Monthly Archives: January 2019

The AfD Fights Back Against State Intimidation

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A couple of weeks ago German state intelligence announced that it would be instituting a surveillance program directed at the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany), the only major party in Germany that opposes mass immigration and Islamization. State investigators believe that the party’s ideological positions may pose a danger to the constitution.

Now the AfD is launching a lawsuit against the state to stop the surveillance program. Many thanks to JLH for translating this article from Bild:

AfD Intends to Stop Scrutiny by Intelligence Service[1]

January 26, 2019

AfD national party leaders Alexander Gauland and Jörg Meuthen intend to bring suit to defend the party against the initiation of surveillance by national intelligence.

AfD intends to rush an appeal to court against the instituting of surveillance of the AfD by national intelligence as a “test case.” As announced by Leif-Erik Holm — AfD legislative leader in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — at the convention in Lübtheen, this decision was made by the party leadership.

This is what it is about: On January 15th, Security Chief Thomas Haldenwang announced a nationwide surveillance of the AfD by his agency. That made the party officially a “test case.”

At the time, Haldenwang said: “As the early warning system for democracy, Constitutional Protection is duty-bound to become active when there are de facto indications that the attitude of a party or elements of a party are inimical to the constitutional order.” The impetus for this evaluation was a 442-page report in which 180 speeches of 50 AfD politicians were examined for constitution-hostile statements.

Because this classified document was leaked to journalists, the party will lodge a criminal complaint. Furthermore, the party leadership decided to enter a disciplinary complaint against BfV chief Haldenwang.

Note:

1.   The “Verfassungsschutz” = literally “defense of the constitution” is the national intelligence agency. Also “BfV” or “Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz” = “Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.”
 

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/27/2019

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Thousands of people in two groups called the “Red Scarves” and “Blue Vests” staged demonstrations in Paris in opposition to the “Yellow Vest” movement. Some reports say the demonstrators were bussed to the capital by the French government.

In other news, British immigration officers say that lorries crossing from Calais are still the transport preferred by migrants trying to get into the UK, despite the recent surge of boats crossing the Channel.

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Bladed Booby Traps in the Playgrounds of Baden-Württemberg

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Booby traps using knives have been discovered on children’s playgrounds in three different districts of the southern German of state Baden-Württemberg. The three locations are all in the same western area of the state, so it may well be that a single perpetrator is responsible.

Nothing is known yet about the person who set the traps, so cultural enrichment can neither be adduced nor ruled out as a factor in the crimes.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Mutilated by Flash-Balls

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The number of Yellow Vest demonstrators seriously injured by French police flash-balls increases with every weekend rally. Police sometimes aim directly at the protesters’ heads, which is against regulations. The loss of an eye seems to be a not infrequent consequence of such head shots.

The following report from France interviews two victims of flash-balls. Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:


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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/26/2019

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Roger Foys, the Bishop of Covington Diocese in Kentucky, made a public apology to the students of Covington High School for the diocese’s condemnation of them after the incident at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18. Bishop Foys addressed his apology specifically to Nick Sandmann, who was particularly picked on by the media. The bishop said he was wrong to give in to bullying on the issue.

In other news, at World Youth Day in Panama, Pope Francis said that urged the faithful to welcome Jesus, who still migrates today.

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Thanks to Dean, DV, Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Afghan Culture-Enricher in Münster Acquitted of Manslaughter — Acted in Self-Defense

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A “New German” from Afghanistan was acquitted of manslaughter in a courtroom in the German city of Münster because the judges ruled he had acted in self-defense. Here’s a snip from the report in The Daily Mail (hat tip Reader from Chicago):

An Afghan who stabbed a refugee aid worker to death in Germany has walked free from court after judges ruled he had acted in self-defence.

The 18-year-old defendant, named as Seyed M., was accused of manslaughter after 20-year-old Jose M. died in a park in Ochtrup, north-west Germany, last May in a row about a girl.

