[Breitbart] Germany has been accused of violating basic Western values yet again, as a news editor in Germany faces a hefty fine and a seven month prison sentence for posting a meme mocking the government’s "hatred" of free speech.
The Bamberg district court in Bavaria sentenced Deutschland-Kurier editor David Bendels this week to seven months in prison on probation and a fine of nearly sixty per cent of his annual income, or 210 ’daily rates’, for posting an image on social media of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser holding an altered sign.
The common meme tactic of changing the words on signs held by politicians for satirical purposes was used to make Faeser’s sign read: "I hate freedom of speech".
Bendels was initially convicted in November, and the ruling was confirmed on Monday, finding that he had committed "defamation directed against people in political life," Die Welt reported on Tuesday.
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Trump should simply *halt* all aid to countries that don't embrace free speech.
We don't need Europe. We don't need the UK. We don't need Canada, but will defend them (sans cash) because of their proximity.
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I would spend the 7 months coming up with ideas for more memes.
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Probably a good thing. Many Germans believe that this law (and its interpretation) has gone way to far. The ruling will of course be appealed and I doubt it will stand. The whole law will probably be challenged at the Federal Constitutional Court.
The meme is clearly satire. The court held that Bendels published a “factual claim about the Minister of the Interior, Ms. Faeser, that is not recognizable by the unbiased reader as deliberately untrue and disparaging, and which is likely to significantly impair her public image”.
If you believe that a Minister of the Interior would hold up a sign saying "I hate freedom of speech" you're an idiot, not an "unbiased reader".
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Golly day, that Turd Reich law is designed to proscribe mocking politicians. Aren’t they deservingly the first to be mocked?
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How is that any worse than the FBI telling social media bosses to spike stories about Hunter Biden's laptop? Sounds like kinda the same thing to me. But, hey, at least we corrected it.
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He put up something particularly spicy, or simply point out that Van Der Leyen fellow was also busted for illegally using EU funds and was not stripped of office and banned from politics?
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I wonder what the new uniforms and arm band symbol will look like?
Considering that Sturm magazine or whatever was calling for conscription in order to help promote diversity...gay. The unis will be disney marvel gay, complete with pizza medal with diddy lube device.
[PJ] There's a story going around in the mainstream media today about how eight cholera patients, including five children, in South Sudan died walking to get treatment last month. The United Kingdom-based charity Save the Children blames the cutting of USAID funding, though a spokesperson mentions that European countries have also cut funding. (The MSM headlines don't mention that, of course).
It's absolutely heartbreaking that people are dying from a treatable disease and I wish that wasn't so, but the MSM's attempts at blaming the Donald Trump administration are ridiculous, and quite frankly, I'm sick of it. It's the same BS they do with illegal immigration — making it seem like Trump is only deporting grandmothers and nurses rather than some of the most violent and deranged people on the planet.
The truth is that the blame doesn't lie with Trump. It lies with everyone who led our country before him. It lies with corrupt government officials, diplomats with agendas, and the many disingenuous nonprofits around the world. It lies with, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio often puts it, the "federal aid industrial complex." And it's time to stop using United States tax dollars as an ATM to line everyone else's pockets.
Reuters reports that a State Department "spokesperson said many U.S. government programs remained active but medical sources had also been used to enrich the country's leaders." Reuters also reported that "South Sudan's government has acknowledged a significant amount of public corruption." (And I'm not giving Reuters any credit here because it buried all of this under the headline "South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says." )
Rubio appeared on Donald Trump, Jr.'s podcast "Triggered with Don Jr." on Tuesday evening, and the two men dove into this important topic of foreign aid and the changes we'll see going forward. Rubio pointed out that the U.S. is no longer the world's cash cow. We're still willing to help, but we're taking care of ourselves first. Every dollar we spend on foreign aid from here forward must "make America stronger, it has to make America more prosperous, or it has to make America safer."
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The people of Sudan need to take responsibility for themselves.
But I'm wondering about something. The other day I posted comments about those caravans of immigrantsinvaders moving through Mexico on their way to the United States of America. I mentioned that somebody had to organize and pay for those caravans. Would that have been the US taxpayer via USAID?
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"Would that have been the US taxpayer via USAID?"
Audio and transcript at the link. Ellison was meeting in December 2021 with the "Feeding Our Future" players.
[AmericanExperiment] Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s Attorney General, can clearly be heard pledging his support to individuals who would soon become his family’s campaign donors and later Feeding Our Future
… a Somali immigrant effort. During the COVID shutdown they billed for meals, etc for poor Minnesota children that were not served, fraudulently collecting on the order of $250 million. Dozens of miscreants are in process for arrest, trial and, of course, conviction…
criminal defendants.
His recorded statements flatly contradict his contemporaneous public statements and raise uncomfortable questions about the intersection between political fundraising and constituent services.
American Experiment has exclusively obtained the complete 54-minute, 44-second audio file of a private December 2021 meeting between state Attorney General (AG) Keith Ellison and key figures in the Feeding Our Future scandal.
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I'm convinced that 20 years from now the Twin Cities will resemble a scene from "Escape From New York". And Target won't do a damn thing to stop it.
We should do *nothing*. They deserve this. They voted for this.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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