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Totalitarian Censorship In Germany, Prosecution For Insulting Politician · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Speaker 1: All right. German news editor convicted for a satirical photo
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  Speaker 1: montage a far left interior minister given seven month probation.
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  Speaker 1: The Germans are just determined to live in a fascist state.
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  Speaker 1: They just want to live in it, let's just say,
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  Speaker 1: an authoritarian state. They don't care what it's called. They
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  Speaker 1: don't care if it's they call it, you know, democracy
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  Speaker 1: or fascism or whatever, just as long as the people
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  Speaker 1: in power that give them absolutely no freedom. In a
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  Speaker 1: sign of deteriorating levels of freedom of speech and attacks
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  Speaker 1: on the press, a German court has slapped the editor
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  Speaker 1: in chief of Deutschland courier, David Bendel's with seven months probation.
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  Speaker 1: According to the newspaper, the Bamberg District Court found that
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  Speaker 1: a satirical photo a satirical photo montage about federal minister
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Faser to be an instance of defamation against political
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  Speaker 1: figures under Pair one eight to eight of the German
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  Speaker 1: Criminal Code. Now they passed a law to make it
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  Speaker 1: illegal to criticize German politicians if the German politicians don't
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  Speaker 1: like it. The photo montage was shared in Bendel's newspaper,
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  Speaker 1: and she is seen holding up a sign that reads
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  Speaker 1: I hate freedom of expression the satirical. The satirical creation
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  Speaker 1: was based on a real photo a Facer where she
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  Speaker 1: was holding a we Remember signed to Mark Holakoff Remembrance Day,
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  Speaker 1: So I think she's maybe missing the whole spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the thing. Politicians are also chiming in with their opinion
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  Speaker 1: on the verdict AfD MP. So that's a scary four
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  Speaker 1: right party over there that doesn't want to throw journalists
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  Speaker 1: in prison for criticizing them. I guess that's what makes
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  Speaker 1: them far right these days. In Germany, she wrote on
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  Speaker 1: X I believe that one must be able to believe
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  Speaker 1: that miss Faser hates freedom of speech. And if she
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  Speaker 1: reports something like that and then gets sentenced to seven
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  Speaker 1: months in prison, it's no longer an option, it's apparently
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  Speaker 1: a verified fact. They'll probably throw her in prison then too.
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  Speaker 1: One of Faser's most controversial statements during her term of
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  Speaker 1: Interior Minister was those who mock the state must be
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  Speaker 1: dealt with by a strong state. Did Hitler ever say
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  Speaker 1: those exact words? Because I feel like those are the
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  Speaker 1: kind of exact words that Hitler might have said, those
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  Speaker 1: who mock the state must be dealt with by a
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  Speaker 1: strong state. Can a politician say something more chilling than that?
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  Speaker 1: Can a politician make it more clear that they hate you,
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  Speaker 1: That you do not have a right to your own
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  Speaker 1: to your own speech, You do not have a right
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  Speaker 1: to your own conscience. Those who mock the state must
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  Speaker 1: be dealt with by a strong state. These are harrowing
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  Speaker 1: words from far left German Interior Minister Nancy Faser. That's
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  Speaker 1: putting it lightly. I would say jd Vance is one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent right about Europe and about Germany in particular,
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  Speaker 1: one percent right. The SPD politician is pushing to introduce
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  Speaker 1: thirteen new measures to clamp down on right WEG extremists,
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  Speaker 1: which is apparently anybody who criticizes her. But these extremists
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  Speaker 1: will inevitably, inevitably be the rival anti immigration AfD party exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Faser actually filed the criminal complaint herself, which is part
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  Speaker 1: of a general trend of German politicians filing criminal complaints
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  Speaker 1: against citizens for insults and memes. You know, we need
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  Speaker 1: to look something up. Pulled on one second fare They
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  Speaker 1: have a section one eight eight of the German Penal
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  Speaker 1: Code which addresses defamation of persons in the political sphere.
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  Speaker 1: The laws being in place for sometime and pose the
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  Speaker 1: stricter penalties for insults and defamation directed at politicians compared
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  Speaker 1: to ordinary citizens, with potential fines or imprisonment. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they do have a law that makes it where you
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  Speaker 1: can be prosecuted for criticizing specifically politicians, where it's stricter
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  Speaker 1: penalties for insults or defamation directed at politicians compared to
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  Speaker 1: ordinary citizens. This is all the kind of stuff that
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  Speaker 1: Mark Karney would like to bring to Canada. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: obviously I'm sure he would love to prosecute Canadians for
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  Speaker 1: criticizing him. So this is the kind of lunacy. This
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of lunacy that Mark Karney wants to
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  Speaker 1: bring to Canada. He wants to bring us closer to
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  Speaker 1: this total and utter lunacy. Clearly satire, Clearly free speech
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  Speaker 1: in any sane society, it's free speech. If you're being
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  Speaker 1: given probation or prison time. Even if it's probation, you're
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  Speaker 1: not in a free society. To me, this is extreme censorship.
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  Speaker 1: This is again just straight on the way to totalitarianism.
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  Speaker 1: This is just hopping and skipping on the way to totalitarianism.
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  Speaker 1: It's total insanity anyway, that's all i'm gonna say about that.
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