CJ HOPKINS IS OFFICIALLY A MOVEMENT HERO
WILL CJ HOPKINS DIE LAUGHING? OR WILL HE LET THE MUSES MAKE HIM OUT-KAFKA KAFKA?
WHAT’S UP NEVERMORONS!
As y’all know, I am a big believer in the idea of heroism. I have repeatedly called for a rebirth of the heroic for a very simple, practical reason. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and I think that we can all agree by this point in the decline of western civilization that we were, shall we say, destined to live in interesting times.
For that reason, I have questioned why people are often so reluctant to believe in heroes. Once might say that there is even a taboo against heroism in the modern world. As I have pointed out, it’s not hard to surmise why. I’m from Canada, which is a resource colony for the British Crown. The last thing that the government wants is a bunch of heroes fucking things up for them. You know how sweet the gangsters had Havana going before Che and Fidel got all heroic on them? It’s not hard to see why Canada isn’t big on heroes.
So let me get one thing out of the way early on here, because I’m feeling a little rambly.
CJ HOPKINS IS NOW OFFICIALLY A MOVEMENT HERO
In the piece which will follow, Margaret Anna will sing the praises of CJ’s bold statement to the court, which although wasn’t quite as memorable as the choicest cuts of court statements made by the Conspiracy Cells of Fire, it was pretty fucking deadly, on-point, and likely to go down in history.
Please tell ME that you were joking about thAT “rule of law” part, though! You didn’t really mean that, did you? Buddy! C’mon! You getting liberal on us?
(For those of you following along at home, I like to antagonize other writers because the easiest way to get someone to engage with you is to annoy them to the point where they start coming up with response to your critiques in their head. At that point they’re thinking about your ideas whether they want to or not. It’s much better to be annoying than to be easily ignorable. Too bad Darren Allen’s too much of a numbskull to wrap his mind around this idea. I’m honestly getting tempted to stop making fun of the guy because he’s no fun to pick on. You can’t make fun of someone who’s no fun. It gets boring in no time. But wouldn’t it be worse if I stopped making fun of him at this point? Like, what if he thought that the reason that I wasn’t making fun of him was because he didn’t deserve to be made fun of? Or worse yet - what if he thought I was going easy on him because I think he’s weak of character and is so easily offended that ordinary attempts at humour might be perceived as cruel? I wouldn’t want to hurt his feelings! I wouldn’t want him running to his mother/wife, so that she could tell him that the reason that the other boys are mean to him is because he’s so special because of his big, huge brain. After all, he’s easily one of the world’s most important living philosophers! Everyone should be really nice to him so he’s able to keep gracing us with his genius! Wouldn’t want him to conclude that he’s wasting his time casting pearls before swine!)
Oh man, why do I bother with jokes that like 2.5% of people will get? I really shouldn’t, should I? Well, I did warn you that I was feeling rambly.
Where was I? Oh yeah, heroism. Everyone needs to be more heroic. You know, like CJ.
So what are you waiting for, folks? Start being more heroic! None of us are getting any younger, you know. If you’re planning on saving the world, now would be a great time. They’re putting satirists on trial for the crime of satire now.
You really need those Doomsday Clock people to spell things out for you? The next logical step would be to make laughter illegal.
Seriously, folks, this is the book cover that landed CJ in hot water. You literally have to zoom in to see a faint swastika super-imposed over the COVID mask.
It’s obviously that CJ, like his fellow hero Giorgio Agamben, was comparing one mass psychosis to another. That is a rhetorical device known as an analogy. Is it illegal to make analogies now?
So why aren’t you pussies acting more heroic? You all cowards, or what? You want to live in a world where laughter is illegal?
Neither do I.
Once you start making satire illegal, where does it end? Any artistic work involving any kind of dissent could potentially be portrayed as subversive if courts are permitted to interpret artistic works in ways entirely contrary to the intentions of their creators. Hell, if you’re going to start banishing literary figures for anti-semitism, where do you end? Do the censors plant to make this retroactive? You’d have to dispose of Shakespeare, Voltaire, Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Salvador Dali, and The Arabian Nights. A lot of history’s greatest writers were way more anti-semitic than CJ, whose wife is Jewish, for crying out loud.
