The amount of material about the Sylt Sandal is astonishing, but there some can tell a story about where Germany is, and in which direction it is moving.
About the song:
The Wiki for the song,
L'amour toujours describes the background for the use of the song at the event in Sylt:
Details about the person who filmed the video. His name was Jüri, apparently
an Estonian name, but if that relates to the origin is not said.
The public response
One person wonders, see
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (Tweet link). if there are no more important problems in Germany.
See also this SOTT article:
Von der Leyen proposes 'vaccines' for minds and a 'shield' for democracy
Seeing an image indicating that the police have been called in to curb the problem:
Double standards
One person claims in a
Twitter clip that
the meaning of the two statements, sung by the young people taken separately are used by the SPD and by Olaf Scholtz himself. The first appears on a current SPD EU parliament election poster and the other on the cover of Die Spiegel. See also this
Tweet for the same story, where there is this image:
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Another
Tweet discusses the legalities. A lawyer says that to make a Nazi greeting is punishable, and if you say "Alles für Deutschland" (all for Germany, as one of the AfD people Höcke, (could be Björn Höcke, (Federal State spokesman and parliamentary group leader of the AfD Thuringia)), then this is a slogan from the NAZI
SA group, which he claims very few people today are aware of.
One
Tweeter (has pictures) claims that there already last year was a similar case:
Regarding how the medias turned the event, the above poster has another
Tweet that claims to show how German media is guided:
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One can ask if the choice of giving an old story a new spin was an intended or an unintended psy-ops? We know that the left and the ruling parties for several years have tried to ostracize, cancel, and marginalize their opponents on the right. Much has been tried, so what if someone introduced the idea of framing the right by attaching a slogan to a popular dance song, like "L'amour toujours". One fine day, somebody who could fit the profile of a media storm enters into the trap, at a time that suits political motives, (upcoming elections) then you propagate it widely adding the direction you need.
A
comment about Bild who published the story:
Regarding the unusual situation that the lives of these people are being destroyed in the public domain, the AfD now has a platform from which to point out that even very serious criminals are usually protected by pixilated photos.
Example1,
example2. Along
similar lines from someone with a different dialect, (maybe Southern Germany?). At the same time, as someone
posting a meme noted, a proverb has it: Punish one to teach a 100,
ascribed to a Roman/Latin origin, or to Mao Tse Tung :
Though
one gives credit to the Mafia, but if it is Mao, then the
image is:
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The news is that the prosecutor is working on three "Sylt-punks" (It was hard to find a single translation "Schnösel", but with this the idea is clear enough.)
This Tweet
reads:
One person
points out, that at the same of this scandal, politicians are thinking about legalizing Cannabis. Is the poster thinking the scandal is a distraction from what he claims is a more serious issue? In that case what about internal problems or external issues like Ukraine or Israel?
RT Germany wrote:
After Sylt scandal: Nationwide hunt for 'Döp, dödö, döp'
One
wrote referring to the owner of the Pony Club on Sylt, though I'm quite sure judging from other posts that he is satirical:
[Picture from a news article that he had reported five people to the police.]
These articles are in German, (translated headings).
After 'Sylt scandal', now official 'Döp-dödö-döp' ban at several major events
After 'Sylt': Juso leader sounds like Strack-Zimmermann – action against party participants in order
Sylt song becomes a catchy tune: People with a migration background sing 'Ausländer raus'
One comment said that some immigrants do not sing it in solidarity but to make fun of the German clown show and they actually mean to say, hey we are here and you guys can forget about throwing us out.
More political commentary surrounding the event
Here is a YouTube with some analysis.
The speaker comments on how
this case comes up as we approach an EU election, where right-wing parties are expected to gain more power. He explains the situation with immigration in Germany and gives some statistics regarding the social situation of many immigrants.
He shows a poll result that promises the national conservative
Alternativ für Deutschland about 20 %. They could thus double their numbers in the EU parliament, and this is of concern to the left.
NIUS LIVE: “The left’s tactic of declaring everyone a Nazi is backfiring”
A Tweet from Poland, or at least translated from Polish,
It has a video, two clips, but is the DJ scene from that event, possibly, but why was that recorded?!?
Satire
One person edited a video clip from the
2004 movie Downfall, even inserted a few frames showing an old map of Sylt, and had Hitler complain about the use of the song. The fact that Hitler is portrayed as being against the song, clearly indicates who the current Nazis are interpreted to be, and it is not the young adults.
A note on the song:
Here are
the lyrics from the song that is now being prevented from being played at many events in Germany this year, due to the perceived risk of
The song exists in two versions, the short fast-paced four-minute version subdues the lyrics,
Gigi D'Agostino - L'Amour Toujours while the almost
seven-minute longer version makes it prominent. The more common is the fast.
While writing the post two sessions came to mind:
Session 10 October 2015
And
Session 13 May 2017
To sum up, there are indications that the campaign to ostracize and punish the young people, who were involved, is politically motivated, apart from making money for a few papers if they can be sure they will not have to pay fines for the invasion of privacy, though in the current political atmosphere that has be seen before it is believed.
The publicity and destruction of the careers of the people involved also serve as a means to intimidate others. In addition, some politicians are afraid of losing power to the AfD; there have been efforts before to discredit them, using various subterfuges, so why not try one more time and scare the young voters? Some people will completely agree with the interpretation given by the media and the government. For example, there have been lyrics set to the same melody, invented on the occasion that say "Nazis out" or something to the same effect, accepting it as a given, that the young people who were at the party and sang along were Nazis.
On the other hand, there is a backlash, as some perhaps unexpected groups sympathize with those people who are taken down. It also gives publicity to the AfD to highlight the discrepancy between what is done by the state in this case and what the same state typically ignores because it is not politically correct. The conflict between views can give rise to a discussion of the more serious issues facing German society.
Beyond those who gain and lose in the local arena, there are also outside forces, on more than one level(!), that could have an interest in further destabilizing the country, creating chaos and suffering by increasing tensions and splitting society. Some of these actors can then pick at the splitting trends and use them as a pretext to enforce more control.
The Cs said, as quoted above, "
US wishes to destabilize EU similar to Syria so that they can come in and "fix" things. i.e. rule and control resources and trade the "American way". Everyone will speak English!" If that is still on the table, what might happen before that stage is a rather daunting prospect. Of course, it is not sure how this "scandal" will look in the rear mirror in just a few years, but a couple of observations are encouraging, though perhaps on a symbolic level. One is that the party took place during
Pentecost, which is a positive Christian holiday, and the other is the lyrics of the song. Maybe more people will give that a second listen if they grow tired of being occupied by something that was not there originally.
