The Situation In Germany

One never knows whats beyond the surface. A lot of people from various groups are certainly unsatisfied with the situation.
I came across this information from Spanish television that caught my attention in particular, because when I turned on the television before last night, I fell in the middle of the movie "Valkyrie".
Well you know, maybe a different kind of "trial run".
History tends to resurface for good or bad.
 
Beware, as developments unfold in this case (or not - this could be the last we hear of it!), that the post-WW2 German government has a long track record of high-level intelligence involvement in 'far-right/far-left/terrorist groups'. So, while there could be a real 'domestic, dissident threat to overthrow an (as they see it) illegitimate regime', by the time the government decided to make sweeping arrests, the group was most likely already vectored by informants and state spies. For example, they may well have had political ideas about advocating for a return to monarchy, but the half-baked ideas about violently overthrowing the government were probably added in by spies, thus incriminating everyone involved and 'justifying' mass arrests on charges of sedition.

In the early 2000s, there was a string of 'racist' murders of Turkish-origin Germans, attributed to the 'National Socialist Underground', and it emerged during the only trial for the murders that a government agent was present at the scene of at least one of the murders:

It became known that an officer of the Hessian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution was inside the Internet café while its Turkish owner was killed by the NSU terrorists in 2006 in Kassel. This security agent (Andreas Temme) openly held right-wing views, and in his home village he was known by the nickname "Little Adolf". He has since been transferred to an administrative post (outside and unrelated to the agency).
And that's not all:

One of the more controversial subjects to come to light during the NSU murder trial was the level of cooperation and support that neo-Nazi informants and organizations received from the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany's domestic security agency. The BfV began cultivating informants from Germany's neo-Nazi groups in the early and mid-1990s to deal with the rise in anti-immigrant crime like the Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots of 1992. During the trial it became clear that BfV informants were aware or potentially aware of the homicides and other crimes attributed to the NSU and that this information was not shared with local police either accidentally or purposefully. All attempts made by the victims' legal team to examine this relationship have been buried by the prosecution team as irrelevant to the scope of the murder trial.
Here's an article with details about the trial, which leaves me in no doubt that this 'neo-Nazi German terrorist group' was entirely under the control of state intelligence agencies:

A German trial: 10 unsolved murders and a weak court verdict​

TRT World, 6 Sep 2018

On July 11, the Munich Court of Appeals delivered a much-awaited verdict on the murders of eight Turkish-German citizens committed by the members of a notorious neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist Underground (NSU).

Much to the dismay of the Turkish-German community, activists and a large number of people from the German majority, the court's decision was too lenient.

When the presiding judge Manfred Gotzl named the only person who was accused, Beate Zschape and sentenced her to lifelong imprisonment, several dozen men and women associated with Germany's far-right and neo-Nazi groups burst into celebration inside the courtroom.

It was the biggest lawsuit against a neo-Nazi group since the Nuremberg Trials of World War II, says the NSU watch, a Berlin-based human rights group. But contrary to the Nuremberg verdict, which ordered harsh punishments against the Nazis who carried out war crimes, Gotzl's decision was pleasing only to Germany's neo-Nazis.

Between 2000 and 2007, the NSU members perpetrated several hate crimes. The group is also accused of killing at least ten people in Germany. Out of the ten victims, eight belonged to Germany’s three-million-strong Turkish migrant community. Most of the murders continue to remain unsolved. The NSU is also accused of several robberies and bombings, precisely targeting the neighbourhoods populated by Turks.

The NSU trials continued for five years and the state spent at least $34.8 million (30 million euros) investigating the case.

Several first person accounts from the Turkish community suggest that the killers were part of neo-Nazi groups who meticulously planned the attacks on German minorities in different parts of the country. The community believes that the government and its intelligence agencies had prior knowledge of the murders and yet they turned a blind eye to the perpetrators.

The victims' families believe the German government made a scapegoat out of Zschape, giving her a life sentence, while three others had only lenient mild ones, while the real culprits were shielded
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Zschape's co-accused, Uwe Bohnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, were found dead in a campervan in mysterious circumstances on November 4, 2011, following a failed bank robbery in Eisenach, a town in the German state of Thuringia. According to the German police, Bohnhardt and Mundlos committed suicide.

