Today's Germany is run by Stalinists

Among the thousands who demonstrated in Chemnitz last week, some carried this very explicit sign. No message could be more deplorable to the majority parties.

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By Carolyn Yeager

UPDATE 9/7 - Well, golly gee. Germany's top federal domestic security chief, Hans-Georg Maassen, President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, has stated that reports that right-wing "extremists" were chasing down non-Germans during demonstrations in Chemnitz cannot be verified.

"I share the scepticism towards media reports of right-wing extremists chasing down [foreigners] in Chemnitz," Hans-Georg Maaßen told Bild.

A video that was shared online claimed to show far-right protesters chasing after people who looked non-German.  Maaßen said: "There is no evidence to suggest that the video of this alleged incident circulating online is authentic."

Yet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and also her Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, seized on the footage as showing targeted harassment.

"We have video footage showing that there was targeted harassment, that there was rioting, that there was hate on the streets, and that has no place under our rule of law," said Merkel.

But Maassen has now concluded, "There is good reason to believe that this is deliberate misinformation, possibly to distract the public from the murder in Chemnitz."

Now some members of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) as well as the German Federation of Journalists (DJV) have called for Maassen to provide evidence for his claim of "misinformation".

What now, Angela? See here and here.

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THE SURPRISINGLY LARGE DEMONSTRATIONS OCCURRING IN CHEMNITZ last week, in Germany's eastern Saxony state, has roiled the state and federal governments and riled the police and media kings. In response, they have brought out all their Stalinist tactics to put out the flame and control the news coverage. Chancellor Angela Merkel came out with blanket condemnation of “hate on the streets,” referring not to the murderers of an innocent German-Cuban citizen but to those who were protesting it. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced, "Let us not be intimidated by a mob of punching hooligans … hate should not have free rein anywhere in our country," also referring to those demonstrators, not to the Antifa who opposed them. Only interior minister Horst Seehofer, whose party is facing elections this month, expressed sympathy for the knife attack victim before condeming “violence or violent riots.”

The most vocal apparatchik in the governing coalition is foreign minster Heiko Maas. Possibly since he was Justice minister in the previous administration, he can't stay out of domestic affairs. He wants to crack down on Germans who are protesting against the strict enforcement of multiracialism and multiculturalism for Germans who don't want it, and who have taken to shouting Wir sind das Volk (We are the people), a phrase that is now considered subversive.

Don't let Heiko Maas' wimpy demeanor fool you. He is a real Stalin dictator within; however without Stalin's power. Too bad for him.

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Minister Maas gave an interview to the Bild an Sonntag (Bild on Sunday) newspaper published today.

In it, he makes clear that when people like him use the word “democracy” they mean race-mixing and open borders—a big welcome for foreigners to abuse the welfare system and completely change the culture in what used to be a nation of similar folk based on common ancestry and language.

Times, they are a'changing. The old ways are out—the new ways are in.

Since this change has never been presented for what it really is, using the Bolshevik-Communist practice of forced takeover, arrests and heavy propaganda to change the society, Democracy is nothing but a LIE and a SCAM for disarming a united people for total control over them. Heiko Maas hates the German people and makes that very clear in his statements. Here are some of the things he said to the Bild reporter, as translated by DW.com:

"Unfortunately, a complacency has spread within our society that we have to overcome. We have to get up off the sofa and speak up. The years of being in this discursive coma vigil must come to an end."

Unfortunately the coma he refers to is one of not fighting against “racism” and not defending his brand of “democracy.” He said his generation (born 1966) took “freedom and the rule of law and democracy” for granted because they didn't have to fight for it.

"We must stand up to the right-wing extremists. We can't duck away. We must come out against neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. Only then will Germany's reputation not be permanently marred by xenophobic crimes." 

The governing coalition and the Chemniz city officials are making a big thing of “Germany's reputation” in the world. It has always done/used this when the voice on the right begins to grow strong; the heavily indoctrinated German public is very sensitive to this. It works this way: first the Germans experienced extreme privation during the 1940's and 50's; then they were allowed to produce the “economic miracle” that brought them to prosperity again. Now they are threatened with losing that (via boycotts, sanctions, etc) if they misbehave once again, as they did in the 1930's. So far this has worked, but will it continue?