If CJ doesn’t achieve a clear, unambiguous, resounding legal victory, we’re talking about a nightmarish dystopia in which artists have to defend their right to make art… and where people like CJ have to waste time and money participating in mockeries of justice. It’s absolutely obscene. This is a war on art, and a war on art is a war on spirit.
So what’s the problem? It’s not well seen to call attention to oneself by differentiating oneself from the groupthink of the identity-category that the propaganda-matrix of perception-control has trained one to identify with, you say? Wow! That’s a very mature thought, brain-trained p-zombie. That actually gives me something to work with. You’re right - there is a taboo against heroism. That is a problem.
I have previously written about the taboo against heroism here:
Is Iain Davis a Hero?
THE TABOO AGAINST HEROISM BY CROW QU’APPELLE Not long ago, I accidentally ruffled some feathers with an awkwardly-worded Note in which I made a vague reference to the work of Iain Davis. What Iain thought I was saying was pretty much the exact opposite of what I meant to say, and once I realized my mistake I began profusely apologizing.
In that piece, I wrote:
I’m writing this article to make a simple argument - I think we should lower the bar for what is considered a hero. We should bring it down from the realm of mythology into the real world.
With all due respect to Iain Davis, I kind of feel like if we are to believe that heroes belong in mythology, we may be missing the point of mythology.
There shouldn’t be a taboo against heroism. What the world needs now is heroes.
Make no mistake - what the world needs now is nothing less than a global revolution. And no revolution stands much chance of success without a strong core of committed heroes.
The Mexican Revolution had the Magon brothers, Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, and many lesser heroes, including the members of the St. Patrick’s Battalion.
Try to think of a successful revolutionary movement without heroes. They don’t exist.
I have explored these ideas in multiple places, and now advocate for creating a New Anarchist Mythos which casts the Huron-Wendat chief Kandiaronk, who we now know played an important role in inspiring the European Enlightenment, as the role of an anarchist Turtle Islander answer to Socrates.
Basically, I argue for mythologizing anarchist history so that it stretches back to the anarchist triumph over Cahokia, or either further back, to the Fall of Tonina, which may have been the result of a successful peasant revolt.
If people object to me advocating for a mythologization of history, I should clarify that history is already mythologized - it’s just mythologized to encode statist values. To demythologize is also to remythologize. Mythology’s slippery like that. Don’t ask me why.
But I digress. Where was I?
Oh yeah, I was making the case that CJ Hopkins is officially a movement hero. But really, why shouldn’t I indulge in a few digressions? It’s not like it’s a hard case to make. Listen, the man is a satirist. For those of you whose vocabularies are ungood, let me explain that satire, as practiced by CJ, is a literary form of comedy. Satire is a highly distinguished form of literature bequeathed to us by our forebears, who left us a proud and noble tradition including such names as Mark Twain, Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, Orwell, and many others. To put a satirist on trial for the crime of satire is to put a comedian on trial for performing of comedy. It’s just that the masses of drooling Instagram zombies are too dumbed-down to realize that what’s on trial here is art, literature, and comedy ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
This is what boggles my mind, and what leads me to suspect the work of some kind of Trickster God. This entire thing just seems like the set-up to some demented Monty Python sketch of something.
My favourite part is that the prosecution actually appealed after the judge acquitted a satirist for the crime of satire. This person might have actually set a new world record for humourlessness. It would be amazing if it wasn’t so terrifying.
Because let’s be honest. Humourless German authoritarians are no laughing matter. I seem to recall something about a whole lot of insane sadistic killing that happened the last time the Germans lost their ability to laugh at themselves.
And make no mistake - declaring war on art, literature, and comedy all at the same time is not something that sane people do.
If it weren’t for the fact that many people do see the irony, this would be a low point in the history of Western culture, and it really does says something about the advanced state of societal decline. Collapse isn’t coming. It’s here.
Dying empires accumulate new laws like dead dogs accumulate maggots and flies. A satirist is on trial for satire. For trivializing the Holocaust. For making light of authoritarianism. The irony.
Well, the silver lining is that The Trial of CJ Hopkins book/movie/play is probably going to be dope as fuck. Seriously, we’ve got all the ingredients for an absolutely epic classic for the ages. The Gods of Literature have handed CJ the once-in-a-millennium chance to out-Kafka Kafka, and if anyone can pull that off, it’s CJ.
