Donald Trump may be testing the boundaries of tolerance on the U.S. campaign trail. But here in Germany, the government is effectively enforcing civility, taking aim at a surge of hate speech against refugees and Muslims.
As Western Europe’s most populous nation grapples with a historic wave of mostly-Muslim migrants, politicians and activists are decrying a rash of incendiary speech bubbling to the surface of German society. In a country whose Nazi past led to some of the strictest laws in the West protecting minorities from people inciting hatred, prosecutors are launching investigations into inflammatory comments as judges dole out fines, even probation time, to the worst offenders.
More @ The Washington Post
Hundreds of interesting comments on the WaPo article. Such as this BS comment:
ReplyDelete"stop-hate
1:07 PM MST
It’s so important to be able to debate issues openly and honestly with facts and reason. We should get issues out in the open and counter hate speech with more speech. Stifling debate will stifle progress.
We fight with words now so we don’t have to fight with guns later."
And a good response:
"gnonannon
1:09 PM MST
The trouble is that this is a struggle for the safety of their people and the survival of their culture. This isn't a problem of constructing competing narratives, because that just doesn't wash anymore. Either someone takes action to stop this, or the backlash will be severe."
Competing narratives are ego driven and worthless gossip. I'm through playing the blog comment good-feeling game. My time left will be spent with RCBS, Bullseye, and 3031.
Three years after we moved into this this house in Aurora CO on New year's Day, 1996, we learned that the previous owner's wife was sexually assaulted by a Muslim youth in the home while his fellows held down her double amputee Vietnam veteran husband.
I say to Hell with competing narratives by writers hiding in anonymity. This is neither an AA meeting nor a campaign debate. We need the Fire Eaters.
My Father's Fourth Infantry division and others not only liberated French women in 1944 and 1945, they also liberated German women. What happened to the thousands of troops we kept in Germany so long? Reinforce them and re-liberate German women. Turn Merkel over to a War Crimes Tribunal.
Either someone takes action to stop this, or the backlash will be severe.
DeleteI imagine Mein Kampf is selling off the shelves.
I’m embarrassed to be German. Do nothing to thousands of Muslim sex offenders and predators but persecute Germans upset over women being molested. When the right wing has had enough you will see another final solution. I am not sure where it will start in Europe but my guess would be either Germany or surprisingly France.
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When the right wing has had enough you will see another final solution. I am not sure where it will start in Europe but my guess would be either Germany or surprisingly France.
DeleteThey say it can't happen again, well just keep pushing and you'll see.
Americans of German descent need to be heard from. One branch of my family were DeBruhls from Germany. The other side were Schmidts also on a boat from Germany in the eighteenth century.
ReplyDeleteMy wife's ancestors were also from there. I'm mad as Hell about this. After I wrote the above I found two V-mails that my Father sent. In September, 1944 when I was eleven he was expressing his pride in me joining the church. Then in February, 1945, from a British hospital, where they were picking shrapnel out of his body, he wrote congratulating me on good grades and encouraging me to be cheerful with my Mom and siblings. In the eighteen months until I'm 83 years and 11 months old as he was at passing I don't have a prayer of being the man he was. My 34 years of working for Dad's Army is a drop in the bucket compared to his service. My bucket list has only one item-live up to Horace Senior's example. He was 32 years old when he volunteered for the draft in 1942 after his 19 year old brother went to the bottom of the Java Sea in Feb.1942 in the Heavy Cruiser USS Houston.
I'm looking for a means to action rather than commenting. Let's find ways to hurt these monsters. Our feckless POTUS is part of the problem and not of the solution.
horacesmith33@gmail.com.
From Brian Edwards our host for much on the way here:
DeleteJust finished book on Sam Adams and the lead up to Revolutionary War.....He said there were four steps...
1. PETITION let them know your grievances
2. PROTEST take to the streets and let them know your grievances
3. DEFY do not obey their edicts
4. RESIST actual resistance.....
I guess things have not changed.
Sam Adams is the only one of that ilk whom I really admire. The big things that haven't changed are the stakes. The ante is still "Lives, Fortunes,and Sacred Honor." Who's all in?
DeleteThe ante is still "Lives, Fortunes,and Sacred Honor."
DeleteGood point.
In this video on Megan Kelley at 2:22, this duel German/US
ReplyDeletecitizen, Kern, states that Germany is basically finished.
I cannot believe the German's acted like sheep. What will we
do when it is our turn?
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4690508187001/reports-across-germany-of-organized-sexual-assault-attacks/?intcmp=hpvid1&playlist_id=2114913880001#sp=show-clips
I cannot believe the German's acted like sheep.
DeleteNo guns.
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What will we do when it is our turn?
We have guns and are well known to use them.
Doomed Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi delivered a prophetic warning in 2011, saying Islamic terror would spread across North Africa and hit Europe if he was removed from power, newly released phone transcripts revealed Thursday.
ReplyDeleteMe, I think this whole thing was planned in advance for just
what is happening. One has to think in a conspiracy mind-
set with the sociopaths.
Yea, we have guns but will all join in. Doubtful.
And that bitch Hillery was in on this too, Gaddafi that is.
I think this whole thing was planned in advance for just
Deletewhat is happening.
Absolutely.
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Yea, we have guns but will all join in.
No, but only a small percent will do.