Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
It sounds ridiculous to say, but it is a fact: the era of freedom in the West is over. The false flag attack, 9/11, was used to launch the neoconseratives’ wars in Israel’s behalf in the Middle East. More importantly, fear of “Muslim terrorists” was used to set aside constitutional protections such as habeas corpus and due process and to implement other inroads into liberty such as the Patriot Act and the mass warrantless NSA spying on US citizens. Today you can be arrested in Germany, France, and the UK for waving a Palestinian flag. In the US the exercise of free speech gets you cancelled and fired. Only approved opinions can be safely stated. The facts simply do not matter. Official narratives have triumphed over truth.
This destruction of liberty began a long time ago. I published a book 23 years ago about the transformation of law from a shield of the people into a weapon in the hands of the government which it clearly is as witnessed by the false charges against Trump and the imprisonment of 1,000 people who used their First Amendment right to protest the theft of the 2020 election from President Trump. Hardly anyone believes the charges against Trump, not even the Democrat prosecutors, judges, Justice Department and members of Congress. What is important to them is destroying their hate object. The facts are of no concern. The US is today experiencing Stalinist purge trials. Stalin knew that the Bolsheviks were not capitalist spies and so did the Soviet court system, but Stalin nevertheless had the r Bolshevik leaders executed.
In the US it is not only Democrats calling for more censorship and suppression of the First Amendment. Republicans are just as alienated from freedom as Democrats. Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, even Ron DeSantis are calling for more censorship and curtailments of free speech as a way of suppressing the Palestinian side of the story. The Democrat Left and Republican Right now agree that free speech needs to be reined in, that it can make people uncomfortable, feel threatened, and spread misinformation by departing from official explanations. Left and Right differ on what they want suppressed, but they are both willing to suppress free speech in the interest of their agendas.
The current restrictions on the First Amendment began with “political correctness” in the universities. Some things could be said and others could not. Some races and genders could say them and others could not. Men could be verbally assaulted but not women. Whites could be called names but not blacks.
The orchestrated Covid pandemic brought national censorship. The Covid narrative could not be challenged, not even by distinguished medical scientists. Neither could the Vax. The facts did not matter. Inexpensive preventatives and cures–Ivermectin and HCQ–were prohibited from being used. Consequently, Big Pharma made billions of dollars from a “vaccine” that did not prevent Covid but did have serious side effects–death and permanent health injury for millions of people.
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, the distinguished German human rights activist, has led a large group of medical scientists and attorneys for several years preparing a lawsuit in behalf of the millions of people who died or were injured as a result of the Covid “vaccine.” This has annoyed Big Pharma and their stooges in governments who are complicit in the crime of mandating the injection of billions of people with a substance known to be dangerous and life-threatening.
Efforts to discredit and to silence Dr Fuellmich were soon underway. A judge convicted him last May of insulting people and ordered him to pay a large sum that was reduced to 2,100 euros. Thus, the German court established the principle that free speech can be insulting and punished.
While traveling with his wife in Mexico, their passports were lost or stolen. On October 13 they went to the German embassy in Mexico to have them replaced unaware that a warrant had been issued in Germany for Fuellmich on what appear to be fraudulent fraud charges. According to news reports, Mexico is outside the jurisdiction of the EU and the warrant could not be enforced, so Fuellmich was kidnapped by the German government and flown to Germany and imprisoned. His lawyers have examined the charges of fraud, which seem to amount to stealing the money of his organization and regard the charges as absurd. At time of writing, the only evidence consists of an accusation, possibly a bribed or coerced one.
But Western governments are no longer accountable and can bring all the fraudulent indictments that they wish even against the President of the United States. The purpose of this one seems to be to discredit Fuellmich and prevent his lawsuit from going forward. After being frustrated by the refusal of courts in the Western world to try the Covid case on the collected evidence, a court finally agreed. In my opinion, to prevent accountability for Big Pharma and its government allies, an arrest warrant was issued and Fuellmich was imprisoned.
It appears that today in Germany law is a weapon against truth just as it is believed to have been in Nazi Germany. The German government with its extraordinary suppression of free inquiry, free speech, and protest is rapidly acquiring the characteristics of Nazi Germany, just as has Great Britain with the indefinite imprisonment of Julian Assange in violation of habeas corpus.
https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/attorney-and-international-freedom
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All democracies end in dictatorship.
…and die by suicide.
There was never a democracy that didn’t murder itself.
Think of the stupidest person you have come across (or the nastiest). Understand that their vote counts as much as yours.
… which is why our Founders gave US a democratic republic … ‘if (we) can keep it’.
NO, Anthony. They established a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
We couldn’t keep it.
Hard to keep something when you don’t even know what the Hell it is you’ve actually got in the first place.
That’s HOW we lost it.
Well said. So sad it’s the truth and had to be said, but well said, my friend.
A “democratic republic” is a euphemism for communism; just like “people’s republic.” Think “German Democratic Republic” which was the official name of East Germany.
Not trying to be a grammar Nazi. I would not be surprised if some of the current subversives (of which there are many) would like to sneak something like that in by using nice sounding names.
Hey…either words have meaning or we’re all living with the animals.
Dr. Doolittle I ain’t.
The tone of your voice can change the meaning of a word and its intent.
Dr. Tone-Deaf, you are.
Chinese Socialist Republic.
Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea.
Russian Federation, made up of 21 officially recognized republics.
Islamic Republic of Iran.