Over the course of the police investigation, five key eyewitnesses died in suspicious circumstances. Two of them were found dead in a car with seat belts on and burn marks on their bodies.

There is one more accused in the case. Andre Eminger, an ardent neo-Nazi, who allegedly supplied the NSU cell with both information and logistics for its atrocities against Germany's migrant communities. Eminger, as per court testimonies, has also facilitated several hate crimes against German minorities.

For many observers, who followed the case closely, Gotzl was known for giving out severe judgements. Therefore, a strict sentence against Eminger seemed inevitable.

Eminger's body was covered with anti-Semitic and Nazi-themed tattoos, including the one that reads: Die Jew Die. On the day of a court hearing, he stood before Gotzl wearing a t-shirt with a far-right heavy metal band's provocative logo.

Meanwhile, Eminger's neo-Nazi fans across Germany wore black shirts and camouflage pants in solidarity. Eminger is now regarded as a hero in the country's fascist circles.

Recounting the court hearing, Mustafa Yeneroglu, a 43-year-old Turkish-German lawyer, said Gotzl did not allow Ismail Yozgat, the father of victim Halit Yozgat, to speak during the proceedings.

Instead, he said, Gotzl seemed fine with the supporters of Eminger shouting slogans and celebrating as the court proceedings went on.

“I could not stand there anymore and left the courtroom in protest,” Yeneroglu told TRT World.

Halit Yozgat, the victim, ran an internet cafe in the German city of Kassel in Hesse. He was gunned down in the cafe during business hours.

As his killers entered the cafe, Yozgat was dealing with a customer who happened to be German spy Andreas Temme. Temme worked for the state’s domestic secret service, which is known as Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) or the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

Temme, according to court testimonies, saw Yozgat falling onto the floor after getting shot in the head. Temme's reaction was astonishing. He put some coins on the cash counter for use of the internet, leaving Yozgat on the ground as he bled to death.

The German authorities arrested Temme two weeks after the murder. But Hessian BfV, a local intelligence agency, interfered and prevented the police investigation, according to the NSU Watch, which has tracked the neo-Nazi activities for more than a decade.

“A leading member of the homicide division that investigated the murder of Halit Yozgat testified before the court that he was convinced Andreas Temme either saw the murderers or was in some way involved in the crime himself,” the NSU Watch reported.

The police investigation also revealed that Temme had spoken to a far-right informant an hour before the murder. The police later raided Temme's house and found Nazi and anti-Semitic literature, illegal firearms, drugs and evidence tying him to the local neo-Nazi circles.

The German judiciary did not press any charges against Temme. He walked out a free man.

“Andreas Temme is a state informant who is known as Little Adolf,” said Yeneroglu, describing Temme as a man whose friends and acquaintances considered him a minor version of Germany's former leader Adolf Hitler, who carried out a genocide against the Jews during World War II.

Yeneroglu joined Turkey's governing AK Party in 2015, leading the country's human rights commission for two years.

German 'deep state'

“If you look at the sentences for Zschape’s co-conspirators, this is an unbelievably soft verdict,” said Dirk Laabs, a German journalist, who co-authored a book on the NSU network along with Stefan Aust, the former manager of the country’s prestigious magazine, Der Spiegel.

In the book, "Heimatschutz: Der Staat und Die Mordserie des NSU," which could be translated in English as “Homeland Security: The State and the NSU Murders,” the authors strongly argue that German intelligence services have strong connections with the NSU network across the country.

According to German authorities, Zschape, Bohnhardt and Mundlos founded the NSU in the late 1990s when the unification of West and East Germany fuelled neo-Nazi activities across the country. After losing to West Germany’s liberal democracy, former East Germany, a homogenous communist state, became a safe haven for neo-Nazi members.

Zschape, Bohnhardt and Mundlos were born and raised in East Germany, which also happens to be the birthplace of Christian Democrat Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Germany is considered to be the engine of the European Union. As the country broke the Nazi stranglehold following World War II, the US supported it on the premise of promoting a democratic society which shunned its Nazi past.

Seven decades later, Yeneroglu argues Germany is unable to shake off its Nazi legacy from the state’s institutions, which includes the intelligence services.

Germany has about 19 officially recognised intelligence agencies, one of the largest network of spies in the world.