I can’t believe that the fucking prosecution fucking appealed. I’m looking forward to the scene in that movie where the prosecutor gets told they’re appealing. Can you imagine looking yourself in the mirror every day knowing that you’re that much of an intellectual whore? That after being laughed out of court for attempting to get a conviction of a dissident artist for the crime of satire, you have to drag your sorry, pathetic, lying ass into the courtroom to come up with more asinine bullshit reasons why mean comedians making fun of the New Authoritarian Germany risks puTting Germany on a slippery slope towards some kind of New Authoritarianism. What a waste of life. I bet his mama’s proud. After all, he’s a lawyer. A state prosecutor to boot. That’s job security for life. You just gotta get used to living without dignity or self-respect. Hey, there’s always tradeoffs in life, am I right?
I only hope that CJ doesn’t die laughing before he gets around to penning the magnum opus the Muses are apparently setting him up for.
Seriously, though. How much irony can one guy endure? We’re talking about levels of irony that shouldn’t even be possible. If I were to draw an analogy to physics, I’d estimate that we might be dealing with an equivalent to a good 7-10 G’s of force here. This is no ordinary level of irony here. Is this safe? Can this much irony kill someone? Is CJ’s life in danger? Who knows? It’s not like this has happened before. Has it?
Anyway, I hope that was entertaining for all you shit-eating giggle freaks out there. But with that out of the way, let’s move on to our main course.
A Good Day for Freedom, Truth, & Justice
Celebrating Two Triumphant Court Victories: The Canadian Truckers Vindicated & CJ Hopkins Acquitted of Thoughtcrimes
by Margaret Anna Alice
After four years of resisting tyranny without respite, we could use a rejuvenating shot of good news. Here is a double espresso to recharge you for the battles ahead.
Canadian Government Found Guilty of Illegal Invocation of Emergencies Act
On January 23, 2024, we received the best imaginable two-year anniversary present for the Canadian truckers protest short of criminal prosecution of Tyrant Trudeau and his colluders.
As Michael Nevradakis writes in The Defender’s Canadian Truckers Score Big Victory Over Trudeau in Federal Court:
“In his 190-page ruling, Justice Richard G. Mosley said the government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act ‘does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness—justification, transparency and intelligibility—and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration.’”
Michael asked me to provide remarks on the ruling, several of which appear in the article. Below is the mini-essay I wrote in response to his query.
Remarks on Canada’s Federal Court Ruling
When I learned about Justice Mosley’s refreshingly just decision, the first words that poured out were, “It is a good day for freedom!”
May justice be served to Tyrant Trudeau and delivered on behalf of the brave Canadians who resisted tyranny.
The moment the truckers began rolling toward Ottawa in January 2022, I felt a surge of joy that was like throwing open a window after having suffocated in a dank cell for two years. That euphoric feeling continued to swell during the ensuing weeks as I immersed myself in firsthand footage and witnessed what I called the Winter of Love in my Profile in Courage on the Canadian truckers.
This was the concretization of the secret to toppling tyranny I had revealed in a May 2021 essay as articulated by Étienne de La Boétie in The Politics of Obedience:
“You can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”
The Canadian truckers were the allegorical green grocer of Václav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless who one day decided not to hang the government’s propaganda sign in his window, and, in so doing, “disrupted the game … [and] enabled everyone to peer behind the curtain.”
This single act of peaceful noncompliance triggers a cascade effect that dissolves the mental enslavement keeping the populace under the thrall of tyranny, and that is precisely what occurred as freedom convoys began erupting all over the world.
Bouncy castles; pancake parties; marshmallow-roasting; fireworks; Sikhs dancing; spontaneous outbursts of songs like “Lean on Me” and “O Canada”; hot tubs in the middle of a snowy landscape—these were the markers of humanity shattering its shackles. Most impressively, it was accomplished through love rather than violence.
As Émile Zola1 writes in “J’Accuse …!”:
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
And yet, as this peaceful movement rose, so did the government’s tyranny. On February 7, 2022, I published a Letter to Justin Trudeau in which I outlined a path toward redemptive reconciliation. I suspect he read it because so many people tweeted it at him, and as a narcissist, he is unlikely to resist a letter with his name in the title. I also waged daily tweets sharing it and advising him to pursue diplomacy.
