2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Working Session 12: Rights of Migrants
Intervention read by Christopher Hull, representing Secure Freedom (Center for Security Policy)
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
Below is the prepared text for Mr. Hull’s intervention:
2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Monday, 17 September 2018
Working Session 11
Fundamental Freedoms I, Including Freedom of Expression
The following intervention was read yesterday at the OSCE conference in Warsaw by Stephen Coughlin, representing Unconstrained Analytics.
The principle topic of the intervention was the Turkish religious affairs directorate Diyanet (official government website, Wikipedia entry), which claims jurisdiction over all Turkish Muslims in Europe unto the nth generation, and which is said to be crucial for assuring calm and lawful behavior by ethnic Turks in urban neighborhoods throughout Europe. Maj. Coughlin’s principal point is that discussing such matters is now considered “bigotry” by the OSCE’s Code of Conduct.
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
For more on the OSCE’s Code of Conduct, see “The Successful Subversion of the OSCE”.
For links to previous articles about the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, see the OSCE Archives.
2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Freedom of the Media, Session 3
Intervention read by Henrik Clausen, representing Wiener Akademikerbund
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
Below is the prepared text for Mr. Clausen’s intervention:
Below is the prepared text for an intervention read yesterday afternoon by Christopher Hull of the Center for Security Policy (Secure Freedom) at OSCE Warsaw. The video of the intervention will be along in due course.
For more on the OSCE’s Code of Conduct, see “The Successful Subversion of the OSCE”.
Intervention before the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Participating States and Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
At the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM), Warsaw, Poland
Working Session 11: Fundamental Freedoms II
September 17, 2018
How ironic that this organization is itself violating fundamental freedoms.
For instance, at a February meeting this year, a senior official claimed that civil society must adhere to OSCE commitments.[1]
But we are not required to abide by those commitments — you are.
The OSCE Code of Conduct for Staff/Mission Members says you, and I quote, “shall comply with the… commitments of the OSCE.”[2] And what commitments?
| 1. | First, “respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience…or belief, for all without distinction as to…belief, political or other opinion.”[3] | |
| 2. | Second, taking only “measures which do not endanger freedom of information and expression” in this space[4]; and | |
| 3. | Third, that civil society members, “specifically those with relevant experience, are particularly encouraged to participate in the discussion of the selected topics and to provide their suggestions and recommendations.”[5] |
But in spite of such requirements, ODIHR has now gone further.
For this meeting, you required us to acknowledge a new “Code of Conduct.” It says, “[p]articipants shall refrain from presenting…any slogans that might be provoking,… likely to give rise to violence, [or] discriminating [against] other persons on the basis of…religion or belief, political or other opinion.”
But that is what you are doing.
That’s why Secure Freedom joined 28 civil society representatives from 14 countries in speaking out against your repeated attempts to shut down our fundamental freedoms.[6]
That’s also why the U.S. Opening Statement objected “to content-based restrictions on the participation of civil society.”[7]
And yet last week, ODIHR used its power to interrupt Civitas Christiana Foundation for expressing concern about threats, repression and intolerance by those who hold radical views of sexuality.[8]
The truth? OSCE’s own Code of Conduct says:
The CSU — the Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel’s CDU — has seen a precipitous drop in the polls ahead of Bavarian state elections. The AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) is polling at almost 50% now in Bavaria, well ahead of the CSU.
In other news, female priests in Britain demanded that the Church of England stop referring to God as “He”.
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Hans-Georg Maaßen is the president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency. During the recent controversy over anti-migrant street demonstrations in Chemnitz, Mr. Maaßen determined that media reports about “neo-Nazis” and “manhunts” of migrants in Chemnitz were utterly without foundation. Law enforcement agencies plus the political leadership of Saxony agreed with him.
The only source for the spurious assertion of a “manhunt” was an Antifa propaganda video. On the basis of this video — and without consulting her security services — Chancellor Angela Merkel made her own assertions about “manhunts” by “xenophobes” in Chemnitz.
Mrs. Merkel’s coalition partners in the SPD (Social Democratic Party, specifically Martin Schulz, if I am not mistaken) have said that the chancellor will soon fire Mr. Maaßen from his position as head of the BfV, for contradicting his chancellor about the “manhunts”. If she really does give him the boot, it will set a devastating precedent, and signal the complete politicization of the German intelligence services.
Just think about the ramifications: Mrs. Merkel’s intelligence chief gives her an accurate assessment of the domestic situation, so she fires him. Such an action makes certain that whoever succeeds him will NEVER tell the chancelloress anything she doesn’t want to hear.