Prosecutors at the court in Münster had demanded a three-year jail sentence but judges ruled Seyed had been defending himself, Bild reported.

The court heard Jose had put the Afghan in a headlock and punched him in the face, and that Seyed had initially tried to defend himself more ‘mildly’ with a glass bottle.

What the Mail doesn’t mention is that the defendant’s act of “self-defense” included stabbing his victim six times in the heart.

The victim and his entire family came to Germany from Portugal. In the video below from Bild, the dead boy’s mother is interviewed during and after her courtroom ordeal.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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The Real Story Behind the Illegal Migration Industry in Italy?

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In the following video Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the anti-immigration party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), discusses the unsavory aspects of the process of people-smuggling into Italy.

Some of the things Ms. Meloni says may seem paranoid. However, a recent Breitbart article (hat tip Reader from Chicago) reports:

The Italian secret service has warned that people-smugglers in the Mediterranean may seek to engineer a mass drowning in order to garner Western sympathy and resume the flow of migration.

And we’ve previously reported (most recently here) on the “Nigerian cannibal mafia” in Italy, which now seems more likely to be the Nigerian organ-trafficking mafia, if Ms. Meloni’s sources are credible.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Matteo Salvini to be Prosecuted?

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Once again, it looks like Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini may be prosecuted for refusing to let the migrant “rescue” ship Diciotti land in Sicily. Mr. Salvini’s failure to welcome the migrants is considered “kidnapping” by a tribunal in Catania.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

For more on the possible prosecution of Matteo Salvini, see this Breitbart article (hat tip Reader from Chicago).

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/25/2019

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President Trump struck a deal with Congress to end the government shutdown. Both houses passed a bill that will fund government operations temporarily, for thirty days. It contains no provision for funds for a wall on the southern border.

In other news, a migrant-smuggling ship was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard in the Atlantic thirty miles off the coast of Florida.

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Thanks to AF, Dora, Insubria, JD, MB, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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The Kinetic Suppression of Yellow Vest Protesters by the French Police

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The two videos below are in French, and were originally subtitled in German. MissPiggy has translated the German to create the English version. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

WARNING: The first video shows a somewhat graphic image of the injury sustained by a protester who lost an eye to a police flashball. Sensitive viewers may want to skip this clip:


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In the second video, a journalist named David Dufresne describes the serious injuries sustained by Yellow Vest protesters at the hands of police since the demonstrations began last November:


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It’s Not Easy Being Green

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The watermelons of the German Green Party are looking to plant their sticky seeds in the hitherto stony soil of the East, the former DDR. We’ll see how that turns out.

Many thanks to JLH for translating this essay from Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung:

Lose the Know-It-All-Westerner Image

The elections in Central Germany are expected to be a breakthrough for the Greens in the East of the Republic. But the start was a distinct miss. The party leader himself, Robert Habeck, sent out a video message that dissed potential voters.

The Thuringian Greens put out a video by Habeck, in which he declared: “We are doing everything we can to make Thuringia a free, liberal, democratic state — an ecological state.” What followed, is what is called in “New German” (slang) a S***storm. Many people on the internet recalled that the Free State is presently governed by a red-red-green coalition. And there it was again — the image of the Greens as the party of the Besserwessis.[1]

The Greens are struggling in the East. So there is great deference to the autumn state elections in Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia. In the elections in the autumn of 2017, they reached five percent of second votes[2] in Brandenburg, and even less in Thuringia and Saxony. Nationally, at the moment, the Greens are experiencing an unexpected upswing. More than 20% in polls is no longer an exception. They had record successes in the Bavarian and Hesse state elections. In Central Germany, the party is stuck at six to eight percent. And in Mecklenburg-Pomerania, they dropped completely out of the legislature. Now the party leadership has decreed a course correction. They no longer want to be seen in the East as the party that lectures. According to a position paper by the national party leader: Thirty years after the Wall fell, they want to initiate a debate in the middle of Germany about coexistence, “openly, with empathy, respect and mutual interests,” and also about “tales of success, misunderstandings, hopes and aberrations”

