Despite the conservative, populist AfD earning millions of votes, party members may now be targeted with forced weapons confiscation.
REMIX News In a frightening sign of what may await conservatives in both Europe and North America, the left-wing interior minister of the German state of Thuringia, Georg Maier, wants to withdraw gun licenses from Alternative for Germany members, which would effectively result in a mass weapon confiscation.
Maier, who belongs to the far-left Social Democrat Party (SPD), has tasked his employees with establishing a working group on “Weapons and Extremists” to move forward on the issue. They plan to create the “AG WaffEx,” which would be located at the state administration office and help local authorities “in the processing of relevant cases.”
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While the interior minister says that they will target “right-wing extremists,” this list also apparently includes law-abiding members of the AfD who have never been convicted of any crime or shown any sign of participating in terror activity. The rule would, for example, target AfD members who legally own weapons as hunters or marksmen, according to German news outlet T-Online. The letter says that “appropriate revocation procedures should be initiated against these in principle.”
As justification for the rigorous approach, Maier uses the assessment of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution that the state association of the AfD in Thuringia is “proven to be right-wing extremist.” In much the same way that Republicans have been labeled as Nazis or “fascists” in the United States, the AfD has to contend with claims of “right-wing extremism” primarily due to its opposition to mass immigration.
The AfD, which was once the largest opposition party in the German parliament, and which still receives millions of votes, has been targeted by the German state for years. Germany’s top court has designated the entire party a “potential” threat to democracy, which means all members are already subject to draconian surveillance that allows state authorities to read their emails and listen to their phone calls without any just cause.
The fact that a democratically elected party is subject to such law enforcement constraints in Germany, a country that prides itself on being an open liberal democracy, has been lost on much of the public.
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Ironically, the government’s own data shows that AfD members and politicians are the most attacked party in the country. Yet, there has never been a case of any member protecting themselves with a firearm, despite a number of serious assaults. Germans are not permitted to openly carry firearms, as in the U.S., and mostly use their weapons for target practice or hunting.
Germany’s left-wing government, which is led by SPD, has made the AfD and conservatives a special target, implementing a range of surveillance and anti-democratic methods to keep the party from growing in popularity. The latest move to ban firearms for the party’s members may not only be to target current members but also an effort to dissuade potential new members from joining the party.
AfD Thuringia is suing against this classification in the report as being for the protection of the constitution. AfD state spokesman Stefan Möller criticized the actions of the interior minister. He accused him of using an adapted weapons law in Germany “as a substitute criminal law against law-abiding hunters and marksmen in the AfD.”
The AfD spokesman accused Maier of continuing what he started with an “abuse of service law to destroy the existence of AfD-related officials.” Möller said the state interior minister is repressing AfD members with this method “because his SPD sees no chance in a fair political debate against AfD Thuringia.”
The AfD party is especially popular in Thuringia, where it routinely receives over 20 percent of the vote. In the last 2019 election, the party received 23.4 percent of the vote.
Nancy Faeser is a left extremist bully (or bulldog, when looking at her face) of the worst kind who keeps flooding the country apace with illegal Muslim aliens and same time pushing reverse integration with accelerator pedal to the floor.
She is a mad dog introducing laws enforcing legal action against critics not only of politic agenda but of administrative representatives.
It is rather confusing that the AfD are against Nazism as they are Of The Right politically, and support Israel 100%, and the Nazis were/are Of The Left and despise Israel 100%, and yet we see wee soy boys and their fat girlfriends wearing black face masks, black clothing, which makes them all look exactly like the Black Shirt Fascist Brigade in Italy during the 1930s and yet those lost souls think they are anti fascist while acting like, dressing like, and sounding exactly like real fascist…
The antifa morons do not seem to know they are on the wrong side of freedom and thats very sad indeed.
That is socialism in the best form and it will get way worse. The socialist party has two wings the national and the international. The national part had her chance back in the 1920-1945 to enlighten us and that they did, read the history books, The other part the international socialist is now in power and this time it will work…promise. Who said it,. we are the new left and nothing do we hate more than the conservativ owners block..no it was not the conservativ but it was mr goebbels. So you see we are being fooled by them because all of the failures they make, it wasnt them no it was the nazi (conservativ). Germany is not allowed to be proud of itself and no german can say im a patriot for my country because that is nazi. There you have it right infront of you and you can look it up in the history books but that is nazi aint it.
The Left everywhere have strayed far from moderation and ventured into Marxist, totalitarian territory. Denying people their rights because they belong to a particular group… hasn’t Germany done this before?
What about the far-right muslime groups that have pervaded Germany? Are they going to snatch guns from them? It would make no difference to them anyway; they prefer knives and acid; anything that makes a mess.
At least the gun buyback in New Zealand targeted ALL citizens, not a select group. Anyway, it achieved nothing. Shootings and crime in general has skyrocketed in this country. Everywhere I go in Auckland I see boarded up windows on dairies and liquor shops where some piece of filth not fit to be roaming the community has rammed into them with stolen cars. Just recently a deranged creature killed a man along a walkway in daylight hours. That was chilling because the walkway is a popular spot about 15 minutes from my house where my sister and I sometimes walk.
LZP, did everyone have to sell their guns back to the government?
They were supposed to, but I can’t vouch that they did. In any case, they could monitor only the registered guns by sportspeople and hunters, not the guns owned by criminals and gang members, who don’t register them. It was a kneejerk reaction by our PM that did nothing but punish law-abiding citizens, in my opinion.
Of course.
I lost all of mine when the canoe capsized over the Marianna Trench….
God Hater Hitler and his God Hater Nazis never died. Hitler and his Nazis have been re-born in Germany’s evil govt.
They’ll spend all of Eternity in Fiery Hell.
The courageous AfD are of the highest ethics. They’re heroes who place their lives in great danger bravely seeking to protect Germany and Europe.
They require 24/7 police protection and bodyguards from Muslims, ANTIFA and the Fascist left.
Instead, the excessively wicked German govt maliciously seeks to make the AfD defenseless prey for violent, murderous predators.
Please God, Bless and protect the AfD with Your Guardian, Warrior Holy Angels.
Thank You God, Amen.
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The Boston massacre was committed by the far-Right?
The Manchester concert slaughter of young people was committed by the far-Right ????
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