The 1st Amendment Will Not Save You

Guest Post by CJ Hopkins

So, I’m getting my German ducks in a row in advance of my appearance in criminal court in Berlin on January 23rd. As most of my readers know, I am being prosecuted by the German authorities on trumped-up charges of tweeting Nazi propaganda, i.e., these two Tweets from 2022:

I’m not going to rehash all the details of my case again here. I have done that ad nauseam. And at this point it’s been widely reported on, most recently by James Kirchick in The Atlantic

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The Criminalization of Dissent (continued)

Guest Post by CJ Hopkins

So, the Berlin State Prosecutor has launched another criminal investigation of me. Apparently, I’m being charged with reporting on the original investigation of me that the Berlin State Prosecutor launched in June.

What happened is, the prosecutor visited my blog and read a column I published in July, The Criminalization of Dissent (Revisited), which included screenshots of the alleged “hate-crime” Tweets that the original criminal investigation is based on, and that resulted in the Order of Punishment that the Berlin District Court handed down two weeks ago. So, the prosecutor opened a new criminal investigation and sent my attorney an official notice explaining the gravity of the additional charges.

The charges are of the utmost gravity. I am officially accused of “relativizing” or “minimizing” the crimes of the Nazis … by republishing the two Tweets that I originally tweeted.

Here, once again, are the Tweets …

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The Road to Totalitarianism (Part 3)

Guest Post by CJ Hopkins

So, the Germans are putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes, and, apparently, I’ve already been found guilty and sentenced. Bear with me and I’ll try to explain.

The Berlin District Court has issued a so-called “penalty order” or “order of punishment,” in which I am advised that I am now officially a criminal in Germany, for tweeting two Tweets. According to my attorney, a trial will now be scheduled, at which my attorney will argue the case before the judge that just issued the “order of punishment.” At this trial, the judge will listen attentively to the arguments my attorney has already made in writing, consider them carefully, and find me guilty, again. Then the judge will reaffirm the “order of punishment.”

Go ahead, read that paragraph again.

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German Courts Are Going FULL Dystopia

Via Off-Guardian

It’s been an astonishing couple of days for German judges. Well, “astonishing” if you’ve been living in a cave for the last four years.

Many of you likely already know that satirist and playwright (and frequent OffG contributor) CJ Hopkins is being prosecuted in Germany for “disseminating propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization,”

All because the cover of his book has a swastika on it.

Needless to say, the charges are absurd. Insultingly so. You can read CJ’s first-hand account of this nonsense here and here.

Anyone who isn’t a) stupid or b) delusional can plainly see these charges have nothing to do with a stock-image swastika, and everything to do with the content of the book. In short, they are politically motivated charges brought against an author for criticizing the state. The very essence of dystopian tyranny.

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Germany confirms the truth of C.J. Hopkins’ new book, by INVESTIGATING him for writing it

Guest Post by Mark Crispin Miller

It surely isn’t just the book’s front cover, with its (near-imperceptible) small swastika that got him into trouble there, but the author’s blistering critique of the “new normal”—i.e., COVID heresy

As many of you know, C.J. Hopkins, an American playwright living in Berlin, has been among the fiercest (and funniest) critics of the new bio-fascist order, focusing primarily on its sway in Germany (since that’s where he lives), but duly noting its unprecedented global reach. He posts his essays here on Substack, and has just published a collection of such writings, The Rise of the New Normal Reich.

To make the world aware of this new book (which is self-published), Hopkins recently tweeted an image of its front cover, which, like the title, harks back boldly to William L. Shirer’s 1960 classic, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, using the same Nazi tricoleur (black/white/red), and, roughly, the same design; except that, whereas Rise and Fall features, on its cover’s lower half, a thick black swastika stamped on a white disc (as on the Third Reich’s flags and banners), Hopkins’ cover features, on its lower half, a white surgical mask—shadowed, in the middle, with a small gray swastika (so faint that you can barely make it out) on a white disc.

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New Normal Germany Blues

Authored by CJ Hopkins via ConsentFactory.org,

The first rule of New Normal Germany is “You Do Not Compare New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany!” I did that on the cover of my bestselling book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich, so the State Prosecutor’s office in Berlin has launched a criminal investigation of me for allegedly “disseminating propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization,” which is punishable by up to three years in prison.

Actually, the first rule of New Normal Germany is “Shut Up, Click Heels, and Follow Orders!” I think the second rule is probably the one about not comparing New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany.

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