Junge Alternative is the youth wing of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany). The idealistic “anti-fascists” of Antifa in Aachen were upset about a gathering of the JA, and acted with righteous anger in an attempt to stop the fascists from meeting.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
Brutal Antifa attack on Junge Alternative
The police in Aachen have to move in with a large contingent and further reinforcements in order to deal with an attack by Antifa on a meeting of young AfD members.
Aachen
With a dozen patrol cars and reinforcements from the federal police, the Aachen police were able to repel an attack by Antifa on members of the Junge Alternative (JA) on Sunday evening . Before that, 200 left-wing extremists had demonstrated against the meeting.
The AfD’s youth organization had gathered in a pizzeria on Pontstrasse in Aachen. Around 40 masked left-wing extremists broke away from the demonstration under the slogan “No room for right-wing agitation.” They tried to storm the restaurant. The JA members were able to get to safety, the police reacted quickly and protected the building. [I’ll bet they protected the building firstly, the youth of the AfD are considered fair game in this “best Germany of all time”.]
Police let Antifa go [I guess they are not allowed to keep Faeser’s storm-troopers in custody.]
According to the police, this and the rapid intervention meant that insults and threats were the only form of attack. Officers took the personal details of the attackers. There were isolated cases of resistance. “Several criminal proceedings have been initiated, including for breach of the peace, resistance to law enforcement officers, threats and violations of the assembly law,” the authorities reported.
The perpetrators were not taken to the police station, but were released on the spot with a warning.
Afterword from the translator:
Everything is fine; after all, Saxony’s Minister of the Interior Schuster from CDU had just declared in Bautzen that Antifa was his most important collaborator in saving “our” Demockeracy. I guess that’s the reason the police have let these stout defenders of “our” Demockeracy go, after all, they are fighting against… ????? … against… ????? … what are they actually fighting against? It can’t be for democracy, because that would mean peaceful discourse with your opponent, now, wouldn’t it? And to top it all, in this fight for “our” Demockeracy, Mr. Wanderwitz has led a motion to ban the AfD in the German Bundestag. The “pressure on the streets” against the AfD youth organization seems to be increasing. Coincidence? Or a concerted action? I’d lay my bet on the latter.
Re: “Junge Alternative is the youth wing of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany). The idealistic “anti-fascists” of Antifa in Aachen were upset about a gathering of the JA, and acted with righteous anger in an attempt to stop the fascists from meeting.”
One of the most-fascinating things about the cultural wars of the 21st century is how the various participants style themselves and view themselves. One has the feeling of walking through the looking glass (hat-tip to Lewis Carroll), for how strange all of it seems at times. Consider the following…
The members of Antifa view themselves as righteously anti-fascist, but one cannot help but wonder – how many of those participants can actually define fascism in its historically-correct sense? Do any of them know that fascism has a lot more in common with communism than they have been taught in school? Do they know that fascism is characterized by the fusion of the state and the corporation?
The anti-fascists in Germany 1933-1945 were a small minority persecuted by the government; they were dissidents in the true sense of the word. The “anti-fascists” certainly weren’t the people beating up those dissidents; those thugs were the enforcers for very fascist state that Antifa claim to abhor.
Can the members of Antifa not see the dramatic role reversal vis-a-vis their forebearers in the 1930s and 1940s?
The current government regime claims that the dissidents of AfD are bigoted, xenophobic and hateful against immigrants and others not native to Germany. Yet, they are importing by the millions Arabs and other Muslims whose holy book commands them to hunt down and exterminate Jews, Christians and other infidels.
Are the authorities in power so blind that they cannot see this massive historical and moral contradiction? Or are they playing some other angle, pretending to believe one thing while actually working for its opposite?
The present German government claims to be against fascism and against anything having to do with the era of National Socialism, 1933-1945 – yet these same authorities are now turning a blind eye to the giant influx of Muslims entering their country, many of whom find absolutely nothing wrong with the beliefs of Herr Schicklgruber. Are they really that blind, or is something else going on?
It is germane to note at this juncture that during their years in power Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime enjoyed widespread support in the Islamic world, and that Hitler’s magnum opus, “Mein Kampf,” was a best-seller translated into Arabic, Farsi, and other languages. It remains a best-seller today in the Muslim world. And writing in that book, Hitler expressed his admiration for Islam, calling it “a faith for warriors…” while condemning Christianity as “weak” and “corrupt.”
