The following report from Germany is a reminder of why a clearly-written fundamental right to keep and bear arms is so important in a constitutional republic.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
Interior Ministry wants to disarm AfD members
Erfurt
Thuringia’s Minister of the Interior Georg Maier (SPD) is apparently planning to withdraw the gun license from all AfD [Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany] members in the Free State [the official status of Thuringia], Der Spiegel reports, citing an internal letter. Accordingly, the ministry has informed its employees about the establishment of a working group on “Weapons and Extremists”. [I’m pretty sure that Antifa is exempt from this, and that they are getting some of those weapons the Ukrainians are selling on the black market.]
The “AG WaffEx” is to be located at the state administration office and help local authorities “in the processing of relevant cases”. Specifically, it is used against AfD members who, for example, legally own weapons as hunters or marksmen. The letter says that “appropriate revocation procedures should be initiated against these in principle.”
Sharp criticism from the AfD state spokesman
As justification for this rigorous approach, Maier uses the assessment of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution that the state association of the AfD in Thuringia is “proven to be right-wing extremist.” AfD Thuringia is suing against this classification in the report for the protection of the constitution.
AfD state spokesman Stefan Möller criticized the actions of the interior minister. He accused him of using “the specially-adapted weapons law” “as a substitute criminal law against law-abiding hunters and marksmen in the AfD.” Maier is thus continuing what he started with an “abuse of service law to destroy the existence of officials close to the AfD.” “Maier chooses this method because his SPD sees no chance in a fair political debate against AfD Thuringia.”
“We only abide by the law and implement the weapons law,” Maier told Spiegel as a justification. Since the law was tightened in 2020, authorities have had to query the “reliability” of a gun owner with the respective constitutional protection agency, in this case with the Office for the Protection of the Constitutional Protection of Thuringia, which is part of the Ministry of the Interior.
Afterword from the translator:
What kind of hatred and discrimination against the AfD this is! But then, the SPD has always betrayed the German people, and that’s why they should be banned from governing. Does this also mean that police officers, Bundeswehr soldiers and professional hunters as well as security guards, bodyguards etc. all have to distance themselves from the AfD? Most likely, if they want to keep their guns.
What a great idea. That’s how you win voters. What’s next? Maybe independent journalists, i.e. a ban on their profession, if they express criticism of the government, or dissent in any other way? If they have their own opinion?
Can the bodyguards of the AfD MPs still have a weapon? Mhhh, if not, then have fun!
The SPD will next be selecting bodyguards from Antifa that will protect an AfD MP, guaranteed … Why does the word “Reichskritallnacht” sneak suspiciously into my head?
So let me get this right: being a member of a legal political party – with members in Parliament, no less – gets you extrajudicial punishment.
Does anyone know if just being a member of an opposition party gets you this kind of treatment in Russia? Inquiring minds want to know.
It’s not the end of history like we were promised in 1990.
In the former communist Czechoslovakia, access to weapons was limited only to the “politically correct persons”. If your parents or grandparents had been Burgeoisie class, or Aristocracy, or some inconvenient persons, or members of your family escaped to the West – your access to weapons and higher education became very limited.
The Black Barons – movie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103934/
Top review
8/10
90’s movie from Czech r. that had to wait long time to be filmed, to be more exact after fall of iron curtain
This movie is very specific with its absurdity. Two things you might not realize is that the soldiers are there to fulfill their compulsory military service and regime didn’t want them to have weapons in hand, they were incompatible with communist thinking so they ended up there… This was a picture of how it was established in Czechoslovak people’s army, not Poland. Although it was for sure similar. Most important in this kind of army was to be a member of communist party, that brought you power to give orders to doctors, engineers, artists and film producers to suck their souls empty.
oh, I got the title wrong at first glance! I understood that disarming meant ” amputation” of one arm. Why? Petr Bystron, AfD lawmaker , is prosecuted by justice and had his impunity taken away due to a photograph that shows him with a stretched right arm, and this proves a nazi state of mind, doesn’t it?
His smart lawyer presented several photos of unsuspicious politicians pointing at somethimg in the air , of course this was NO Hitler salute. Go figure.
Ok, they disarm the people.
Why does Shinzo Abe come to my mind?
And just like that! The SA were formed for no reason whatsoever!