It reminds me of the way Stalin handled his underlings in the USSR (except, of course, that Mr. Maaßen is unlikely to end up neckshot in the basement of the Bundeskanzleramt). No commissar would dare tell the General Secretary that only 300 tanks had actually been produced by the factory in Novosibirsk, rather than the 5,000 listed in the Defense Ministry’s report*. Comrade Stalin did not want to hear such facts, and telling them to him could end one’s career, and most likely one’s life. As a result, Stalin made important strategic decisions using bad intel, sometimes with disastrous consequences.
Bad intel was one of the things that helped bring down the USSR. Mrs. Merkel would be wise to remember that fact.
The following video discusses remarks by Alice Weidel, the leader of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) about the possible firing of Hans-Georg Maaßen.
Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
For those who read German, more information is available at Politically Incorrect.
Video transcript:
2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Monday, 17 September 2018
Working Session 10
Fundamental Freedoms I, Including Freedom of Expression
Intervention read by Henrik Clausen, representing Wiener Akademikerbund
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
For links to previous articles about the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, see the OSCE Archives.
2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Monday, 17 September 2018
Working Session 10
Fundamental Freedoms I, Including Freedom of Expression
Intervention read by Clare Lopez, representing the Center for Security Policy
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
For links to previous articles about the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, see the OSCE Archives.
2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Monday, 17 September 2018
Working Session 10
Fundamental Freedoms I, Including Freedom of Expression
Intervention read by Stephen Coughlin, representing Unconstrained Analytics
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
For links to previous articles about the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, see the OSCE Archives.
Three illegal migrants were injured when the truck carrying them crashed just inside the Greek-Turkish border. The injured aliens were among the 41 passengers who had just crossed the border in a truck driven by an Afghan.
In other news, with inflation in Venezuela at an annual rate of 2,400%, President Nicolas Maduro raised the minimum wage by 3,500%, which resulted in the closure of 40% of the country’s retail businesses.
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2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Thursday, 13 September 2018
Session 9: Using Democracy to Prevent Aggressive Nationalism
Intervention read by Henrik Clausen, representing Wiener Akademikerbund
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Below is the prepared text for Mr. Clausen’s intervention:
Feria de Nîmes is a popular festival centered on Spanish-style bullfighting that is held each year in Nîmes, in the south of France. In May 2012, the Feria celebrated its 60th anniversary.
A few days ago, a culture-enricher celebrated 1,400 years of jihad by attempting to drive his vehicle into a crowd of people in Nîmes.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
A Missed Opportunity to Save Sweden
by Fjordman
Some Swedish patriots and sympathizers abroad had hoped that the 2018 general elections would mark a breakthrough for more nationally-oriented parties and restrictive immigration policies. This did not happen.
The elections were held on September 9, 2018. The final election results were not ready until September 16, a full week later. For a technologically sophisticated nation, it should be possible to count votes faster than this.[1] This is yet another reminder that Sweden is no longer the efficient and well-functioning country it once was.
The right-wing Sweden Democrats (SD) did gain 13 seats in Parliament compared to the previous election, now holding 62 seats in total. Virtually all opinion polls had predicted that they would grow. Yet SD did not grow as much as some opinion polls had indicated. Many polls had suggested that the Sweden Democrats could surpass the Moderate Party to become the second-largest party. Several opinion polls from 2018 had SD receive about 21-26% support.[2] One opinion poll published a couple of months prior to the election gave them as much as 28.5% support.[3] This would have made them larger than the Social Democrats.
The Swedish Social Democrats have been the biggest party in Sweden continuously since the early 1900s. If they had been dethroned from this position, this would have had a significant psychological impact on Swedish society. While the Social Democrats had their worst election since 1911, they remained the largest party.
The Sweden Democrats didn’t even become the second-largest party. SD retained their spot as number three at 17.5%, behind the Social Democrats at 28.3% and the Moderates at 19.8%.[4] Alternative for Sweden (AfS), a new party that wants even more restrictive immigration policies than the SD, came nowhere near receiving the 4% of the votes needed to enter the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag).
It is interesting to notice that the two largest parties, the Social Democrats and the Moderates, in 2014 combined received 54.34% of the votes and 197 mandates in Parliament. In theory, the two major parties could thus have formed a majority coalition government together. This would be similar to the way the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) have ruled Germany together since 2013.
However, in 2018, the Social Democrats and the Moderates together got 48.1% of the votes. This earned them 170 seats in combination, less than the 175 needed to form a majority in the Swedish Parliament.
Establishing the next government in Sweden will be complicated. Especially if all the other parties keep treating the Sweden Democrats as evil racists that they do not want to cooperate with.
The number of migrants arriving in Italy decreased by 62% in August compared with the same period last year. However, the difference was more than made up by arrivals in Spain and Greece, with more than 70,000 crossing the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year.
In other news, 50,000 natives emigrated from Romania in the first seven months of 2018.
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