Wow. Some much for western values of :freeze-peach:
Having the wrong opinion about a war is now a crime.
They going to ban the display of US and Saudi flags over Yemen? No? Of course.
They going to ban the display of US and Saudi flags over Yemen?
No, but Germany has made it illegal a few years ago to burn foreign flags at protests because some people insisted too much that Palestinians may have human rights.
Covering your face during protests has been illegal here since the 1970s (also exclusively because of leftists, ofc - if you're a nazi and protesting, cops will ask you if they can bring your a nice cup of coffee and give you a back massage). That's not enforced due to Covid atm, i wonder when that'll change. Let's not even begin about weapons or anything that may be seen as a weapon at protests. A protest as in America, where the front rows bring shields and helmets and batons and where some people may carry rifles in public is completely unthinkable here. That would make national news for weeks if it happened around here.
That's only federal law. At the state level, it gets worse, because then we're also talking about how Northrhine-Westfalia deals with climate protests, which includes banning white coveralls at protests (a common tactic amongst climate protests for a while) and comparing these coveralls to "SA and SS uniforms", or locking protesters up for several days without any criminal charges against them.
banning white coveralls at protests (a common tactic amongst climate protests for a while) and comparing these coveralls to “SA and SS uniforms”
:fidel-wut:
If anyone's interested, here's an article in German that goes into this extensively: https://netzpolitik.org/2021/nrw-laschet-regierung-will-demonstrierende-wie-kriminelle-behandeln/
Actual quote from the law:
As an example, we may refer to rightwing or leftwing extremists from the Weimar Republic, such as the SA and the SS.
Yes, they're going full :centrist: here, mentioning leftwing extremists when they're talking about an era marked by violent fascist supression of communists. NRW's state government is absolute scum. The guy responsible for this, Herbert Reul, is still in charge as a state minister. BTW, under his watch, there's also been a massive pedophilia scandal, with entire briefcases full of evidence disappearing from the police precinct tasked with the investigation. Very cool and normal state to live in.
Olaf scholz was also very ok with beating anti-g20 protestors in hamburg and some horrific anti-drug policy. Also guy was allegedly marxist in his youth lol
horrific anti-drug policy
for those not in the know, cops in Hamburg had a policy against dealers swallowing their stash, which was force-feeding them vomit-inducing medication. you see, dealers pushing small amounts to random end users on the street tend to hide most of their wares in underground depots and only have a package or two on them at any given time so they get smaller charges if they're caught, and dealers in Hamburg tended to just swallow that small amount when confronted by the cops. which made chuds fume at the mouth because their beloved piggies were "incapable of stopping a crime in progress". which is where the forced vomitting comes in.
not only was this act of literally shoving a tube down people's throats and pouring an incredibly foul-tasting liquid into their bellies critizised as being a form of torture, it also almost exclusively targeted black people, as the sales end of pushing drugs on the streets is in the eyes of cops handled exclusively by African immigrants (nvm that there's of course actually dealers of all skin colors, these are cops we're talking about, they'll never let a chance to do a racial profiling go to waste). So Hamburg had a form of racially profiled torture for years, under Olaf Scholz's watch, and it only stopped after an alleged drug dealer died in custody when the pigs forced him to vomit up his stash.
I don't find it surprising at all that black friends have told me that Berlin is the only city in Germany they feel fully safe in.
BTW, Berlin is already battling the evil Russian propaganda: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/dient-ein-baer-mit-einem-z-in-berlin-lichtenberg-der-russischen-propaganda-li.219243
(source in German, but with a pic of the Z in question, headline reads: "Does a bear with a Z in Berlin-Lichtenberg serve the Russian propaganda?").
Abridged version:
Some guy in Berlin saw a suspicious Z on a bear statue in front of a public library and informed authorities about the Putinist agitprop. The library made it clear that this has nothing whatsoever to do with the war and that the entire statue is, in fact, completely covered in letters (it's a library, wonder if that has anything to do with all these letters). Now the guy insists that, i shit you not, "the Z is suspiciously large and you can clearly see duct tape on the edges because somebody recently put it there!", even though there's pics that are at least a year old and show the same Z on the statue.
Meanwhile, also in Berlin, somebody covered two old :t34: on a Soviet war memorial for the soldiers who gave their lifes in the battle against fascism with giant Ukrainian flags: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/berlin-weltkriegspanzer-am-sowjetischen-ehrenmal-mit-ukraine-fahnen-verhuellt-a-bebf8d6a-36c2-49f3-b5a1-147b21b968fd
Fortunately, no tanks were hurt in this display of imperialism, the flags could be removed without problems. Police will not investigate further as "no damage was caused to the memorial".
Drawing a Z on a Ukrainian flag and flinging it over a statue of Martin Luther to see what kind of reaction I can get.
Weird how the exact INSTANT there's a dogwhistle that can even POSSIBLY be attributed to the left, it's banned and no one has any problem with it.
