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The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has published an amazing story about an anonymous professor in Hessen and his run-in with the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

This is one of the sixteen state divisions of the German domestic intelligence apparatus whose agents I refer to affectionately as the constitutional protectors. Domestic intelligence agencies in other countries primarily busy themselves with things like terrorism and counter-espionage, but the constitutional protectors of the Federal Republic spend a great part of their time monitoring ordinary citizens for signs of political unreliability. They publish periodic reports autistically delineating all of the species and subspecies of political wrongthink they encounter among the rabble, they help orchestrate media smear campaigns and they selectively disclose their findings to employers and business associates, thereby ensuring that political offenders are appropriately ostracised for believing or saying or perhaps even just seeming to believe or say the wrong things. ...

A few months after his stay at the Elsässer house, on 15 January 2024, he received a call at home. It was a receptionist at his university. She told him to cancel his afternoon class and appear instead at the office of the university President. This was at the start of a massive nationwide freakout “against the right,” set off by dishonest reports from government-adjacent “fact-checkers” that the AfD were secretly plotting mass deportations of migrants – just like the Nazis, or something. Our baffled professor wondered what he could have done wrong and hoped the meeting was just some pointless formality. ...

Our professor asked what this was all about, and to his amazement the President told him of his overnight stay at the Elsässer house. As in the DDR, so in the Federal Republic: Association with the politically suspect is the best way to become politically suspect yourself. The professor protested that it was merely an incidental visit and clarified that he had no political ties to the Elsässer family and barely knew Jürgen Elsässer at all, but the President merely asked him to leave the room. He needed a moment to consult privately with his Head of Disciplinary Affairs.

When the professor was allowed back in, the President issued him an official “ban on performing his duties” and informed him of the consequences: He had to hand over his university keys immediately … His work laptop would be confiscated the next day, and he would only be allowed to enter the building once more, under supervision, to clear out his office. After that, he would be prohibited from contacting his students. Finally, the professor was asked if he felt well enough to drive home and informed that psychosocial services stood ready to help. ...

Because our professor had not done anything wrong or even remotely actionable, there was nothing to investigate. There was only the recursive, probing, punitive investigation itself.

A new insane German speech crime investigation just dropped.

On 29 September of this year, a German man of libertarian persuasion known only by the pseudonym Damian N. tweeted the following:

"No, anyone who is financed by the state pays no net taxes; they live off taxes: Every civil servant, every politician, every employee in a state-owned enterprise, everyone who is subsidized and financed by the state. Not a single parasite pays any net taxes."

You can find the tweet here; as I write this, it has a grand total of 402 views and ten likes.

https://x.com/Wnschmstr/status/1972709094495604869

No matter: Yesterday morning, police acting on behalf of the Ulm public prosecutor’s office raided Damian’s home. He is suspected of the crime of inciting hatred (in violation of Section 130 of the German Criminal Code) for his rough remark about government “parasites.”

https://apollo-news.net/ueberlegen-sie-sich-was-sie-in-zukunft-posten-mann-erlebt-durchsuchung-und-radikale-polizeimassnahmen-nach-x-post/

... The identification procedures – roughly comparable to a police booking in the United States – were likely illegal in this case. Damian N. further claims that the police produced no search warrant and provided no receipt for his confiscated phone, which would represent a further violation of the law. Before leaving, an officer instructed our suspected speech criminal to “Think carefully about what you post in future,” because “You must realise that you are now under observation.”

Oh great, even Bill Gates finally admits that there is no "climate crisis" but leftard pantyfa takes out power in Berlin anyway.

Early Saturday morning, lunatic eco-terrorists from the so-called “Volcano Group” attacked these cables with pyrotechnic charges, cutting off power to 45,000 households and thousands of commercial customers in the Zehlendorf, Nikolassee, Lichterfelde and Wannsee neighbourhoods of Berlin. The attack came at the start of an arctic coldsnap and unusually low, freezing temperatures. Despite these dire conditions, authorities plead that they cannot fully restore power to many customers until Thursday – five days after the attack.

Blackouts like this represent much more than an inconvenience. So many systems depend upon electricity that the sudden loss of power can easily represent a life-threatening disaster, particularly when that loss happens in the middle of winter. Without electricity, most buildings cannot be heated, and in this case thousands of structures will suffer broken pipes, water damage and mould infestations. The added stress of the cold and disruptive emergency measures will surely kill some older and more vulnerable people, even if the press never associates their deaths with this sabotage. And to all of that comes the fact that, as people are abandoning their unheated homes for hotels, entire neighbourhoods have emptied out – opening opportunities for looters to attack in total darkness because there are no street lights. ...

It looks for all the world like authorities have allowed the eco-terrorists responsible for this assault on Berlin’s power grid to operate with impunity for years and years. I want to ask how it is that our aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, which have resources to spy on tens of thousands of alleged “right-wing extremists,” have so little curiosity about the saboteurs of the Volcano Group and claim to know basically nothing about them despite the years of destruction they’ve wrought. I want to ask why, when authorities did stumble upon probable Volcano Group saboteurs a few years ago, Berlin judges were so quick to let them go.

All of this is very strange; all of it really gets the noggin joggin, as the kids say.

opening opportunities for looters to attack in total darkness because there are no street lights.