“These intelligence agencies are functioning as the continuation of Hitler-era intelligence agencies in any case," Yeneroglu said. "In German statecraft, the less de-Nazificated institutions are its intelligence services. This is a well-known fact by the German public.”

Yeneroglu said German intelligence community has a strong influence in the workings of the "deep state."

A deep state is often an elusive network of groups operating within the government, sidestepping the rule of law.

Following WWII, the first chief of West Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, Bundesnachrichtendienst, which is the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) of current Germany, was Reinhard Gehlen, who headed Hitler’s intelligence community and oversaw the Soviet front.

A loyal servant to Hitler to the very end, Gehlen became a turncoat and collaborated with the American forces as the war came to its end. In return, he was allowed to keep his Nazi intelligence network intact. The US used him as a tool against the Soviet Union and its communist allies.

Backed by the US, Gehlen soon founded "Gehlen Org" which gathered intelligence against the former Soviet Union and fed it to the CIA and the Pentagon. Gehlen Org also launched the Operation Gladio, a secret “stay-behind” paramilitary network, which operated against the communists in numerous countries.

During the Cold War, the Gladio network worked outside the rule of law in the name of 'saving democracy' against the communist threat. Not much is known about what happened to these “stay-behind” networks after the Cold War.

But Yeneroglu said this Nazi legacy left a strong footprint in the German deep state and the BND, Germany's premier intelligence agency.

“During the 1990s, with the increasing number of Turks and other migrant communities in Germany, the state’s political establishment was divided in two opposite camps,” said Bulent Guven, a German-Turkish political scientist and a board member of a Hamburg-based business association Union of International Democrats (UID).

One defended the integration of migrant communities in Germany and the other advocated an anti-migrant policy and the purification of the German state, said Guven, a partner at Modus Factum, a German business consulting company.

Both ideologies were prevalent in Germany in the 1990s, when neo-Nazi attacks were on the rise, killing nearly 200 people with migrant backgrounds. At the same time, the German state introduced policies to grant citizenship to immigrants.

According to Guven’s analysis, one part of the German state reached out to migrants and minorities while the other part, which secretly encouraged the neo-Nazi groups, worked against them. They tried to impose cultural hegemony over the minorities, primarily Turks.

Guven said the four people tried and sentenced in the NSU murder case were just "pawns" who operated at the behest of "the state's domestic intelligence services."

“The people in the intelligence agencies who operated these violent pawns in each state were not tried at all. The government closed the case without exposing these racists,” Guven said.

“The murders were a deep state operation. That's how a majority in the Turkish community believes in,” Guven said.

The unresolved secrets of the NSU

The mystery and questions that shroud the string of murders continue to haunt the Turkish community in Germany. They find it hard to come to terms with major discrepancies like Bohnhardt and Mundlos committing suicide in their campervan and their housemate and companion Zschape burning down their apartment in Zwickau in Saxony. According to the police investigation, Zschape set the house on fire the same day when her two companions were found dead in the vehicle.

The victims' families also want to know why the Federal Intelligence Services destroyed 310 files related to the NSU murder case.

“Before the case began, so many documents had already been destroyed by security and intelligence units,” said Kemal Su, a Turkish-German lawyer, who closely followed the case.

In Germany, 13 different parliamentary commissions have been formed to examine the NSU structure and its effects on the society. During the commission hearings, “German MPs often complained that they cannot read the documents because of spoliation of evidence by intelligence services,” Su told TRT World.

Germany’s former top prosecutor Harald Range described the series of murders as the country's 9/11 moment, a wake up call to act against the violent neo-Nazi groups.

“None of the pledges were kept. They did not take a firm action against institutional racism in Germany,” Yeneroglu said.

Instead, senior intelligence officials seized the documents related to Yozgat’s murder, making them classified for 120 years.

On July 11, as the court announced the verdict, one neo-Nazi fan of Eminger told a German blogger that they finally "won."
 
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Beware, as developments unfold in this case (or not - this could be the last we hear of it!), that the post-WW2 German government has a long track record of high-level intelligence involvement in 'far-right/far-left/terrorist groups'.

Indeed! And the „Verfassungsschutz“ is notorious for that since 1945 and seems to be the principal body „investigating“ what has happened here now. As far as I know it is also has been notorious for the fact that high ranking former Nazis (the real ones) where again and again placed in key positioned in that Organisation right up to the very top since 1945.
 
