Just How Bad Germany Is By Richard Miller (London)

 This little story of oppression caught my eye. A 16-year-old girl posted a video which was sympathetic to the Right wing AfD, featuring blue Smurfs. The principal, Jan-Dirk Zimmermann, called the police, and three thought police rolled up to the school to harass the student, even though no law was broken. She was told to stop making such posts, "for her own protection." I would take that as a threat, and sue the coppers, big time. This was not about preventing the girl from committing a crime, as there was no crime involved. It was about using state power to make an example. That is why these cases need to be subjected to litigation and the AfD party should back the case.

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"A story from 27 February illustrates how bad things have gotten. It involves a 16 year-old girl at the Richard-Wossidlo Gymnasium in Ribnitz-Damgarten (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). She posted an AfD-friendly video featuring blue Smurfs to TikTok, in which she said that Germany was not just a place, but also her home. School officials got wind of the blasphemy and the principal, Jan-Dirk Zimmermann, called the police; subsequently, no less than three officers were dispatched to neutralise this unusual threat to the German democratic order. After first establishing that the girl's social media posts were totally legal and broke no laws, they took her from her chemistry class and escorted her to a staff room, where they told her to refrain from making such posts in the future, "for her own protection."

The principal, Zimmermann, turns out to have connections to the SPD – the party of our increasingly unhinged authoritarian Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. As Zimmermann denounced his student, his school was hosting an exhibit on "Strengthening Democracy," sponsored by the SPD-affiliated Friedrich Ebert Foundation. At the opening of the exhibit, just four days before the police intervention, various local politicians, the town mayor and a Friedrich Ebert representative "emphasised that an increasingly dominant right-wing extremism is … making the culture of debate more difficult … and is … endangering our basic democratic order."

Today, the Stralsund police have issued a defensive press release, in which they justify their decision "to conduct a preventative educational talk" because "there is sometimes a fine line between lawful and unlawful conduct." As we saw above, it's those expressions which "fall below the threshold of criminal liability" that are the real problem. Today, Interior Minister of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Christian Pegel (SPD), also defended the intervention, saying he was "surprised" at the uproar "because there was no arrest and no handcuffs." He pleaded that the police had only acted "to protect both the pupils and … the school," and to prevent the girl in question from committing a crime."