But Trudeau and his cabinet did not make even a single attempt to engage with the truckers. In blatant violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, they leapt to invoking the Emergencies Act without meeting the necessary threshold.
This preposterously disproportionate response ripped back the curtains on what Frank Zappa describes as “the brick wall at the back of the theater”:
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
This is when soft totalitarianism hardened and could no longer be disguised by misdirecting language. While some may claim the protests failed because they did not achieve their immediate objective, they had broken the spell. One by one, Canadian provinces began dropping the mandates, and people all over the world could now see the brick wall—and began busting through it.
They achieved the injury to the principle of authority Gustave Le Bon describes in The Psychology of Revolution:
“The importance of the event [the storming of the Bastille] lay simply in the psychological fact that for the first time the people received an obvious proof of the weakness of an authority which had lately been formidable. When the principle of authority is injured in the public mind it dissolves very rapidly.”
It is because of the Canadians’ historic act of mass peaceful noncompliance and their continued pursuit of justice that totalitarianism is beginning to crumble. And yes, I know the government will be appealing the federal court decision, but we must press on, relentlessly seeking accountability for crimes against humanity as the truth bursts forth like unruly weeds through a crack in the pavement.
Songs for Freedom
Here are a few songs to remind you of what the Canadian protesters achieved, the tyranny the government inflicted on them, and why Canadians and people the world over must continue standing up for freedom, truth, and humanity.
Bonnie Burke wrote the following song, which she sent me with this message:
“Hi from Grand Rapids Mi. I just heard of you. In Jan of 2022 after seeing what Trudeau did to the truckers, I asked God to give me a song. He did. I hope it helps others to stand up for liberty.”
Stand Up, Oh Canada
by Bonnie Lynn Burke, March 2022, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Verse 1
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up, oh Canada!
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up, oh Canada!
Let’s fly the flag and wave it high
As we join the people’s battle cry
For the time to stand is now, oh Canada!
Verse 2
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up, oh Canada!
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up, oh Canada!
We the people must unite
If there’s any hope to win this fight
And the time to stand is NOW, oh Canada!
Interlude
Stand up and sing this song for Liberty!
Unite and sing for all the world to see
Arise and sing this song for Liberty
The time is now, for freedom … isn’t … free!
Verse 3
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up, oh Canada!
The time to stand is now, oh Canada!
We must defeat all tyranny,
And annihilate this enemy!
For the time to stand is NOW, oh Canada!
Interlude
Stand Up, Stand Up! – We the people strong
Stand Up and sing this March .. for .. Freedom .. Song!
Verse 4 (all voices)
Rise up! Rise up! Rise up, oh Canada!
This call to rise is NOW, oh Canada!
Our God is with us! We won’t fear
As we see His victory drawing near!
If we rise and stand up now!
If we rise and stand up now!
If we rise and stand up now, oh Canada!
If we rise and stand up now!
If we rise and stand up now!
CJ Hopkins Acquitted of Thoughtcrimes
I learned the news of the Canadian protesters’ victory on the heels of discovering CJ Hopkins had been acquitted of thoughtcrimes in his Kafkaesque trial in Berlin—also on January 23.
At his court hearing, CJ delivered what may well be the most significant speech on totalitarianism in history, certainly of this century. As I wrote CJ in a comment:
👏👏👏 STANDING OVATION!!!
I know how much you’ve suffered these past eight months, CJ, but you’ve alchemized that suffering into one of the finest and most important speeches decrying totalitarianism I’ve ever read, and to do so in the context of a judicial court in this farce of a case adds an exquisitely triumphant finale to this drama. This may be your best play yet. This was the theater of life, and you delivered a speech worthy of going down in history alongside Thoreau’s “On Civil Disobedience.”
I exhorted Coffee & COVID readers and others to read it posthaste, concluding:
That he was acquitted afterward makes this a triumphant finale that will make you want to leap to your feet in a standing ovation after reading it 👏👏👏
This is what we’re fighting against—and fighting for.