Indeed! And the „Verfassungsschutz“ is notorious for that since 1945 and seems to be the principal body „investigating“ what has happened here now. As far as I know it is also has been notorious for the fact that high ranking former Nazis (the real ones) where again and again placed in key positioned in that Organisation right up to the very top since 1945.
This grim picture is starting to make a lot more sense of Germany's baffling and seemingly-incomprehensible support for Ukraine, hardline coronavirus measures, participation in the Nord Stream 2 attack, and aversion to any form of reasonable dialogue with Russia. We may be seeing the beginnings of the unmasking of a pathocracy.
 
Alina Lipp, a German journalist who 'defected to Russia' while covering NATO-UkroNazi crimes in the Donbass, sparking German state prosecution of her and her family, reckons this mass arrest is largely kabuki theater to silence growing popular dissent against the government:


Something else that happened in Germany, just hours before this dramatic event: Angela Merkel 'confessed' to newspaper Die Zeit that the Minsk 'peace accords' were - from the Western side - always and only about giving Ukraine time to train and arm hundreds of thousands of soldiers to NATO standards.


That was a bombshell story... until it was wiped off the 'front pages' by the so-called Royalist Plot.
 
Something else that happened in Germany, just hours before this dramatic event: Angela Merkel 'confessed' to newspaper Die Zeit that the Minsk 'peace accords' were - from the Western side - always and only about giving Ukraine time to train and arm hundreds of thousands of soldiers to NATO standards.
That's a big one. Not sure how accurate it is and what scale of disillusionment we are talking about, but that's what rueconomics.ru website published today (machine translation):

Germans defected to Russia after Merkel's confession about Ukraine
08 December 2022

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that the Minsk agreements were needed to strengthen Ukraine. For ordinary Germans, her words became a reason to support Russia in the fight against the deceitful West.

Merkel made a high-profile statement about Ukraine in an interview with the Zeit newspaper. She said that the Minsk agreements allowed Kiev to gain time "to become stronger." According to the ex-Bundeskanzlerin, eight years ago, NATO countries could hardly provide assistance to the Armed Forces at the current level. The Ukraine of 2014 or 2015 is not Ukraine today, she stressed.

German readers saw in Merkel's words an admission that the West did not initially seek peace in Ukraine. Russia's deception with the Minsk agreements was required to prepare for the current conflict, with the Russian army being confronted by the entire Western bloc supplying the AFU with arms, ammunition, intelligence, mercenaries and finances. Merkel's interview has made many Germans sympathetic to Russia. German residents are convinced: the lying Western warmongers don't deserve to win the conflict.

"This is how they fool the whole world. An armistice with Russia was never really planned. On the contrary," Roland Neumann is outraged on Facebook (the social network is banned in Russia).

"Everything was done only as a distraction. NATO vassals are not supposed to have peace," writes Irina Eisfeld.

"Gradually there is an opportunity to learn about the true intentions of politicians. The truth is getting through. Merkel was never going to talk to Russia on an equal footing. It was pure ostentation," writes Günter Weihrauch.

"I hope the dirty lying NATO West collapses face down in the Ukrainian shit heap. The West must not win this war," notes Gerhard N. on Twitter.

"It is remarkable how it is now becoming increasingly obvious how treacherously the conflict between Ukraine and Russia has been prepared by the US with the involvement of the G7 and NATO countries," Verena speculates.

"For eight years they said that Russia was not implementing the Minsk agreements and that sanctions against Russia could not be lifted until it implemented them. That was a blatant lie. Firstly, there were no requirements for Russia in the agreements. Secondly, it was Kiev that failed to comply with any of the 13 points. And in fact it should have given Ukraine time to prepare for war with Russia," Alain Jaillet said indignantly.

Speaking about the conflict in Ukraine, Merkel expressed hope for peace talks. The former chancellor herself is not involved in the settlement attempts: she has disowned both interactions with Kiev and advice to Moscow.

And then come the raids and the supposedly planned coup to take over the limelight. I have hard time to believe it's just pure coincidence.
 