 "If the Hitler salute is made on our streets today once again, it is a disgrace to our country,"

Another thing the complicit media do is to prominently display an image with two men from the crowds raising their arms (only one of which look like an intended “Nazi salute”) and from that give voice to the fear of Nazis infiltrating or leading the demonstration. This gives Maas the opportunity to say that “his European colleagues had very often queried him about the right-wing marches in Chemnitz.” To which he agreed that Germany was “rightly subjected” to particular scrutiny when it came to xenophobia, right-wing extremism and racism.”

Rightly subjected! To Maas, his fellow Germans cannot be trusted among Europeans, which is the mantra of all the political parties except the NPD and the AfD. This is why the Germans are so angry. It is not they who are untrustworthy, but those who have taken control of their country and are turning it into a place where they will soon not fit in or belong. They're angry because they've been robbed.

Hatred toward the controlled press

Der Spiegel today had an article about the particular fury expressed at journalists covering the demonstrations.

The hatred against the press was unprecedented at the demonstration on Saturday in Chemnitz, reported reporters. Journalists were mobbed, prevented from filming and sometimes even injured.
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Also journalists were repeatedly insulted, hindered in their work and attacked. "Again and again the crowd chanted 'lying press'," reports SPIEGEL ONLINE reporter Max Holscher. "Some called 'journalist's fagot'."

It was particularly difficult and sometimes dangerous for those journalists who were traveling with cameras. A recording of the MDR shows, for example, how the reporters are displaced and prevented from filming. Journalists tweets follow:

MDR SACHSEN Reporter
@MDR_SNlive
An example of how journalists at # c0109 from the camp of #AfD event attendees [were] hindered from reporting. Police had to intervene and protect the reporters.
17:19 - 1 Sep 2018

Florian Harms
@FAHarms
Incomprehensible. @PoliceiSaxony why do not you manage to protect journalists like our reporter from this mob? What else has to happen so that you can handle such situations? # Chemnitz # Chemnitz0109

Jan-Henrik Wiebe
@jan_wiebe
Earlier, I was attacked by neo-Nazis, yes, so you have to call them. Mikro is gone, luckily I'm fine. Police were again overwhelmed. Water cannon was temporarily enclosed. #Chemnitz # c0109

According to one employee, an MDR team even went into an ambush: the reporters wanted to film the demonstration from an apartment building and rang the bell at the residents. One finally pretended not to have a problem with out recording and let them in. When the journalists recorded some scenes from the balcony, a man suddenly went to the team, destroying the camera and shoving one of the staff down the stairs. He injured his hand.

Pascale Müller
@PascaleMller
Have recently spoken with André Berthold of Team MDR who were just attacked on the edge of the demo. Full video @BuzzFeedNewsDE # Chemnitz # C0109

MDR
@mdrde
The incident involving the camera team in #Chemnitz of the MDR is being investigated by the police. Classification is not possible until the final examination. # C0109
10:57 - Sep. 1 2018

Also the editorial director of the ARD program "Monitor", Georg Restle, tweeted:
George Restle
@georgrestle
The night in #Chemnitz: When filming the crime scene in the city center, our camera team was assaulted by right-wing extremists and could just get to safety. Never before have I experienced so much hatred of media as this weekend in Chemnitz.
01:44 - 2 Sep 2018

The ZDF reporter Michael Bewerunge also speaks of a "very, very aggressive atmosphere towards the press," as he "has not yet experienced". Discussions with the demonstrators were hardly possible.

This is confirmed by SPIEGEL ONLINE video reporter Martin Jäschke: "If you want to talk to people, they usually wave you off, they laugh you out or you get stupid slogans and we were beaten several times against the camera this evening." As long as he was recognizable as a journalist, he had felt as a target for open malice and hostility and certainly felt safe only where the police had been in the vicinity.

This is why the establishment is reacting as harshly as it is. The fury is building and the right has been emboldened. Since it's been held down for 70 years, there is quite a lot of steam built up. The pendulum is moving.