One week ago I wrote a post about how "right wing" AfD (Alternative for Germany) party representatives in the European Parliament (called MEPs for Members of the European Parliament) had been booted from their EU coalition by Marine LePen's group. Whatever the alleged catalyst - a brouhaha over "unacceptable" remarks made by AfD's leader in an interview - the timing was certainly suspicious, coming as it did a mere 6 weeks before EU Parliament elections and in the face of rising panic by Brussels elites over surging populist fervor among Europe's citizens.

Things are quickly reaching a boiling point in the European ruling Left versus rising right-wing political wars as the angst about upcoming European Union elections reaches a fever pitch.

German Greens especially, but progressives across the EU have been throwing shade at populist parties for months now, as regional after regional election falls to rising 'right-wing' candidates and so-called "farmers" parties. Nothing is as scary to a progressive enamored of the power they wield as the thought of some knuckle-dragging, earth-working, common plebe taking it away.

The country with the party most in jeopardy, the ruling Greens in Germany, had been ratcheting up the vitriol and hyperbole to counter the growing popularity of of AfD, even to the point of employing the power of the state to spy on and crush the group.

...The German government, comprised of individuals who uniformly resemble the most calculating and coldblooded Bond villains, has no problem using the powers they still hold in their claws to beat back any opposition threatening their status. It's all under the guise of protecting democracy by preventing "disinformation."

Heard that before, have you?

The German high courts have essentially declared that criticizing immigration - one of AfD's base planks - renders one a threat to society in that being anti-immigration is inherently anti-democratic. As such, the court has basically stripped anyone associated with the party - which is now the second most popular party in the country - of their civil rights.

The opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has lost a major court appeal against the powerful domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), with a high court judge allowing the BfV to continue classifying the party as a “suspected case” of right-wing extremism.

The move paves the way for the BfV and other authorities to utilize powerful surveillance technologies against the party, including reading emails, browsing histories, and monitoring emails and chats. In effect, anyone associated with the party may now be swept up in the surveillance net that can now be legally deployed against the second most popular party in the country.

The court refused hundreds of AfD attempts to introduce evidence, and the lawyers for the party felt the hearing was "remarkably short."

Huh. All of this sounds kind of familiar.

...The judge claimed the evidence the AfD was attempting to introduce was irrelevant to the case or would reveal the investigation methods utilized by the Office of the Protection of the Constitution (BfV).

Notably, the BfV already confirmed that it has informants working within the party.

The BfV is already bringing the next case against the AfD, which will list it as a “certain case of right-wing extremism,” which could open the doors to a potential ban on the party.

At the beginning of the year, AfD was polling at 22% and right now it's around 17% or so. But that was before a series of heavy-handed moves by the German government, like tracking down college kids singing a popular tune called "Ausländer raus" or "outlanders, out" - "outlanders" being non-Germans.

It was so frightening to the powers that be that they have all available assets on the hunt for the kids who first warbled it at a drunken party. Should they be apprehended, the miscreants could get 3 months to 5 years if convicted for incitement. Again, this is for a song.

All right all right there is a point to be made about what's been going on in Germany. The media picked up people at a party singing "Ausländer raus" (foreigners out) on the notes of Gigi D'Agostino's L'Amour Toujours. They of course presented the story as "bad fascists are… pic.twitter.com/cYQadpoGnn

— Lavinia Colzani (@lavinia_colzani) May 29, 2024

...They of course presented the story as "bad fascists are racist", but it backfired badly, because the song is now doing quite well in the charts in Germany (and there are endless remixes, the one below was quite popular online). 

There are two comments on this story: one, the current immigration policies are popular only within the media and political class, not the citizens, and not because the citizens are fascists, but rather because the policies are arguably bad (it's horizontal fracturing of society, to cement the vertical fracturing). 

Two, I reiterate the absolute obtusity of the pro-Hamas campaign, as one of the reasons imho of its lack of success is that it fails completely to read the room in Europe. People are not going to react well to the islamist tones of the campaign, whether they're presented with the woke rhetoric or the conservative-neonazi rhetoric, in these conditions. The pro-Hamas campaign, if anything, just reinforced their own ideas, that immigration policy is being completely mismanaged. 

The media, again. As helpful in ensuring the narratives in Germany as they are here.

As with all things a government forbids in a totalitarian fashion, eventually, everyone starts singing the banned song. Which is precisely what's happening, including memes and videos. All the modern tools of mockery and sedition are in full bloom.

More versions: pic.twitter.com/eBkOBlpc6D

— Lavinia Colzani (@lavinia_colzani) May 29, 2024

The Greens and Christian Democrats were already doing a truly miserable job making their case to continue in power while defending their immigration disaster with witchhunts, unending surveillance, gaslighting, and jail sentences. Now, rebellious ditties are banned, although some could make a case that they are also patriotic. And still bad.

Then, today, this ghastly knife attack in Mannheim goes down in broad daylight (John has all the details in this earlier post.).

Every German who is afraid to walk the streets of his city, worries for his family, or about speaking his mind freely is watching what is happening.

This is how the media is covering the terror attack.

“A man”: No specification, hides the identity of the attackers.

“Far right”: Already trying to change your perception and making it seem it was done by a German person. https://t.co/Zit3PvHVJg

— Klaus Arminius (@Klaus_Arminius) May 31, 2024

"A man with a knife." "An attacker." "A knife attacker." So generic. 

So many ways to skirt the obvious.

It seems short-sighted of this gentleman to challenge stereotypes about the dangers of Islamic immigration by attacking people with a knife.https://t.co/uOqFrzV7Iu

— Ben Sixsmith (@BDSixsmith) May 31, 2024

The German people are watching.

In case you were wondering how Germany is doing—police are investigating young people singing anti-immigration songs on camera. And today a critic of radical Islam was stabbed by a Muslim immigrant in the street. Is it any wonder AfD is consistently polling in second place?

— Patrick Casey (@restoreorderusa) May 31, 2024

I don't think they're falling for the AfD-bogeyman-in-the-tailpipe trick.

Now, not a single one of the above headlines tells you who did the attacking, but they sure as hay-yull let you know everything about who got knifed. The inference, as I read it, is that Mr. far-right-right-wing-Anti-Islam-critic Stürzenberger had it coming. 

This is also very familiar.

YMMV

The days of the ruling Green coalition could literally be balanced on a knife's edge.

BEEGE UPDATE: Holy smokes, I just had to share how the entire aftermath of the chaotic scene at the stabbing went down. If you don't think this isn't getting chewed over seriously by German voters up to their eyeballs with these migrants, I got some schnitzel for your...well...you know.

As if this story can’t get worse for German police, after tackling all the white people, choking the wrong guy & getting stabbed by the Muslim terrorist.

They arrest the stabbing victim face down & give him no medical aid all while franticly saving the life of the terrorist. pic.twitter.com/CuNaxQMgul

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) June 1, 2024

...They arrest the stabbing victim face down & give him no medical aid all while franticly saving the life of the terrorist...