crisis.” It’s well established that climate change is embraced as part of the globalist secular religion. Faeser is afraid that protests in Germany may grow beyond the government’s control. Germany’s severe energy crisis now has it turning to coal; it has also banned hot water in public buildings. Even so, its woke leaders are clinging to policies to protect against climate change.
Antifa, the woke, globalists, Marxists — they’re all of one accord in their totalitarian style approach. Freedom of expression is strangled, as it threatens their agendas. And they present their leadership as necessary for the good of humanity, as the societies they govern slip further into dictatorship.
Germany now faces a deepening crisis, as winter approaches and the public becomes increasingly frustrated, and even desperate. Every woke government is at war with the people who elected it, and is resorting to any action necessary to force its people to submit.
“Antifa-linked Minister Threatens Public for ‘Liking’ the Wrong Posts,” Breitbart, August 9, 2022:
Germany’s Antifa-linked Interior Minister has threatened the public with consequences should they decide to like posts she disapproves of on social media.
Nancy Faeser, Germany’s leftist Interior Minister, has threatened the general public with consequences should they decide to like posts on social media she deems problematic.
The minister — who wrote an article for a so-called “anti-fascist” publication simply titled “Antifa” only last year — made the threats ahead of a protest in the country which is set to involve the symbolic “pillorying” of fellow left-wing climate minister, Robert Habeck, who has so far failed to get a handle on the country’s gas crisis.
In response to a video announcing the protest, which depicted a fake Habeck tied up awaiting his public pillorying, Faeser has decried the protest as going too far, despite the video itself emphasising that the real Habeck was not going to be pilloried in what was explicitly described as an attempt not to upset the hard left.
Despite such reassurance though, Der Spiegel has reported that Faeser is now promising legal action against those who posted the video, while also threatening those who dare to so much as attend the advertised demonstration or even like the video announcing it.
“We will also hold those who posted this video responsible for it,” the publication reports Faeser as saying, with the leftist minister also reportedly warning those who would think about joining the planned protest or “even liking such a post” that they would also face consequences for doing so.
“The freedom to demonstrate has its limits where other people are injured,” she went on to say, with multiple publications claiming that the video depicted the kidnapping of Minister Habeck, though no evidence has been presented to support such a claim.
However, the group reportedly responsible for both the video — which has since been taken down by order of German authorities — as well as the upcoming protest has ridiculed the hostile response, pointing out that similar displays have been used to protest politicians on the right without causing any uproar.
“Funny, when it goes against ‘right-wing populists,’ the media celebrates the scandal as creative policy. When it goes against the green establishment, a storm of indignation erupts,” the group Freie Sachsen (Free Saxons) wrote in a post on social media.
“Well this is how double standards continue to manifest in this country. It is simply to prevent citizens from being able to publicly criticize the government,” the post continued, before calling on the public to “fight back against this censorship — in this case, among other things, on the legal path”….
MIke says
fighting Government, Google, Facebook, Twitter, MSM all being funded by Gate’s Soros and Schwab there are more of us then them on money buys stupid
Eva says
She’s working straight out of hitler’s playbook.
Eva says
I see this creature is working straight from hitler’s playbook.
wpm says
How long will it be before Germany starts putting “special marks” next to people personal records on line that effect how they bank where they can travel, where they can rent and effecting their line of credit?I wonder in America how the army of 87000 new many of them armed IRS agents will target audits if your political or social actives on line (non-progressive or just not woke enough never mind being right winged Trump supporter or being a member of a so called right wing group) will put a bullseye on your IRS tax returns?The nonsense that they need 87000 new agents to go after just people making over 400k a year like making over 400k is a crime in its self class warfare that communist love dearly ,as the elite in congress and the Senate make millions on inside trading push green new deal companies they and their crime families own stock in .
Fred Alan Medforth says
It’s the wrong photo. This is the correct one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Faeser
wpm says
The wikipededia picture is three years old (2019) she did not age well after hitting 50 in 2020 the 2019 picture looks like an airbrushed one for her running for office. This one looks like a more un retouched one of a 52 year old ,Hitler did not age well in his late 40s to early 50s before he went out and killed himself.. Do Germans ever learn from history .things do not go well when you censor or suppress speech .
