German
elites target 'hate speech' after migrant rape spree, 'We don't have freedom of opinion anymore', by
Douglas Ernst, 1/7/16, WND
German elites are responding to a wave of sexual
assaults by Arabic and North African migrants on New Year’s Eve by cracking
down on alleged hate speech.
Facebook, Google and Twitter are working with
German authorities to control speech as angry citizens react to the chaos
caused by refugees. The deal with social-media giants comes as Germans fume
over 100 sexual assaults and robberies perpetrated by migrants last Friday in
Cologne.
“We’ve looked at our
general rules and understand that very specific forms of language may
constitute hate speech,” Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of public
policy in Europe, told the Washington
Post on Thursday. “Our
German reviews are reviewing the meanings of German words and trying to
understand what language crosses the line.”
Politicians and activists insinuate that heated
rhetoric matches intensity last observed during the creation of the National
Socialist German Workers’ Party in the 1920s. Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed
1.1 million migrants into Germany in 2015.
Merkel gave a speech
Dec. 30 warning Germans to shun “those with coldness, or even hate in their
hearts, and who claim the right to be called German for themselves alone and
seek to marginalize others,” Deutsche
Welle reported.
Germany’s enforcement-blitz on speech laws in
recent months include a police raid on a 26-year-old man from Berlin who said
he celebrated when refugees drowned on the way to Europe. Another man in Wismar
was given five months probation and a $325 fine by a judge for making similar
comments, the Post reported.
Reactions by German
citizens to speech codes echo those by Americans after U.S. Attorney General
Loretta Lynch said the
Justice Department would prosecute “anti-Muslim rhetoric.”
“When we are ruled by fear, we are not making
ourselves safe,” Lynch said Dec. 3 at a dinner held by the Muslim Advocates, a
national legal advocacy group, WND reported.
“It’s not politically
correct to say anything against migrants. We don’t have freedom of opinion
anymore. #Cologne,” a German Twitter user said Dec. 5 in regards to the Lynch-like policies of
European politicians.
Stefan Körner, chairman of Germany’s liberal
Pirate Party, told the Post that deals reached with social media outlets reeked
of “creeping censorship.”
A police officer in
Cologne told Express.de cited on Friday that 15 suspects from the New Year’s
Eve attacks have been taken into custody; 14 came
from Syria and 1 from Afghanistan.
“Residence certificates for carrying out the
asylum procedure were in their possession,” the source said.
The slow arrests and four
days of silence by
Germany’s nation media prompted citizens to take matters into their own hands.
Breitbart London reported Friday that a group
called “Dusseldorf is Watching” attracted 2,300 members in less than 24 hours.
Its members plan to attend major events to protect women from gangs of
migrants.
“For public security in
Germany the police are responsible. Deliberately searching for offenders is not
a job for the citizen,” a spokesman for Dusseldorf police told local media when
asked about the group, the website reported.
Victims of the Cologne attacks told Radio Television Lëtzebuerg on Wednesday that police were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of attackers, CNN reported.
“We then walked through this group of men.
[They] opened up a lane, which we walked through. Suddenly I felt a hand on my
buttocks, then on my breasts, in the end, I was groped everywhere,” a victim
identified as Katja L told Der Express Jan. 3. “It was a nightmare. Although we
shouted and beat them, the guys did not stop. I was desperate and think I was
touched around 100 times in the 200 meters. Fortunately I wore a jacket and
trousers. A skirt probably would have been torn off.”
Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker encouraged women
to adopt a “code of conduct” to discourage African and Arabic men from such
attack. Some of her suggestions include keeping “at arm’s length” from
strangers, traveling in groups, and asking bystanders for help.
“It is important to prevent such incidents from
ever happening again,” Reker said, the Independent reported Wednesday.
Huffington Post Deutschland reporter Anabel
Schunke called the national response to migrant attacks “a slap in the face for
every victim,” on Monday.
Comments
So, after the Rape Riots, Merkel wants mandatory docile silence from the Germans. It’s time for the
Germans to clean house. Merkel should be
removed. Germans should also reject the
UN and EU for decades of suicidal directives. They can keep the Euro, but dump
the EU and UN leadership.
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