No kings, no Czars, no Sultans, so they are republics too!
Types of democracy
Demarchy – Government in which the state is governed by randomly selected decision from a broadly inclusive pool of eligible citizens.
Direct democracy – Government in which the people represent themselves and vote directly for new laws and public policy.
Electocracy – A form of representative democracy where citizens are able to vote for their government but cannot participate directly in governmental decision making. The government has almost absolute power.
Herrenvolk democracy – A form of government in which only a specific ethnic group participates in government, while other ethnic groups are disenfranchised. Though elections may be free, voting suffrage is restricted based on race, with governance reflecting the interests of the politically dominant racial group.
Liberal democracy – A form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of liberalism. It is characterised by fair, free, and competitive elections between multiple distinct political parties, a separation of powers into different branches of government, the rule of law in everyday life as part of an open society, and the protection of human rights and civil liberties for all persons. To define the system in practice, liberal democracies often draw upon a constitution, either formally written or uncodified, to delineate the powers of government and enshrine the social contract. After a period of sustained expansion throughout the 20th century, liberal democracy became the predominant political system in the world. A liberal democracy may take various constitutional forms: it may be a republic, such as France, Germany, Pakistan, India, Ireland, Italy; or a constitutional monarchy, such as the United Kingdom, Japan or Spain. It may have a presidential system (Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, or the United States), a semi-presidential system (France, or Portugal), a parliamentary system (Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, or New Zealand) or directorial system.
Representative democracy – Wherein the people or citizens of a country elect representatives to create and implement public policy in place of direct participation by the people.
Social democracy – Elements of direct and representative democracies are combined in a form of participatory democracy. It also adopts a mixed economy combining the principles of a capitalist free-market and economic or social interventionism.
Social democracy rejects the “either/or” phobiocratic/polarization interpretation of capitalism versus socialism. Social democracy argues that all citizens should be legally entitled to certain social rights.
Soviet democracy – The citizens are governed by directly elected councils. The councils are directly responsible to their electors and are bound by their instructions. Such an imperative mandate is in contrast to a free mandate, in which the elected delegates are only responsible to their conscience.
Totalitarian democracy – A hybrid regime, in which democratic institutions are imitative and adhere to authoritarian methods. In these regimes, regular elections are held, but they fail to reach democratic standards of freedom and fairness.
you left out National Socialism, one of the better systems of government
an elected benevolent dictator
Well then we are (or were) a “Herrenvolk Republic because the 1790 Naturalization Act said only free, white people could become citizens. Furthermore, they wrote the Constitution “for ourselves and our posterity (offspring)” which, of course, was white. All of that was gradually, but then suddenly (1965), corrupted.
Well fuck you, Paul. It has ALWAYS been incorrect to refer to our Constitutional REPUBLIC as a fucking “democracy” too. Never slowed YOU down, did it?
Hypocrite.
And you’re a shrill ninny grappling his joystick.
A republic means one thing,no herietaty ruler. We are a representative republic, which means we have free and fair elections ( well we did). Free fair elections mean democracy. Again we are not a true or pure democracy but a limited democracy. That means we have checks and balances ( well we did) like the electoral college. So we are a representative constitutional republic with a limited democracy.
What does all that mean? It means we are both and the whole democracy/republic argument is stupid.
That is just an ignorant comment.
All governments have been Communist governments since the early 1900s and none of them have ever been democratic. A true democracy would mean everyone can vote on every bill and have full veto authority.
Satanic, not communist. Fixed it for you.
We are a limited democracy. There are no true national democracies. Maybe your family is one?.
Both democracy and republic need qualifiers. The Soviet Union was a constitutional republic, but not a democracy. A republic can also be a theocracy like Iran.
We are a representative republic.
People do understand but want to argue semantics for arguments sake.
One of the big problems is our two major parties draw their names from or two coexisting forms of government and people just can’t get past their choosen party’s name
Down voted me fine, but have the guts to dispute what I said. You won’t because you can’t. Willful ignorance
The Soviet Union’s “government” was a unique farce unto itself. I don’t think the madness fit any stereotype.
It is impossible to breach the Israeli security barrier without setting off alarms. The plot called for the barrier to be stood down.
The Israeli-Hamas Conflict Is A Continuation of the 9/11 Plot
To be stood down.
I remember it all to well. The emotional manipulation. And everyone threw out reason and questions out the window. They gave you what they wanted you to see. And you reeled in horror. And they planted their vision in your brain, while your eyes were being stabbed by horror. And it gave you 20 years of revenge, until you got tired, and bored. And now again, the people bow and pray, to another horror god they made. Manipulated incessantly by the prophets of horror… beneath the halo of “The Chosen Ones” and people bow and pray.
Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
We must do to them what they do to us. This will stop it immediately as they have a taste of their own medicine but then again they love pain and suffering.
Hell the US at least has been a tyranny my entire life.
At least for the past 50 years.
WELL no one can say they weren’t warned,THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD TOLD AMERICA TO GO HOME,but being as stupid as americans are,,The retard queers running america said OH YEA,WE”LL FIGHT YOU,losers should never take on REAL MEN IN A FIGHT,thats how you get your ass kicked,WHEN your out numbered you back off,PROBLEM is americans aren’t that smart,IF you let the police kidnapp your children ,YOUR A COWARD AND A LOSER,,that describes 90% of the men in america..BRING IT ALL HOME OR GET YOUR SELVES KILLED …your choice morons..