In the 1990s, the party in the West “had little interest in the common future in Germany” says the paper. The party intends to correct the mistakes of the past. Party leader Annalena Baerbock recalls the fusion with the civil rightists at the time of the so-called Wende.[3] “The task before us is writing Alliance90[4] in capital letters in our name again.” But there are also substantial reasons that the Greens are struggling “over there.” Central Germans’ inclination for multicultural utopias is traditionally less developed than is true in the West. And ecological pipe dreams likewise have little appeal in the territory still shaped by four decades of the GDR.[5]

However, in a talk with Der Spiegel, the Federal Whip, Michael Kellner, notes still other reasons. The party had to rebuild completely after the so-called Wende. After the experiences with the SED,[6] party membership was taboo in the progressive spectrum in the East. “So we had very few members from the beginning,” says Kellner. Only a short while ago, there were only ten members in Frankfurt an der Oder.[7]. The party says it has reformed. “But there is doubt whether the East German voices in the Green coalition party are paid sufficient attention. Therefore, 2019 is a chance for us Greens in the coalition to correct our own failures,” says the party conference resolution.

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Rainer Wendt: The Crackdown on Criminal Culture-Enrichers in Berlin

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Long-time readers will remember Rainer Wendt, the head of the federal German police union. In the following video Mr. Wendt discusses the latest police raids on Arab mafia clans in Berlin.

Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Nash sends additional information on Bushido vs. Abou-Chaker and clan. She says: “Here’s wiki info on the two rappers involved, Bushido and Capital Bra (LOL yes that’s his name), and on Abou-Chaker, leader of the largest Arab family clan in Berlin.”

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Keep Smiling

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For those of you who have been snowed in without the Internet for the past week, the graphic above is a reference to Nick Sandmann. He is a student at Covington High School, a Catholic institution in Kentucky. He went on a school field trip to D.C. on January 18 to attend the March for Life. Afterwards, while waiting at the Lincoln Memorial for the bus to take them home, he and his classmates (some wearing MAGA hats) were accosted and mobbed by the Black Hebrew Israelites, plus a Central Casting Injun and faux Vietnam Vet named Nathan Phillips, a.k.a. Tom-Tom McCoot.

The incident would have faded into the mists of history if the mainstream media had not glommed onto it and used a carefully edited piece of video to promote the fake news story that Nick Sandmann had disrespected the Injun. The fact that full videos of the entire event were widely available meant that the fake story was quickly and thoroughly debunked by the alternative media. That didn’t matter to the MSM, of course — they had their story about the white-privileged WAYCIST Catholic boy, and they were sticking to it. The only thing that might have an effect on these snoids would be a major lawsuit — which is still a distinct possibility.

Now, a week later, a meme poster has surfaced using the iconic image of Nick Sandmann wearing his stoic smile. A post on VOAT (dated January 25) says:

Stand Your Ground posters go up TONIGHT while the news cycle is still hot. WHO’S IN?

The people putting up the posters have been referred to as “sandmen”, which seems apt. The ones taping them to the wall in the photo at WRSA are wearing face-coverings and gloves. That takes care of the facial recognition scanners and the fingerprints, but what about gait recognition? If the rumors are to be believed, the intelligence services can now identify a person simply by his manner of walking. If you’re planning on putting up these posters, I recommend devising an extension for one of your boots, making you walk with an oddball limp.

Keep smiling, boys!

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/24/2019

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A Nigerian immigrant in Italy was almost lynched by an angry crowd of Italian citizens. The unfortunate culture-enricher was alleged to have dragged an Italian woman into an alley in an attempt to rape her.

In other news, the Abu Ubaydah Islamic Centre in Toronto has started a petition asking municipal authorities to set up prayer spaces at Toronto subway stations.

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Thanks to AF, Dora, Insubria, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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