The German people have been renowned over the years for their logic and grasp of the facts, but one cannot help but wonder if many of those people have now taken leave of their senses and their sanity to believe in such convoluted reasoning as put forth by their government. What on earth are they thinking?
Josef Goebbels, the club-footed genius of propaganda for the Nazi Party, once said that when telling a lie, the bigger the better. Indeed, such tactics are now known as the “politics of the ‘big lie'”…
It seems that the present pro-globalist German government and the European Union are now using Herr Goebbels’s “big lie” technique against the German people themselves, deceiving them that up-is-down and that right-is-wrong. Gas-lighting them on a massive scale that the surrender of their homeland to immigrant-invaders is the morally correct thing to do, even if those invaders happen to be even more virulent their hatred and bigotry than the Nazis themselves!
You said: “how many of those participants can actually define fascism in its historically-correct sense”
I would like to tell you something.
Many years ago I wanted to know how the left thinks. So I became a member of a leftwing organization. I took part in a demonstration.
At the beginning there was a commotion because some Antifa stole some rightwing newspapers.
Then a guy held a speech and it ended with the words: “And if the Nazis come to power, first they will burn books and then people will burn.”
Then they took those rightwing newspapers and BURNED them.
Everybody cheered.
I was dumbstruck.
First this guy tells everybody that burning books will end in burning people. Then they burn books and nobody saw it for what is was.
Antifa was using the same tactics as the Nazis and nobody noticed it.
I later talked to a girl who I supposed to be more open, but she didnt noticed it and she looked at me as if I was a Nazi for noticing it.
I never went back because I feared she would rat me out.
@AlexLund
Your experiences do not surprise me in the least. It has long been said by various commentators that when fascism returns to the West, it will do so flying the flag of anti-fascism.
Communism and fascism do have differences, but they are far-outweighed by the similarities between the two ideologies. They clashed some eighty years ago or more not because of how dissimilar they were, but because of how similar.
Stalin and Hitler sensed this, and realizing that a confrontation must come sooner or later, made plans independently of one another to attack. Hitler preempted Stalin with Operation Barbarosa in June, 1941 – but not by much. The Red Army general staff had been engaged in pre-invasion planning at the time.
No matter how much Antifa thinks it is fighting against fascism, it is ultimately supporting fascism of a different sort: Islamo-fascism. If it comes to a choice between ordinary fascism and Islamo-fascism, I will choose ordinary fascism.
Yes, Aachen is a big Antifa place. I know, I was there.
We had a group and one of them was in a Burschenschaft aka fraternity. Every two weeks they were visited by Antifa.
And the branch of a banking institute close to the Audimax (three lecture halls) had its glass windows smashed open so many times that you were really astonished if the windows were undamaged. And Antifa liked butyric acid. Whereever they smashed something you could bet that at least 4 liters were sprayed.
Antifa must have bought it big time.
I never understood why the cops never asked the companies that offered butyric acid for their list of customers.
@John Pepple
“Islamo-fascism” as a descriptor made the rounds a decade or two ago, if memory serves, in the writings of neo-con Jonah Goldberg, amongst others. The problem with this neologism is that it historically-inverts the importance of the two actors within it, namely the Muslims and fascists. Islam was Islam long-before the term “fascism” ever occurred to Benito Mussolini, or for that matter anyone else. But I digress…
Islam and mid-20th century fascism certainly share some traits in common, one of those being a totalitarian nature. Mussolini, the acknowledged inventor of modern fascism, once famously said “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state…” and it remains a valid description of the ideology he helped create.
However, if one substitutes the term “Islam” for “the state,” the essential meaning is unchanged, albeit somewhat refocused. All Muslim societies are, to a greater or lesser degree, totalitarian and fascistic to the extent that almost nothing within them escapes the influence of Islam and Islamic (sharia) law.
The customary greeting extended in the Islamic world, “As-salamu alaykum,” is often translated as “Peace be upon you,”but recall that Islam also means not just “peace,” but “submission.” Unlike fascism, which requires obedience to the state, Islam requires it of the prophet and his laws.
The fascist and the shahid (true believer of Islam) may differ in to whom they offer their allegiance, but both ways of life are quite literally totalitarian.