I fervently hope CJ will turn his experience into a full-length play and that The Verdict will become The Crucible of this century, with his play and the one-act of his courtroom coup de grace against New Normal fascism being performed all over the world and in multiple languages for centuries to come. May his historic speech serve as a continual reminder of how close civilization came to falling into the abyss of totalitarianism and how it was courageous dissenters like CJ and the Canadian truckers who pulled us back from the brink of self-annihilation.
Truth over Tribe
Trish Wood, who shares my elation over the January 23 victories, conducted a must-watch podcast covering both, including an exclusive interview with CJ:
I especially love Trish’s newly adopted motto of Truth over Tribe. This is a philosophy I share. Fortunately, the people in our karass get to enjoy both because it is partly our prizing of truth over partisan allegiances that has brought us together.
I urge everyone to visit, upvote, and comment on CJ’s original post of his speech:
I will also replicate it in full here to help propagate these tyranny-detonating words as widely as possible and incorporate it into my ever-expanding dossier of evidence.
The Verdict
by CJ Hopkins
Berlin District Court, January 23, 2024
My name is CJ Hopkins. I am an American playwright, author, and political satirist. My plays have been produced and received critical acclaim internationally. My political satire and commentary is read by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. 20 years ago, I left my own country because of the fascistic atmosphere that had taken hold of the USA at that time, the time of the US invasion of Iraq, a war of aggression based on my government’s lies. I emigrated to Germany and made a new life here in Berlin, because I believed that Germany, given its history, would be the last place on earth to ever have anything to do with any form of totalitarianism again.
The gods have a strange sense of humor. This past week, thousands of people have been out in the streets all over Germany protesting against fascism, chanting “never again is now.” Many of these people spent the past three years, 2020 to 2023, unquestioningly obeying orders, parroting official propaganda, and demonizing anyone who dared to question the government’s unconstitutional and authoritarian actions during the so-called Covid pandemic. Many of these same people, those who support Palestinian rights, are now shocked that the new form of totalitarianism they helped usher into existence is being turned against them.
And here I am, in criminal court in Berlin, accused of disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda in two Tweets about mask mandates. The German authorities have had my speech censored on the Internet, and have damaged my reputation and income as an author. One of my books has been banned by Amazon in Germany. All this because I criticized the German authorities, because I mocked one of their decrees, because I pointed out one of their lies.
This turn of events would be absurdly comical if it were not so infuriating. I cannot adequately express how insulting it is to be forced to sit here and affirm my opposition to fascism. For over thirty years, I have written and spoken out against fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism etc. Anyone can do an Internet search, find my books, read the reviews of my plays, read my essays, and discover who I am and what my political views are in two or three minutes. And yet I am accused by the German authorities of disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda. I am accused of doing this because I posted two Tweets challenging the official Covid narrative and comparing the new, nascent form of totalitarianism that it has brought into being — i.e., the so-called “New Normal” — to Nazi Germany.
Let me be very clear. In those two Tweets, and in my essays throughout 2020 to 2022, and in my current essays, I have indeed compared the rise of this new form of totalitarianism to the rise of the best-known 20th-Century form of totalitarianism, i.e., Nazi Germany. I have made this comparison, and analyzed the similarities and differences between these two forms of totalitarianism, over and over again. And I will continue to do so. I will continue to analyze and attempt to explain this new, emerging form of totalitarianism, and to oppose it, and warn my readers about it.
The two Tweets at issue here feature a swastika covered by one of the medical masks that everyone was forced to wear in public during 2020 to 2022. That is the cover art of my book. The message conveyed by this artwork is clear. In Nazi Germany, the swastika was the symbol of conformity to the official ideology. During 2020 to 2022, the masks functioned as the symbol of conformity to a new official ideology. That was their purpose. Their purpose was to enforce people’s compliance with government decrees and conformity to the official Covid-pandemic narrative, most of which has now been proven to have been propaganda and lies.
Mask mandates do not work against airborne viruses. This had been understood and acknowledged by medical experts for decades prior to the Spring of 2020. It has now been proven to everyone and acknowledged by medical experts again. The science of mask mandates did not suddenly change in March of 2020. The official narrative changed. The official ideology changed. The official “reality” changed. Karl Lauterbach was absolutely correct when he said, “The masks always send out a signal.” They signal they sent out from 2020 to 2022 was, “I conform. I do not ask questions. I obey orders.”