Infidel says
The photo in the original Breitbart article is more recent
https://media.breitbart.com/media/2022/08/GettyImages-1413635079-e1660043230498-640×482.jpg
Tom says
“Once a government is committed to silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of repressive measures until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens creating a country where everyone lives in fear.” President Harry S. Truman.
“Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.” — Friedrich Hayek,
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs seek: not the chance to serve.” H. L. Mencken.
Why is it that the left never learns from history and from those who have gone before us leaving warnings such as those above.
A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good just because the media and government says it’s so.
Pray Hard says
Apparently, Hitler is in their genes.
Phil Copson says
The urge to tyranny is universal – you only need look at Trudeau and Ahern if you want to see proof that “Inside every Liberal a totalitarian is screaming to get out.”
(And whatever his faults, you have to admit that Hitler will at least be remembered as “The Man Who Killed Hitler”….)
CogitoErgoSum says
How in the world would a country that has dedicated itself over the past decade or more to going green not be able to provide its citizens with hot water in public buildings? A small solar panel on the building, a wind turbine, a magnifying lens pointing the sun’s rays in the proper direction would be enough to heat some water. Even hiring some people to take turns pedaling a bicycle rigged up to turn a generator on cloudy or windless days would work to heat some water (would be good exercise for overweight office workers too). Damn, as the Lefties like to say, Germany, you can do better.
Phil Copson says
Presumably all would have been well if the group Freie Sachsen had simply posed with Robert Habeck’s severed “head” in the Left-approved Kathy Griffin/Donald Trump style?
Yogi says
That bitch she can go to hell !!, She is importing half Afghanistan and other third worlders to the country!!, this government is worse then previous, I never understand Germans why. The are voting for the same traitors/ idiots, why not AFD where this party can safe at least little bit from all this problems Germany have , for me it’s a mystery..
Infidel says
This country is now the Fourth Reich, and controls much of Europe through the EU, which has turned out to be a lot smoother than what its predecessor the Third Reich attempted. Now they are threatening people for not even expressing, but merely supporting certain POVs. Wonder how soon will this spread to all of Europe?
Given all this, I don’t see how Germany, or indeed other European countries, are that much better than Russia when it comes to individual liberties
mortimer says
American Leftists are no different: intolerant, fierce and domineering … filled with their own feeling of infallibility.
Wellington says
Another control freak with bad ideas. Freedom can’t survive such a combo and that is why it’s freedom or turkeys like this woman. Can’t have both.
Westman says
There sure is a lot of gobbling in the EU. Given time it seems likely to fall apart because it governs with too much coercion, offers poor representation, and demands too much wealth redistribution. Without Germany’s industrial output it would have already folded.
Westman says
Germany was one of the most socially stratified nations before the world wars. It still has not escaped from an Aristocracy that considers itself superior to most Germans. The US was fortunate that it was founded by men who never wanted to see that repeated and some of its Presidents have made that obvious. Thomas Jefferson believed the common moral man could administer as well as any high-born leader.
It seems both the US and Germany now have the same problem – an embedded bureaucracy that believes it is superior to those it should serve and doesn’t change in any way when a new government is formed by another party(US) or from new groups making up parliamentary government.
The bureaucracy is essentially another form of Aristocracy that got out of real control because of their increasing size and insulation from the Executive and Legislative branches of government. In the day when Duke Ellington described Teddy Roosevelt riding his horse to a park where Ellington and friends were playing as kids, and taking the time to talk to them, the bureaucracy changed with the political party in control.
Today, the bureaucracy is the giant tail that wags the dog in the US and Germany. We just watched US bureaucracy as a political weapon. We watched bureaucracy devour girls in the UK by being too woke to prosecute Muslim groomers. We watched US bureaucracy try to destroy a President it was supposed to serve and it’s still trying.
The citizens can’t reform bureaucracy anymore, it seems, by voting for a reforming President, Prime Minister, or Chancellor. The legislators spend their time getting votes and wealth and have become to compromised to effect reform.
Albert Einstein thought that if there was ever another war in Europe, Germany would be involved in creating it. It’s going to be interesting this winter if German bureaucracy can’t deliver the energy needed. Merkel’s shutting down of nuclear power plants, instead of safety modifications after the Fukushima meltdown, was downright stupid.