The Dissident reports that German police raided the house of Jürgen Todenhöfer (85), a former lawmaker and author.

[https://the307.substack.com/p/german-police-raid-authors-house]

Apparently this was in response to a tweet in which Todenhöfer said:

Mr Netanyahu, does your conscience never protest when you do to the Palestinians what the damned Nazis did to the Jews?

Clearly it was the Nazi reference that has triggered this over-reaction by the German state, which echoes similar attempts in the UK to label anyone critical of Israel's actions in Gaza as a ‘terrorist’.

Terrorists, in the Western sense, are normally people who strap real or fake suicide bombs to their waists (e.g. Jihad al-Shamie) or behead people (e.g. Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale) or stab random people (e.g. Moussa Kadri) for ‘crimes’ like burning a book.

Or for that matter, people who send letter-bombs to politicians or pack milk churns with explosives to blow up hotels.

This kind of authoritarian over-reaction to a tweet devalues the meaning of the term ‘terrorist’, which one has to guess is what the authorities want so that many more people can be caught in their net fishing for 'anti-semites'.

As Monty Python's Cardinal Ximenez (aka the sherry cardinal) said:

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition…Our two weapons are fear and surprise … and ruthless efficiency.



Sounds like a dead-ringer for the Politzei.

But seriously, one has to worry about Germany.

Anyone who lived in West Germany in the 60s and 70s knows that the look and feel of Germany has changed dramatically and not for the better. 

This is not right-wing rhetoric but the reality of modern Germany.

More worrying, for most ordinary Germans, is:

* A cost of living crisis (e.g. high energy costs)
* A sluggish economy with ‘tentpole’ export industries in trouble (e.g. car-making)
* Attempts to ban political parties (e.g. the AfD)
* Crackdowns on freedom of speech (e.g. Todenhöfer)
* Claims of ‘provocations’ by foreign powers (e.g. Russia)

This all looks horribly familiar and maybe just the conditions needed to spark the Fourth Reich, if a charismatic leader were to emerge from the shadows.

But no worries. 

Given the quality of most European (and UK) leaders, the chance of a charismatic leader popping up is about a likely as getting a bratwurst through the eye of a needle.



The oratory skills of Chancellor Merz couldn’t hold the attention of a sausage stand let alone a Nuremberg stadium.

He’s talking of re-militarization and taking on Russia but is clearly suffering from a severe case of amnesia.



Let’s hope - for Berlin’s sake - that he recovers his memory soon.