In a coordinated campaign across 14 states, the German police on Tuesday raided the homes of 36 people accused of hateful postings over social media, including threats, coercion and incitement to racism.
Most of the raids concerned politically motivated right-wing incitement, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office, whose officers conducted home searches and interrogations. But the raids also targeted two people accused of left-wing extremist content, as well as one person accused of making threats or harassment based on someone’s sexual orientation.
“The still high incidence of punishable hate posting shows a need for police action,” Holger Münch, president of the Federal Criminal Police Office, said in a statement.
The Internet home for American gay conservatives.
Hmm, looks like Germany is doomed to repeat what happened about 100 years ago
I understand what incitement to violence is. But what exactly constitutes “incitement to racism”?
“Punishable hate”. Words to die by.
This is what happens in North Korea or Venezuela. Is the West becoming so PC?
“Most of the raids concerned politically motivated right-wing incitement, according to the Federal Criminal THOUGHT Police Office.”
There, fixed it.
Thank goodness I live neither in France or Germany. Or the UK.
Or Greece. Or Italy. Or the Netherlands. Or Sweden. Or, etc.
I dunno bout ya, but as for having to pay taxes only to help fund and then be forced to watch the collective societal suicide of fellowmen … on a daily basis… well, yeah, I’m getting too old for that cr@p.
Long live America for my mental health’s sake!
looks like communism is rearing its ugly head again in Germany. must make merkel feel like the good old days in east germany.
You have to wonder what’s wrong with our rulers – they can’t be this stupid. The only other explanation is evil.
If people are denied the right to express their opinions and blow off steam, all that’s left is force: government force to silence its “citizens” and force from the public no longer allowed to speak.
The book I’m reading, The Strange Death of Europe, has a bit on Frau Merkel’s remarks a couple of years back on “PEGIDA”… it was Hillary’s Deplorable Speech with specifics. It’s seems the Germans aren’t to be allowed unapproved opinions.
There are severe restrictions of freedoms of expression & speech in Europe, always have been. Britain, Canada & the rest of the Commonwealth also. Their freedoms are not enshrined in law or a constitution. This is one of the reasons why American is exceptional. Some don’t know they’re restricted & think they have the same rights as we do, because they get part of their info & context from the US Democrat Media Complex. They cannot say anything they please. Their laws are fluid.
This sort of information makes me so pleased that I do not live in the ancestral homelands anymore. And makes me more worried about the United States as the politicians, media, and SJW follow that bad path.
@8 this is the way it was in most of Europe for almost forty years. yes the leaders are evil, they believe in the same things as those people that ruled eastern Europe for all those years.
Next up with be the return of Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog). You disappeared in the ‘night and fog’ with no record of your arrest or even that you existed.
Meet the new Reich, same as the old Reich.
That which is not permitted by the State is verboten…
Or, …in terms they would understand; doubleplusnotgood.