We reported earlier today that this morning local time, German Interior Minister De Maizière banned the Antifa website Linksunten Indymedia.
Call me naive but I am actually surprised that the Left is howling. I would have thought they would distance themselves from a website that not only calls for attacks on citizens, but boasts the results of such attacks.
But far from distancing:
Ulla Jelpke, Die Linke, former East German ruling party SED: “an illegitimate act of censorship”
„The ban of indymedia.linksunten is an illegitimate act of censorship (…) The project indymedia.linksunten stands for a leftist, anti-capitalist counter public. To restrict their reach and internal communications is an arbitrary curtailment of the freedom of opinion and press.“ [Jelpke] would not like everything on the website. But the ban were an act of censorship and intimidation.
„Everyone who will be accused of continuing indymedia.linksunten in the future will have to be prepared to be punished – not just for the contents of isolated contributions to the site, but alone for being a part of this left project“, Jelpke said. „The ban is a threat to all other media that still discuss revolutionary and anti-capitalist positions. The purpose of this is to intimidate the left in Germany as a whole.“
Ulla Jelpke, speaker of Die Linke, former ruling party of East Germany SED; source: Die Welt
Julia Schramm, Antonio Amadeu Foundation: “Next they will declare Antifa a terrorist organization, and then half of us here might be convicted as ringleaders”
Julia Schramm of the Antonio Amadeu Foundation fears:
“Next they will declare Antifa a terrorist organization, and then half of us here might be convicted as ringleaders. Add to this unlimited custody, and a few violations of the constitution, underpinned by proof from online surveillance. What a prospect, Germany, what a prospect.”
Ironically, Mrs. Schramm and the organization for which she is working, Antonio Amadeu Stiftung, have published an in-depth manual on how to report people to the police for so-called ‘hate speech’. Manuals on how to surveil the web for hate speech and how to report people is the emphasis of their work. See Gates of Vienna:
Oh, Mommy, I Ain’t No Commie — I Just Fight Hate Speech on the Internet, July 17, 2016
This comment of one of Julia’s Facebook followers, of course, is just an innocent question and no ‘hate speech’:
Follower of Julia Schramm: “three bullets in the back of his head” for Interior Minister De Maizière
“I wonder if these pathetic CDU interior ministers will at least end with three bullets in the back of their head, executed, in the trunk of their car”.
Three bullets in the back of the head by a Socialist.
One for his mammy who made him a sexual deviant-submissive.
One for the for the man who abused him as a child because of the first.
And one for the Affirmative Action that took away his soul to ever find himself.
And he still doesn’t feel better.
That dead body looks suggestive…
Remember theNight of the Long Knives when Hitler killed Ernst Rohm and his followers, they were NAZIs but Rohm was an internal political threat to Hitler and had to go. Is this the beginning of a fight for control of the left in Germany?
It’s possible, but I hope that it’s also possible that this could just be seismographic indicator that the pendulum has swung too far.
You and me both, there could be some leftists that are starting to see the light.
Banning books.
Banning media.
Banning looks.
Banning hysteria.