Also on RT:

Merkel confirms Ukraine peace deal was a ploy​

Minsk agreements gave Ukraine “valuable time” to “get stronger”, said former German chancellor

Merkel confirms Ukraine peace deal was a ploy

FILE PHOTO: Leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany gather for talks in Minsk, Belarus, February 11, 2015 © AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko

The 2014 ceasefire brokered by Berlin and Paris in Minsk was an attempt to give Kiev time to strengthen its military and was successful in that regard, former German chancellor Angela Merkel argued in an interview published on Wednesday.
In an extensive interview about her 16 years in power, Merkel told Zeit magazine her policy towards Russia and Ukraine was correct, even if not successful.

“I thought the initiation of NATO accession for Ukraine and Georgia discussed in 2008 to be wrong,” Merkel said. “The countries neither had the necessary prerequisites for this, nor had the consequences of such a decision been fully considered, both with regard to Russia's actions against Georgia and Ukraine and to NATO and its rules of assistance.”

She described the September 2014 Minsk agreement as “an attempt to give Ukraine time.” France and Germany had brokered a ceasefire after the failure of Ukraine’s attempt to subdue the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk by force.
“[Ukraine] used this time to get stronger, as you can see today,” Merkel continued. “The Ukraine of 2014/15 is not the Ukraine of today. As you saw in the battle for Debaltsevo in early 2015, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin could easily have overrun them at the time. And I very much doubt that the NATO countries could have done as much then as they do now to help Ukraine.”

The defeat at Debaltsevo resulted in the second Minsk protocol being signed in February 2015. Merkel said that it was “clear to all of us that the conflict was frozen, that the problem had not been solved, but that gave Ukraine valuable time.”

Meanwhile, she defended the decision to build the Nord Stream 2 pipeline for Russian gas, since refusing to do so would have “have dangerously worsened the climate” with Moscow given the situation in Ukraine. It just so happened that Germany couldn’t get gas elsewhere, she added.

Asked for any self-criticism, Merkel told Zeit that “the Cold War never really ended because Russia was basically not at peace,” and that NATO “should have reacted more quickly to Russia's aggressiveness” in 2014.

Pyotr Poroshenko, who became president of Ukraine after the 2014 US-backed coup in Kiev, told a domestic audience in August 2015that Minsk was a ruse to buy time for a military build-up. He admitted as much to the West in July 2022, in an interview with German media.

Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states, which have since voted to join Russia alongside with most of the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye, and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.



And now:

Merkel’s ‘confession’ may be grounds for tribunal – Moscow​

The former chancellor gave evidence that the West had orchestrated hostilities in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry says

Merkel’s ‘confession’ may be grounds for tribunal – Moscow

Official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova. © Sputnik/Press Service of the Russian Foreign Ministry

A confession by former German chancellor Angela Merkel about the Minsk peace agreements could be used as evidence in a tribunal involving Western politicians responsible for provoking the Ukraine conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Thursday.

The deal, brokered by Germany and France, was supposed to be a roadmap for peace in the war-torn country. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country's current military offensive was prompted by the failure to implement the terms of the accords.

The former German leader admitted in an interview with Die Zeit on Wednesday that the actual purpose of the Minsk agreements was to give Ukraine time to prepare for a military confrontation with Russia.

“They talk a lot about legal assessments of what is happening around Ukraine, certain tribunals and so on in all sorts of ways,”Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a media briefing on Thursday. “But this is a specific reason for a tribunal.”

She claimed that Merkel’s comments were nothing short of the testimony of a person who had openly admitted that everything done between 2014 and 2015 was meant to “distract the international community from real issues, play for time, pump up the Kiev regime with weapons, and escalate the issue into a large-scale conflict,” Zakharova added.

She said Merkel’s statements “horrifyingly”reveal that the West uses “forgery as a method of action,” and resorts to “machinations, manipulation and all kinds of distortions of truth, law and rights imaginable.”

The spokeswoman claimed that the West had known well in 2015, when it spent hours negotiating the second part of the Minsk accords, that it would never even attempt to fulfill any part of the agreements and would instead pump weapons into Kiev.

“They did not feel sorry for anyone: women, children, the civilian population of Donbass or the whole of Ukraine. They needed a conflict and they were ready for it back then, in 2015,”Zakharova said.

Earlier this month, a number of Western officials called for the creation of a special UN-backed court to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Russia during its ongoing military campaign in Ukraine.

The Kremlin has said the West has no legal or moral right to set up any courts to investigate or prosecute Russia over the conflict, which Moscow claims was ultimately provoked by the US and its allies.
 
