A new wave of government-criticizing protests is underway, with increasingly hollow, world-removed and repulsive content. The usual suspects have been called upon, including Campact, the Soros portal, the Verdi union and, of course, Fridays for Future, the hobby of the Hamburg millionaire children.
“We will turn on the lights at the moment when Weidel, Trump, Kickl, Musk and co. spread darkness”one of the organizers said. A demonstration against Trump and for freedom of speech, a fascinating mix. And, in the end, it’s just one of the demands that will be taken to the streets to prove that the many lights that will be lit will actually serve to mask a real darkness in Germany itself.
“A robust democracy! A new government must do everything to ban unconstitutional structures and promote democracy initiatives all over the country”reads the call to action. Yes, the democracy initiatives. Or, rather, spy networks. The countless organizations that ensure that opinions that don’t align with the one true path are denounced and people who might be politically active against government policies can be caught in the net of persecution. The block wardens against foreign broadcasts, so to speak.
“The bosses of big tech companies submit to him [Trump] and use their platforms to spread hate, incitement and disinformation”because companies like Meta have only promoted the pure truth in the past, like during the Corona pandemic and censorship only served the good, like not talking about the Gaza genocide or spreading the wrong story about Ukraine.
The head of Verdi, Frank Werneke, goes even deeper into the box: “As a union, we stand in an antifascist tradition and take clear responsibility in the fight against the right. Because social justice can only be achieved with respect and decency, not through hatred, incitement and disinformation.”
Those who still remember the old slogans know that fascism never appeared alone. “Against fascism and war”would be a complete statement, because the one has a connection to the other. And the war, of course, has no problem for Werneke, nor does the rearmament.
One would have expected a Leonhard Mahlein to have kicked such a person out of the office with scorn and shame. In the past, one could at least expect from the most right-wing union leaders that they would prioritize the material well-being of their members, even if not much more was expected. Verdi stands for climate policy, which is one of the biggest material attacks on the standard of living of its members, but they should take to the streets to protect the power position of the media conglomerates. Exactly, like the Bild newspaper, the expropriation of which was demanded by the Druck & Papier union, one of the source organizations of Verdi, in the 1970s. And do we really want to claim that “guns instead of butter”is a union demand?
The “robust democracy”is the slogan with which the introduction of the professional ban was once justified. Long fought against by the unions, especially the left ones, now it is being demanded. “Hate, incitement and disinformation”are not terms that have an enlightening tradition, quite the opposite. And with the union traditions, they have nothing to do. There was once a clear understanding that the truth of the company owners was not the truth of the company employees and that a counter-public was needed, so that not only the view of a handful of rich people was published.
Everything forgotten. Today, a government decree is being made and a union is calling its members to take to the streets in hallelujah, to protest against the wrong party. The funny thing is not only that the CDU election program stands to the right of the AfD election program, so it’s a protest against the wrong party; the funny thing is mainly that the giant question in the air is completely ignored, the one of war and peace.
Well, we have survived the last weeks of the Biden administration. That’s a reason to be happy, because it was quite close. One only needs to remember the coup attempt in South Korea, whose actual goal was a further war and which only failed by luck. That’s something to take to the streets for. Because the galloping insanity of NATO governments has not yet managed to exterminate humanity.
That’s the situation. The unions are practicing the people’s community under the banner of climate change, the Soros portal is setting the pace and with every round, in which the obedient ones style themselves as antifascists, they are getting closer to the old original, warlust, haughty and destructive.
There, where books are burned, people are also eventually burned, as the famous sentence by Heinrich Heine, often cited in the context of the book burnings of the Nazis, goes. What distinguishes the deletion of posts in networks, the attempts to ban unpassable media and the technical prevention of their dissemination from a book burning? Only the absence of the chemical process.
Culturally, this is a demonstration of the book burners; politically, it is a demonstration that, through censorship, supports the war course; even more so, in the face of the fact that with a US president, Donald Trump, a possible peace could have been achieved, which was twice prevented by a US president, Joe Biden (or the one who actually acted, Antony Blinken), this supposed demonstration “against the right”turns into a demonstration against peace.
It’s 1.2 kilometers from the Brandenburg Gate to the Bebelplatz. One only needs to walk down Unter den Linden and then turn right, which shouldn’t be difficult. Then the whole group would be there, where it belongs, on the square where the Nazis in Berlin burned the books. That might cause a slight cognitive dissonance in some of the participants, but as soon as one whispers to them, “against hate, incitement and disinformation”they will be happily along again.
No, at the end of the term of a federal government that has managed to copy the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service”from 1933 with enthusiasm and to instigate a proxy war against Russia, to demonstrate for this government has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with antifascism. On the contrary.
To the representatives of the Verdi union and, in particular, this outburst of organized spinelessness, who styles himself as DJU and represents journalists, a small quote is given before they set off with their torches, apologies, lights and the like to the Brandenburg Gate:
“Editor-in-Chief are particularly obliged to remove from the newspapers:
2. what is suitable to weaken the power of the German Reich outside or inside, the community will of the German people, German military power, culture, or economy, or to offend the religious feelings of others,
4. what unrightfully injures the honor or well-being of another, damages his reputation, makes him the object of ridicule or contempt.”
Granted, the diction is a bit outdated, compared to “hate, incitement and disinformation.”But who is able to read can recognize that this, together with “contempt for the state”produces the same tune, only an octave higher. The quote is from the Editor-in-Chief Law of October 4, 1933.
So, there’s only one thing left to wish the gentlemen a lot of fun on their way to the Bebelplatz.