That is not how democratic societies function. That is how totalitarian systems function.
Not every form of totalitarianism is the same, but they share common hallmarks. Forcing people to display symbols of conformity to official ideology is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Declaring a “state of emergency” and revoking constitutional rights for no justifiable reason is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Banning protests against government decrees is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Inundating the public with lies and propaganda designed to terrify people into mindless obedience is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Segregating societies is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Censoring dissent is a hallmark of totalitarianism. Stripping people of their jobs because they refuse to conform to official ideology is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Fomenting mass hatred of a “scapegoat” class of people is a hallmark of totalitarianism. Demonizing critics of the official ideology is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Instrumentalizing the law to punish dissidents and make examples of critics of the authorities is a hallmark of totalitarianism.
I have documented the emergence of all of these hallmarks of totalitarianism in societies throughout the West — including but not limited to Germany — since March of 2020. I will continue to do so. I will continue to warn readers about this new, emerging form of totalitarianism and attempt to understand it, and oppose it. I will compare this new form of totalitarianism to earlier forms of totalitarianism, and specifically to Nazi Germany, whenever it is appropriate and contributes to our understanding of current events. That is my job as a political satirist and commentator, and as an author, and my responsibility as a human being.
The German authorities can punish me for doing that. You have the power to do that. You can make an example of me. You can fine me. You can imprison me. You can ban my books. You can censor my content on the Internet, which you have done. You can defame me, and damage my income and reputation as an author, as you have done. You can demonize me as a “conspiracy theorist,” as an “anti-vaxxer,” a “Covid denier,” an “idiot,” and an “extremist,” which you have done. You can haul me into criminal court and make me sit here, in Germany, in front of my wife, who is Jewish, and deny that I am an anti-Semite who wants to relativize the Holocaust. You have the power to do all these things.
However, I hope that you will at least have the integrity to call this what it is, and not hide behind false accusations that I am somehow supporting the Nazis by comparing the rise of a new form of totalitarianism to the rise of an earlier totalitarian system, one that took hold of and ultimately destroyed this country in the 20th Century, and murdered millions in the process, because too few Germans had the courage to stand up and oppose it when it first began. I hope that you will at least have the integrity to not pretend that you actually believe I am disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda, when you know very well that is not what I am doing.
No one with any integrity believes that is what I am doing. No one with any integrity believes that is what my Tweets in 2022 were doing. Every journalist that has covered my case, everyone in this courtroom, understands what this prosecution is actually about. It has nothing to do with punishing people who actually disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda. It is about punishing dissent, and making an example of dissidents in order to intimidate others into silence.
That is not how democratic nations function. That is how totalitarian systems function.
What I hope even more is that this court will put an end to this prosecution, and apply the law fairly, and not allow it to be used as a pretext to punish people like me who criticize government dictates, people who expose the lies of government officials, people who refuse to deny facts, who refuse to perform absurd rituals of obedience on command, who refuse to unquestioningly follow orders.
Because the issue here is much larger and much more important than my little “Tweet” case.
We are, once again, at a crossroads. Not just here in Germany, but throughout the West. People went a little crazy, a little fascist, during the so-called Covid pandemic. And now, here we are. There are two roads ahead. We have to choose ... you, me, all of us. One road leads back to the rule of law, to democratic principles. The other road leads to authoritarianism, to societies where authorities rule by decree, and force, and twist the law into anything they want, and dictate what is and isn’t reality, and abuse their power to silence anyone who disagrees with them.
That is the road to totalitarianism. We have been down that road before. Please, let’s not do it again.
Psycho fascists hate to be mocked. Maybe, what the world needs now is:
https://youtu.be/YUaxVQPohlU?si=B6tMOPMJyKdgKUK- 😁
It does seem to be an instance of "I Fought The Law and I Won" !
But, really it's "I fought the Arbitrariness in The Law's application....."
The Law has always been arbitrarily applied, but the battery of Laws,
such as "Hate Speech' etc laws, incorporating vague definitions, thus
allowing for arbitrary interpretations, which makes them harder to
defend against, are proliferating...
Authority has always used arbitrariness as a last resort, but "Hate
Speech" type laws have installed arbitrariness in the driver's seat...