Alex Mercouris also talks about the Germany coup plot at the start of this video. He thinks that the people involved would certainly be smarter than the story suggests, and unlikely to be naive enough to think a coup would be possible even if that were the intention. More likely that no genuine coup would have been discussed, but a dissatisfaction with the country's direction regarding Russia and subservience generally to the US. That discussion would likely have been steered in a more radical direction by intelligence agents.

 
So twenty-five people, most of them old-age pensioners were allegedly plotting to overthrow the German government.
The media are telling people that it was the biggest security sweep of all times in this country. 150 house searches and only a single firearm has been secured. No weapons depots.

The leader of the conspiracy is said to be 71 year old Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss (a tiny former principality in Thuringia) whose predecessors have abdicated in 1918. Was he trying to resurrect the monarchy in Germany?

He reportedly tried to contact representatives of the Russian Federation.

I think we can expect this to be a trigger event for tightening measures and laws against any people who have become inconvenient for or defiant against the system.

It will be forbidden to deny that right-wingers are actively trying to overthrow the German government.
 
Really good thoughts on this Reichsbürger Coup D'Etat in german language:
Who is plotting against whom?

and here is the english translation from DeepL:

Who is actually plotting against whom?

Could it be that the coup is going the other way round than the media would have us believe?

The media and the government are presenting us with an operetta of the evil Reichsbürger with Nancy Faeser in the leading role.

And the whole time I've been thinking that it was all about publicly arresting and shackling an AfD judge who had previously failed in court, i.e. against other judges. And Berlin's justice senator Kreck, also a rather untouched virgin as far as profession, CV and employment history are concerned, who came from nothing but was made by the communists and acts on the far left, even more so in the LBQT milieu and has certain connections to the Humboldt gender scene (which has with constitutional judge Susanne Baer), is now demanding laws to put judges who do not adhere to the values of the Basic Law - wants to say: the Marxist reading of the Basic Law as amended in each case by red-red-green - to throw them out of office.

When I look at what is going on objectively, it is not the Reichsbürger who want to coup against the Federal Republic and democracy, but the red-red-green party that is doing it: they are just starting to coup against the judiciary and arrest the opposition.
Coup against constitution, democracy and opposition

I had said this before: objectively speaking, the most anti-constitutional party in this country is the SPD, because no other party has made or attempted so many changes to the constitution, and no other party has made so many laws that were unconstitutional and were repealed. But there we are again in the realm of double talk: With the political opponents, one talks of unconstitutionality, overthrow, putsch. The SPD calls the same thing "constitutional change". Something about "closing the justice gap".
Putsch against the judiciary

And a show is being put on here, sand is being thrown in the eyes, itching powder is being dumped in the gown, but all I see at the moment is a smear comedy that distracts from the fact that figures like Nancy Faeser and Lena Kreck are currently putting up a coup against the judiciary by demonstrating that judges are being thrown out and are happy to be arrested and handcuffed in front of running - because specially invited - cameras if they don't do exactly what is wanted of them.

And that fits in perfectly with the fact that judges have long been appointed according to their opinions and ideology, and then judge them in the same way. For a long time now, we have only had government jurisdiction according to moral and ideological doctrine, and judgeships filled accordingly.
Coup against the legislature

This morning I took part in an online conference that also dealt with data protection issues for publishers.

The old song: complete legal uncertainty. No one knows what the laws mean. The - politically staffed - data protection authorities are just doing what they want, and we have 17 of them. We are moving in complete legal uncertainty because we have to wait to see what the outcome of ongoing court proceedings will be, maybe in a year and a half.

But that doesn't mean anything else, that the separation of powers is being broken. Because it is no longer the laws created by parliaments that count, but only the mostly arbitrary court decisions. And the party soldiers and ideology disciples have long been sitting in the courts, and the others are now being thrown out. This means that the applicable law is no longer under the power and control of the parliaments, i.e. the legislature, but that the parties decide arbitrarily, unpredictably and according to arbitrary backroom discourse on the law to be applied in each case.

I recall what I reported years ago from the NDR about the "New German Media Makers": hate is not an opinion, and therefore not protected by the fundamental right of freedom of opinion. Who determines what hate is, I asked. Answer: That is determined by the current discourse. It is no longer the text of the Basic Law, not even the laws, but a constantly changing, unpredictable backroom discourse, politically controlled by the parties, that determines what one is allowed to say and what one goes to jail for.
The coup is on

When I look at it like this, I actually come to the conclusion that there is a coup in progress.

