Sitting in the pre-dawn chill of September 29, 2025, a lone German libertarian known only as Damian N. fired off a tweet that barely rippled the digital pond, 402 views, 10 likes, a pebble in the algorithmic ocean. His crime? Declaring the obvious: "No, anyone who is financed by the state pays no net taxes; they live off taxes: every civil servant, every politician, every employee in a state-owned enterprise, everyone who is subsidised and financed by the state. Not a single parasite pays any net taxes." By dawn the next morning, Ulm police were kicking in his door at 6 a.m. sharp, search warrant allegedly missing, phone confiscated, biometric data harvested, DNA demanded. The charge? Inciting hatred under Section 130 of the German Criminal Code, a statute meant for racial or ethnic vilification, now stretched like bureaucratic taffy to cover criticism of government employees. This isn't law enforcement; it's state terrorism dressed in procedural drag. And the truth Damian spoke? That public sector "workers" are often net tax consumers, not contributors? It's not hate speech, it's arithmetic, and the numbers don't lie.
Let's run the maths the German state doesn't want you to see. In 2024, Germany's public sector employed 4.9 million people, 11% of the workforce, costing €212 billion in wages alone, per the Federal Statistical Office. Add pensions, benefits, and overhead, and the tab explodes past €400 billion annually. Tax revenue? €914 billion total, but 40% of that comes from private sector wages and profits. Public employees pay taxes, sure, but on money already extracted from the productive class. Net contribution? Zero or negative. A 2023 Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft study found that for every euro a civil servant "pays" in income tax, €1.40 in public spending flows back through salary, healthcare, and pension guarantees. They're not taxpayers; they're tax recirculators, skimming administrative fees off the real economy's labor. Damian's "parasite" label isn't rhetoric, it's a precise description of a closed-loop extraction system where one class lives by confiscating the fruits of another's work.
This isn't unique to Germany. Across the West, the state has metastasised into a jobs program for the credentialed class. In the U.S., federal employees earn 17% more than private sector equivalents for comparable work, per Cato Institute data, with benefits packages pushing the gap to 40%. The EU's 1.2 million Eurocrats in Brussels? Average salary €8,000 monthly, tax-free, plus €300 daily allowances for "expenses." Their output? Regulations that cost the private sector €100 billion yearly in compliance, per the European Commission's own impact assessments. These aren't public servants; they're a mandarin caste, producing red tape while private citizens produce actual value. When COVID lockdowns crushed small businesses, who kept collecting pay? The regulators who enforced the closures. When energy prices spiked from green mandates, who got subsidies to offset their heating bills? The bureaucrats who wrote the mandates. The parasite metaphor isn't hyperbole, it's the only honest framing for a system where risk is socialised and reward is privatised to the political class.
The German raid follows a pattern that's become SOP for speech suppression: NGO keyword trawling, lazy prosecutorial overreach, and dawn raids as psychological warfare. Groups like the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, state-funded to the tune of €1.3 million annually, run "hate speech" monitoring programs that flag terms like "parasite" in political contexts. Apollo News reporting confirms Damian's tweet was likely surfaced this way, then handed to Ulm prosecutors desperate to justify their "online hate task force" budgets. Section 130 was never meant for this, its text explicitly targets "national, racial, religious" or ethnic groups. Government employees aren't an ethnicity; they're an occupational category. But in the Kafkaesque logic of modern Europe, criticising the state apparatus is now "incitement" because the state has become sacred, beyond reproach. The process is the punishment: 6 a.m. raids, phone seizures, biometric booking for a tweet with 402 views. As Lower Saxon prosecutor Frank-Michael Laue bragged to American reporters, losing your smartphone is "worse than the fine." They're not after justice; they're after submission.
This parasitic class has captured the machinery of speech itself. Germany's NetzDG law forces platforms to delete "illegal" content within 24 hours or face €50 million fines, creating a pre-emptive censorship regime where truth is collateral damage. The EU's Digital Services Act takes it continental, mandating "systemic risk" assessments that inevitably target dissent. When Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter (now X) to restore free speech, German officials threatened to ban the platform entirely. Why? Because an unfiltered public square exposes the grift. When French pension protesters called Macron's technocrats "parasites," the response wasn't debate, it was water cannons and mass arrests. The term stings because it's accurate, and accuracy is the one thing the administrative state cannot survive.
The real hate speech isn't calling parasites what they are, it's the daily assault on productive citizens forced to fund their own dispossession. Every euro extracted for a diversity officer's €120,000 salary is a euro not invested in a child's education or a business's growth. Every hour spent complying with ESG reporting, is an hour not spent creating value. The parasite class produces nothing but friction, yet demands reverence. Damian N.'s tweet threatened this arrangement not through violence, but through clarity. In a healthy society, such speech would spark debate: Are public sector unions too powerful? Do we need 87,000 new IRS agents? Instead, Germany chose stormtroopers at dawn.
History warns where this leads. The Soviet Union criminalised "anti-state agitation" for criticising bureaucrats. China's social credit system docks points for "spreading rumours" about officials. Germany's innovation? Outsourcing the Stasi to NGOs and tech platforms, creating a panopticon where citizens police themselves. The chilling effect is deliberate: post one truthful critique, and wake up to boots on your floor. Damian's refusal to give DNA was the last shred of dignity in a process designed to strip it away. His phone? Likely mined for contacts, group chats, anything to build a "pattern of incitement." This isn't about one tweet; it's about mapping networks of dissent.
The defence of truth isn't optional, it's existential. When language is weaponised to protect power, reality itself becomes contraband. Calling a net tax consumer a parasite isn't hate; it's hygiene. The term originates in biology: an organism that extracts resources while providing none. State dependents fit perfectly. Productive citizens aren't "hosts" to be drained; they're productive individuals whose labour funds a government that should exist to serve, not feed. Damian's tweet was a mirror held to the beast, and the beast responded with fangs.
Germany's prosecutors claim they're protecting "social peace." The opposite is true: suppressing truth breeds resentment, and resentment festers into the very hatred they purport to prevent. Let citizens speak freely about their rulers, and grievances find voice in ballots and debates. Silence them with raids, and those grievances find darker outlets. The Weimar Republic didn't fall to free speech; it fell to economic collapse and authoritarian overreach. Today's Europe flirts with the same formula: crush the middle class with taxes, import replacement demographics by mass immigration, then criminalise complaints about the architecture of their dispossession.
The solution isn't more speech codes, it's sunlight. Make every public salary, pension, and subsidy transparent. Require cost-benefit analyses for every regulatory role. Force bureaucrats to justify their existence annually, or face defunding. Most importantly, restore absolute speech protections: if criticism of government is "hate," then government has become the hate group. Damian N. should be compensated, his raiders prosecuted, and Section 130 repealed for political speech. Until then, every dawn raid is a confession: the state fears truth more than violence, because truth exposes the scam.
In the end, parasites don't reform, they're removed. The German state can raid a thousand homes, but it can't raid reality. Productive citizens outnumber the extractive class 10 to 1. When enough wake up to the grift, no amount of 6 a.m. theatre will save the leeches. Damian's tweet was the first pebble; let it become an avalanche. The truth isn't hate — it's the antidote to the real incitement: a government that treats its citizens like ATMs while demanding worship as gods.