The following report by Egri Nök was published last night at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.
AfD’s Beatrix von Storch Slams Arabic Tweet by Cologne Police, Gets Banned by Twitter, as New German Censorship Law Comes Into Effect
by Egri Nök
An original translation from Berliner Zeitung:
“Hordes of Muslim Men”
“Hate Content” — Twitter temporarily bans von Storch
January 1, 2018
Berlin — Twitter banned the deputy chairman of the AfD [Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany] Bundestag fraction and caused indignation among the AfD’s leadership.
On Silvester evening [New Year’s Eve], von Storch had a take on a New Year’s Greetings tweet by the Cologne Police in several languages, Arabic being one of them[1].
Twitter blocked Beatrix von Storch for twelve hours.
“What the hell is going on in this country? Why does a public police page in North Rhine Westphalia tweet in Arabic? Do you want to appease the barbaric Muslim, gang-raping hordes this way?”
wrote von Storch.
Upon this, Twitter blocked her account for twelve hours, referring to a “violation of their rules against hate content”.
Von Storch’s tweet was not to be found on Twitter anymore on Monday. But von Storch published a screenshot on Facebook.
Alice Weidel on “knife-stabbing migrant mob”
There, AfD fraction leader Alice Weidel commented on Monday:
“The year begins with the censorship law[2] and with our authorities’ submission under the imported, marauding, groping, battering, knife-stabbing migrant mobs that we kindly have to get used to. German police in the meantime communicate in Arabic, even though the official language in our country is German.”
Cologne police have filed charges against von Storch: An investigation for the suspicion of incitement (Volksverhetzung) is being opened, a police spokesman said to the portal “faz.net”.
Late Monday evening, Storch announced on her once-again accessible Twitter account that Facebook, too, had deleted her message with the original content. She published a screenshot with the statement: “We blocked access to the following content for the following reason: Incitement (paragraph 130 of German Criminal Code).”
Von Storch criticized the fact that Facebook took action long before the investigation had yielded any results, let alone any judge issued a verdict[2]: “This is the end of the rule of law.”
Translator’s notes:
| 1. | Police Cologne had tweeted out the text in English, French, Arabic and German. | |
| 2. | As of January 1, a new law by the Social Democratic Justice Minister Heiko Maas has come into effect, the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz, by which the non-immediate removal of statements that might (!) fall under “incitement of the people”, Volksverhetzung, is punishable by €50 million for social media companies, without due process. |
The tweet that sparked von Storch’s disapproval: “Police Cologne Wish all Cologne people in Cologne and other cities Happy New Year 2018. url.nrw/silvester2017 2017 for more information” Source: Polizei Köln on Twitter.
“Celebrate New Year as a woman? Spend Silvester in the anti-grope tent!” Alice Weidel, fraction leader of the AfD in the German Bundestag. Source: Alice Weidel on Facebook
I guess you’re not allowed to hate gang-raping hordes that happen to be Muslim.
Streisand Effect in action here; very clever on the part of the AfD leadership. Far more attention and coverage of the travesty was generated by the banning of the comment than if the twits at twitter had just chosen to ignore it.
Having watched Twitter for a while now, I’ve begun to see they’re not very discerning when it comes to communication.
Oh, it’s already a work in progress. The articles I publish in Dutch for EJ Bron are usually shared on Facebook. But … Facebook doesn’t index them. Which means only the people who read the articles and share them to their friends can find them. Nobody else. A kind of soft censorship. They don’t outright block my articles – they can’t because I never break the law – but since they contradict political correctness they do what they can to stop it. Both Twitter and Facebook do that.
I suspect Google does the same, I used to be able to google the first line of any of my articles to see who had picked them up, not so any more, I only get the GoV pages and little else.
Have you tried an alternate search engine? Duck Duck Go (such a silly name but then no sillier than Google) is what I use.
Heiko Maas, this nazi really looks and acts like “Joseph Goebbels!”
I can’t wait to see you, Herr Maas, when soon you will be running for your life, trying to flee to your helicopter, but the Germans who capture you on this coming day will rightfully show you, Mr maas, NO mercy.
Maybe Mr Maas reads these posts, what [are] you going do, Mr Maas??? Aghhh, Come and arrest me???
Heiko Maas, you are living on borrowed time, so far you have thugs guarding you, for now, when your time comes, and it is coming very soon, your thugs will melt away, and you [will] find yourself alone Mr Maas, and what will be your last words???
I hope your fate is televised, though I’m sure it will be, Mr Maas.
Your crimes are genocide, and you are going to answer Mr Maas.
The German people are after you…
Exactly, the time is coming for them , for betraying own people, it’s very very frightening what is happening in This used to amazing country…
I agree, political assassinations of Dhimmi politicians is inevitable. What choice do people have? The outrages by the authorities get worse week by week. Deceiving the people might have worked if it had gone slower, allowing each surrender to slide away and be forgotten. But the accretion of such cowardly acts now virtually guarantees a violent response.
This will happen across much of Europe, and occurred once already in Britain during Brexit.
He Looks like Eichmann, not Goebbels.
Censorship of mind: times are worse than in the 30’s and 40’s in Germany. Shiver and fear for even more bad times to follow.
Communism is coming to Germany big time , You can’t say anything about this Muslim murders , because Yoi can go to jail , it’s beyond, this government is a joke , Go AFD
One lawyer, Christian Stahl, independently counter-sued the Cologne police:
https://juergenfritz.com/2018/01/02/strafanzeige-gegen-polizei-koeln/
Why can only legacy media name their person of the year?
Can’t independence media also name one? These two women could be candidates. It takes courage to go against state apparatus, and sycophant media.
This is a frightening development,,the banning of fake news and hate speech,.In other words totalitarian marxist fascism.The thought police aka stasi, Merkel ,banning freedom , followers of the new world order prefer enslavement,and tyrannical rule.Where as Jesus came to set the captives free.
Germany like Britain and The Netherlands is no longer a free country. Germany in particular is somewhat returning to form. Sick sick to destroy one’s freedoms to protect your enemies. Such is liberalism.
Merkel’s days are ending.
I just truly hope so , but the greens , SPD , it’s another useful idiots, , go AFD , it’s the only hope
Germans need to read their own history, But forget the names and the words, just look at what these goons are actually doing.
Ok the names have changed, they don’t call themselves National Socialists any more, they just act like them, speak like them and do as they did.
They no longer raise Aryans to exalted positions; it is now all about Islam and ‘diversity’. But, tell me, Just what is the difference between locking up ethnic Germans for being ‘white’ and locking up Jews for being untermenschen?
The socialist mindset never changes, it cannot exist without a distinct group of people upon which to pour out its bile and hatred, and to accuse, accuse, accuse in a continuous charade of self-righteousness and virtue signalling.
Because their logical case is so weak, they have to terrorise everybody who disagrees into silence. It seems to me that the next German establishment fashion will be Jackboots and black leather full length coats complete with Luger or Mauser C96.