But it is not a coup by the citizens of the rich against the government and democracy, but by the red-red-green party against democracy, the opposition, the separation of powers, parliament, the legislature and the judiciary.
 
From the article that was quoted by Niall:
“These intelligence agencies are functioning as the continuation of Hitler-era intelligence agencies in any case," Yeneroglu said. "In German statecraft, the less de-Nazificated institutions are its intelligence services. This is a well-known fact by the German public.”

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According to Guven’s analysis, one part of the German state reached out to migrants and minorities while the other part, which secretly encouraged the neo-Nazi groups, worked against them. They tried to impose cultural hegemony over the minorities, primarily Turks.

With that it takes not much wonder why the NSU process dragged on as it has and that many facets about it were just so obscure. And I have some feeling for a long time now - corroborated by the above and by what transpired since then - that structures within the German state are using this Reichsbürger (Reich citizen) and their "Kampf gegen Rechts" ("Fight against the Rightists") narrative in order to disguise their own propensity for nazi and other extremist ideologies.

Following that train of thought further it would also not be a big surprise why antifa-structures (also now being called "pro-fa" by many here) flourish that well in Germany. There's much evidence that these work together with the intelligence community, including the way they are funded. It's a ploy for the masses who only have been educated (or programmed) about fascism manifesting as a certain type, believing that the state must have everything under control. In that vein, this current situation may certainly be like a show trial which serves to reinforce an image of strength of the state in public awareness while deterring anyone critical from speaking up in an effective way.

Also, an acquaintance of mine who used to work for a high-profile German authority once shared that many of our current laws have been taken over from the 3rd Reich (with some being adjusted over time, more or less). He also had a list where all the laws in question have been enumerated, in combination with their creation date. And if I remember correctly, Putin has mentioned (in one of his last speeches, I believe) something about Nazism still prevailing in power echelons in EU countries, particularly Germany...

However, that the EU and Germany in particular don't seem to have a problem with nazi symbolism being displayed with Ukrainian troops, meanwhile offering to train those very troops, funneling money and weapons, does speak volumes. Or so I think.
 
Also, German media seem to have been informed of the raids quite some time in advance. Alina Lipp talks about this, and that she thinks that this "repelled coup" will serve as a precedent for tightening the laws against anyone who is (potentially) being framed into the "Rightists" category.

Some here have shared the respective contribution she made on Telegram, which I transcribed and translated (with Deepl's assistance ;-)). (There's also a version for Russian speakers.)

"Hello everyone [...], what is the current most important news is the raid that took place today in Germany.

3000 officers were on the road in 11 states and searched apartments and arrested several people. There are 52 suspects who have been vetted and are alleged to be part of a radical armed underground movement. Who were planning to storm the Reichstag, etc. And today the officers were also at my old parents' house looking for my parents. Interesting. My parents are definitely not part of any radical movement and have been in Russia for a long time, and it's all quite strange.

It's also striking that the [...] first Spiegel article was published as early as 7:30 a.m. and there was a lot of background info there, but the raid started at 6 a.m. and is supposed to be super secret. But strangely enough, they had many journalists with them, who then also filmed. Well, it looks like this article was finished before. So the whole thing has been planned for a long time, it didn't just hit people who are supposedly right-wing extremists - I mean, you can see that in my parents.

And it all looks like they're now using this as an excuse to push some law: "See what we had to prevent? There are people like that in Germany, we have to restrict them somehow now and prevent them from planning overthrows, etc." And then there will probably be tightening(s) of the law - even more.
So, pay attention, dear ones."
 
Also, an acquaintance of mine who used to work for a high-profile German authority once shared that many of our current laws have been taken over from the 3rd Reich (with some being adjusted over time, more or less). He also had a list where all the laws in question have been enumerated, in combination with their creation date. And if I remember correctly, Putin has mentioned (in one of his last speeches, I believe) something about Nazism still prevailing in power echelons in EU countries, particularly Germany...

It is not a secret that the whole body of laws of the German Reich has been taken over by the Federal Republic, but most of the laws have not been created by the 3rd Reich as well as they have been inherited from the Weimar Republic which inherited them from Imperial Germany.

The main problem after the war were the Nazi-era judges which couldn't be easily replaced by inexperienced junior lawyers and often managed to hang on to their jobs for up to two decades.

Today's problem is that the state of law is failing not because of the nature of the laws, but because of the leftwing infiltrators that are bending laws to their particular taste.

Mind you, the current federal minister of the interior Nancy Faeser is advocating the reversal of the burden of proof!

Luckily it is not her business since the minister of justice is a member of the libertarian FDP party...
 
A 'sensational' update, of sorts:

Celebrity chef among suspects in Germany rightwing coup plot

The Guardian, 9 December 2022

A celebrity gourmet chef whose daughter is the girlfriend of the Real Madrid footballer David Alaba and an ex-police officer once tasked with protecting Jewish communities from terror attacks are among the latest figures to have been linked to the foiled Reichsbürger coup plan in Germany, with further arrests expected as investigations continue.

Details emerging after the biggest ever national police operation against rightwing extremism indicate that suspects may have been informed in advance of the raids, in which 3,000 police officers targeted more than 150 addresses across Germany, and in Austria and Italy, making 25 arrests.

The number of suspects had risen to 54 by Friday, with more arrests expected. Weapons were found at more than 50 locations, including rifles and ammunition, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office.

The group, inspired by Reichsbürger ideology that the modern German state is illegitimate, had planned to storm the Reichstag building and arrest parliamentarians before overthrowing the government and installing a regime led by a 71-year-old aristocrat as its head of state.

Frank Heppner, a star cook from Munich, who was arrested on Wednesday at a five-star hotel in the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel where he worked, was allegedly a member of the command staff of the military arm of the terrorist group, responsible for recruiting new members, obtaining weapons and other equipment, as well as building a bug-proof communication and IT structure. He was also tasked with running the canteen that would have provided meals for the members of the so-called “New German Army”.

The Austrian daily Die Presse, citing investigators, said Heppner, 62, was also to be the personal cook to Heinrich XIII, Prince of Reuß, after he was installed as king. It said Heppner provided the group with money, cooking utensils, a camper van and an emergency generator.

Heppner’s 28-year-old daughter, Shalimar, is in a relationship with Alaba, a professional footballer who plays for Real Madrid and captains the Austrian national team. The couple have a son who was born in 2019. Alaba was not responding to requests for comment, according to German media who tried to contact him.

Among others alleged to have been part of the group was an ex-police officer once tasked with protecting Jewish communities from terror attacks. Michael Fritsch was arrested with his partner, Melanie Ritter, near Hanover in northern Germany.

Fritsch, 58, was suspended from duty in 2020 and later sacked, after he appeared at protests organised by Covid deniers. He later became a parliamentary candidate for DieBasis, the political party of the Covid-denying Querdenker movement. His legal appeals process against his dismissal is still outstanding.

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland continued to try to distance itself on Friday from its former member, Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, a serving judge who was arrested at her home in western Berlin on Wednesday morning for allegedly being one of the key plotters. Her post-coup role was to have been justice minister.

There were widespread calls for an overhaul of access to the Reichstag. Malsack-Winkemann, who as a former MP had the right to access the parliament building, had allegedly provided the military arm of the group with important logistical information about how to enter.

“A renewed control of access to the Bundestag by former MPs of the AfD is a necessity after the revelations around Malsack-Winkemann,” said Konstantin Kuhle, the deputy parliamentary leader of the pro-business liberals, urging security forces to bar anyone it considered a potential security risk.

The extent to which the group had the capacity to turn its power fantasies into reality remains a matter of heated discussion. According to Der Spiegel magazine, among the items seized in the raids were 9mm pistols, swords, knives, stun guns, combat helmets, night vision equipment, and the duty weapons of a policeman and policewoman who were among the suspects.

The leftwing daily Die Tageszeitung reported that investigators found a “hitlist” with 18 names and addresses on it of prominent German politicians and journalists that the group may have intended to target. They included the foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, along with six other members of the Bundestag and three public broadcaster television presenters.
Lipp is probably correct in her initial assessment: it's a 'coup-in-reverse', a 'democratic coup' to consolidate control of the The Message ('greening the planet', hating Russia, loving the American Empire, pro-Woke, etc.).
 
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